The Baking Institute

We went for a cake tasting and decided to go with a marble cake with dulce de leche bavarian cream. When we saw it on our wedding day, we were in awe on how beautiful it looked. It was also very delicious! Yummm. I highly recommend The Baking Institute.

Cake was delicious and delivered on time.

Our venue, Concorde Banquets, uses The Baking Institute for wedding events and found out why they work with them. Our original vision was to have a cupcake wedding cake style but the gentleman that we worked with was honest on options and how many we would need in order to accommodate our guests. He gave us cupcakes to taste and sliced cakes as well and because the taste of the marble cake with french cream and passion fruit filling was the winner! Our guests loved the cake taste and how light it was too versus how other cakes can be heavy to eat. I will definitely use them for future events if I need to order a cake.

Delicious wedding cake, they provided amazing flavors, and the decorations were perfect. Our wedding guests loved the cake!

The cake was the correct flavors and tasted good. I liked everything on the cake except for the top. The cake was included with my venue- the only thing I paid extra for was a gold drip on top, and even showed pictures of exactly how I wanted it to look- Def did not look like that. Looked like they just poured caramel over the top- it looked gross. First thing I said when I walked into the reception room was "I hate the top of the cake- looked like someone threw up on it" Very disappointing

The best cake literally I and all my guests have ever had!! Just wow!

Great to work with and my goodness the cake was delicious! Everyone complimented it!! We had a tasting appointment where they provided a book to flip through to pick a design (they were very open to any customizations or combining of different designs!) as well as try 3 different cakes (cake, filling, and frosting type). They delivered our cake to the venue and it was beautiful and delicious!

An incredible experience!!! The whole tasting process was smooth and delicious. Filling out the form ahead of time was easy to make sure you tired what you wanted. I am also gluten free so they accommodated that as well. Our cake was absolutely amazing and all our guests loved it!

We used The Baking Institute in partnership with our venue for our 6/24/23 wedding. I don't even like cake, but after tasting this cake I could not stop eating it!!! I had so many guests tell me this is the best cake they've ever had in their lives! From the start, The Baking Institute was nothing but professional. They made the entire experience very fun for couples through the tasting experience. You get to fill out a form requesting 3 different types of cakes with whatever flavors you want for cake flavor, filling, and frosting. At the tasting, they even let you take home the cake you didn't finish eating. I brought in a photo for inspiration and they had no problem recreating it. On the actual day of the wedding, the cake looked JUST like the picture and tasted absolutely incredible. I couldn't have asked for anything more from this company! If you're looking for a stress free company to help you make your wedding cake dreams come true, then look no further! You won't regret it! (By the way, our cake was a white cake with raspberry Bavarian cream filling!)

They were flexible with timing to come in and taste cakes and pick out the design. They had several samples available of what could be done with the cake. They had a lot of different cake combinations available. The cake was moist and the flavors were really good. They did a great job listening to the design we wanted but provided helpful suggestions. It came to life beautifully.

We opted for a selection of desserts instead of a cake and the Baking Institute delivered superbly. Communication was seamless, the customer service team was flexible and allowed us to make changes as needed, and the cost was affordable. Our guests were very happy campers and are still raving about the selections. Many thanks to the team at the Baking Institute!

My wedding cake was part of my package deal with my venue (Venuti's Banquets), but The Baking Institute still allowed us to come for a tasting and offered us all options, some as at an additional cost of course. To my surprise, they even asked how we wanted the cake designed. I assumed I was going to be given maybe three choices, but the woman we met with took her time and asked questions about what we might want and showed us pictures along the way. My guests raved about the cake! My mother-in-law froze our cake top as some kind of tradition, but my husband and I were a little upset we didn't have the chance to enjoy more of it! I would highly recommend The Baking Institute whether it is offered in a package deal or not! They are worth it!

