We worked with Albemarle baking company twice: for our micro-wedding and for the larger celebration event a year later. This bakery provided beautiful and delicious cakes; we have received many compliments on them since the events, some going so far as to say that “it was the best wedding cake we’ve had.” We loved that the bakery provided non-traditional options for the exterior of the cake---we chose marzipan layered over buttercream, a delicious alternative to normal thick buttercream or fondant. The cake arrived on time to our venue, and made its way to the florals / staging area and kitchen without incident or us having to worry about coordination. We highly recommend Albemarle Baking Company for your event, and particularly recommend that you try the chocolate and praline cake.

I have loved Albemarle Baking Company for as long as I can remember. The Rossberg children grew up going there and we're quick to introduce out of town visitors - anyone, really - to ABC. About a week ago, I had Princess Cake at my wedding at Alumni Hall and it was AMAZING (as usual). Gerry was delightful to work with: prompt, professional, kind etc. etc. THANK YOU, Albemarle Baking Company! I wouldn't have wanted anyone else to make my wedding cake! (flowers on the cake provided by our florist, Willow Branch Flowers)

This was our dream wedding cake! It was not only stunning to look at, but the taste was the best cake we have ever had! We knew right when we tried the princess cake that it had to be our wedding cake. We are still receiving compliments. Gerry was flexible to work with and provided excellent service. We are so thrilled you were apart of our special day!!

Delicious, professional, and easy to work with! We are so grateful to have chosen Riki and Albemarle Baking Company to make our wedding cake this past October. They did a fantastic job making, delivering and decorating our cake. It was absolutely amazing! Our guests are still raving about it (and trying to eat our left overs!)

Riki at Albemarle Baking Company did a fantastic job on our wedding cake! The cake was delicious, beautiful, and exactly what we wanted (it was also extremely affordable compared to other bakeries in the area we also considered before picking Albemarle Baking Co.)! Riki worked with me to design a multi-tiered cake with different icing patterns on each level – the buttercream roses on the sides of some of the tiers really took my breath away – Riki is so talented! We had a lemon pound cake with vanilla buttercream icing and Bavarian cream filling – absolutely delicious. It seemed to be a hit with all of our guests and my only wedding regret was that I didn’t eat an extra slice of our wedding cake before the wedding was over! The good news is that Riki makes you a small recreation of your wedding cake for your one year anniversary (so you don’t have to freeze your top tier), so at least I’ll get to eat more of it in a year!

The wedding cake was DELICIOUS. And it looked exactly how I wanted it to look. Riki is very responsive and professional. I would recommend this bakery to everyone.

Our cake was to-die-for delicious, and absolutely gorgeous. Many thanks to Rikki for making our wedding cake dreams come true!

Riki Tanabe created the wedding cake of our dreams this past June. Many, many thanks to him for his amazing artistry and imagination in creating an extraordinary dessert finale to a beautiful evening.

We used this baking company for our wedding cake and it was amazing!! We did part vanilla with butter cream and part chocolate with a ganache-praline between the layers, and oh my goodness. Everyone gobbled up the cake all night! We asked for a textured pattern on the cake and added some cake flowers and it was beautiful. I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful cake. Working with them was really easy and trying the taster cake to pick out our flavors was really fun and a great value! The $25 you spend on the cake (large round) is put towards the final cost. Free cake for days and great service, highly recommended!

Albermarle Baking Company provided our wedding cake. We got married on May 1st 2015 at Pippin Hill Winery. The initially tasting was delish, they offer a Princess cake that we didn't change a thing about. It is a traditional Swedish dessert features vanilla sponge cake layered with bavarian cream and covered with a thin sheet of marzipan. They even offer to give you a top tier every anniversary, and we were planning on flying back to Charlottesville, VA anyway next year but definitely stopping by the bakery. I sampled a few other cakes while I was there and they were all good. The Princess cake was just perfect for a wedding cake. Definitely would recommend this bakery.

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