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By The Dozen Bakery

By The Dozen Bakery

Machesney Park, IL
4.8 out of 5 rating, 36 Reviews
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36 Reviews
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    Erika M. Sent on 11/16/2022
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    Beautiful Cake

    Our cake turned out delicious and beautiful from By the Dozen! They were great to work with and we loved our "to-go" sampling when deciding our flavors. We did a small cutting cake and large sheet cakes for our guests.
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    Melissa J. Sent on 06/25/2022
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    Fantastic Service

    The By the Dozen Bakery Team was incredible during our entire wedding planning experience. They were very responsive and helped us fulfill our requests along the way. We received raving reviews from so many of our guests about the taste of our cake too! Highly recommended!
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    Danyelle Sent on 11/02/2018
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    Wedding Cake

    By the Dozen was wonderful to work with. From the tasting to the wedding day, everything was perfect. I will be using them for future events.
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  • User3107600 Sent on 06/27/2017
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    We had a great experience with By the Dozen for our wedding doughnut bar. Martha was very helpful and responsive. They were able to accommodate all of our requests. And the doughnuts are delicious!!
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    Lindsay Sent on 06/30/2017
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    Martha was a pleasure to work with. She gave us multiple cake options, to cut down on costs. Our cake was beautiful and exactly what I had imagined.....and I cannot forget to mention how delicious it was!! We received many compliments on delicious the cake was!! Thanks Martha and team!!!
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    Rena Sent on 10/09/2016
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    We had By the dozen do our wedding at klehms and couldn't be happier. They did a beautiful job achieving the look I wanted. The cupcakes and cake tasted delicous. My husband said that he was extremely with the delivery people. Can't thank them enough for helping make our day perfect.
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    Rachel Sent on 08/21/2016
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    Our cake looked and tasted wonderful! I highly recommend chocolate cake with raspberry filling and satin whipped icing! Best thing ever! Very good pricing as well!
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    Alison Sent on 07/07/2015
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    By the Dozen did an outstanding job on our wedding cake. We had no idea how we wanted our cake designed we just knew we wanted something that was very eye catching and the center of the room and that is EXACTLY what we received! Martha did an outstanding job on the design and Brent did an outstanding job on delivery! Now let's discuss the good part of the cake not only was the presentation above and beyond, the flavor was to die for!! Traditional wedding cake with Bavarian/raspberry mix filling, WOW!!!! We promise you choosing By the Dozen will be your best choice for your wedding!!
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    Briana Sent on 06/14/2015
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    I first met with Martha for a cake tasting a few months before our wedding. Everything was delicious, and I was impressed with the presentation of the samples. When I contacted her a few months later, I had changed my mind from the original cake I had shown her and sent her a new picture I found on Pinterest. She was able to do buttercream frosting rather than fondant, which I was very pleased about! Our cake was absolutely perfect, not only did it look EXACTLY like the cake I showed her, but it tasted just as fabulous! We had a marble cake layer with bavarian creme filling, and a white cake layer with cannoli filling. Everyone at our wedding told us how delicious it was! I wish I could upload a picture to share how beautiful our cake was! I'm so happy with Martha and the staff at By the Dozen and am so thankful for their attention to detail and cake-baking perfection!
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    I brought in a picture of the cake I wanted, only smaller. They were able to make it exactly as I had pictured and it was beautiful and delicious. The service was great and everything went off without a hitch (delivery, etc.) I can't wait to come back for our anniversary cake!
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    Krista Sent on 11/03/2014
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    Our cake was beautiful and just what we wanted. Martha and her staff were so great to work with. We added quite a few cakes, cupcakes, and cookies for different wedding events we had leading up to the big day. They were wonderful about us making so many changes and the food was more than delicious.
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    Sara Sent on 09/23/2014
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    We had a small wedding cake and a dessert table from here for you wedding, and it was amazing! Everything looked and tasted amazing, and was a huge hit with all of our guests!
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    My cake for my wedding is exactly what i had envisioned!
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    Laura Sent on 04/02/2015
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    We could not be happier with our wedding cake from By the Dozen. We sampled many cakes in the Rockford area before making a decision. Working with By the Dozen was a fantastic experience from start to finish. By the Dozen has a wonderful set up with many cakes on display at the bakery. I was able to see examples of different designs, sizes, and shapes without looking through pictures. They even took me into the bakery and showed me cakes they were actually designing. They also suggested cost saving methods such as using sheet cake to supplement the actual cake. The tasting was wonderful, as they provide examples of many different fillings and frostings--more than any other tasting we went to. They worked with me around design, listened carefully, looked through pictures, and made suggestions. They also had a wide variety of beautiful, free cake stands. They also worked with our florist to incorporate flowers into the cake. Our final product was amazing. The cake was absolutely delicious. An added bonus is that By the Dozen provides a free first anniversary cake which we are greatly looking forward to. Overall, By the Dozen provides a fantastic experience and product at an affordable price!
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    Stephanie Sent on 07/31/2014
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    By The Dozen Bakery made an absolutely beautiful cake for us!!!! The taste was amazing and we received many compliments. Martha goes out of her way to make sure everything is perfect and that shows in the quality of her cakes!!
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    Heather Sent on 07/27/2014
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    I loved my wedding cake. It was beautiful and delicious!
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    Excellent service- delicious cupcakes. They carried out the design better than we could have imagined. Great place!
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    Katherine Sent on 04/17/2014
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    The Cake was exactly what I asked for. I didn't have to worry about a thing with them. I loved the cake it was more than I could ask for.
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    This bakery did such a beautiful job! We had a cake buffet and it was amazing! Everyone loved it and was raving about it all night!
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    Allison Sent on 08/27/2013
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    We got wedding cupcakes for our guests and a small cake for my husband and I to cut. It looked exactly the way the pictures did that I took to her. She even did a groom's cake for the rehearsal dinner and had it delivered. It was great!
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    Meghan Sent on 07/12/2012
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    They did a wonderful job on the cupcakes for our wedding! The colors were fantastic and matched our decor perfectly. They were very yummy too!!
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    Jillian Sent on 12/14/2011
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    Martha is so good at what she does. Our wedding cake was absolutely beautiful. It was classic, but modern which is exactly the couple that we are. The cake was beautifully decorated and it tasted absolutely amazing. Every time I have a delicious treat from by the dozen I am not disappointed.
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    Justine Sent on 12/27/2011
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    By the Dozen provided my wedding cake and I could not have been happier. The cake looked amazing and was delicious. The woman I dealt with, who does all of the wedding orders was professional and straight forward and very easy to work with. I was pleased with the presentation of the cake tasting-which was also delicious and was able to take some home for my family to taste and was pleased with that. For our wedding, not only did the cake look beautiful but the table as a whole which they also decorated-one less thing I had to worry about the day of. I was very pleased and would definitely recommend them to any bride to be! Go taste them for yourself!
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    Elisabeth Sent on 09/28/2011
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    By The Dozen is an amazing bakery! Our cake was fantastic!
    We loved going to the tasting and trying all the different cake flavors and fillings! Martha helped us decide on a design and cake style, she was fantastic. We would recommend By the Dozen to anyone for a beautiful great tasting wedding cake.

    Thank you so much Martha for all of your help and hard worK!
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    Lisa Sent on 11/16/2013
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    We had a wedding planned in Lake Geneva area... my daughter loves this bakery so we went in to see if they could make her a cake and deliver it to the wedding site. The owner was very willing to do this for us and the cake was not only delicious , it was beautiful!! Anyone we has not been to this bakery is missing out on a special treat.
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