The Sweet Life LLC

dding. I sent Norman a few pictures of cake designs that I liked, as well as photos of my wedding dress, bridesmaids dresses, and bouquet and decided to let him work his magic. I really wasn’t sure what to expect, but when I walked into the reception space on the wedding day the first thing I noticed was the beautiful cake! Not only was it gorgeous, but it also tasted amazing! We got so many compliments from guests and our wedding planner on the cake! We are so happy Norman made our wedding cake and cannot wait to use The Sweet Life again in the future!

ir pictures. Our wedding was a masquerade theme in October and creative was a necessity. The location in Annandale was insane and I couldn't get enough of how wonderful all of the cakes were in the showroom. Norman is very friendly and had excellent suggestions. In the end we literally sent him pictures of details we were incorporating in to our wedding theme including the bride and groom masks and left it up to him for the design. They recreated the masks in perfect detail on the cake. I had also fallen in love with the metallic colors they have used on some of their competition pieces and all over our cake were perfect copper fall leaves. Like they had just floated down from a tree and all around the cake. We had ordered a custom topper that never arrived from a website due to a shipping mishap, but even without a topper, it was the most perfect cake for our wedding. And the taste was phenomenal. We did the tasting and revealed to everyone that our flavors were vanilla and chocolate. We were met with surprised confusion for not choosing raspberry orange or some other crazy flavor combination that seems to be popular nowadays. When the guests tasted the cake at the wedding, no one wondered anymore. Simple flavors with out-of-this-world texture and taste. Beauty AND substance!

on my groom's face =) They really are a great team to work with. It's a small shop but they make some wonderful cakes.

e is a slew of cakes before your eyes: big cakes, small cakes, colorful, tradition, leaning to the side, standing upright, themed, simply artistic....and the list goes on and on (no exaggeration)!! We were so amazed at all of his work. We were like kids in a candy store. We feel in love with a very detailed lace cake that had a fondant staircase coming down the middle. It looked very simple, somewhat traditional but most importantly, well done! It was exactly what we wanted (though pictures we compiled from online were quite different). He was great to work with and really know his stuff. I loved that he worked from home and was still very very professional. And can't forget the quality of the cake: FANTASTIC times two!!! Everyone LOVED the cake. My husband and I can't WAIT to eat our cake again on our one year anniversary. I will definitely be using his services for my husband's birthday since he loved the taste so much. He is definitely and two thumbs up, five star bakery and the Food Network didn't make a mistake in choosing him a winner for some of their cake challenges. Thanks Norman!

in a big mound in the same color of the cake. On the day of our wedding, moments before the reception began my husband and I peeked at the room and cake. I was very disappointed in what I saw for the cake. The color was very flat, the layers were not rounded as we had requested, there were several imperfections in the fondant, and the "mound" on the top was extremely small (although I will say the sugar flowers were done beautifully). It wasn't enough to ruin my day, by any means, but I was not blown away nor did I love the look of my wedding cake. I must give some credit though, because the cake was extremely moist and tasted excellent.

well).;Everything was absolutely perfect. Nothing I can even think to warn about. Pleasure to work with.