About this vendor
Village Patisserie is a wedding cake specialty bakery based in Ottawa Hills, OH. Their confectionery creations are all about the personality of their clients, creating a unique cake that reflects their tastes. From classic tiered wonders to more modern, avant-garde designs, they have the expertise to create it for you.
Erica Scharer, the founder of Village Patisserie, has a deep passion for her craft. She has been baking since she can remember and loves nothing more than creating a custom wedding cake for her clients. She strives to work closely with each client to craft a cake design that truly reflects their style, creating a more personal experience for you.
Erica is happy to meet with couples to learn more about their baking needs and how she can help. Along with delicious cakes, she can also create a wide range of other baked delights. Dietary requirements can all be catered to, and tasting sessions are available upon request.
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Cakes & Desserts
- Cake Cutting & Serving
- Cake Delivery & Setup
- Cake Tastings
- Cupcakes
- Groom's Cakes
- Other Desserts
Dietary Options
- Dairy Free
- Gluten Free
- Nut Free
- Organic
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
Awards and Affiliations
2-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2023.2021.
Best of Weddings
The Knot independently assesses vendors for this award—it’s never self-reported. We base it on firsthand experiences from real couples and guests, and they must have a 4.5-star average across 7+ reviews in the qualifying year.
Reviews
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4.8
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Erica did an amazing job creating our wedding cake! From beginning to end, she was so friendly, professional, and wonderful to work with. She took the time to understand our vision...
and created a beautiful cake that was exactly our style, including the perfect piping details we had imagined. Erica is so talented.
The cake was not only gorgeous but also absolutely delicious! We loved getting to do a cake tasting with her, and every flavor was so good that it was difficult to choose just one. She made the process fun, easy, and memorable.
Our guests loved the cake and had so many compliments on both the design and the taste. We are so grateful to Erica for helping make such a special part of our wedding day perfect. We highly recommend her to anyone looking for an amazing wedding cake!
Erica does stunning work. Our wedding cake could not have been more beautiful. She took such care to make our cake and desserts perfectly. We barely had any to take home because ev...
eryone was grabbing more. Besides the cake, Erica is so incredible to work with, she was accommodating of our dietary restrictions and still turned out delicious work. No one knew the cake and cookies were vegan! She definitely earned those awards from The Knot.
Erica was a phenomenal baker for our wedding. She created a set of cupcakes and a white cake with raspberry filling for our wedding. The detail work on it was exceptional. Everyone...
loved the cake and complimented it! Erica handled drop-off and set-up herself.
Erica not only did an amazing job with our wedding cake and desserts, but more importantly she is so sweet, personable and so accommodating! We loved having Village Patisserie apar...
t of our wedding day and would highly recommend them for your wedding or any special occasion!
My wedding cake was absolutely perfect! I was very pleased with the presentation and also the flavor was great!!! 10/10!
I had originally planned for 225 guests with my cake but ended up with 160... I walked out with very little cake at the end of the night! That just tells you that people kept going...
back for more of the amazing cake. The cake was so delicious, and many people talked about it afterward (and I feel like of all the wedding events, the cake is not often commented on by guests that often). Great cake at a very reasonable price, and Erica was so easy to work with!
i have no words for how amazing Erica is. Hands down the best cake we have had in our entire lives and all of our guests agreed not to mention how accommodating she is and how stun...
ning her cakes look! we actually have a guest from our wedding that purchases cakes from her in another state. That’s how insanely delicious these cakes are! Couldn’t recommend her more! You MUST have your cakes made by village patisserie
We were looking at a few bakeries, and after the first visit we knew this was the bakery for us! Erica provided a handful of flavors to sample and made great recommendations regard...
ing pairings. Neither the groom nor I enjoy high sugar tasting frosting, and the light frosting with delicious taste paired well with the cake samples. Erica worked diligently with us in making sure each detail was taken care of and provided quick responses. We ordered both the cake and a few vegan cupcakes to provide a treat for our guest. It was delicious and we would recommend!
