About this vendor
Zingerman’s Bakehouse wedding cakes are custom-made pieces of edible art. We can create the cake of your dreams, in both design and flavor. We make everything, even our fondant, from scratch using the best ingredients we can find.
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Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Cakes & Desserts
- Cake Tastings
- Cupcakes
- Groom's Cakes
Awards and Affiliations
3-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2022.2013.2012.
Best of Weddings
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I knew from the get-go that I wanted our wedding cake to be a Zingerman's Bakehouse wedding cake - Alyce was wonderful to work with and brought our vision of our cake to life. She ...
even enjoyed our idea of adding Funko Pops as wedding cake toppers! Everyone at the wedding was obsessed with our cake and how delicious it was. Thank you so, so much to Alyce and the Zingerman's Bakehouse team!
Zingerman's did an AMAZING job! We got to select like 5 cake flavors which was ideal when we had multiple people with different allergens. We didn't have to worry about the cake ar...
riv ing on time as they were always professional & ready to go.
Zingerman's had great taste testing options, the designer/coordinator for designing the cake was super fun and easy to work with, they worked directly with our Vendors (UFS for flo...
wers and Vinology for venue) which made it seemless for the event set up.
Our wedding cake was a highly anticipated part of our special day, and the team at Zingerman’s Bakehouse truly exceeded all of our expectations. During our initial consultation, Al...
yce was extremely helpful in guiding us through the many design options and hand-sketched the most beautiful cake that perfectly captured our wedding style and vision. The tasting box that they put together for us was absolutely delicious, and my husband and I had the best time picking out flavors from their many offerings and recommendations before finally deciding on their vanilla chiffon cake with lemon curd and raspberry buttercream. We really wanted to incorporate fresh floral arrangements on our cake, and the Zingerman’s Bakehouse team worked seamlessly with our florist to coordinate the design and set-up. On the day of our wedding, the cake was stunning and exactly how we envisioned it, and our guests endlessly complimented how absolutely delicious it was. After our wedding, the Bakehouse team also went above and beyond to help us coordinate for a replacement top tier for our anniversary after our hotel mistakenly threw ours away. We really can't thank Zingerman’s Bakehouse enough for their incredible work and for making the entire process easy and stress-free. We highly recommend Zingerman’s Bakehouse to any other couples looking for a beautiful and delicious cake for their big day.
Our wedding cakes were delicious and turned out beautifully! Alyce was fantastic to work with and is so talented. Our grooms cake was gluten and dairy free and tasted amazing - th...
e design was also exceptional.
Absolutely delicious and beautiful! Our Gluten Free guests were raving about the cake we got for them. Not only will I be getting many more cakes from Zingerman's, I'm sure several...
of my guests will be ordering, too!
Our wedding cake this past weekend was stunningly beautiful and absolutely delicious! We got multiple compliments from guests on both cake flavors that we chose. Zingerman's was a ...
delight to work with and excellent at communicating about the process throughout! And even the fondant tasted good, haha!
The yummiest cake I ever had! We met with Alyce a few months before our wedding and she drew up a design for us that meshed together a few different visions I had. She sent us home...
with a sample box to try and was very responsive when my fiancé and I wanted to make a few changes to the design. The cake was amazing and looked beautiful!
Zingerman's is always top notch, our cake was beautiful, on time, and delicious.
Zingerman's did such an incredible job with our wedding cake! They took our ideas and made a beautiful work of art. Of course it tasted amazing, too! We are from MI but currently l...
ive out of state, and Zingerman's was wonderfully accommodating with letting each of our families try an assortment of flavors since we couldn't be there in person. I cannot recommend them enough!
My husband and I are so happy that we chose to work with Zingerman's for our wedding cake. We worked with Alyce and Katrina and they both helped us bring the vision for our cake to...
life. The planning process was seamless (1-2 consultations), delivery stress-free, and we were so happy with how the cake turned out.
We also ordered cookies for our rehearsal dinner from Zingerman's, which turned out great and were a big hit. We cannot recommend Zingerman's enough for not only your wedding cake but also any additional weekend or day-of baked goods.
