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Honey Crumb Cake Studio

Honey Crumb Cake Studio

Seattle, WA
4.9 out of 5 rating, 85 reviews
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    Wedding Cake of my Dreams

    This cake not only looked amazing but tasted amazing! So thrilled with the results and the order/pick up process was super easy.
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    Amazing desserts!

    The lemon blueberry cake from Honey Crumb was the most perfect dessert for our summer BBQ wedding! They were so amazing to work with including adjusting our pick up time when we had a last minute schedule change. Our micro cake was absolutely stunning, and the sheet cakes for the guests were absolutely delicious! The gluten-free macarons in the matching flavors were also a perfect touch for our guests with sensitivities.
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    10/10 Recommend!

    Ordered my wedding cake through Carla, and it was 100% the best experience. We did the cake tasting, which was honestly the most enjoyable part of the whole wedding planning process. Carla is incredibly knowledgeable and friendly and made the most amazing cake with sugar flowers in our wedding colors that now serve as a gorgeous memento of our day. We are already looking forward to ordering an anniversary cake!
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    Beautiful AND Delicious!

    My husband and I decided to hire Honey Crumb after going to a wedding show and determining that their cakes were both the best tasting and the most beautiful cakes we have ever tried! Carla coordinated with our florist so she could create sugar flowers for our cake that matched the real flowers in the flower arrangement that went around our cake, which I thought was so cool! Many of our guests told us how good the cake tasted afterwards. And we will definitely be getting all birthday cakes and other special occasion cakes from Honey Crumb going forward! :)
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    100% recommend Honey Crumb!!

    I 100% recommend Honey Crumb Cake Studio! My husband and I booked them for our wedding on 12/29/23. After trying a taste box from Honey Crumb, there simply was not another option we would entertain - the cakes are just otherworldly delicious! We actually could not decide which flavor we wanted (too many amazing ones) so we chose three and ordered a trio of smaller cakes, and we could not be happier with how everything turned out! Our guests absolutely LOVED the cake flavors at our reception. And the sugar flowers Honey Crumb created to match our wedding florals were just flawless! Our reception was out of the delivery radius, so we had a friend pick up the cakes before the reception - Honey Crumb made sure the cakes were packed securely for us, and they arrived perfectly! Cannot say enough good things, and we highly recommend Honey Crumb Cake Studio!! I can't wait until my next special occasion so I have another excuse to order a cake from them! :)
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    Delicious and beautiful cakes

    I’ve been lucky to enjoy Carla’s cakes twice, first at a friend’s wedding and then at mine, and I have only one conclusion -- she is a baking witch. How could you possibly make such fabulous cakes over and over again without a little bit of magic? My husband and I ordered a cake tasting box with six of her custom and unique flavors, and you know it’s a good problem to have when you struggle to choose just one. In the end, we went with one of her micro wedding cakes in the espresso pecan crunch flavor, which was so flavorful and fluffy with delicious crunchy pecan bites. We also asked her to add sugar flowers that matched our wedding flowers. It was definitely worth it. Her flowers added a beautiful custom touch that tied our dessert table into the rest of the wedding.

    We will absolutely be ordering an anniversary cake when the time comes. Thank you for helping make our wedding day so special!
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    Delicious and Beautiful Cakes

    Highly recommend! Honey Crumb designs truly beautiful cakes and is a joy to work with. From everything from the tasting to changing final details, Carla and her team are a joy. And their finished product is spectacular. I am already looking forward to more occasions to order custom cakes from them again in the future.
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    Great experience and delicious cake!

    Honey Crumb was recommended to me when searching for our wedding cake bakery, and I’m so glad we went with them! My coordinator was excited to hear which bakery we chose for our cake; she only had good things to say about Carla.
    We ordered a medium one tier micro-cake (chocolate with salted caramel buttercream, stucco exterior) for our wedding. The decoration options, cake flavors, and possible filling combinations available made it impossible to go wrong with customization.
    The actual cake was amazing. It had the perfect texture, was absolutely delicious, and looked beautiful.
    While there is a small window for pick-up, there was no issue getting our cake. They were very polite and provided instructions to make sure there would be no cake-tastrophies during transit to the venue.
    Thank you, Carla!
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    Deliciously Gluten-Free

    As someone with celiac disease, I've never be able to eat the fancy cake at any wedding I've attended. So as soon as we had a wedding date, I knew I wanted my fancy cake and to be able to eat it too. I'm happy to say I got exactly what I hoped for!

    We ended up having to delay our event due to COVID, and were able to keep Honey Crumb as our vendor. Communication was great from initial quote through the significant changes on date & guest size and all the way through pick up. I am impressed with their professionalism and attention to detail.