Wow!! That is just about all I can say about Village Patisserie! They made the whole cake experience not only easy but delicious and fun! The wedding cake went above our expectat...
ions! My daughter had a vision and the cake went above even what she was thinking!! We knew after completing the cake tasting that the cake would be delicious but had no idea that every crumb would be consumed. Our guests raved not only about the artistry but the flavor of the cake. Most guests came up for seconds! The rich chocolate flavor in the chocolate cake with salted caramel filling was the best I've ever tasted! The marble, vegan, gluten free was delightful as well but the winning cake was the vegan lime! A fan favorite of all of the guests, most having no idea that it was a vegan cake!! The flavor and moistness, topped with the sweet creamy frosting made each bite of cake a treat! Erica paid attention to every detail and had wonderful suggestions on the design and servings. The cake was truly a work of art and was enjoyed by each and every guest! I really never knew how big of part of the wedding that the cake plays, but it really does! Guests complimented the cake many times over! Erica has a true talent of not only cake baking but artistry as well! I can't thank Village Patisserie enough!
Working with Erica was amazing! She was coming to make our cake in New Jersey for our wedding. We did a Zoom consultation and decided on our cake flavors - vegan key lime and choco...
late cake with strawberry filling! Both were absolutely outstanding on our special day! Our family and friends couldn’t stop raving about how beautiful the cake was and how good it tasted! Even to this day when I show people my wedding photos they stop at the cake and say “wow that looks so amazing!!” (they are right!) Erica also made chocolate chip cookies as my favors and they were so yummy and perfect sized for favors! We couldn’t have had a better person for our wedding desserts! I can’t wait to hopefully have more of Erica’s yummy treats in the future :)
My wedding cake was AMAZING. My husband and I decided to go a route that was not common to the baker but she did an excellent job. The cake was a huge hit at the wedding & I will p...
robably use in the future for my birthday cake & other occasions!
Erica us absolutely amazing!! I went in with a vision, we changed it a little, I still got my Batman on my cake! The cake tasted absolutely amazing! Pink champagne is an absolute m...
ust!!
Erica was so easy to work with! I was so happy with my choice to pick Village Patisserie! She was sooo quick to respond and very easy to communicate with! We had a 275 person weddi...
ng, so the desserts were no easy task! We can’t recommend Village Patisserie enough!!
We hired Village Patisserie to make a wedding cake this fall. The entire experience from the sampling to every detail of the cake was handled very professionally. She even orchestr...
ated using my parents cake topper from their wedding cake, which has become a tradition among the grandkids The cake and display at the wedding were absolutely beautiful! The variety of cake flavors were a big hit. My favorite is her chocolate. So very good!
Our cake for our wedding 7/17/21 was absolutely perfect! I was also so thankful for her help planning our cake and even doing the tasting from long distance. We got tons of complem...
ents on the style and flavor, I would highly recommend her for your wedding!!
Erica was so helpful in finding flavors to fit the style and season of our wedding! The wedding cake could NOT have been more beautiful and all night long I heard from guests that ...
this was the BEST wedding cake they have ever had. Unlike most weddings we did not have any left because guests went back for seconds.
She also did my bridal shower dessert table, once again all delicious and right on theme with our decor. Highly recommend her for ANY dessert needs!
Delicious cake - we loved that the tasting was free so that her cake spoke for itself and we didn't feel roped in because we paid for a tasting.
I loved that we could choose diffe...
rent fillings and cake flavors too. Many guests raved about the cake.
We were so impressed with the cake tasting experience and pictures in her portfolio and she made us feel confident that the cake the bride wanted was within her capabilities. The ...
cake was to be a centerpiece of the reception. Tall and elegant. No side cakes, no cupcakes, just a magnificent, beautiful wedding cake. Well, it was the centerpiece, but for all the wrong reasons. Despite having a picture of the desired cake, a detailed discussion of the soft and romantic wedding aesthetic, and a swatch of the bridesmaid dress fabric, the cake was a completely wrong color. It was also not tall. The tiers in the inspiration picture were clearly 3 layers, but our cake tiers were only 2 layers which completely changed the look of the cake and level of impact. The wedding colors were blush, nude, cream, and rose mauve. The cake was described by some as dark gray and by others as purple. Several people at the reception asked "what happened to the cake?" The bride could not help but tear up when she saw it. It was so awful. Erica was by far the most expensive baker we tried and at that price point, you expect to get what you ask for. When we expressed our disappointment after the wedding, she refused to acknowledge that the cake was nothing like what we asked for. In an effort to be reasonable despite the huge disappointment on a once in lifetime day, we asked for a 50% discount. Erica refunded only 20% which I find appalling.