Our cake was so stunning and incredible! The cake was so delicious it was eaten completely with no leftovers, which as you know for wedding cakes, is almost unheard of! Absolutely delicious and so unique and we received a ton of compliments from our guests. Thank you Baking Institute!!

Our cake was delicious and looked exactly how I imagined. Definitely recommend!

Our cake was included in our package--we went in for the tasting and met with the owner. He was a funny man who knew his stuff. He helped me pick out the design of my cake keeping in mind, venue and even what my dress looked like! I ordered a half and half cake (half yellow and half chocolate) with an oreo mousse filled (which was an additional cost). The cake was absolutely delicious and so fresh. I didn't have an entire piece, but I did snag a bite from a random table. I was so happy it was fresh and some of the best cake I have ever had! The lemon, praline and carrot cake were other ones we tried and were also delicous!

Delicious cake! 100/10 would order through here again, everyone loved it!

Beautiful and delicious, just as we knew it would be! The process was very easy and streamlined thankfully 👌🏼

We recently hired them for our wedding and the cake turned out great! The taste was super yummy and it looked beautiful

Absolutely amazing. We never had a worry about our cake. We did everything through Concorde Banquets. We went to the tasting & was blown away by the quality of the cake! We did not have one person not like the cake! It was absolutely amazing. Definitely will recommend to anyone!

Our wedding reception venue had a contract with TBI which is how we found them. There is an easy online form to request a tasting and consultation. The staff member who helped us showed us many photos and was able to help us find the right fit. The wedding cake itself was attractive and tasted ok.

This company has a contract with our venue. If I’m being honest the cake tasting was terrible. The cake didn’t taste good at all. But I didn’t want to pay for a cake when it was in the package. All that aside our cake for our wedding was really good! It was designed how we wanted it to be! I wish they included more options in the price with the venue though.

We had this bakery as part of our wedding package, which can be a little unnerving. But there was nothing to fear!! Our cake was gorgeous and exactly what we wanted. Delicious and we got so many compliments. Definitely recommend!

The Baking Institute was apart of our package at our wedding venue, Avante Banquets. We could not have been more happy with our cake and sweets table! It was all so good and communication with setting up our tasting leading up to our day was very easy.

Cake was perfect! Exactly what I asked for and tasted amazing! Thank you so much for making my day that much more special!

We used Meridian Banquets who utilizes The Baking Institute for all of their bakery needs. They made our wedding cake exactly as requested. We got half chocolate cake with raspberry filling and half yellow cake with dulce de leche filling. The flavor was delicious and tasted so great! The cake design turned out phenomenal and they created a gorgeous and elegant design from the picture ideas we provided them (picture ideas from their website). The cake looked like a fairy tale! They were very accommodating for the cake tasting when we got sick unexpectedly and had to do an at home cake tasking. They made it easy to do a contactless pick up and did the entire thing over the phone with us. They also provided a full sweets table for dessert at our wedding and our guests were raving about the taste and expansiveness of the dessert table. I would definitely recommend The Baking Institute for any wedding!

We just had our wedding yesterday and the cake was incredible! It was beautiful and delicious! We ordered a bunch of bite sized sweets too, and our guests loved them all. Thank you!

Highly recommend!!!! They were fabulous and so easy to work with. They did such an amazing job on my wedding cake and my dessert table. They have a million different options, and everything they make is SO yummy!!! I also had them create Tiffany&Co theme treats for my bridal shower, and everyone thought they did such a great job! I will definitely be going back to them for all my future events.

Our cake from The Baking Institute was included in our package with our reception venue - Itasca Country Club. Our cake was beautiful and tasted amazing. We got a lot of great compliments on it. We also had The Baking Institute provide us with mini assorted sweets for a sweets table - also a big hit. Thank you so much Baking Institute!

The Baking Institute had a relationship with our venue, the Congress Plaza Hotel, so they sort of fell into our lap. But we couldn't be happier. The tasting menu is HUGE with some amazing flavors; it was hard to choose just one. They were very thorough in their questions when I described what I wanted the cake to look like. And at the end of the day, we were blown away by the results! The sugar flowers looked real! Would highly recommend.

