The cake from alliance bakery came with our package at the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza, so I didn't choose this place myself but it turned out fantastic! The people at the bakery are friendly and helpful and of course the cake was delicious! I'm excited for the free cake we will get on our one year anniversary!

Alliance Bakery was one of 10 recommended bakeries from my reception venue. I went through the list and contacted each bakery and Alliance was the only one that actually had a live person available to talk to and they were also the only one available to meet at a time that was convenient and not during work week hours. Mitchell was the consultant that we worked with and he was extremely accomodating and helpful in recommending flavors and in helping us keep our costs down. Alliance was by far the most economical and didn't have that stuffy wedding bakery feel to any of our meetings all because they are a bakery first and foremost with an eclectic taste. I do NOT have an eclectic taste and wanted a very classic looking wedding cake and classic is what I got. I also used Alliance to make a Groom's cake for our Rehearsal dinner in which I just simply asked for cake in the shape of my husband's college logo, they not only made it well but it was one of the most delicious cakes ever. I will use Alliance over and over again throughout my life.

We loved our cake!!!! It was simple but elegant and was delicious!!! Mitchell was wonderful to work with and we were planning from VA.....you can't go wrong with Alliance Bakery!

We actually live just around the corner from them, so I see their cakes every day in their display window and they are always amanzing! The only reason I didn't give them a higher score is because when I went to pick out our cake, every one I chose was "not included" in our package. He pulled out a book and was showing me photos of cakes that I couldn't have! So, I finally just gave him a copy of our invitation and asked him to create what he could that was "included" in our package. Compared to the wonderful cakes I see everyday, ours was a bit ho-hum, but it served its purpose.

The cake was amazing.
Looked like a work of art.
The tasting sold us on using Alliance, since they were the most professional, and prepared. They worked in our budget.
We got rave reviews from our family!

Too bad there are only 5 stars - Alliance rates a 7!! Can't say enough good things about this vendor. I was not after an over-the-top cake, but it turned out I got one anyway. I took ideas from at least 3 of the sample cakes and they seamlessly melded them to create a totally stunning cake for me. My venue originally had another bakery as their supplier, but 3 months before my date, they had to shut down due to contamination issues - and my venue, and I were stuck! The guys @ Alliance really stepped up to the plate, and produced a simple but luxuriously elegant, personalized, perfect cake for us. They also waived a few upcharges to help us out in a pinch. Since I was having trouble narrowing down my flavors, they suggested i use them ALL, so I did. Each of my 3 layers were unique, and they were all delicious. I didn't get a chance to have more than a bite - but several guests mentioned how great the flavors were, since they sampled each layer! Fortunately, they even gave us their own wedding gift: a certificate for a mini-cake for our anniversary. If I ever get married for the 2nd time again, these will be my go-to guys.

We received a credit to go towards our wedding cake as part of our wedding package at the Chicago Mart Plaza. Our cake wasn't something we obsessed about at the time, but they really gave us a great wedding cake! We did a tasting with Alliance and talked over an idea we saw in a magazine, and they assured us that they'd be able to do it without a problem. All of the cake flavors we tasted were great - so much that we started getting really excited about the cake when the day came closer. Not only did they deliver a beautiful cake for us that got rave reviews from the guests, but it tasted fantastic! As a bonus (and I'm not sure if this was part of our venue package or if it's their doing), but we have a gift certificate to get another 6" cake for free to celebrate our 1 year anniversary. Highly recommended bakery!

My entire experience with Alliance was positive. It was easy to schedule an appointment. They're flexible in their options and pricing. Their cakes are delicious, which is the most important part. They were very professional and easy to work with. I had a picture of a cake I found in a magazine and they were able to replicate it. I highly recommend working with them. They also gave us a gift certificate for a free anniversary cake, which is nice since we did not save the top of our cake.

Since we only wanted a simple 3 tier square cake with a fondant ribbon around the base of each layer, we really didn't want to pay the exorbitant prices some of the hip cake designers charge. I called around to many Chicago bakeries to get pricing info, and Alliance was the best. We also felt good because they were a preferred cake supplier of our venue (W City Center Hotel).

