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Savannah Rum Runners Bakery and Cafe

Savannah Rum Runners Bakery and Cafe

Savannah, GA
4.7 out of 5 rating, 71 Reviews
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    Alasia Sent on 01/20/2020
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    Tasty and perfect

    Rum runners did an amazing job with our cake! They only had a few vague ideas to go off of (my husband wanted to be in charge of the cake ;p ) but they made it work and they provided a super tasty and beautiful cake!
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    Best Cake I ever ate

    I had the pleasure to test cakes for my wedding and when I tell Megan really did an awesome job. The cake was delicious!!
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    Melissa Sent on 01/17/2019
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    Hidden Gem

    Rum Runner's did not come up on my initial search for bakeries in Savannah, but they are by far the best choice. It's a family-run local bakery who is on point. They worked within my budget and threw out ideas on ways to save money rather than up-selling me. That's how I knew I was in good hands. I gave them inspiration photos and they blew those pinterest pictures out of the water. Those cakes were my favorite part of my wedding, simple and beautiful. They were the best tasting cake I have ever had too. I would highly recommend getting your wedding cake from Rum Runners.
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    Kristen Sent on 11/24/2018
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    Cake cake cake

    Megan was awesome to work with and the cake was exactly what I wanted: simple, beautiful, elegant, and DELICIOUS.
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    Michelle Sent on 12/03/2018
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    Beautiful and delicious wedding cake

    Meggan was so great to work with! She did our wedding cake for our wedding at Old Fort Jackson on 11/10/18 and it was absolutely delicious!! She was flexible with our schedule (my husband and I couldn’t come in together to taste cakes, so she made a to-go box with cupcake samples and frosting for me to take home). The butter cake with buttercream frosting was a unanimous choice. I was pleasantly surprised by how affordable the cake and delivery was. I gave her a couple of inspiration pictures and told her to put her own creative spin on it and she totally nailed it! It was really beautiful! The delivery and setup was prompt and professional. I would definitely recommend Meggan and Savannah Rum Runners Bakery to anyone looking for a delicious and beautiful cake.
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    Amanda Sent on 01/02/2018
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    Great price and quality of cake. They were able to make the cake gluten free and you couldn't even tell. We got the hummingbird flavor and everyone loved it. I had a specific design in mind for the cake, they gave me their cell phone number to send the picture and the cake looked exactly like the picture. Very happy with how this turned out!
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    Maureen Sent on 11/19/2017
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    Working with Meggan and her team at Rum Runners Bakery was a great experience. We traveled around Savannah making cake tasting appointments, but had a very difficult time finding a cake we liked for the budget we had. Upon our first meeting, Meggan worked with us to figure out a budget-friendly cake option and went through a great cake tasting experience. (She even let us take home a little extra to let our family try it!)

    The cake we chose was the Italian wedding cake with hints of pecans and coconut with cream cheese frosting. It was so delicious! On the day of the wedding, we had our florist bring in flowers for the cake, and together they added them to the cake beautifully. The cake was three tiers but the bottom was actually not cake, but decorated as if it was! Then we used sheet cake to distribute to our guests. I highly recommend this option for those on a budget. It worked out great. We were extremely happy with the cake and received many compliments.

    Big thanks to Meggan and her team for helping to make our day perfect. We highly recommend Rum Runners Bakery for anyone interested in finding the perfect wedding cake!