Our cake was baked, constructed and decorated perfectly and to our liking !!! Everything came out delicious and we can't to taste it again in a year (on our anniversary)!!!

The wedding cake was included by the venue and we had to go with this company. During the tasting the Cake was sooooo good! We picked the marble cake with mango cream. On wedding day our cake was completely different than what we agreed to. The cake also had way more icing than what was at the tasting. The wedding cake was icing with a sid of cake. We tried to reach out to the team to understand what happened. We have not heard a response from them at all. If you book Astoria beware of the Cake company.

Bakery services with the Baking Institute was apart of my reception package with Abbington Banquets. I worked with various staff throughout my wedding coordination. My wedding cake turned out flawless. The sugar crystals (decorations) on the cake were amazing. Staff was very receptive and attentive to my feedback. Guests had nothing but high praises for her light and delicious the cake tasted. I highly recommend this company.

My daughter's wedding was at The Cotillion and they work with the Baking Institute for their wedding cakes. We made an appointment and had to select 3 different types of cakes and fillings we wanted to taste. When we got there, we couldn't believe how awesome the showroom was with the amount of cakes on display. When we tasted what they prepared for us, we couldn't decide what to order as everything was absolutely delicious. The cake my daughter chose had 6 layers. They suggested that they could replicate the lace from my daughter's wedding gown on the bottom layer of the cake.. We sent them detailed pictures and they killed it! It looked exactly like her dress. The cake was phenomenal! Absolutely gorgeous and exactly what my daughter wanted. And did I say that it tasted amazing! I would highly recommend them to every bride. You will not be disappointed.

Do not order from this bakery unless you want your order incorrect. I ordered a bridal shower cake for my niece. The order was for a white cake base with lemon filling and lemon zest. Of course when the cake was cut, it was a yellow cake base with no lemon filling. I contacted Igor, the GM immediately to discuss how to resolve this issue. First thing he wanted to do is to: " Ok let me do for you some cake education". All I need to know is that I ordered a white cake and you gave me a yellow cake. He proceeded to tell me what a beautiful job they did on the cake. I ordered a wedding cake from this company in 2016 with no issues, not sure what has happened to this company. I will not be ordering any cakes in the future from the baking institute. Beware!!!!

Brides RUN! FIND ANYONE ELSE. I do not want you to go through what I went through so I’m begging you to read. Let’s start from the beginning. We had our tasting Irog (not the nicest person in the world but oh well), the cake flavors were great. We booked the Baking Institute a year and 2 months before our wedding and everything was going great till about 6 months before the wedding we asked them to come early and they said that is not a problem at all. When I got the new contract our cake flavors went correct (maybe a simple mistake) emailed the baking institute back and they fixed the flavors and the correct time was still on the form. THE DAY OF MY WEDDING. The cake was supposed to be at my venue at 2:00pm. Not only did they NOT show up until 7:30pm they didn’t even bring the right cake. One of the flavors tasted like it was 2 weeks old, while the other flavor wasn’t even correct. The decorating of the cake was NOT what I approved of. Keep in mind I gave them 3 pictures so they couldn’t mess it up. When we first called at 2:30 they said they were an hour away. The second call said they are almost there. The third call to the 50th call NO ANSWER AND NO RESPONSE! Marie and Igor gave me excuse after stupid excuse on why my cake was 5.5 hours late, favors where wrong and the excuse of the cake decorating was “well that’s standard”. I did NOT approve “standard” PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GO ANYWHERE ELSE. DONT EVEN CHANCE THEM RUINING YOUR SPECIAL DAY!

Such delicious and beautiful cake! I could eat it forever if my waistline allowed it.

Highly recommend this place for any event. Heather is wonderful. We did our wedding cake sampling and it was difficult to choose since every sample was delicious!

