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Vanilla Bake Shop is a wedding cake company located in Santa Monica, California. The bakery has been part of the wedding cake industry for more than seven years, providing services throughout the local areas of Malibu, Orange County, and Los Angeles. Vanilla Bake Shop specializes in baking delicious cakes, cupcakes, French macarons, and cookies. Through consultations, the couples can discuss the styles, designs, and other ideas they have for the baker to create a personalized wedding cake. With its professionally trained and highly skilled cake designers, Vanilla Bake Shop aims to bake each couple’s dream wedding cake.

Services Offered
Vanilla Bake Shop bakes from scratch, using only high-quality ingredients. The bakery offers a variety of desserts such as cake pops, cookies, and cupcakes. It also provides gluten-free cakes for couples who have dietary needs. The company's services include:

  • Consultations
  • Custom design
  • Delivery
  • Private tastings
  • Setup
  • Woman-owned
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Frequently asked questions

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

$1

What services do your prices include?

Consultation
Custom Cake Design
Delivery
Set Up
Tastings - Private

What types of desserts do you provide?

Cookies
Cupcakes
Dessert Buffet
Groom's Cake

What services do you provide?

Consultations
Custom Design
Delivery
Setup
Tastings - Private

What dietary needs can you accommodate?

Gluten Free
Vegan

What special ingredients do you use?

Fresh Fruit
Local
Organic

Are you licensed by the state health department?

Yes

Reviews of Vanilla Bake Shop

Evelyn
Evelyn Sent on 06/30/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Outstanding Specialty Cakes & Service!

Vanilla Bake Shop is our absolute favorite and go-to place for outstanding delicious deserts!! From the excellent service, friendly staff, nice atmosphere and super delicious fresh and light sweet delights - Vanilla Bake Shop has it all !! They'll go above and beyond and deliver the best experience + most delicious cakes you've ever tasted! We recently ordered our BabyShower cake from there and could not have been any happier with the result. The cake was such a highlight of the party and ALL of our guests absolutely loved it! It was gone in seconds! Special Thanks for Amy and the Vanilla Bake Shop Team for always being so amazing and delivering the very best every single time!!
Jen
Jen K. Sent on 01/03/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Delicious wedding cake!

We absolutely loved our wedding cake from Vanilla Bake Shop! Our guests raved about the taste for days after and we were blown away by how beautiful it came out! Thank you so much Kim for all of your help and for the team for making us so a delicious and gorgeous wedding cake!
Maya
Maya Sent on 12/06/2021
5 out of 5 rating

A must for gluten-free couples!

The VBS team was incredibly flexible and kind through the process of ordering and our last-minute venue change. My fiance and I were ready to pay for beautiful gluten-free cakes, and VBS delivered below our budget. I highly recommend them for stress-free, high-quality wedding cakes!
Sonja
Sonja Sent on 07/15/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Above & beyond service + amazing flavors!

We were so glad we were able to use Vanilla Bake Shop for our wedding cake and cupcakes! My family (bride) has been going to VBS since I was a little girl, but when we decided to get married 4 hours away, I thought I'd have to give up my long-standing dream of having them cater my wedding. However, we were fortunate to find a wedding planner who was willing to drive our order up the night before, and VBS went above and beyond to help us with our order as well as package it up and load it extra securely to make sure it made it to us in great shape! Our cake and cupcakes were SO GOOD, and the whole process was easy and fun. We did a take-home tasting due to COVID, and suddenly my fiance realized just how DELICIOUS their baked goods are and understood why I couldn't settle for a bakery any closer. After our tasting the girls helped us decide which flavors to go with, how many of each to order, and helped us design our cake. Everything turned out perfect and we were so impressed with everyone's willingness to go the extra mile to make sure our event was a success! Thank you VBS Santa Monica, you're the best!
LaToya
Latoya Sent on 09/25/2020
5 out of 5 rating

A Unicorn Wedding cake.

I worked with Kim P. Initially and the she went on maternity leave and i worked with Amy. They were both great!!! I was able to easily change my order to adjust for the changes in guest list due to covid. They came and set up my dessert table at my home. I had a 3 tiered cake with different flavors, triple berry tarts, banana pudding shooters, and doughnuts. One layer of our cake was a little dry, but the bottom layer was amazing even second day!
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Dee Sent on 10/26/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Super Delicious, Moist Cake + Beautiful Presentation

Vanilla Bake Shop in Santa Monica was completely awesome. We chose them for our wedding and we have no regrets whatsoever! Firstly, their tasting experience was delightful. We initially went to a competitor that was disappointing. Vanilla Bake Shop was just the opposite – Yuko was super personable and nice, she thoroughly went through all our options, the tasting was complimentary, and their cakes were OMG delicious! We chose them right on the spot to do our wedding cake! Our choice was the Black & White Raspberry with Cream Cheese and Dark Chocolate… so freakin’ good! On the day of the wedding, their delivery was on point and the cake turned out exactly as promised – it was both beautiful and delicious! Our guests could not stop commenting on how delicious the cake was! We are so happy we selected Vanilla Bake Shop to do our wedding cake and would totally recommend them!
Yael
Yael Sent on 09/23/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Great cakes!

Delicious cakes – we used Vanilla Bake Shop for our wedding cake and received so many compliments! People said this was the best wedding cake they’ve had. Vanilla Bake Shop even put a gluten free cake as the top tier of our 3 tier cake as I am gluten free so we could do the cake cutting on the actual day of the wedding. Definitely recommend this bakery!
Crystal
Crystal Sent on 09/06/2019
5 out of 5 rating

5 stars! Beautifully Designed & Delicious Wedding Cake!

Excellent wedding cake shop! 5 stars!

Super high marks for Vanilla Bake Shop in Santa Monica. We couldn’t have been happier with our wedding cake.

First of all, we really enjoyed our tasting session with Yuko, who prepared our custom wedding cake design for review and approval. Yuko’s attention to detail was on point! She explained all of our options and answered all of our questions.

We also loved trying all the different cakes – so we were sure our guests were getting exactly what we envisioned.

On our wedding night the cake arrived beautifully decorated and exactly as advertised. It was just what we wanted. And of course the guests loved it and kept eating more!

If you want your guests to rave about your wedding cake for days after the wedding, order your cake from Vanilla Bake Shop in Santa Monica.

Personally, we recommend the Fleur de Sel chocolate. Really, really unbelievable!

Thank you Yuko, and Vanilla Bake Shop for the excellent product and service!

K
Kandice Sent on 06/06/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Best wedding decision

I highly recommend Vanilla Bake Shop. It was one of our best wedding decisions. We had a simple one tier cake - and the cake was AMAZING- delicious, beautiful, simply incredible. It truly helped to make our day perfect. Vanilla bake shop was great to work with and was priced very fairly. Without question, we will be using Vanilla bake shop for any future events.
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Melina Sent on 02/04/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Delicious Wedding Cake!

By far one of the best cakes (not just wedding cake) I have ever had. Vanilla Bake Shop provided us with a complimentary tasting where each flavor was better than the next. Ultimately we went with the Red Velvet Swirl and Fleur De Sel which were both huge hits with our guests. The only downside was the cake was delivered on a cake board that was larger than what had been communicated to us which did not allow us to use the cake stand we had purchased separately. However, the cake was so good we couldn't not give 5 stars.
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