    - Maureen and Daniel

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    Melissa Sent on 11/07/2017
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    Meggan made the most beautiful cakes for my wedding! They tasted as good as they looked! She is very talented and will make your vision come true. Thank you!
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    Jeanene Sent on 09/18/2017
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    We used Savannah Rum Runners Bakery and Cafe after a dear friend gave us a few places to try and we absolutely fell in love with there cakes. We was not sure what we wanted at first but Meggan worked with us and gave us multiple options and different directions we could go to keep the cost Low. We actually had 2 different flavors of cake/cupcakes and we will also get the Traditional ( freeze the top cake) Anniversary cake freshly made for our 1 yr Anniversary so we do not have to have frozen cake. We had a plan of 100 guests and got what we wanted at a great price. Thank you so much.
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    Lauryn Sent on 04/04/2017
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    ur cake was the most beautiful cake I've ever seen AND it was the tastiest! We actually went with a cake with 4 tiers, 3 fake and the bottom was real. We used a sheet cake to help serve all 150ish guests. This was the less expensive option. I've had other cake that did not match up to the flavor of ours at all! We used buttercream icing, yellow cake with raspberry filling. They will also work with your budget and help you pick out the best option for your day!
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    Morgan Sent on 01/12/2017
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    Our wedding cake was amazing. They were very professional and creative. Our wedding cake was beyond perfect. I still go back and look at pictures of our cake. They also made cupcakes, mini cupcakes, buckeyes, and cake pops for our wedding. Everyone loved all of the desserts. Thank you so much!
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    Alana Sent on 01/16/2017
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    I love Rum Runners so much!! The staff was so wonderful to work with. They helped us pick all of our flavors & icing (we had 3 different ones). They also helped us figure out a way to make wedding cake cost effective. Some cakes can really break the bank and this was a non issue with Rum Runners without sacrificing the beauty of what your wedding cake should be. They were worried about taste and presentation and they nailed it. They also offer an anniversary cake which was so nice to celebrate on your first anniversary. Communication was excellent too. Our wedding actually got cancelled at the last minute do to a hurricane that required us to evacuate. We were able to get right in touch with them and we were refunded without hesitation. This meant so much to us because some vendors did not handle it the same way. We would've rescheduled but we decided to just take our family with us and elope since a friend of ours was the officiant. I would work with Rum Runners again in a heartbeat for any event that needed a cake. They are one of a kind.
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    Jason Sent on 10/15/2016
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    My new wife and I could not have been happier with the desserts and the service we received from Rum Runners. They were one of several bakeries that our wedding planner recommended and after a (free) tasting at their bakery, they were the obvious choice. We chose cup cakes for our wedding instead of a traditional large cake so that we could have several flavors and I also ordered a cake from them for the day after the wedding which was also the bride's birthday. Everything was delicious and delivered on time.
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    Natalie Sent on 12/20/2016
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    I am so happy that I was able to book Savannah Rum Runners Bakery for our wedding cake! It was so beautiful and ridiculously tasty!! The vanilla bean with the buttercream frosting was just unreal! The staff is so passionate about their job and made an awesome groomscake of my husbands jersey from a picture I sent them. Thank you so much for being the icing on my wedding day!! You guys are the best!
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    Hal Sent on 01/03/2016
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    I've worked with RumRunners both as a wedding industry professional and as a bride. They do excellent work, and are very engaged and caring when they work with you. My cakes were beautiful, just like every other cake they'd ever make when I worked with them. Meggan was particularly gracious, doing a tasting for me, my mother, my mother-in-law, and my fiance. She was so great about everything. She streamlined the whole process, and made decision making very easy. The day of my wedding, I got very behind. We did several things DIY, and with all the projects, and general lack of sleep, no one was able to get to the cake to decorate it. So Meggan took care of it. It was so great of her to help out like that. We sincerely appreciated it, and thanks to her, everything looked great. The cakes were amazing. We got the Chocolate Rum, which really chocolatey, but complex enough that you could taste the rum too. We also got the Peach Schnapps, and the pecan pie cake, which was my favorite. My guests loved them, and we were so grateful to all of their hard work.
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    Couldn't have asked for a better experience with the lovely ladies of Savannah Rum Runners. From initial outreach, to taste testing, to pricing, to delivery - it was all SO, so great! The cakes were delicious, designed EXACTLY how I showed her (thanks, Pinterest), and delivered on time with no hiccups. Will definitely use again in the future for any cake needs! :)
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    Alana Sent on 10/25/2015
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    We ordered our groom's cake and our wedding cutting cake from Savannah Rum Runners. They were very open to our ideas and we had a tasting beforehand. We went went with a traditional cake for the cutting cake and a pistachio groom's cake. So yummy! They looked great and were very tasty! They delivered right on time. Would highly recommend.
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    Jason Sent on 08/07/2015
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    When our event planner set up a tasting at Savannah Rum Runners Bakery we couldn't have been more impressed with the quality and freshness of the cake. We used them for 3 different birthdays prior to our wedding. In my opinion they are the best in Savannah. If you are apprehensive just give them call or stop by. Be your own judge.
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    Ivey Sent on 06/18/2015
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    Rum Runners created delicious, beautiful cakes for our wedding. Meggan was a great communicator and saw our vision from the beginning. She was patient with little changes we made along the way, created a custom banana's foster filling based on a magazine spread we saw, and went above and beyond to make an amazing groom's cake of the ship my husband served on in the Navy. Our cakes were perfection! Another flawless recommendation from our planner Andrea Gray Harper!
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    Annie Sent on 05/11/2015
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    Rum Runner's was fantastic to work with! The cake tasting was very impressive and they were extremely friendly and helpful at making suggestions to create the perfect cake to please myself and my husband. We ended up adding a Groom's Cheesecake later on and I'm so glad we did! The price was extremely reasonable and everything was DELICIOUS, delivered on time, and looked beautiful. It was exactly what we wanted. Would highly recommend!
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    Jackie Sent on 04/13/2015
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    This was the best cake ever and so beautiful! Our flavors were coconut and Oreo. Every single piece was gone. We didn't even get any! :) That never happens. What ever you do book them for your cake. The ladies here are so sweet and accommodating. Worth every single penny!
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    The team at Rum Runners was nothing short of the best! They were so easy to work with and were willing to pretty much make anything in my imagination come to life in a cake! Our wedding cake was beautiful and yummy! The cake was the talk of the night and had guest wanting more! The grooms cake was out of this world! I showed a couple pictures and what she created was far better then anything I could dream of! The groom was impressed! I have heard so many great things about Rum Runners and everything I heard was true! I look forward to our one year anniversary to enjoy it all over again!
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    Amber Sent on 12/04/2014
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    We almost didn't visit Rum Runners based on one other not-so-great review of this bakery, and boy wouldn't that have been a mistake!?!