    We had a beautifully decorated, delicious, two-tiered, gluten-free, Lord of the Rings inspired cake. The bottom tier was velveteen carrot and the top lemon blackberry. Everyone was shocked about the sugar leaves being edible. We also had gluten versions of the same flavors as kitchen cakes to serve to guests. Highly recommend this route if you're hoping to cut costs.

    We got a lot of comments from guests along the lines of "I don't normally like wedding cake, but this is amazing!" And the folks who were able to have both the gluten and non-gluten versions were impressed with the quality of the gluten-free versions of the flavors.

    Additionally, as a non-binary person, it means a lot to me that Carla and her team never misgendered. They also were accepting and enthusiastic about the offbeat approach my spouse and I took with our wedding.

    Can't wait for my next excuse to order a fancy cake from Honey Crumb!
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    Exactly what we asked for

    My now-wife and I got the chocolate cake with fig balsamic for our wedding, and it was fabulous. Honey Crumb’s owner Carla was easy to communicate with throughout the process leading to our big day. Honey Crumb delivered and set up our cake without a hitch, it looked (and tasted!) exactly like what we requested, and now we have a tasty top tier and box of sugar flowers for post-wedding enjoyment. No regrets!
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    Delicious and beautiful cake!

    We had a Honey Crumb "micro wedding" cake for our wedding and it was not only beautiful, but delicious! Carla was super responsive over email and helped us decide on what size cake would be best for our group size. We ultimately decided to go with the large 2 tier micro wedding cake and it was the perfect size for our 58 person wedding!
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    Beautiful and Delicious!

    Everyone loved the cake! Even me, and I’m generally not much of a cake person. The flavours are unique but enjoyable for everyone. Even the fondant was delicious! I know, crazy right? Aside from the taste, communication was easy, pickup was a breeze, and the design was stunning. Highly recommend.
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    We loved Honey Crumb!

    Our cake from Honey Crumb was absolutely incredible! We were looking for a vegan wedding cake and were so excited to find that Honey Crumb’s gorgeous cakes had vegan options! We submitted our inquiry and ordered a tasting box and Carla followed up super quickly to update us on her availability and outline our options. She was super sweet and friendly when we picked up our box and we were so impressed by how good the sample cakes were! Once we started the ordering process, Carla was super helpful with our decision making, always responded fast, and gave us clear breakdowns of what the pricing would look like based on our choices. We ended up choosing a chocolate cake with raspberry filling, decorated with four sugar flowers and greenery.
    On the day of our wedding we were completely blown away by how beautiful and intricate the flowers were. All the guests were genuinely surprised that they were made out of sugar! And it was absolutely delicious. As a long time vegan, I am completely floored by Carla and her team’s ability to make a vegan cake that is just as good as a non-vegan cake, and make it visually stunning on top of that. When we first started planning, we were unsure that we’d be able to find a vegan cake at all, let alone one that was so perfect in every way. We are so grateful that Honey Crumb totally knocked it out of the park, and that we get to keep our sugar flowers as a beautiful memento from our celebration.
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    Gorgeous sugar flowers

    The cake was almost too beautiful to eat. I had a hard time choosing a flavor from the tasting box because they were all so good! Apricot amaretto was a big hit.
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    A stunning plant-based cake that omnivore guests were raving about - oh and WOW those sugar flowers!!

    When we first saw the amazing sugar flowers Carla creates for Honey Crumb cakes, we knew we had found our perfect cake - however we were planning an entirely plant-based wedding and have a high bar for our desserts so really hoped Honey Crumb would have something available for our wedding and the cake would taste as amazing as it looked. We were completely wow-ed on both counts. Not only does Honey Crumb have an extensive set of plant-based and dairy-free cake options but WOW are they delicious! We could hardly decide between the light and flavorful vanilla almond cake with raspberry filling, the decadent chocolate cake, or the lovely, slightly spiced carrot. In the end we picked the almond cake and the carrot cake with a lemon buttercream frosting and the guests could not believe it was dairy-free and were raving about the cake all night. That doesn't even get into the sugar flowers which truly stole the show. At first guests couldn't believe they weren't real! We really appreciate Carla (a South African like the groom) making us some lovely Queen Protea flowers to represent the groom's birth country and being so lovely to work with. Thank you Carla and the Honey Crumb team!! We highly highly recommend them for your special day.
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    Honeycrumb cakes are delicious even for dietary restrictions!

    Carla at Honeycrumb was so great to work with. My husband and I needed vegan cakes, and we were getting married on a Wednesday (which doesn't work with the normal cake pickup schedule). Carla worked tirelessly with us to come up with a solution where we froze the cakes for a few days before thawing on our wedding day to preserve freshness and taste. Let me tell you - these cakes looked utterly perfect even after being frozen and thawed and they TASTED amazing! Far better than some vegan-specialty bakeries, in fact the cake was so good that it was completely eaten by our (nonvegan) guests who continued to remark on how delicious it was. We are so grateful to Carla for helping us have a real 'wedding cake' experience despite having a non-traditional wedding. I cannot recommend Honeycrumb highly enough!
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    Delicious and beautiful!