Those who are from Michigan don’t need to be reminded of the magic that is Zingerman’s baked goods. They were able to turn my dreams into reality. From the sugar flowers to the lac...
e piping to the monogram, everything was beyond splendid. Beyond the aesthetics, the cake itself was a knockout— almost every one of our guests had remarked that this is quite possibly the best wedding cake they’ve ever tried. We knew that going with Zingerman’s is always a good choice and we were still blown away by what they delivered. Even their fondant tasted good and that’s no small feat.
Zingerman's did an amazing job with our wedding cakes! We worked with Alyce and she was great with showing us different designs and options for cake decorations. Ultimately, we wen...
t with personal cakes decorated to match our florals for all of the guests and everyone loved them! We choose the buttermilk cake with a lemon buttercream filling and a vanilla buttercream exterior and the flavors and textures were perfect! They were so easy to work with and were very responsive! I would recommend them to anyone!
Our cake was wonderful!!! Their coconut cake with passionfruit mousse is to die for and everyone loved it!!! They did an amazing job with the design - it was designed based off of ...
my dress with pearls and lace, and turned out so beautiful! Would definitely recommend them!
We loved our wedding cake from Zingerman's Bakehouse. The cake tasting box was filled with delicious flavors to choose from. We chose the Buttermilk Cake with Lemon Buttercream ...
filling and it was fantastic. The guest loved it and we were extremely pleased. My cake was created perfectly, i sent a few pictures of my vision and it was exactly like the picture. If you are looking for a cake just choose them, you won't regret it.
We absolutely loved our wedding cake from Zingerman's Bakehouse! From the cake sample tasting and detailed wedding planning to enjoying our delicious wedding cake with our loved on...
es, we cannot say enough how much of a pleasure it was to work with Zingerman's Bakehouse! We loved being able to share our two favorites on our wedding day: buttermilk cake with raspberry & vanilla buttercream frosting, and chocolate cake with dulce de leche and salted caramel & vanilla buttercream frosting! This local vendor definitely lives up to the hype and we highly recommend working with them!
A review from a very happy groom! Designing our wedding cake with Zingerman's was like a dream sequence within Willy Wonka's confection factory. If you want a damn fine cake in mul...
tiple flavors designed to look exactly how you want it with a flair for outside-the-mold thinking, Zingerman's bakehouse is your bag of icing.
The cakes looked so good in fact that my wife ate the samples anyway despite her allergies and had an upset stomach for the next days! "Worth it," she rationalized. With that, our wedding cake was sealed, signed, delivered, and ours.
The greatest tragedy of our wedding day was that we could not reserve an hour to personally dive into the fondant fantasy, which looked as great as it tasted.
Zingerman's was also able to design and create a gluten and dairy free cake specifically for my wife (and other guests) to avoid such a gastrointestinal fiasco. And it was every bit as beautiful and delectable as its larger, more typical compatriot cake.
We also ordered individually wrapped cookies with our initials as delicious favors for our guests, and were just as happy with those as we were our cakes.
Zingermans made everything so easy for our wedding. My mother-in-law and I went in for a consultation, and instantly knew they were the bakery for us. They listened, came up with a...
sketch while we watched and gave our input, and sent us home with a box of samples FOR FREE. The planning sheet was easy to fill out. They do a phone meeting a few weeks out to get things finalized, so communication was excellent. Very professional, and their cakes are delicious. So many of our guests talked about how good the cakes were (we did several flavors of cupcakes, or which you can mix and match cake, filling, and frosting flavors, and Zingermans helps you decide what would taste good together). We also had a sweetheart cake which we cut during our grand entrance. The thing I am happiest about is the professionalism. They know what they’re doing, which is exactly what you need when you’re planning a wedding, hoping everything turns out great!
First and foremost, the cake was amazing! Everyone loved how we offered three different flavors to choose from. The entire process of working with them was completely stress-free. ...
They have so much experience and talent for this it made choosing them as our vendor so easy. We and are guests were beyond happy. Thank you Zingerman’s!