    We had absolutely the best experience with Meggan at Rum Runners. She is such an amazing person and talented at what she does. The first time we visited my grandma and I were on a girls planning trip to Savannah, we came in for a tasting and were blown away with the options and combinations that Meggan presented us. I was also thrilled to hear that she was willing to try new funky flavor combos, and would basically do anything that we wanted to try. Since my fiance was particularly interested in the cake and wasn't able to make the first tasting Meggan set up a second tasting for us where he could be present. What a treat!

    Also, she was very upfront and the cost of materials and her time when it came to some more labor intensive requests. When we asked for Pralines she was certainly willing to do them but advised that the cost of nuts was up and that she would have to pass that onto us, and it might not fit in the budget that we talked about. I really appreciated her honesty and candor about those things. Also, she has a great selection of servers and stands, but was totally willing to use the pieces that we had as well.

    We ended up doing three cakes, a couple dozen mini pies (the cutest things on the planet by-the-way), and french style macaroons, and everything was absolutely amazing.

    Word of advice, take Meggan's recommendation on the amount of desserts that you need, at the last minute I upped the size of one of the cakes (mostly for aesthetic reasons), and we have more than 3/4 of that cake in our freezer. I'm not upset about it because its DELICIOUS, but it was unnecessary, so if you don't want left-overs (and I'm not sure why you wouldn't), then her gauge of the amount you need is spot-on.

    I highly recommend!
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    Meggan and the Rum Runners team are awesome! The cake was delicious and beautiful. We've been back for mini rum cakes in the bakery often.. and got the big version for Christmas presents. They are a great local bakery - the type that remembers your name and truly cares that you're happy!
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    Lori Sent on 11/17/2014
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    I loved my wedding cake! Meggan is great. We had fun meeting with her for a tasting, and she delivered exactly what I was looking for. The cake was fresh and tasted delicious; we had a small wedding so had just a two-tiered cake. The top was almond flavored, and the bottom was butter. I had provided her with a picture of what I was looking for and she delivered exactly what I had hoped, including the placement of the fresh flowers we ordered for the cake. Meggan, thank you! I highly recommend Rum Runners!
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