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Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Dietary Options
- Gluten Free
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
Awards and Affiliations
2-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2023.2022.
Best of Weddings
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We ordered a small vegan lemon cutting cake with vanilla buttercream for our wedding and were extremely impressed with the taste and texture. It was honestly the best vegan cake I ...
have ever had. The frosting was not overly sweet and hard like a lot of vegan frosting tends to be. It was buttery and silky and the lemon cake was very moist and succulent. They also nailed the design we were looking for. Later in the night we walked in on a groomsmen eating a piece of the cake, who also said “this is the best cake I’ve ever had, where is this from?” He was shocked to learn that it was vegan. We froze the rest of the cake for tradition but every day I am tempted to thaw it because it was so good. On top of this, the communication with Zest was very quick and they coordinated delivery of the cake to our venue which was a huge help. 10/10 recommend!
Zest did an amazing job on our wedding cake. The process for the at home tasting was so fun, they were responsive to work with, and nailed to the design we wanted. They were also a...
ble to make separate cupcakes to accommodate a few of our guests with dietary restrictions. Everyone loved the cake!
Our wedding cake looked beautiful! They did a great job executing such a minimalist design! Zest was so responsive and really easy to work with!
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The Zest team is incredible to work with. We were navigating some dietary restrictions (Glut...
en Free, Dairy Free, etc.), and Gabriella was incredibly patient answering all of our questions. Their communication was top notch. The on-the-go tasting still involved a conversation with Gabriella at their shop, and it was informative without feeling pressured or sales-pitchy. It was a fun experience that allowed me and my husband to have a fun little picnic and taste all the yummy items.
The options available for cakes and desserts is truly incredible. There's something for every taste preference.
Some highlights: The gluten free chocolate cake was incredible. The regular chocolate was also ROCKIN' with the chocolate mousse. The red velvet was moist and the cream cheese filling had a great zing to it. The chocolate sea salt caramel tarts were a major crowd pleaser (one guest said they could die happy because they had eaten it, and it was the best thing they've ever tasted). The s'mores cookies are so unique, and the mini whoopie pies are such a fun whimsical treat. The chocolate covered strawberries also received five star reviews across the board.
Beyond taste, the team brought our vision for the cake to life. They nailed the Lambeth design from our inspo pics!
Delivery was seamless on our end as well.
Our biggest regret of the wedding is only getting a few bites of cake! We will be coming back for anniversaries to come to get some treats.
From the bottom of our hearts (and stomachs) we recommend Zest!
We had so much fun working with Zest on a unique cake design for a wedding. I can’t recommend them enough. We did a carrot cake and it was as delicious as it was dreamy.
Gabriella and the rest of the team at Zest Bakery did an excellent job with our wedding cake and desserts! From our wedding cake, to the sheet cake, to whoopie pies, cookies, brow...
nies, and other desserts, they ensured that the selection of sweets at our wedding was not only visually appealing, but exquisitely flavorful, which left all our guests satisfied. I’d be remiss not to mention how carefully they decorated the scale patterns on our cake, and how closely they matched the artistic vision we had for it. Cannot recommend this bakery enough for weddings or any other large events. If ordering a cake, be sure to check out their champagne cake! We got this with strawberry mousse and chocolate cake with mascarpone filling and vanilla buttercream, and would highly recommend those to any prospective wedding customers.
For our wedding in July 2024 at the Inn at Mystic, neither my husband nor I were set on getting a cake. My mom insisted and we set out to search for a bakery. Zest Fresh Pastry cam...
e highly recommended by our venue and when we spoke with them, they said they bring a cake there pretty much every weekend (sometimes multiple times a weekend!) during wedding season. I wanted a simple two layer cake that we could have our florist add some flowers to. We also did a sheet cake as backup for the guests! Our guests raved about the cake and I'm so happy we ended up getting one. Would definitely recommend!
Our wedding cake was gorgeous and delicious! Everyone at Zest was so easy to work with. We selected some flavors for an at home tasting, sent a couple inspiration pictures, and our...
cake turned out better than I ever could have imagined! All of their other baked goods are so yummy too, we will have to celebrate our anniversaries with other sweet treats they have on offer. Thank you Zest!