We scheduled a tasting at the cute little bakery/coffee shop, chose two different flavor combinations and were on our way. Easy as pie.

On our wedding day, the cake was delivered as promised and looked beautiful. We didn't get to taste any that day but heard it was great! Lastly, a nice little perk is that instead of saving the top tier of cake in the freezer for a year until it becomes stale and tasteless, Alliance gives all brides & grooms a certificate for a small 16" cake in the same flavor as the original wedding cake, redeemable anytime during the year after the wedding. Can't wait to use it!

Our wedding cake was from Alliance Bakery as part of our hotel wedding package. Our tasting was very organized and went well, though their book of cake ideas to look at included only 3 pages of what was included with our package, everything else was additional. I was surprised at how simple the designs had to be to be included. Also, we tasted mocha buttercream and really enjoyed it, which was oddly not on their price sheet, but they later said it would be an additional $150, as that's how many people the entire cake was for. We only wanted it for 1 layer and really did not want to spend any money over what our package included, so we went with plain chocolate buttercream, which was good as well, but definitely not the same. When we found out our final count the week before, which was less than the 150 people, they made us downgrade from a 4 layer to a 3 layer and we again asked if we could then add in the mocha buttercream, as our cake would be technically worth less, because of our less people. They still wouldn't give us our mocha buttercream, so we went without.

Other than their lack of flexibility, everything else with Alliance was absolutely wonderful. They delivered the cake without having to contact us on the actual wedding day and it was gorgeous and exactly (or better!) than we expected. The cake tasted perfect and the fillings were wonderful. They even had the hotel give us a coupon for a free anniversary cake for our 1-year.

Alliance Bakery was included in the cost of our reception at the Holiday Inn so I wasn't sure what we would get and I thought our cake was wonderful. We had a lemon cake with buttercream and raspberry filling and it was moist and delicious! We recieved lots of compliments on the cake. And the decoration was exactly what we asked for.