    We bought a fully vegan cake. It was absolutely beautiful and delicious! Everyone loved it! They were very accommodating and delivered the cake to the venue. The price is affordable and they were wonderful to work with. Excellent customer service! I highly recommend this bakery, especially if you have food allergies or special dietary needs.
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    Amazing wedding cakes!

    My husband and I hired Carla and her team for our wedding in September 2019. From the moment we first reached out to Honey Crumb, my husband and I were impressed. We didn't really have a plan for our wedding cake going in to our first meeting with Honey Crumb, but Carla took our ideas and theme and created a fantastic sketch showing exactly what we wanted! We ended up getting 3 flavors of cake (white tuxedo, velveteen carrot, and morning jacket) because we couldn't choose just one, and received so many compliments from guests on our wedding cake. Thank you to Carla and her team for helping make our wedding day perfect!
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    Beautiful and delicious!

    Carla and her team are delightful, professional, and make cakes that are both works of art and delicious! We started working with Carla in early 2020, planning for a 130-person wedding in June. With the pandemic, we ultimately shifted to a 15-person ceremony in September 2020, and Carla was gracious and flexible with our changing plans. We had planned on a three-tier cake with a design inspired by one of our favorite pieces of artwork, and Carla seamlessly made the transition to mini cakes for each household instead, keeping the same design and same flavors.

    Our guests loved their mini cakes, raved about both the London Fog and dark chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream flavors, and couldn't believe the flowers decorating their cakes were made entirely out of sugar. (Yes, really!) They took a gazillion photos, went home with the sugar flowers, and left nothing but crumbs.

    I know we'll be working with Honey Crumb again in future - there's nowhere else I'd rather go for a celebratory cake of any kind.
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    Exceptional! The cake tasted delicious and was truly a piece of art!

    Words cannot begin to express how lucky we felt to have Carla create our stunning wedding cake. Her attention to detail, responsiveness, expertise in what we envisioned as well as her wealth of knowledge she provided at every appointment made our decisions that much more seamless. We tasted at several bakeries and Honey Crumb Cake Studio exceeded expectations and delivered exactly what we were wanting. Carla's cakes are masterpieces and the flavor blew our guests away with the depth in flavor. We still hear from our friends and family on what a show stopper our cake was while also being filled with the classic richness of how well executed cake should taste. We went with the Morning Jacket and Toffee Vanilla Latte and still think about those flavors! Carla created special sugar flowers that replicated what was in my wedding bouquet and they were simply exquisite! Carla went above and beyond by putting those sugar flowers in a glass cloche for me to cherish forever after our wedding day. I couldn't recommend Honey Crumb Cake Studio enough for their incredible flavors, professionalism throughout the entire process and the level of art they created for our special day. I know we will continue to order through Honey Crumb for parties and events. Working with Carla and her team is always such a pleasure! Thank you again for making our wedding day so perfect!
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    Thank you, Carla!

    After a few disappointing experiences at bakeries near my venue, I broadened my search into the Seattle area and found Honey Crumb almost immediately. With some of the most beautiful sugar flowers featured on their site, I couldn't help but reach out to Carla for a quote. She was exceptionally professional and quick to respond, and was willing to schedule my order only a few short months before the wedding. The tasting packs you can order are the perfect way to sample the flavors (❤ Raspberry Marlene ❤), and the design of the cake itself took my breath away when I saw it at the reception. Despite the 100-mile journey, the cake was perfect; Carla makes sure to provide you with helpful hints, should you be brave enough to take it to the venue yourself. Overall, I couldn't be happier with the experience and would highly recommend Honey Crumb!
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    Wow. Just wow.

    We wanted a wedding cake that everyone--no matter what their food aversions or allergies--would love and Honey Crumb did that, and more. There was not a crumb left of the super delicious vegan and gluten-free red velvet with a buttercream icing was perfect. Not only was it delicious, it was gorgeous to look at, so much so that I felt a twinge of sadness when we cut it. But that sadness disappeared quickly, along with the cake, to be replaced by very happy guests. Every step of the process, from sampling to the final icing at the wedding, was as smooth as silk. Carla is brilliant and a joy to work with!
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    best cake ever!!

    So glad we went with Honey Crumb for our wedding cake! We received so many compliments on how good the cake was. My only regret is not making sure a few slices were set aside for my new husband and myself to eat the next day as we only got a few bites! Carla was so easy to work with and the cake was beautiful.
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    Highly recommend!

