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Bear Brook Bakery

Bear Brook Bakery

New Gloucester, ME
5.0 out of 5 rating, 14 Reviews
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    Charlotte M. Sent on 07/14/2022
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    Best Wedding Cake Ever!

    Melissa is SO talented. Not only are her cakes gorgeous, but they taste amazing. We loved the process of selecting our cake flavors - Melissa is super creative and has so many different cake, buttercream, and filling combinations - and it was so much fun to pick a combination that feels really unique to us as a couple. I wanted a dried, pressed flower design on my cake, and Melissa worked with my florist to get flowers that would mimic the florals in our bouquets and table arrangements. She absolutely knocked it out of the park! Would recommend Bear Brook Bakery to any bride - Melissa's talent is extraordinary and she was lovely to work with.
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    Christina C. Sent on 01/23/2022
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    Hire Melissa!

    Melissa is incredibly talented! She created the most beautiful cake for our wedding and it was equally delicious. There are no limits to what she can create. I can't wait to work with her again for another event!
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    Brittany S. Sent on 07/23/2021
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    Beautiful and Delicious Desserts!

    Melissa is so INCREDIBLY talented! We opted for a cutting cake and did a dessert bar that included cake shooters, whoopie pies, chocolate chip cookies, and French macarons and our guests RAVED about how beautiful everything looked and how delicious everything tasted. She was responsive and very professional in all of our correspondences. We can’t recommend her enough!
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    Kate Sent on 11/28/2021
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    Beautiful!

    Delicious and beautiful display!
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    Katie D. Sent on 09/29/2019
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    Bear Brook Bakery is FANTASTIC

    Melissa was an absolute pleasure to work with and her cake/cupcakes were delicious! We sat down with Melissa to discuss our wedding and she was so professional and organized! Her designs are impressive and her cake/frostings are amazing! She captured our vision perfectly for our ceremonial wedding cake and cupcakes! We absolutely adore her peanut butter buttercream and chocolate cake as well as her maple buttercream and old fashioned spice cake. We would highly recommend Bear Brook Bakery for any event you may have upcoming!
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    Danielle Sent on 10/06/2019
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    Wedding cake and dessert table!

    Melissa from Bear Brook Bakery is amazing. She’s a true artist and you can tell she takes pride in everything she creates – check out her Instagram account! We hired Melissa for our wedding in September and she created a vegan smaller two-layer cake for cutting. She was super awesome and accommodated a variety of vegan and non-vegan desserts for a mixed sweets table. We ordered hand pies, vegan chocolate chip cookies, vegan Needhams, mini cupcakes, whoopies and more! Melissa set up everything on arrival and made the table look awesome. Plus, she even suggested this awesome pattern on the cake that matched with our blue and white wedding aesthetic. I highly recommend Melissa for any special event!
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    Steph Sent on 10/11/2018
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    Not only was our wedding cake so gorgeous that our photographers couldn't wait to shoot it, but our guests couldn't stop talking about how amazing it was.

    Melissa was so wonderful to work with, and came through with one of the highlights of our entire wedding on very short notice. She was also able to adapt our cake to use a different kind of icing due to special dietary needs for our family.

    We asked for chocolate cake, raspberry preserves, and chocolate ganache icing, and I can tell you that IT. WAS. AMAZING. Every last piece was eaten.

    I'm not easily impressed, but I honestly can't think of any way that our cake could have been any better. Thank you so much for creating such a delicious addition to our wedding!
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    Monica Sent on 11/16/2017
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    Melissa was an absolute dream to work with! She is so sweet, the cake was to die for (still having dreams about that chocolate frosting...), and her design and attention to detail was outstanding! Definitely book Bear Brook for your wedding!!
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    Katelyn Sent on 09/01/2017
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    Bear Brook Bakery has some of the best cakes I've ever had! There are so many cake and frosting flavors - the list of combinations you can make is endless! My husband and I couldn't decide on one specific flavor, so we did a cake as well as 150 cupcakes (4 different flavors). Melissa (the owner/baker) had no issue with this and actually encouraged it when we were having some trouble. Melissa is so great! She is so incredibly nice and really listens to make sure her clients get what they want. Her work is beautiful - we went with a simple design for the cake and a floral design for the top of the cupcakes - but she can get super detailed as well! She is so talented and really did an outstanding job on our desserts!
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    Rachel Sent on 07/13/2016
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    Melissa did an AMAZING job on our wedding cake! She was so thoughtful to work with, going over all the options, design, etc. and she made the whole process very easy. We were able to taste different cake and icing combinations through her cupcakes and the final wedding cake was SO DELICIOUS! The buttercream frosting was amazing- especially the salted caramel. Thank you so much!
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    Maria Sent on 03/18/2016
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    Melissa was wonderful! I have been lucky to see her work for baby and bridal showers in the past and couldn't be happier with our choice! She took all of our thoughts and needs and came up with a fabulous cake to stand as a centerpiece to our cupcake 'stairs.' The cupcakes were all the rage and guests enjoyed taking any leftovers home! Not a bit of it went to waste.
    She was very knowledgable and helped walk us through our ideas and helped bring together all of our little pieces!
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    Melissa is wonderful to work with, and the cupcakes she made for our wedding were beautiful AND delicious! We didn't know exactly what we wanted going in, but she was very knowledgeable and helped us pick flavor combinations, frosting styles, decorations...everything. She was definitely one vendor I never had to worry about- she is always responsive and every cupcake was delivered on time and in perfect condition. Highly recommend!!
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    Bear Brook Bakery was absolutely one of the most amazing vendors we worked with. The cake was delicious and Melissa Estes (owner) was incredibly passionate.
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    Katherine S. Sent on 10/03/2021
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    The dessert bar of our dreams

    We are so happy to have Melissa make the desserts for our wedding. The almond cake with lemon frosting was beautiful and looked stunning topped with flowers from our wedding florist. The chocolate chip cookies were fine, but what our guests are still talking about are the triple layer brownies, especially the mint. Absolutely delicious! The only issue we had was the delivery time was much too early—something came up and our delivery time was changed last-minute from mid afternoon to early morning. If we had been in an indoor venue it would have been fine, but our venue was outdoors in a barn, so unfortunately this mishap meant our cake almost completely melted/fell apart by the time of our reception. We had to change our timeline and cut the cake early, and after dinner most guests (including the bride and groom) could not get a piece of cake as much had to be thrown away. That was a huge disappointment, but definitely not anything to do with the quality of the desserts—just a suggestion to brides to make sure to firmly schedule delivery and make sure it’s appropriate for your venue, weather, fridge access, etc.