The Baking Institute
About This Vendor
A Natural Approach To The Art of Baking
Based in Wheeling, IL, The Baking Institute is a wedding bakery producing beautiful all-natural wedding cakes for couples on their big day. Every cake is made from fresh, raw ingredients and without preservatives and artificial substitutes. The bakery is committed to providing customers with delicious and luxury standards of handmade sweet treats. The bakery is owned and operated by passionate cake designer and pastry chef Igor Elyash. After more than two decades in the culinary industry, Igor decided to specialize in wedding cakes, connecting prospective newlyweds with unbeatable excellence. Igor prides himself on baking every cake with traditional, time-honored recipes, paying homage to the masters that came before him. The Baking Institute can create custom wedding cakes from scratch. Couples are welcome to book a tasting session where they can sample different flavors and designs, discussing their ideas with the head pastry chef. The bakery also offers sweet treats like cookies, cupcakes, and pastry trays to complement the dessert table.
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Business Attributes
Woman-owned Business
Cakes & Desserts
Cake Accessories, Cake Delivery & Setup, Cake Tastings, Cupcakes, Groom's Cakes, Other Desserts
Dietary Options
Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Sugar Free, Vegan
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216 reviews
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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 fr...
om our guests. Thank you Baking Institute!!
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 gu...
ests 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!
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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 h...
alf 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. D...
efinitely 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 ve...
ry 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 Tiffan...
y&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 ca...
ke 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 be...
lieve 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 w...
ith 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 expecte...
d 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 aske...
d! 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 expectin...
g 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 t...
wo 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 a...
nd 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!
I worked with The Baking Institute through the Glendale Lakes Golf Club for my recent wedding. They have so many choices and options that it can seem overwhelming, but they are readily available to answer any questions you may have. I chose to ...
do a standard cake without anything extra (included in my wedding package), and the cake was absolutely beautiful. It definitely exceeded my expectations, and it tasted AMAZING. Usually people don't remember the cake at weddings, but I've definitely have had people continue to compliment it afterward.
The in person meeting was amazingly quick, and I felt confident in their abilities from the very beginning. Fantastic, amazing work. I can't wait to eat our anniversary cake in a year!
They were very helpful during the selection process and created our cake exactly the way we wanted it! Plus, the cake tasted great. They had plenty of ideas and helpful recommendations which made this process extremely easy.
Our venue worked with the Baking Institute and we were so lucky to have them! Easy to work with, brought my vision to life and the cake was incredible. Honestly, the best wedding cake that I have had and all of our guests were raving about it.
The cake was phenomenal! We are still getting compliments from our guests. We had a white cake with strawberry cream filling and whipped cream frosting and it was decorated with an ombre pink to white design. Absolutely beautiful. So happy ...
with our experience.
The cake was very good. Lots of flavor options were available. It was also very pretty.
Thru out the planning process I thought the cake was just an extra to the wedding. It turns out it was one of my favorite meetings. The tasting the planning the colors and flavors everything was perfect. After changing my mind twice thru out th...
e process it turned out Delicious. Thank you Baking Institute
Our wedding cake came out fabulous! It was included with Itasca Country Club, but only the basics, so we went with a yellow cake with chocolate buttercream, and it was delicious! We asked for a "naked cake," and after adding flowers from Aberde...
en's Wedding Florist, the cake was stunning. We also ordered donuts for our donut wall, and everyone raved about them. Thanks, Baking Institute!
We absolutely loved our wedding cake that the Baking Institute made. The cake looked great and tasted even better. The addition of the strawberries in the middle was a huge hit at our wedding. Thank you so much for our delicious and beautiful c...
ake.
Delicious cake! Ordered through our venue at The Estate everything was as expected!
The Baking Institute made the most beautiful cake for my wedding. My husband and I absolutely loved it! Everyone at the wedding commented on how amazing it was.
We sort of lucked out with finding The Baking Institue. They were the bakery attached to our reception contract and it was honestly the easiest wedding item we had to deal with. Our taste test was amazing and was so easy to get through. We were...
shown images on what designs we could pick from and what cake flavors were included and it was just so easy, and delicious. We finished every last drop of the taste test cakes and we are continuing to eat the top tier of our cake two weeks after our wedding. That is how good the cake still tastes. You will not be dissapointed in ging with them.
Heather and her staff provided me with excellent customer service! We needed two tastings for our detailed cake request and pastries and they got it right! My cake was beautiful and tasted AMAZING! The guests LOVED everything!