We had a great experience with the Bakehouse!! They made our cake dreams come true :)
We loved our experience with Zingerman’s bakehouse! They gave us free samples on our first visit and when we didn’t find anything we absolutely loved in the sample box they made u...
s they made us new samples, which we ended up picking from. We also enjoyed how they would make any amount of sheet cake we needed, which other cake companies we talked with were not willing to do. I also asked them after we booked for another sample of the cakes we wanted to confirm our choices and share the cake with our families, and they made them on short notice for us during a busy season with no charge. The cake was very reasonably priced and was really good!
Zingerman's never disappoints and our wedding cake was no exception! The bakehouse was very helpful from start to finish. At our initial consultation they took our ideas and sketch...
ed what the cake would look like and sent us home with delicious samples. They were also more than happy to send additional samples when we asked. The Bakehouse was also very helpful in making sure that everything would go smoothly on the day of the wedding by checking in multiple times before the wedding. Needless to say, the final cake looked beautiful and tasted amazing!
Our cake was honestly the most beautiful wedding cake I have ever seen in real life. Five layers, each one a different flavor! The artist who made our cake even matched the piping ...
details on the cake to the details on my dress! All of our guests raved about this cake inside and out! I also loved trying out samples for flavors, they made us all of the flavor combos we came up with to try.
We feel SO LUCKY to have had our wedding cake made by Zingerman's Bakehouse! It was beautiful and amazingly tasty and we're still getting compliments on it! The whole process worki...
ng with this team was great - it was so much fun going in for our consultation to taste and design our cake. We ended up choosing 4 different flavors, all of which were amazing. Truly it was the best wedding cake we or our wedding guests had ever had! The cake design turned out GORGEOUS and is such a sweet memory to look back on. We can't wait to order a cake from them again in the future!
We've always loved Zingerman's, and the wedding cake they created for us was no exception. They were impressive right from the start, as our baker sat down to discuss what we had i...
n mind and even sketched out our vision. We also appreciated that they sent us home with the cakes for tasting (who wants to let all that goodness go to waste?). Everyone on their teams was always friendly and communicative, which helped ease some of the pains of wedding planning from another state. Being able to select THREE different cake flavors was awesome, and our guests raved about all of them. Their cake may be a little more expensive than a lot of the other local vendors, but the quality and service are absolutely worth it. Can't recommend enough!!
We planned our Ann Arbor wedding from Seattle and Zingerman's Bakehouse was the best choice! Other bakeries wanted to charge us extra for planning over the phone or via email, but...
Zingerman's did not hesitate to work with us from the other side of the country - their customer service is top notch! We paid our deposit to reserve our date four months before our wedding and then did our tasting and consultation three weeks before our wedding when we were in town for our marriage license. The consultation was quick and easy (they drew the most beautiful design of exactly what we wanted as we were sitting there!), we left with samples, and then returned a couple days later for custom samples that we requested. The cake was delivered to our venue in Ann Arbor on time and was not only beautiful but tasted amazing as well! Highly recommend!
Absolutely wonderful!! They were very flexible with design of the cake and offered options for making sure the cake we wanted for within our budget. They were all very friendly and...
easy to work with! We ended up doing a few rounds of tasting to make sure we picked the flavor combinations we wanted. All of our guests loved our cake and gave us many compliments about how it looked and tasted! We couldn’t have asked for anything better!!
We loved working with the Bakehouse! The cake was delicious, our guests loved it, and it was beautifully decorated. The sugar flowers were unbelievable, and even matched some of th...
e flowers in the wedding. They even made a small gum paste version of our cat, which was awesome :) The cake matched the image we had initially discussed with them during the consultation, and came out even better than we imagined!
Amazing cake and favors for our guests! The team at Zingerman's was great with designing what we had pictured and working within our budget! Obviously, an easy decision to choose ...
Zingerman's!
This was the easiest decision that we made when it came to planning. My husband attended Michigan and Zingerman's was a place that he frequented, so it had to be on our list. In ...
the beginning we were worried about price point but they turned out to be such a solid financial decision. It was affordable and we got so much for our money. Alyce was friendly and drew out a beautiful cake during our consultation. I later reached out about adding on a surprise grooms cake and they made a piece of art. We had three flavors of cake and everyone loved it. We also had two GF folks and Zingerman's accommodated them with no issues and made sure they were not left out of the fun. The cakes were truly a staple of our event and I would recommend this baker to everyone. I cannot wait to indulge in more cake on our first anniversary. Thank you, Zingerman's for making our day so special and amazing.
