About this vendor
Eastern North Carolina’s premier custom cake and dessert bake shoppe. Specializing in made from scratch baked goods, based on heirloom recipes with modern styling. We strive to offer all our customers products that are as beautiful as they are delicious. Birthdays, weddings, or just because it’s Monday again, we take orders for all occasions.
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Cakes & Desserts
- Cake Delivery & Setup
- Cake Tastings
- Groom's Cakes
Dietary Options
- Gluten Free
Reviews
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4.5
out of 5.011 reviews
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Allison was so nice and really took the time to get to know us to really encapsulate what we were wanting! She invited us into her home for a tasting and delivered our cake on our ...
day and it was exactly what I wanted! We got so many compliments on the look and taste of the cake! Vanilla bean was recommended to us by a few friends and she did not disappoint! We will be using her for all of our future celebrations ❤️
Working with Alison was a dream! My partner and I went to her home for the tasting and had a wonderful experience. The cakes and icings were all delicious, it was hard to choose a ...
winner! We ultimately chose a red velvet cake with house and buttercream icings. It was so good, we had none left over! She also designed the cake beautifully, just as we discussed, even adding in some of our flowers to tie it all together. I would certainly recommend Vanilla Bean Bake Shoppe for any and all of your cake needs!
Vanilla Bean Bake Shoppe impressed us with the quality and taste of the cakes, filling, and icing. We both gravitate towards fresh flavors over super sweet ingredients and this ba...
ker delivered! She was able to capture our design ideas and create a beautiful cake with very reasonable pricing! The surprise groom's cake (a 3D penguin!) was also beautiful and delicious, a great quirky addition that was secretly designed by the bakery and bride. We look forward to enjoying her other baked goods! Highly recommend this bakery, book with her asap as we see her business really growing in the future!
My husband and I loved the different cake and filling flavors offered by Allison. We chose two different flavors and fillings which Allison included at no extra cost. The cake was ...
beautiful and tasted great. We are looking forward to the anniversary cake in a year!
Allison was a nice person but my cake was awful. We 1st mer her and tasted her cake at a bridal show and the cake they had there were the best tasting cakes at the show. We also di...
d a tasting at her home to pick out our cake for the wedding. That was fresh and tasty. However the cake for our wedding tasted nothing like the others we tried previously. It was decorated very pretty but seemed as it was frozen before and very hard to cut on the wedding day. We ended up throwing away the whole bottom tier of the cake(the cake wasn't cheap either). We were very disappointed and felt like we wasted money on something we were satisfied with!
Allison did an amazing job with our cake! We reached out to her last minute and she was able to accommodate us and make the perfect wedding cake for our big day. The cake was decor...
ated perfectly and tasted divine!
Before I paid my deposit, Allison was great, the cake at our tasting was good, and she seemed nice. Unfortunately, after she had some of our money she stopped returning our calls, ...
texts, or emails. I went for 2 months feeling frustrated and like I had been cheated attempting to contact her several times and often receiving no reply. The 2-3 reply I did receive were short and seemed to inconvenience her greatly.
During the months between paying a deposit and our wedding, I developed a Gluten allergy. I called, asking if she would attempt to make gluten alternatives, at least just for me, in the 4 months she had before our date and was told that it was not likely to happen. Distressed by the prospect of not being able to eat my wedding cake on my day, I served out abother option. Famous Bakery New Bern is making me a delicious gluten free wedding cake and cupcakes for $100 less AND delivering to my venue in Greeneville, NC for free.
My experience with this baker left me frustrated, feeling like I was an inconvenience rather than a valued customer.
My husband and I met Allison during a bridal show in Greenville. She was the only bakery that actually put some effort into her display. She had 3 different types of cupcakes and S...
tyrofoam examples of her work. We spoke with her father and decided to set up a time to meet with her.
There were a couple of things that appealed to us when we met with her. First, she didn't charge per slice, she comes up with individual prices. Which made sense to us, because we wanted a simple design on our cake and felt that maybe we'd be overpriced if we went with someone that did charge by the slice. Second, she put so much work into her displace. She's serious about her business and is a true professional. Third, she had her family with her. We just thought that was cool because we're super family-oriented and that made sense.
We decided on a 3-tier cake with a different flavor for each layer, we also had 3 little satellite cakes that we could just use for extra slices, with one of them being just for the bride and groom (we wanted to make sure to get a piece!). She also provided the groomscake!
The cakes we AMAZING. We couldn't get enough of it and everyone loved it.
I can't say enough about this company and the quality of their work. We absolutely loved our cake and our enjoyed the experience of working with her.
As if that's not enough, she also includes a replica of the top tier of the cake for the 1 year anniversary, so you don't have to eat nasty freezer cake!
Enough said!
Vanilla Bean Bake Shoppe makes the best cakes! We used them for our wedding cake and it was such a good experience. She works out of her home, which I love. For our tasting, we g...
ot to her home a little early and she invited us in and said "you guys can have a seat while I finish making your icing." We were so impressed! She was making our icing right then! Not something left over or anything like that. It was all fresh! So of course we booked her and she delivered our cake to our venue on our wedding day and it was gorgeous. We made the inside of our cake blue which we thought would be difficult, but she welcomed it and it wasn't a problem at all! Allison (the owner) is very very sweet and helpful. I would recommend her to anyone!
We have gotten cupcakes from them for a while and they have always been great so we decieded to hire them to make our wedding cake. Allison met with us and was able to pick up on e...
xactly what we wanted and designed us a beautiful cake. Her prices were outstanding and she even delivered the cake herself to our venue two hours from her shop! When i saw the cake i was in awe as were many of our guests! It was STUNNING! She make gumpaste snowflakes that were unbeleiveable and was able to light them from behind with mini LED lights! I have never seen a cake as beautiful as the one she made for us! To top it off i wanted a Grooms cake for the rehersal but was having trouble finding one near our venue that wasnt rediculously expensive. I asked her on a whim the Monday before our wedding about it and not only did she give us a great price but she madea sculpted fire helmet cake replicating my husbands real helmet & had it ready two days before our wedding. She delivered it to my MIL the day before our wedding and when my husband was surprised with it at the rehersal he was elated! We ate on the last portion of our cake for almost a month after our wedding and it held up great and tasted as if it had been made fresh that day. We couldnt have been any happier and cannot wait to use her services again in the near future!
Allison is the most friendly person, and is very good at she does. She made my cake perfectly and exactly as I envisioned. The cake was not only beautiful, but withstood 90 degree ...
heat at an outside wedding and was DELICIOUS!!!
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Eastern NC, Raleigh to the Outer Banks
Vanilla Bean Bake Shoppe