We used them for our wedding and everything is smooth from start to end. The cakes are delicious and the staff are easy to work with. They are helpful in the design and I liked the way our cake looked. I highly recommend them for your special d...
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Our cake tasted amazing and looked beautiful. The Baking institute did such a great job listening to my husband’s and my opinions on what we wanted.
Beautiful cake and delicious too! Highly recommend the mocha Bavarian cream option.
We learned of The Baking Institue through our venue Chandler's . We worked with Igor and he took our picture and made our cake look exactly the same. Our Cake was delicious. Thank you so much for our wonderful delicious cake .
I was very disappointed with our wedding cake. The venue we hired for our wedding covered the base cost of the cake if you use their vendor (the Baking Institute). The reviews we found were great so we went with it. To start, I made my tasting ...
appointment a month or more ahead of time online, got an email confirmation, but the day of they said they didn't have us in their system for an appointment. They were very rude about it, but after I got upset that we drove 2 hours for it and I had the email confirmation to prove it, they let us have it any way.
I had gone to some of my friends cake testings and they were fun and really made you feel special. Not this one.
We wanted a more detailed design on ONE of the layers. It took at least 5 times explaining what we wanted WITH pictures to get it right. Adding fondant and a batman symbol to the one layer was an extra $276.
After all that, it came out extremely amateur looking for the hassle and the extra cost - especially considering how nice some of the cakes on their site and in the reviews are.
The cake is delicious. Our wedding cake was beautiful, and I will definitely be using them for events in the future.
My husband and I did a kind of multi-theme wedding and we were very specific and particular about exactly what we wanted on our cake. The Baking Institute did awesome! They gave us exactly what we wanted without any additional questions or prob...
lems. The day of the tasting when we explained everything they immediately started drawing out a sketch and we knew we would not be disappointed with the outcome. We were still very surprised and happy at how perfectly our cake turned out. Highly HIGHLY recommend.
My vegan wedding cake was absolutely delicious!
I wish I could give it 5 stars! However a few issues arose during the process. First, for my tasting every single frosting choice I made was changed to what the baking institute felt was most popular! I wanted to taste all buttercream because I...
only like buttercream, my tasting came and since all of my choices were changed I was unable to taste any buttercream frostings!
The only other complaint I have is that my cake was done wrong on my wedding day! The special design we chose was amazing down the back (the avengers), however the front was traditional and supposed to have all crystals on it instead of silver dots because my wedding didn’t have any silver but the cake had the standard silver dots!
The Baking Institute baked a yellow cake with lemon bavarian cream for our wedding day. So delicious!! We can't wait to enjoy the top tier on our 1 year anniversary! Thank you!
I just got married this past weekend and used the Baking Institute as the bakery for my wedding cake. When my fiance and I walked in a few months ago for our complimentary tasting Margo was our designer and the reason my rating is a 4 Star is ...
because Margo was not very patient or helpful in deciding what we wanted. When I showed her pictures of what I wanted she always had something to complain about and no recommendations. I stood my ground and got the cake that I wanted and it turned out to be elegant and beautiful. And the cake tasted amazing! My fiance and I both got exactly what we wanted in the end.
We ordered our wedding cake from The Baking Institute as they are the bakery vendor of our wedding venue.
We had communicated with Igor by email in reference to our cake design and brought in a photo of our desired image to our tasting. Igor wa...
s very courteous, kind and provided many useful suggestions!!
Our fondant cake design consisted of Chicago sports team colors and their logos. The exterior fondant design could have definitely looked sharper and the colors of the exterior could have been vibrant. Instead, colors were matte, dull and most definitely not vibrant. The colors I am referring to as matte and dull are: red, black, light blue/sky blue, medium blue, navy and orange.
The lines of the Chicago Cubs design were not polished and not straight and looked as if they were done by freehand.
It consisted of marble (vanilla/chocolate) cake, fresh raspberries and a Bavarian cream filling. It was delicious!!!
Our wedding cake was so incredible! It was so beautiful and tasted AMZING! We still have wedding guests asking where we got our cake from because they had never had wedding cake so delicious before! I would highly recommend the Baking Institute...
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We were beyond happy with our wedding cake from the Baking Institute for our June 2017 wedding. They are partnered with our reception venue and we had the best experience. We did not have any idea what we wanted our cake to look like. The sampl...
es were amazing and the process was incredibly straightforward. We chose a white and chocolate layered cake with chocolate buttercream. It looked and tasted incredible! We ended up switching our cake design a few weeks before the wedding and they were more than accommodating. They are extremely kind and talented. We would highly recommend The Baking Institute!!