We were disappointed with our experience on the day of our wedding. The monogram we requested on the cake was done in a completely different style font that we discussed. It looked...
like the magnetic letters kids put on a fridge. This was a terrible surprise and she did not consult us about the change. The week of the wedding, we asked how to cut the cake, concerned there would be a support layer. Erica did not say there was one and sent us a video that was inaccurate as to how we should have cut the cake. It almost toppled over while cutting it (like the video showed) at the wedding. I was heartbroken and so embarrassed. The only positive to this experience was that our guests enjoyed the flavor of the cake.
Erica's cakes are amazing and absolutely stunning! She was able to bring our watercolor sea glass inspired cake to life better than I could have ever imagined, and not only was it...
beautiful but it was SO DELICIOUS. We saved our top tier for our anniversary and I seriously cannot wait to enjoy it again! She offers so many amazing cake and filling options, and they were all incredible!
Village Patisserie has the best cakes! Erica is so easy to work with and her cakes are delicious! Many of our guests complimented on how great the cakes were! Erica invited us to h...
er home for a tasting before hiring her and we were sold right away with her moist cake and delicious fillings! I would definitely recommend her to any bride and groom looking for their dream wedding cake!
Wonderful, personal, amazing and so so talented ❤ it was happenstance that I crossed paths with Village Patisserie at a bridal show pre-covid but it was the amazing care and lovin...
g touch that got me through my pandemic wedding!! I recommend pretty much anything but the Carmel Apple was a perfect match for an October wedding. From day one with our cake tasting to the wedding cake Erica/Village Patisserie was high class and so much fun to work with. She's booked again for our covid delayed reception and I can't wait to see her next creation. Definitely a must!!!
I got the opportunity to work with Erica on a wedding in which she provided the wedding cake. Being a wedding planner, it is my job to get all vendors on the same page and know w...
hen they plan to arrive on the wedding day. Erica was very quick to respond to emails leading up to the wedding and very accommodating in making the timeline work. Additionally, she designs gorgeous cakes that taste amazing! I would highly recommend the Village Patisserie for any special occasion and look forward to working with her again.
Finding Erica was an absolute blessing for us! Covid hit about 8 months before our wedding, right as we were hoping to start cake testing! When things finally started opening up,...
we were only about 4-5 months out from our date and still in need of a cake! Luckily we found Erica, and the process was so easy and stress free from there. She was so quick to respond and very easy to work with! We loved getting to have our cake tasting and were very excited with all the options. We ended up having 4 different flavors of cake. My husband, who does not have the same appreciation for cake that I do, actually loved her fresh apple cake. It was a perfect flavor for a fall wedding as well and we received many compliments! Erica delivered the cake to the venue the morning of, and also finished the decorating on site using flowers that my florist provided. It turned out looking even more beautiful that my inspiration Pins! Although we did not get an opportunity to have any at our wedding after the cutting, we are already counting down the days for our pink champagne tier that we saved for our first anniversary!
Village Patisserie did an amazing job with my wedding cake! I received exactly what I asked for! I chose 3 different flavors for my cake and they all were a hit with my guests!
My wife and I celebrated our 15th year of marriage this past summer, and we still very much remember Erica's (Village Patisserie's) wedding cake and the process. We had samples of ...
different kinds of cake and frosting and we chose from unlimited cake designs. The cake tasted absolutely awesome. I also have DJed weddings since 1993, so I shamefully have to admit I have tasted wedding cake more than a few times. Hers was better than others I've tasted, and I've worked at weddings where I know the cake cost a pretty penny. She charges VERY fairly and is worth every penny. To this day, she's the only cake person I'd recommend to DJ clients also in need of a wedding cake. My wife has hired her for cakes for other occasions besides our wedding, all with magnificent results. At least give Village Patisserie a look and a taste before you decide which baker to choose to help with your wedding cake and/or dessert.
Loved my design of my cake. The intricate details were beautiful and elegant. The cake was also very delicious! I received a lot of compliments on the cake!
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Toledo and surrounding areas
Wedding Cakes