The pastry chef from our venue quit at the last minute, and so we decided to go with Zingerman's Bakehouse for our groom's cake, wedding cake, cupcakes, and pies. It ended up bein...
g the best decision we made! The staff were very friendly at all of our consultation appointments. They listened to our ideas and offered their expertise as well. They gave us lots of free samples, and even special ordered flavors that we wanted to try. Everything was delivered and presented beautifully and the desserts were completely gone by the end of the night! Overall, we were delighted with Zingerman's Bakehouse and can't wait to use them again in the future!
This was one of the easy decisions while planning our wedding. It goes without saying that the cake/cupcakes were incredible, but what really made the experience exceptional was t...
he staff. They were so kind and attentive. They answered all of my questions with ease, and they were able to give me exactly what I wanted. Sami and Aly were the ones that I worked with the most, and they were both amazing. I highly recommend!
My husband and I are frequent Zingerman's customers- both at the deli and bakehouse. We love that they are a local business, excel in customer service, and use the highest quality ...
ingredients. We did some other cake tastings in the Ann Arbor area, thinking that a Zingerman's wedding cake would not fit in our budget. Needless to say after cake tasting at other bakeries, we couldn't find the right fit for us and ended up at Zingerman's Bakehouse. We never looked back! Their cakes are seriously THE BEST, and we were amazed by the value. Their pricing is very competitive, and we felt the design, quality, and taste of their wedding cakes far exceeded any of the other places we tried. We felt at ease throughout the process, and they make multiple last minute adjustments for us. We received so many compliments from our guests saying it was the best wedding cake they had ever had! We also added a small gluten free cake at the last minute for some of our guests and appreciated the flexibility of Zingerman's Bakehouse to make that happen. We can't say enough good things about our experience with the Bakehouse and would highly recommend them! We are looking forward to our one year anniversary because we saved the top tier of our wedding cake and can't wait to enjoy it!
I am someone who hates wedding cake -- I actually didn't even want to order one until we tried Zingerman's. Their cakes were so different and so delicious that I instantly fell in ...
love. Everyone we worked with at the bake shop was so easy to work with and let us order as many flavors and fillings as we wanted. The cake was amazing! We ordered more than enough and every single piece was gone by the end of the night! You cannot go wrong with a cake from Zingerman's!
Very professional. Super helpful even when we had some last minute changes needed. Highly recommend
Zingerman's Bakehouse made 3 table cakes for our wedding, and they were delicious and gorgeous!! We had 2 different flavors- cocoa velvet with ginger and chocolate buttercream fro...
stings, and almond pound cake with raspberry buttercream and preserves and vanilla buttercream. Cake is my absolute favorite food, so I was thrilled to have 2 amazing options on our wedding day :).
The smile on my face when I first saw the cake in our venue was one of my most fondest memories on my wedding day. The cake was even more gorgeous then I had imagined. In fact, I b...
arely noticed any of the other decor as the cake stole the show. They created a wonderful purple ombre cake for my wedding at the Henry Ford Museum. Wonderful vendor to work with, amazing cake flavors to select from, and they sum up the slogan of Pure Michigan perfectly. Zingerman's Bakehouse will not disappoint!!
We aren't huge cake fans so we didn't want to buy a cake. The Bakehouse worked with us to create a double stacked cheesecake that they frosted and we decorated with flowers. The ...
pictures are gorgeous. They also provided our wedding pies (chocolate chess was hands down the favorite).
Best cake we've ever had - Our guests absolutely loved it too! The cake turned out beautiful and exactly what we wanted!!! The whole experience, from cake testing to delivery, was ...
amazing!!
There are not enough adjectives to describe Zingerman's quality. I thought I was set on a local bakery for my wedding cake until a tasting event at our wedding venue. I immediate...
ly fell in love with the Hummingbird cake and cream cheese frosting - it was a game changer! We set up an appointment with a wedding cake coordinator. The meeting went very well and we thought we were set on flavors, but another game changer - they sent us home with a box of samples! We opted for a hummingbird layer, an almond pound cake layer with cherry filling and allover buttercream frosting. It was the most delicious cake I've had and a beautiful accompaniment to our wedding. The cake was beautiful, delivery prompt and staff knowledgeable. They even left a present for us (2 mugs) at our gift table during their delivery! I would highly recommend Zingerman's.