Our wedding cake from the Baking Institute was the absolute best cake I've ever had in my life. I don't even really like cake all that much, but this cake was amazing. On the day of my wedding, it was so chaotic, but the only plate I actually f...
inished completely was my wedding cake - it was THAT good. We did the specialty cake, the Blueberry Grand Marnier, and it was by far worth the extra money. Many of our guests commented on how good the cake was. I can't wait until my 1 year anniversary so I can have some more! I highly recommend this place.
Our wedding cake was absolutely perfect! Our guests' only complaint was that they didn't get a big enough slice the first time around. We loved the custard filling. The cake was both delicious and beautiful. I highly recommend using the Baking ...
Institute.
Loved my cake!!! Looked exactly like the photo I supplied and tasted superb!! Highly recommend them!!
The cake was great! They were able to give us exactly the cake we wanted, and it tasted delicious!
Our cake was beautiful and tasted amazing. We were able to choose two flavors to satisfy both of our cravings!
We got the cake as part of our venue package and it was absolutely gorgeous! The food tasting was quick and easy, and there were so many designs to choose from. Not to mention delicious too!
We loved our cake! We were a bit worried at first since our venue told us this was the bakery that came with the package but it ended up being perfect! When we went to the tasting, it was so easy to schedule and they were so helpful in making t...
he design we wanted. We decided on a mixed cake with 2 tiers a marble (which was delicious btw) and the top tier lemon. Well, they gave us 2 lemon and 1 marble which at first I was worried about but ended up being a blessing. So many guests loved the lemon with the white chocolate mousse! It was moist and just delicious. Such great flavor.
A cake from them was included in our reception package. They cake was delicious and beautiful day of! They tasting was quick and simple as well.
The package at our venue (Esplanade Lakes) included the wedding cake, which was from The Baking Institute. My (now) husband and I love sweets, and cake is my personal favorite, so I was most excited for the cake tasting. I loved everything I tr...
ied. All the flavors we chose were moist and yummy. We ended up choosing 3 different flavors, and asked our venue coordinator to please make sure we received 1 of each the night of the wedding! :) Again, come wedding day, all 3 flavors were delicious. The cake was beautiful and looked exactly as we imagined. We also had a sweets table at the wedding, but unfortunately, my hubby and I were too busy to even try anything, but everyone raved about it! We couldn't have been happier with The Baking Institute!
My cake was personally designed by my husband and it came out exactly as he designed! And it was absolutely delicious.
The Baking Institute is a true cake artist! Not only do the cakes looks great, but they taste delicious! We ordered both our groom's cake and wedding cake from The Baking Institute, and the cakes turned out amazing. We received many compliments...
from our guests, including "That was some good cake... I've been talking about that cake all last night." They definitely brought our vision to life!
We used the baking institute because our cake was included through our venue. We went for the cake tasting and paid extra for fresh fruit. The cake was delicious the day of the wedding; HOWEVER, the design we requested was completing wrong. We ...
paid extra for crystals to be scattered along the cake and showed a picture to describe it. The lady helping us "drew" it out on her form. Instead of crystals, we received little colored dots and the tacky strip of crystals along the base. I tried contacting them to request a partial refund (not full because the cake tasted good) and they told me the cake was as I requested and drawn. I sent the picture the email address and they told me "Igor" would contact me; however, it has been 6 months and no word from Igor and sent a follow-up email a month later and still have not heard back. Their communication is poor and they should have requested the picture instead of drawing. If you are looking solely for taste, they are great, but if you would like your cake to be designed as requested, then choose a different vendor!
When I walked into our venue and saw our cake set up, my heart stopped, my breathing stopped, I was completely in awe! They did such an amazing job on our wedding cake that I was, and still am, completely stunned by it. I'm so glad that our ve...
nue partners with them and sent us there for our cake! I couldn't have asked for a more perfect representation of exactly what I had pictured in my head! They made all of the details on the cake perfectly match the damascus print from our invitations. It was so nice to meet with them once, MONTHS before the wedding, and taste test, and order that day, and simply have to email once a week before the wedding, just to confirm the delivery time and address. It was one of the easiest parts of the whole process, yet one of the parts with the most amazing result! Thanks to everyone there for making our dream wedding cake a reality!