For the most part our cake was a hit and the bakery did a great job, but I do have to say it wasn't the smoothest process along the way. I had really done a lot of internet searching on what I wanted the cake to look like. Although there are a lot of beautiful cakes out there, I wanted something original that was different than a tiered cake with some kind of flower on it. My husband is a drummer and I found a great picture of a cake that looked like a drum kit. It was perfect because it was outside the box and different than other traditional wedding cakes, but the circular "drums" were still standard rounds that fell into more of what you'd expect a wedding cake to look like. We had our cake included in our wedding package with our hotel so all we had to do was set up a tasting and a design consultation with the bakery. I was a little caught off guard because although they have several different cake flavors and fillings they limited the tasting to three cakes and three fillings. I can totally understand that they have to draw a line somewhere so they aren't making a million little cakes and fillings for every tasting, but when they have over a dozen selections of cakes and another dozen or more of fillings, three doesn't seem a lot. Especially once you want to try the standard vanilla and chocolate, then you only really have one more "outside the norm" choice. I didn't complain though, because I know nothing about cakes and bakeries and I didn't want to start my consultation on the wrong foot as some kind of already complaining bridezilla. I was under the impression based on the way the hotel had described our included (i.e., free) cake that we just had to pick a flavor, talk about a design and that was that. I had two conversations with the bakery before my appointment and I let them know I had a picture (which they said was great and to bring it along). I asked them if there was anything else I needed or needed to come prepared with and they said no. What I didn't expect was to sit down and be handed a sheet of how most of the cake flavors and fillings were additional costs and how certain design elements were also additional costs. Don't get me wrong, I was not there to try take advantage of a vendor and get an over the top cake for free, but I just felt very UNEXPECTEDLY nickel and dimed. If I had been told of these upgraded prices prior to my tasting, I think I would have been able to go with it more, but no one told me one flavor was more than another. That would have also helped a great deal when I was picking my cake tasting flavors and fillings before my appointment. We were being cost conscious about our entire wedding so had I known a red velvet cake was going to be so much more per piece than a lemon cake I would have made my pre-choices accordingly. I just felt that they could have prepared me better for the tasting. I had also made it clear that I had found a picture of a caked online that I really liked (the drum cake). I acknowledge that I don't know a lot about cake making and design but I really didn't think upon first impression that my cake picture was any more complicated than all the other wedding cakes they had shown on their website. I had also told them over the phone I had a picture and there was no warning about any kind of design up charges. Even when I handed them the picture at the consultation they didn't immediately look at it and say, ok, this is a little complicated, it will cost you more. She took one look, said the cake was totally do-able, they do cakes like that all the time. She excused herself for a minute (again, not saying anything about cost or checking on cost) and then walked back in later and told us that our free cake was going to cost us $500. This shocked us because even at the highest level of upgrade per the price sheet she handed us when we started our tasting (the sheet we would have loved to be aware of prior to our meeting) that was still 5 times MORE than the highest level of price increase! (I did a little further research and priced out the cake at other bakeries that did not have a deal with our hotel and it priced out at $800. Still a lot of money but what they're saying is that just the upgrades to the cake was costing us $300) We were shocked and disappointed. I could tell the woman at the bakery knew this and let us know they would email us some additional sketches that week that could possibly be less expensive (but were still hundreds more-- again, for our "free" cake). The people were very nice about trying to work with us, but I don't think I got past the unexpected shock of it all. I even went back to my original paperwork from the hotel to make sure I didn't miss any fine print and the way that our "free" cake was described was "custom designed wedding cake with tasting and design consultation." I totally understand that some cakes are more work than others, but I didn't feel like I was led to believe that you could only get a basic cake included and anything more than that would be such a huge additional cost. The emailed, "less expensive" sketches were off the mark as far as the look of the cake that I wanted but still hundred more out of pocket to us. In the end my generous father-in-law insisted on paying for the original cake we wanted so we went with the original design. I will say the cake ended up really great (as a note to people, they did change a color element from the original picture I sent. The color change by chance actually complimented my wedding so was a good change for me but I could see how for someone else that would be annoying that they didn't give us a heads up that they were modifying the picture). The cake tasted great too, which was a bonus because it tasted better than the tasting where I thought the cake was a little dry. The cake the day of was terrific and we got a lot of compliments on the taste and look. So overall it worked out for us, but I did have to point out that I wish we were better prepared going into the entire process. I guess you can't get anything for "free" these days.

Service outsatnading and made a delicious cake that fed over 100. Did so on short notice, delivered correctly with no problems, decent price conpared to others, and would have done anything we would have asked.

The cake was fantastic. Alliance Bakery is near my home, and I've always loved to look at the fanciful cakes in their window, so I was thrilled to find out that they were going to be doing my cake (it was included in the hotel package). I was a little nervous after the tasting because the sample cakes were a bit stale. On the day of the wedding, though, the cake was amazing. It looked exactly like the pic I gave them and it tasted sooo good. I ended up with fewer guests than I expected, but this just meant more cake for everybody! I know for a fact that many people went back and got thirds.

My husband and I are not really cake fans. We prefer to have different types of desserts, but when it came to our wedding we knew that we wanted to have a cake to cut. We worked with Lindsay from Alliance, and she was so easy and fun to work with. When we went in for our cake tasting, I wasn't really looking forward to the cake part, as I'm not a fan, but I must say, it tasted so delicious, I would eat their cake everyday! We went with a hazelnut cake with pistachio filling, and then a different layer with fudge filling. Because we were also having different desserts, Lindsay assured that even though the cake would be for 30 people, it would still stand out. It definatly did, and looked great. It was such a hit at our wedding, and it was so great to enjoy cake. It was beautiful and just what we were looking for.

My cake was amazing. It was done perfectly and tasted unbelievable, all for a great price. I got many compliments on how wonderful the cake was. I am so happy I went with Alliance.