A wedding cake is a must, even if you aren't cake people. We would classify ourselves as not cake people, but the Baking Institute may have us reconsider! The cake was not only beautiful on the outside, but moist and delicious on the inside. We are really looking forward to our 1 year anniversary to dip into the cake topper! They worked with us during the hectic time of COVID, as we had to reschedule our special day several times.

Baking Institute was a choice from our vendor and I'm so glad we chose them compared to the others. They made cake tasting very safe with Covid happening and were able to answer all of our questions. Other cake places were so pushy and expected us to know what we wanted right off the bat even though we knew nothing about wedding cakes. The day of our wedding, the cake looked beautiful! We went with the banana rum cake and we received so many compliments!

We ordered a small version of our wedding cake from here since we had to adjust our special day this year due to the pandemic. The staff was very friendly and easy to work with. It was easy to book the order and they designed it exactly as asked! And the cake was delicious! Would definitely recommend this bakery!

Easy to work with. Very transparent from the beginning. Plus the wedding cake was gorgeous and we have rave feedback on how delicious the cake was!

The cake tasted great. They were very easy to work with.

We were able to work with the Baking Institute through our venue. I was very pleased with the entire process. I was uncertain the about of decorating that we could do for the cake, however I thought we had a lot more options then I was expecting to make a beautiful centerpiece to the venue. Plus it was a delicious cake! I can’t wait for our 1st anniversary to get to eat it again :)

If I could give zero stars I would. $1,000 for a wedding cake that was the wrong color, looked nothing like the picture I submitted, and completely hideous. My wedding guests commented on how horrible the cake looked...that was so incredibly embarrassing. The wedding cake was so flimsy and leaning so badly , my venue refused to add the cake topper for fear it would fall over. When I contacted them, they offered to give me 50% back. $500 for a cake I didn’t order and that was absolutely hideous was still pretty steep to me. I asked for a full refund. What did they do? Ghosted new for 2 months. Finally I agreed to just settle for half back. They told me they’d send me a check. It’s been a month...still no check. FYI...I’m not a hard to please bride....all of my other vendors received 5 stars from me....this place was just horrible. Save time and money...go to creative cakes.

Selecting a cake with The Baking Institute was simple and easy. They went above and beyond -- it looked great, tasted great, and they sure we had plenty extra. Can't say enough good things!

The Baking Institute was such a pleasure to work with and they truly created such a beautiful and delicious cake for our wedding day! They are attentive to detail and made sure that we knew exactly what we were getting. We highly recommend The Baking Institute for all your wedding needs!

Our wedding cake was included with our venue package. When we had our cake tasting, the cakes were moist and delicious. The process was very easy and we tried four different cakes. They were so good that we couldn’t decide on one so we picked two flavors: lemon and almond with raspberry buttercream. The wedding cake was flavorful and delicious just like we remembered for our tasting appointment. I honestly wasn’t expecting much but these cakes really shine!

A cake from this bakery was included in our venue's package. We chose a simple yellow cake with lemon filling. Guests loved it! I know one guest that had 8 slices. Definitely recommend this bakery!

Our cake from A Baking Institute was included in our venue package. The cake was amazing and we also bought a sweet table from them which all of our guests raved about! The only part that was a little odd was our cake tasting. It was so quick and not fun at all. We tasted 4 different options and showed them a picture and left. Overall great bakery though!

My husband and I had a great experience at The Baking Institute! They made the tasting run smoothly by sending us the flavors ahead of time for us to choose which flavors we wanted to taste. We forgot to look at cakes ahead of time to describe how we wanted the cake to look. Luckily, the room was decorated with cakes they have previously created. We walked around the room for inspiration. They even went though images on the iPad of previous cakes. After our tasting, we felt very confident in our choice selections. We received many compliments the night of the wedding about the cake. I highly recommend The Baking Institute to any newly engaged couples! They made the process simple and delicious!