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Cakes and Candies by Maryellen

Cakes and Candies by Maryellen

West Chester, PA
4.7 out of 5 rating, 45 Reviews
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    Alyssa Sent on 11/27/2018
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    Super Kind, Super Helpful

    When we went to our cake tasting at Cakes and Candies we had no idea if we were going to have her make our cake, until we tried the first bite. It was amazing, and there were so many options with every cake being able to be paired with so many fillings. When we finished tasting, we had no idea what kind of cake we wanted, but she had been making mental notes of how we reacted and told us what she thought we may like best for each individual tier of our cake. She also was able to incorporate Disney, a personal favorite of mine, in a not too subtle but not in your face sort of way. We loved her!
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    Jessica Sent on 10/29/2017
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    Maryellen did our cake and cupcakes for our wedding last weekend and it was a huge hit. From the tasting, to the day of, Maryellen was responsive and worked diligently to accommodate our requests. We ended up doing a cake, as well as a mini-cupcake bar with 7 different types of cupcakes and they were devoured by our guests. Everyone from our wedding has said that they were the most delicious cupcakes they had ever had and repeatedly asked for the name of the bakery. I would recommend Maryellen for any cake and cupcake needs!
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    Josette Sent on 09/10/2017
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    ALL I CAN SAY IS SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL !!!
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    Katie Sent on 09/16/2016
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    Best cake ever tasted at a wedding! The detail put into making my cake was out of this world. Using buttercream instead of fondont is a must! Everyone raved this cake was the best ever!!
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    Jill Sent on 05/06/2016
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    Maryellen is amazing!!!! She is so full of energy and so accommodating to whatever you could dream of! She is doing cake pops as our favors for our Wedding August 5th. They are sooooo good and look awesome as well! It is the perfect favor and we are very excited to have them on our special day! We highly recommend her for cake/favor needs!
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    The tasting was great! We chose all our favorites. We wanted something different for our cake and Mary Ellen delivered! Our three layers were all different and tasted great! Thanks Mary Ellen!!
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    Katy Sent on 09/24/2015
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    We ordered a large buffet of bite-sized desserts and everything was eaten....everything! People raved about the desserts too, but we knew they were going to be good because Mary Ellen included two tastings before our wedding and let us try anything we were interested in including on the buffet!
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    Absolutely love the customer service and amazing work that they do at this bakery. We were given great suggestions on ideas to make our cake all that we want it to be, and we are getting our favors done here too!
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    Jeff Sent on 08/26/2015
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    We approached Mary Ellen about doing a non-traditional wedding cake and she helped work with our vision and craft it into something unique and beautiful, perfect for our theme! We loved doing the tasting and were so thrilled with the varieties of great-tasting flavors. We also look forward to getting our 1-year anniversary cake. We have ordered cakes from Mary Ellen before and were quite happy to have her provide for our wedding.
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    I selected Cakes and Candies by MaryEllen for our wedding cake, as well as cake pop wedding favors for guests at the table. I highly recommend MaryEllen for cakes and treats for your wedding and/or special event. Her cakes are moist, very tasty, and absolutely beautiful.

    For our wedding cake, during our tasting appointment, I showed MaryEllen a couple of different styles of wedding cakes that I liked from bridal magazines. She asked a couple of questions and then quickly sketched up a three-tiered wedding cake that incorporated the various designs that I was looking for - just like the Cake Boss (whom I love). She has different flavors to chose from for the cakes, fillings and icing. We went with chocolate chip pound cake with chocolate fill for the base, lemon with raspberry fill for the middle, and champagne with strawberry fill for the top tier - all with butter cream around. The cake was so tasty and stunning. My guests are still raving about the cake!

    The bride and groom cake pops were also a very good selection for our table favors. I selected red velvet (my favorite) with white chocolate for the bride cake pop and chocolate peanut butter with chocolate for the groom pops. Yummy. Again, a huge success.


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    Ashley Sent on 03/03/2015
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    Mary Ellen was wonderful to work with. She spent over an hour with us during our wedding tasting, keeping the shop open late. The options for our cake were endless and she made notes as we tasted so at the end when we couldn't remember all the flavor combinations we liked, she could remind us. After we talked about the design, Mary Ellen went into the kitchen and decorated a cake in the design and colors we talked about so that we could actually see what it looked like. She did not have to do that, but she did because she really loves what she does. About 5 days before the wedding she called to confirm the flavors and the design. And on the wedding day the cake was just as we talked about. It was delicious! I'll be using her again in the future!
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    Emily Sent on 11/05/2014
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    From the first meeting at our cake tasting Maryellen went above and beyond to meet our needs. During the tasting she gave us a cupcake of every flavor, as well as every filling she has so we could mix and match to find the perfect flavors for our different layers. We ended up picking the chocolate chip pound cake with chocolate buttercream, vanilla with raspberry filling and for the fall the pumpkin with cheesecake filling. They were all amazing!!

    I can't even explain how I felt when I walked into our reception and saw our cake for the first time - it was beautiful! It was everything we asked for. To be able to go into the cake tasting all those months before the wedding and explain my vision and then to see it on our wedding day come to life was amazing! She took my vision and created exactly what I wanted, it was beautiful and delicious!!!
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    Alex Sent on 02/17/2015
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    MaryEllen did a fabulous job with our wedding cake. She designed the exact cake that I had envisioned. The tasting was fun and she gave us great advice on what flavors and combinations to choose. Our cake looked beautiful the day of the wedding and everyone enjoyed it. We only wish our guests hadn't enjoyed it so much and had left more for us!
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    Kerry Sent on 01/03/2014
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    Cakes and Candies by Maryellen did a FABULOUS job for our wedding. We met with her several times to taste and review the details of not only our wedding cake but also the tableseating cards attached to our favors - cake pops- and everything turned out beautifully, besides DELICIOUS!