As an Ann Arbor native, Zingerman’s is both one my standards for food excellence and one of my favorite places to eat.
I’d had Bakehouse treats many times before, but never tried ...
their wedding cake, so I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect when I went in for our consultation. That said, the entire staff went above and beyond my expectations in every way, from our first consultation to designing our cake to the product they delivered to our wedding.
My now-husband and I went in for our first consultation with a couple of ideas of what we wanted on our cake, including what we thought was a somewhat complicated symbol for the middle tier. They immediately took our ideas and drafted a perfect design on the first try, complete with a perfect rendering (and eventual execution) of the symbol. In addition to the design being perfect, the taste of all the samples, and our cake on the day itself, was absolutely delicious. I can’t say enough good things about the Zingerman’s Bakehouse wedding cake team and their confections.
This was the best vendor I had on my wedding day. The cake was better than I had imagined both in design and in flavor. SO MOIST and delicious. The staff was also very helpful and ...
punctual on checking up with me to make sure I was still happy with my order. Also loved the surprise gift they left at our wedding! Really made me feel appreciated as a customer. :)
The Bakehouse did an amazing job turning my idea into the cutest cake and cupcakes that tasted like heaven!
Our wedding cake was amazing. We had Raspberry and white chocolate filling with buttercream cake and it was a huge hit, everyone loved it.
Even though Zingerman's is a large and thriving company in Ann Arbor, they provided individualized and attentive services. They have delicious and unique cake flavors and welcomed ...
me back on 3 different occasions to pick up samples of various buttercream/cake flavor combinations. The cake was as visually stunning as it was delicious and will certainly be memorable to our guests! We're still enjoying the cake leftovers 2 weeks later!
For our wedding, we opted for a small two-tier cake from Zingerman's to cut and serve to the bridal party and immediate family (~35 people). We got the hummingbird cake with butter...
cream frosting and it was insanely delicious. The decoration was exactly what we wanted - rustic white frosting decorated with a few fresh flowers. We had a monogram incorporated into a lot of our stationary for the wedding that I gave Zingerman's a picture of and they made a gumpaste version for our cake topper!
Zingerman's has a lot of great touches that make their customer service awesome. You get a ton of cake samples at your tasting and the staff is always super friendly. When they delivered the cake they also left us a wedding gift - two cute branded mugs and a card!
My only dissatisfaction was that the cake seemed a bit pricey to me - $200 for hardly any decoration and to serve 35 people. That's why we ended up going with Costco sheetcake for the rest of our guests and that went over surprisingly well with them!
I chose Zingerman's Bakehouse for our wedding cake and it was amazing! It is the best wedding cake I have ever tasted. The design of the cake was very intricate and required a lot ...
of hand piping, but it turned out beautiful. I could not have been more pleased!
We loved our cake! It was absolutely delicious, absolutely gorgeous, and absolutely what we were looking for! The staff at Zingerman's can't be beat. They were unexceptionally f...
riendly and professional even when we needed extra samples because we couldn't settle on a flavor and even when we completely redesigned the look during our final consultation. Just the best! Admittedly, you pay a bit more, but it's worth the splurge.
There is nothing I can say but WOW! My cakes where amazing!!! They tasted great too! I honestly couldn't have picked a better vendor to have done our wedding cake. In all honesty I...
didn't even research wedding cake vendors I knew I wanted Zimmerman's to do it! They did an amazing job on the star wars themed grooms cake! You guys have to give them serious consideration! Idk how to upload photos to this thing so I added a link where you can see our cakes in a blog they did! It's so cool
http://www.zingermansbakehouse.com/wedding-cakes/cake-blog/
I gave the cake designer a picture of the cake I wanted...she created it to the exact specifications. It was beautiful. I chose an almond pound cake that was a bit too thick, but ...
other than that...it was marvelous and great customer service. happy bride!!
Contact
3711 Plaza Drive, Ann Arbor, MI
Zingerman's Bakehouse