The baking institute created a beautiful and tasty cake for us! It was personally designed for us and the combination of marble cake and banana buttercream was amazing! I don't know if we will be able to wait 1 year to eat the top!
I recently got married in September and I used the Baking Institute through Venuti's Banquet Hall in Addison, IL. My now husband and I were confident that we knew the cake flavor we would have for our wedding but upon our tasting, we found that...
we wanted something different and unique. Both of us love almond and amaretto flavorings. We worked with the team and they paired us with a cake flavor of almond cake with vanilla Bavarian butter cream frosting. This cake was outstanding!!!!! It was incredibly fresh and moist!! DELICIOUS!!
For the design of my cake, I was very specific in what I was looking for. My cake was 5 tier. When I went in for the consultation, I knew the colors I wanted and I had pictures of design ideas. Igor however blew me away by incorporating my ideas (which included sugar florals & swirls) and Igor had the idea to incorporate my wedding dress into the cake. I was so excited and thought this was an amazing idea! He knew exactly what I was looking for!
At the wedding reception, my cake was one of the thing's that I was EXTREMELY EXCITED to see! We received so many compliments!! The service by The Baking Institute team was outstanding!!
I was VERY happy and impressed with my entire wedding experience and I will be recommending The Baking Institute to all of my friends and family. I will definitely use this company for all of my future cakes! I give them a 10!
The wedding cake was beautiful in all of its simplistic splendor. A couple of days before the ceremony, I received a call to confirm if my selections regarding its décor was correct. I was able to confirm or update what I needed to, and I'm so ...
happy I did!
The Baking Institute was the preferred vendor for our reception venue, and I am quite happy about that, because I loved our cake. I brought in a picture of what I had envisioned and the final product came very close! We got lots of compliments ...
on both the flavor (hazelnut mousse) and the look. Overall very happy with the Baking Institute.
The Baking Institute did a beautiful job on our wedding cake! Not only did they sit down with us for the tasting to talk through various cake/frosting flavor combinations, but they also incorporated all of our design requests. Compliments poure...
d into us all night on how beautiful the cake was and how delicious it tasted!
Our cake was stunning and absolutely delicious. There were people asking if the cake was even real since it looked so beautiful. We had a 5-tiered square chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream filling. I also got to have the top layer with haz...
elnut filling just for us (the bride and groom) to enjoy. They were very helpful and had lots of options. We would definitely recommend the Baking Institute to anyone looking for a delicious and beautiful wedding cake.
I searched all over Chicago for a bakery that would be willing to make a custom dessert for my August 2015 wedding. Specifically, my husband and I were looking to serve an Australian dessert called pavlova, which is very delicate and meringue l...
ike, and served with chantilly cream and mixed berries. Most bakeries immediately said no, because it was not a cake, so I started to lose hope that it would be possible.
When I contacted The Baking Institute, Igor not only said that it would be possible, but asked if I had a recipe I would prefer for him to use, and quoted me a price that was significantly cheaper than the other bakery that had said they could make the dessert. The final result was delicious, and Igor worked with the Chef at our wedding venue to make sure that the presentation would be compatible with serving and that the meringues did not get soggy while the other courses were served.
I would highly recommend the Baking Institute for any custom desserts--- we did briefly taste their cake during the tasting and I was underwhelmed. I’m not a huge fan of fondant, though, so that was probably part of it.
I absolutely loved my wedding cake. It completely surpassed my expectations. I really wasn't sure how to describe what I wanted but apparently they were able to understand exactly what I wanted. It was absolutely beautiful! The colors and dec...
or they used matched perfectly with my dress and was perfectly detailed. Not only that but I've had so many of our wedding guests tell us they loved the taste of the cake as well. We had a few different flavors and they all loved it!
My husband and I recently had our groom’s cake and wedding cake done by the Baking Institute. Igor met with us early on to do our cake tasting. It was so tough to pick which one we wanted because they all tasted amazing! Every wedding I have...
been to, the cake has been way too dry and just doesn’t really taste good. I questioned whether our cake would be that way too, even though it was moist at the tasting. Both the groom’s cake and the wedding cake were absolutely delicious and moist the days of the rehearsal dinner and wedding. The groom’s cake was a zombie cake and the Baking Institute did such an amazing job, people in the restaurant were stopping to take pictures of it. Our wedding cake was not only the best I’ve ever had, but it was gorgeous! To this day, I have been hearing that our cake was the best, visually and taste wise, from many of our guests, including my grandpa’s wife who makes cakes and is hard to please on that front! We have people who want the name and number of the company we used because they were so impressed. My in-laws put the rest of the leftover cake in the freezer for us because we left for our honeymoon the night of the wedding. When we got back 9 days later, I was shocked to find that the cake was as good as it was the day of the wedding. Can’t wait to see what it will be like in a year when we dive into the top layer! I would totally recommend the Baking Institute to anyone who is looking for the best cake!