Thank you so much to Gabriella and team at Zest! They created the most amazing and delicious wedding cake and mini dessert bar for our wedding 10/6/23! I cannot speak highly enough...
about Gabriella and Zest, from initial booking and sampling of cakes and desserts to our wedding day they did a great job and were so easy and accommodating to work with. These desserts and cake were also so good! I will be ordering more desserts from Zest in the future! Thank you all so much, everything was beyond my expectations!
Gabriella and the Zest Fresh team were great to work with! Our cake was delicious, and we loved being able to work with a local baker. Cool bakery location too for visiting!
Zest bakery and the folks that run it did a wonderful job on our Wedding Cake, this summer. We worked with Zest and Gourmet Galley together to cater our big day, and Gabriella and ...
team did a beautiful job. They created a stunning Cake that pulled perfectly and professionally from the references we chose for our “look”, and they even went so far as to work with a close friend of ours who was hand-carving a unique wedding topper, to make sure they could coordinate the cake design and size. We really appreciate the extra effort and care put into everything and the ease of communication. The Lavender and Lemon flavors we chose were delicious! We highly recommend them for whatever service you might be considering! :)
Communication between bakery and us was very punctual and they answered all our questions and requests. They worked around our schedule to get the cake samples and traveled to drop...
off the cakes before the wedding. The wedding cake was absolutely delicious and beautiful and our guests loved the sheet cake that was provided to them!
Zest did a great job on our wedding cake! They put our wedding topper on and the floral arrangement which came out beautiful. The cake itself was very pretty, and we received a lot...
of compliments on how good the cake tasted. We chose banana cake with mascarpone filling and chocolate cake with peanut butter filling, and both were excellent. The cake was very fresh and moist, and the frosting was not too sweet. Zest was easy to deal with and delivered the cake to the venue without a hitch. Thank you!!
Zest Fresh Pastry baked us the most delicious cake for our wedding! We had a 3 tier cake with alternating flavors, and a separate gluten free cake for my husband. Both cakes were u...
nbelievably delicious, and we had so many compliments from our guests about how delicious they were - particularly the chocolate flavor!
I made it a point to save all of the leftovers, which we ate for days after. Thank you to Gabriella for working with us to have the most delicious cake at our wedding!
Gabriella at Zest was wonderful to work with! She really nailed our simple vision and communication was timely and efficient. Our cake looked incredible and tasted even better. We ...
highly recommend Zest for any wedding cakes and desserts! You will not be disappointed.
Gabriella did so amazing with our wedding desserts! We had a beautiful pressed flower cake with cannolis and cupcakes with fresh fruit. Definitely use zest for any wedding dessert ...
needs!
Gabriella at Zest Fresh Pastry is AWESOME!! She took the vision of our wedding coordinator and made it a stunning reality. We opted for a small cake with cupcakes on the side. They...
were delicious and they photographed beautifully.
We used chocolate chip cookies from Zest as our favors, and they were a HUGE hit! They were packaged so nicely, and were so big!!
Gabriella responded to emails so quickly. She was so great to work with, from the cake tasting to the wedding day.
We worked with Gabriella at Zest to curate our wedding cake and cupcakes for our wedding in May 2021. My husband thought I was nuts when I was considering mixing flavors for our ca...
ke, but Gabriella not only told me they could do it, her and her team at Zest made the flavors all melt deliciously together! She also helped me find the perfect mix of cupcake flavors for our guests. And, since I’m a tad indecisive, Gabriella also had the perfect suggestion for the design of our cake. Totally in love with everything that they did, that day and six months later. Can’t wait to go visit and get some new yummy treats we haven’t tried yet! Highly recommend Gabriella and her team for your big day!
Gabriella is absolutely amazing to work with! I plan weddings for a living, so I had the pleasure of working with her for years before it came time for my own wedding. We honestly ...
didn’t even look at any other bakeries since we knew Zest was who we wanted! We had a non-traditional small cake with a cheesecake on bottom and a carrot cake on top. Gabriella made it look amazing! Not to mention how fantastic all the other desserts she provided were as well! Especially the cake pops that we used as place card holders. People are still talking about them! If you are looking for visually stunning desserts that taste as good as they look, you have found the right place at Zest!
Zest did an amazing job with our cutting cake for our September 2021 wedding. They had a great selection, and used a single inspiration photo to create a lovely looking cake that f...
it our look and feel perfectly! The cake was delicious, and we can’t wait to bust out the frozen slices in a year!
