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Cakes By Carolynn

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Kathryn
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Theresa
User1731309

Recommended by 97% of couples

About this vendor

Cakes by Carolynn is a family-owned-and-operated wedding cake bakery in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Opened in 1989, this award-winning bakery was founded on the principle that with love, a marriage can endure whatever life throws at it—voted Best of Wedding Cakes, Bride's Choice Awards on Wedding Wire—as well as first prize in the St. Pete Times Cake Tasting Competition—Cakes by Carolynn has proven to be one of the best choices for your wedding cake needs. Described by local newspapers as "elegant, perfect, and then some," you can feel confident that your wedding cake is in good hands.

Services Offered

Cakes by Carolynn offers wedding cake services, not only limited to the towering tiered wedding cakes you might be accustomed to. In addition to beautiful, traditional wedding cakes, you may select assorted cupcakes, cookies, pastries, and even a separate groom's cake. Cake toppers and stands add the perfect finishing touches to these delicious buttercream confections, and they will make sure your cake is a custom reflection of you. As well as complimentary consultations and cake tastings, couples will receive:

  • Delivery
  • Set up
  • Custom designs
  • Nut-free dessert options

Features

Woman-owned

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Weddings with this vendor

Saliyah & Kyle's wedding
Saliyah & Kyle
18 photos
Edgar & Raphael's wedding
Edgar & Raphael
11 photos
Migdalia & Guillermo's wedding
Migdalia & Guillermo
80 photos
Abbey & Dominic's wedding
Abbey & Dominic
29 photos

FAQ

What is the starting price for wedding cakes with buttercream frosting (per slice, without tax)?

$550

Which of the following are included in the cost of the cake?

Top Tier of the Cake

What services do your prices include?

Consultation
Set Up
Tastings - Private

What types of desserts do you provide?

Cookies
Cupcakes
Groom's Cake
Pastries

What services do you provide?

Consultations
Custom Design
Delivery
Setup
Tastings - Private

What cake items do you provide?

Cake Stands
Cake Toppers

What special ingredients do you use?

Fresh Fruit

Are you licensed by the state health department?

Yes

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Reviews of Cakes By Carolynn

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Cakes by Carolynn is praised for beautiful, flavorful wedding cakes with unique options, helpful communication, reliable delivery, and affordable pricing. Most guests found the cakes moist and well‑decorated, though one noted slight dryness. Overall, reviewers highly recommend her services.

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Cakes by Carolynn is praised for beautiful, flavorful wedding cakes with unique options, helpful communication, reliable delivery, and affordable pricing. Most guests found the cakes moist and well‑decorated, though one noted slight dryness. Overall, reviewers highly recommend her services.

Sarah
Sarah Sent on 07/13/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Best cake ever!

We wanted non traditional cake flavors, lemon blueberry and Pina colada. She did a tasting for us with 5 different flavors and different icing options and her cake was SO flavorful, moist, great texture, icing on point, and her decorations were well done. She had multiple options and all very affordable. Best cake with phenomenal value. We tried a few different cake shops and she exceeded the others by a long shot! Very nice and down to earth.
Kathryn
Kathryn Sent on 01/29/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Beautiful and fairly priced wedding cake!

Absolutely delicious and beautiful wedding cake for our special day! Our tasting was so cute and sharing my vision was a breeze! Thank you for leaving a box for our anniversary cake, as well! We will be back for all future events! Thank you!
Candice
Candice Sent on 12/30/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Perfect Wedding Cake

Working with Jill was a pleasure and she helped us put together a wonderful wedding cake. We started planning our wedding only 10 weeks prior which happened to be on October 5th (in between two hurricanes) at the Hyatt regency Clearwater Beach Resort. We were so lucky to be able to have had our wedding happen and Cakes by Carolynn came through with an amazing wedding cake!

If you are looking for someone to put together a beautiful, eye catching and tasty cake please look to Cakes By Carolynn. Thank you Jill!
Theresa
Theresa Sent on 10/27/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Great Cake

Our wedding looked just how I asked. The cake was delicious, but a little bit dry. The email responses were prompt. She was kind and sweet. When she wasn't sure of something, she asked me. I wasn't sure what to have my cake look like aside from cookie cake and a "naked" look so I had them decorate as needed. They decided to go with some red roses which were very pretty!
User1731309
User1731309 Sent on 11/23/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Delicious & Beautiful!

The perfect wedding cake! We did the buttercream cake with buttercream frosting and it was simply perfect! Thank you for being apart of our big day!
Shira
Shira Sent on 11/16/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Yummy & amazing

Cakes by Carolyn did an amazing job on our wedding cake. It looked amazing and tasted even better! Many of the guests commented on how delicious the cake was. Would recommend to anyone looking for the perfect wedding cake.
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Destini Sent on 11/11/2023
5 out of 5 rating

10/10 Would recommend

We where directed to Cakes by Carolynn by our amazing wedding coordinator with Driftwood and they did not disappoint! We ended up ordering cupcakes to match our wedding cake on several occasions prior to our wedding as we where that impressed with it. Personally I am not a big sweets/ cake fan but boy did the raspberry amaretto combo have me going back for a second piece every time. They even accommodated our special request on the icing and a last minute change with no issues. Delivery was as anticipated and the wedding cake looked beautiful on display. Will most definitely be returning whenever in the area for some cupcakes and would 10/10 recommend to anyone.
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Beth Sent on 06/22/2023
5 out of 5 rating

What a beautiful cake!

I live in Atlanta and hired Carolyn based on her reviews and pictures of her cakes. I wasn't able to do a tasting. I sent her a picture of a cake I found online and she nailed it! The cake tasted amazing as well. If you are on the fence as to who you want to hire definitely choose Carolyn.
Theresa
Theresa Sent on 03/28/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Beautiful and tasted wonderful

We were very happy with our wedding cake from Cakes by Carolyn. The colors were perfect to the wedding and placement of the flowers we provided done beautifully. They were easy to work with from the cake tasting to my final trip to review the placement. Thank you!
Edgar
Edgar Sent on 12/06/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Tasty cakes

Our wedding cake was the talk of the reception we did blueberry cake with chocolate Bavarian cream. So mouth watering. The ladies in the store are so nice to talk to and LGBTQ+ friendly. Could not ask for a better experience.
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WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2020 Winner
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