    The cupcake tower was a HIT...so much that everyone couldn't wait to eat them till after dinner! She has a TON of flavors which of course made it hard to narrow down to 6 that we loved because there were so many, but she gave us great advice and we chose the right ones. There were little leftovers and the boxes that she provides allowed the few to be taken home by guests.

    The cake pops were also a huge hit as we used them for our table seating cards (escort cards). We had the bride and groom cake pops and a baseball (to match our theme) and everyone raved about how moist and delicious they were. They are a nice portion - so much you can split between 2 people! And the kids loved them as well.

    Maryellen and her staff really did an amazing job and I couldn't have asked for anything better or more tasteful. Thank you, Maryellen!!
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    Heather Sent on 06/25/2013
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    I originally met Maryellen over a year before our wedding at a West Chester Food Festival and LOVED her cake pops. However, all along our planning process, I planned to bake cookies myself for all 220 guests as their party favors, however my husband strongly advised against this as he knew it would stress me out very much right before the wedding. So, I gave in the week of our wedding and made the last minute call to Maryellen to rescue me. With less than a weeks notice, she was able to fill our order for 220 cake pops and had them wrapped and ready to go in plenty of time! Not to mention the cake pops were delicious! I think I even saw a few people trying to steal their neighbors :)
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    Lauren Sent on 04/28/2014
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    Maryellen and her entire crew at cakes and candies are awesome! The tasting was way more in depth then I had ever expected picking a cake flavor could be. There are so many options and combinations for cake/filling/icing, thankfully Maryellen is there to give recommendations. She helped us design an amazing cake and then delivered with a cake that was even more beautiful then we could have imagined! We took our dessert spread a bit further and had two chocolate fountains with trays and towers of delicious treats to dip. It was easy to see our guests were very happy with the work that Maryellen and her crew had put into the event, as we're we!
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    AMAZING cupcake tower for my wedding by Mary Ellen. The cupcakes were gorgeous and beautifully arranged, the flavor choices were great, and most importantly DELICIOUS. We were unable to come in for a tasting so we were given a GIANT box of cake flavors, icing, and fillings.

    Could not have been more thrilled- guests loved the cupcakes and the little boxes for them to take home extra were great! Thank you!
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    Lauren Sent on 08/07/2013
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    Mary Ellen was awesome! She was super personable and easy to work with. Her prices were the best around and the cake was beautiful and delicious. I loved that we could choose 3 different flavors with no extra charge and they were so generous with the samples it made it much easier to choose just what we wanted.
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    Emily Sent on 01/13/2013
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    Great cake! It tasted so good and was huge! The tasting was so much fun! the design was beautiful.
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    Ashlee Sent on 11/14/2012
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    Who wants cake when you can have cake pops!!!! We LOVED our non traditional cake pops and so did our guests. They were the most moist, flavorful and wonderful little cake pops we have ever eaten. She even did gluten free for our guests with wheat allergies.
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    Yummiest wedding cake EVER!! It was also beautiful. Maryellen dressed our cake in ribbon and flowers that matched what my florist did, but she took care of it all, no running around for me. Super generous and made our cake tasting fun.
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    Kristine Sent on 07/28/2012
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    I Iove cakes and candies by maryellen! Not only was my cake breathtakingly gorgeous but it also tasted amazing. Our tasting was a lot of fun and we got to try all the cakes in a cupcake form as well as all the fillings. Maryellen worked through each step with me and floored my husband and I with the final results. She really did an amazing job and I would recommend her to any bride and groom looking for that perfect cake. We have also used them for birthday cakes and a baptism cake all in which were beautiful and tasted just as awesome.
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    Renata Sent on 07/07/2012
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    We absolutely LOVE Maryellen! She is a wonderful person to work with, very funny and always puts her customer`s needs and ideas First! We loved our Wedding Cake and it was absolutely amazing to see our dream cake with the fresh flowers, double heart theme, pillars and running water fountain right before our eyes! You can never go wrong with anything Maryellen makes! It's ALWAYS Delicious!

    Thanks Maryellen!
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    Susan Sent on 11/09/2011
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    Maryellen was great! She was so creative and had wonderful ideas for our wedding cake. We decided to do a cupcake tower and then a two layered cake on top that we used to do our cake cutting. She also was able to supply us with boxes that our goes to use to take the cupcakes home at the end of the night. We had 300+ guests at our wedding and we had 6 different flavors to choose from. I still have people telling me how wonderful they were and how they had to go back for other flavors because they were so good! Maryellen has a store front in west chester, you need to go try all the amazing flavors!!!
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    Zakiyyah Sent on 09/09/2011
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    Mary Ellen did a glorious job on my wedding cake. It turned out more beautiful than I could have ever imagine. The cake was so delicious and moist.

    She also prepped a dessert tray for my guests with mini pecan pies, cookies, chocolate dipped fruit, and some italian pastries. The guests loved every morsel!

    And, she made candy bar place card favors that my guests still haven't stopped raving about.

    Mary Ellen is truly a professional!
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