Gabriella created such a gorgeous, delicious cake for our wedding!! It was everything we wanted. The champagne cake with strawberry compote and marscapone filling was out of this w...
orld! They also make us hummingbird cupcakes that were incredible. I couldn’t recommend them enough!!!
Gabriella helped with our wedding favor which was a mini whoopie pie, each individually wrapped in cellophane. It was a very reasonable price and it sounded like they could have do...
ne more fancy wrapping if we had wanted it. They also handled delivery directly to our venue which was an added bonus. They were so easy to work with and the whoopie pie was delicious!
Gabriella helped us with our dream wedding cake and did an incredible job! We ended up having to change our date 3 times, and Zest was super accommodating. The cakes are absolutely...
delicious and the cake tasting is a blast! 10/10 recommend Zest for your wedding cake needs!
We loved Zest Bakery! They took our vision and made it become reality, into the most beautiful cake we could imagine. We dropped off our cake topper at their bakery and had to try ...
some of their other treats - amazing! You can't go wrong!
I had the wedding cake of my dreams thanks to Zest bakery! Not only was it more beautiful than every one of my reference photos, it was DELICIOUS! So many compliments from our gues...
ts and fellow vendors!!!!
These cakes are so good. Amazing!!
Zest did our wedding cake last June and we are so happy we chose them! Gabriella was so easy to work with and the cake turned out amazing, just how we wanted it. We cannot wait to ...
dig into our anniversary layer in a few months. We highly recommend them for all their pastries but definitely for their wedding cakes!
Zest is AMAZING! Gabriella is so amazing to work with. She is so nice and very responsive and helpful. At our tasting we ended up liking the cake so much we had another cake made f...
or our rehearsal dinner. Our rehearsal dinner cake was beer cake and our wedding cake was champagne with mascarpone filling and raspberry filling. Our guests are still saying how delicious the cake was months later! Highly recommend!
We absolutely love Zest! Gabriella and her family are so lovely and hard-working, and their cakes are incredible! We had two flavors at our wedding – chocolate and vanilla cake wit...
h cream cheese frosting; and champagne cake with lemon filling – and they were both SO delicious. Our guests asked to take extras home! They are so easy to work with and made the cake look as beautiful as it tasted. They even worked with us to keep it within our budget and get the cake we loved. We can’t wait for our anniversary to dig into the cake top! Highly, highly recommend.
Definitely recommend. I sent one picture of what I wanted, and it was absolute perfection, completely exceeded my expectations. The cake was delicious- they had so many different o...
ptions to choose from. I got so many compliments! Thank you for the perfect wedding cake!
We loved our wedding cake from Zest! From the cake tasting to our wedding day, everything was perfect. Our cake was exactly what we wanted and it tasted amazing. We received many c...
ompliments on the cake. Definitely recommend Zest Bakery!
Gabriela and her team were a dream to work with! We loved her from day 1. Thanks to her, our tasting was one of the most fun experiences that we had together during the planning ...
process. Seeing our wedding cake exactly how we had envisioned it on our wedding day was truly the icing on the cake (pun intended). It’s been a week since our wedding and our guests continue to tell us how delicious our cake was and how pretty it looked. We loved it so much that we are planning to ask her to make a similar cake for our first anniversary next year!
Couldn't be happier than Zest was recommended to us! The entire experience- from the tasting to our 6 cake wedding display was perfection! The cakes were all unique, looked fabulou...
s, and tasted so delicious... our guests couldn't get enough. Gabriella is such a joy to work with and made our vision come true seamlessly. Thank you, thank you, we highly recommend!
ZEST FRESH PASTRY WERE AN ABSOLUTE PLEASURE TO WORK WITH FROM BEGINNING TO END. GABRIELLA WAS SO HELPFUL AND OPEN TO ALL MY IDEAS FOR OUR WEDDING CAKE. THE TEAM DID A BEAUTIFUL AND...
DELICIOUS JOB WITH THE CAKE. THANK YOU!!!
Zest made the cake for our August 2017 wedding and it was DELICIOUS! We had carrot cake (cream cheese frosting) and champagne (strawberry mousse). The tasting was fun and the final...
presentation was exactly what we requested.
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22 Bayview Avenue, Stonington, CT