The cupcakes for our wedding were so delicious. I am very pleased with the service and speed of appointments for a tasting.
Would highly recommend.
the cake was great. The saleslady was very strange. and hard to understand (not a language barrier, she just mumbled, was negative and it was loud in there). The cake tasted amazing! I wish they would have encouraged me to get something a litt...
le more detailed. It looked too simple. But that was my choice. the saleslady just wasn't very helpful with guidance. Amazing cake though. Almond with dark hazelnut chocolate mouse on one side and raspberries on the other. So good.
We worked with the Baking Institute for our cake. They made a cake for us that was exactly was we described to them. The cake looked wonderful and the cake tasted amazing too. It was just perfect for our perfect day. Our venue provided the cake...
too.
Our wedding cake was created and provided by The Baking Institute. The cake was delicious and it looked beautiful! It complimented the event and fit very well with our reception venue and decorations.
I had my reception at the Cotillion and they included the cake in the wedding package. I was a bit scared at first, but no need. The cake tasted and looked great. I ordered chocolate cake with strawberry frosting and the other layer had lemon c...
ake. Many wonderful compliments from the guests.Only issue was not meeting with Igor because another couple came in 2 hours early and took our spot. NOT GOOD! They should of waited but they had us meet with the receptionist. Please honor appointments!
Since we had our wedding at Venuti's, the Baking Institute came with our package as our cake vendor. We met with them once and were able to pick out three combinations of cake/frosting to taste test during our meeting. We came prepared with pic...
tures of what we liked, but they had many pictures of their past cakes that we ended up choosing one of those! The cake was chocolate with chocolate buttercream frosting with a vanilla buttercream outer layer and chocolate swirls and roses. Very pretty and so yummy! The cake was not dry at all like most wedding cakes I've had at past weddings. Would highly recommend them!
The cake was even better than I was envisioning! Igor was able to incorporate elements of my wedding dress into the design, which was very special. Everything we talked about at our meeting was executed perfectly. It was just beautiful and wen...
t perfectly with our decor. Even better, it tasted phenomenal. We are so glad we went with the strawberry Bavarian cream filling. Thank you for a wonderful cake; everyone really enjoyed it! You definitely have my recommendation to anyone looking for a cake designer.
Our reception venue, Venuti's, included our cake from the Baking Institute. We went to a tasting and thought it tasted good, but felt like we were pushed a little to make certain decisions with our cake that would cause an upcharge. I ended u...
p changing my mind after we left and found another cake on their website that would have no upcharge and looked really nice. It had 5 tiers and was white with silver on the edges. It was beautiful on the day of and tasted great! We had a bunch of leftovers, so my in-laws took them home and I just had a piece yesterday! It was a great cake and tasted good, which is all I was asking for! =]
The cake tasted and looked delicious, but the color of the cake was WAY off! I gave Igor (the head baker) a swatch of my bridesmaids dresses to match to the cake, and it still came out completely wrong. I was really disappointed, but when it a...
rrived at the reception, what are you going to do at that point? Still, the service was good and the cake tasted great.
Igor created a beautiful cake for our wedding day! THe details turned out more perfect than I imagined. It is a shame it had to be cut up and eaten. We received multiple compliments on how delicious the
actual cake and frosting tasted. Our gue...
sts, as well
as us, were surprised at how moist it was. It was perfect!
Heather and Igor helped organize our wedding cake needs. Our cake looked amazing and tasted so yummy! They also supplied the delicious desserts for our sweet table, which our guests kept complimenting.
When we decided to have a brief celebrat...
ion for our nephew Hudson, who was turning 1 year old on our wedding day, they offered to make a small cake for him with little pictures of baseballs, basketballs and balloons. They did this for free for us and it meant so much to us and the family.
They are affordable and produce cakes that look high end. We would recommend them to any bride and groom.
The look of my cake was amazing. I loved it. They did a great job doing what I asked for. However, I asked for a specific filling that I tried at a wedding event and I did not get that. The filling was very bland and not at all what we wanted. ...
The buttercream also had a very weird taste.
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