    My husband and I ordered our wedding cake from Honey Crumb and were so impressed with our experience. Carla was incredible to work with. She was professional, responsive, accommodating, and creative -- we told her what our vision was and she brought it to life! Our wedding cake was a dream. We had two flavors, the Curious George and the Cocoa Arabica. Both absolutely delicious! We could not be happier with Carla and the Honey Crumb team.
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    My husband and I live in Michigan but had our wedding outside of Seattle, and used websites like Wedding Wire and The Knot to find out various vendors. I fell in love with Honey Crumb Cake Studio the moment I clicked on their website. Honey Crumb makes the most beautiful and decadent looking cakes I have ever seen. I reached out to Honey Crumb and received a prompt response, and then quickly moved forward with ordering our cake. We ordered a two-tiered cake comprised of Cookie Monster and Strawberry Cream (If I remember correctly). We were unable to do a cake tasting, but I think that made everything more exciting on the day of the wedding! Our cake was incredible. I have never tasted a more delicious cake, and I absolutely cannot wait to order our anniversary cake next year!!
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    Honey Crumb lives up to the hype! Everything from our tasting to our wedding day was perfect. Both flavors for our cake were super delicious and the cake itself was stunning! Every step of the process was incredibly easy. Our cake was like a dream. :)
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    We cannot recommend Carla and Honey Crumb Cake Studio more.

    Carla created our wedding cake for our October 2017 wedding. We requested the London Fog cake (earl grey cake, with bergamot syrup and lavender buttercream) because I am a fan of lavender and floral desserts. I was told by my wedding planner that the London Fog is a favorite and often selected for weddings and it did not disappoint. Our cake was designed to align with the wedding color scheme and style, and it tasted amazing! Our guests were delighted with the cake and we were delighted to have leftover cake after the wedding. On that note, we are saving a couple of slices in our freezer right now for our anniversary and the anticipation is building. Carla was responsive and prompt with email correspondence--overall a delight to work with.
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    The wedding cake was the detail that I concentrated the most of my energy on. We tasted cakes at four places, including driving all the way down to Kent (never doing that again). When we first looked at Honeycrumb, we thought that their prices were too high when there were other places at about half the price. But then we tried Carla’s cakes and it was very quickly decided because not only were her cakes incredibly delicious and we had a hard time picking a flavour, but she was also wonderful to chat with, designed gorgeous cakes, and had allergy-friendly cakes for my mom as well. Our primary cake flavour is called “Curious George”, which is a banana cake with nutella buttercream. It was absolutely incredible and a great throwback to the first baking we did together - a banana nut bread with chocolate chips. The flowers on our cake were sugar flowers, hand made by Carla and her team. The outside is a lavender ruffle ombré, which is just gorgeous. Her Instagram is incredible - they make far more beautiful cakes than what we got. Many people told us that it was the best wedding cake they had ever tasted. Our three year old guest even ate an entire slice by himself! As a vendor, she was responsive when we emailed her and good at following up with deadlines. The cake was a delight and we would recommend Honeycrumb to anyone looking for a wedding cake!
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    We loved working with Carla! She is an artist both with her baking and in her presentation. The cake flavors were simply amazing, and the final version of the cake was even more beautiful than I had anticipated. Throughout the planning process she was organized, professional, and kind.
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    WOW! Carla and her team were absolutely wonderful to work with. The dream wedding cake they created for us was by far one of the most most beautiful cakes I had ever seen. The level of intricacy and detail they put in completely blew us away and left us speechless. Not only that, the cake was DELICIOUS! Many of our guests truly enjoyed it. Some even said that it was the best cake they ever had! Thank you Carla and her team for the beautiful creation! We couldn't have asked for more.
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    I was OBSESSED with our wedding cake. It was the most important part of the wedding to me (besides getting married!) and after tasting 3 different bakers I knew Honey Crumb was the ONE, hands down! Carla was fantastic to work with, my fiancé was very tired of going to bakeries so Carla gave me To Go tastings and I could not put them down. Every flavor was fantastic! I had asked for something very specific that I had in my mind that was not on her menu and she was able to make it happen! We ended up going with two flavors, my custom flavor and the Curious George which was tasted like eating banana bread with Nutella buttercream. We got rave reviews at the wedding...especially from self described "cake snobs". I also had a very distinct look I wanted on the outside which was a purple ombre look, from light purple to dark purple down the cake. It turned out amazingly and really set the whole theme for our wedding décor! I told my husband the only thing I want on our anniversary every year is a Honey Crumb cake! Thanks Carla!
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    Our cake was a.ma.zing! Carla was fun to work with and helped explain lots of different options to us. And we couldn't have asked for a more beautiful, delicious result! We went with apple-toddy flavor (and got loads of compliments) and our hand-painted design was just heartwarmingly lovely! Definitely go with Honey Crumb if you want a cake that both wows and tastes spectacular!
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    Andrew Sent on 12/18/2016
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    We can’t say enough good things about Carla and the amazing cake she made for our wedding. Every one of our guests commented on how amazing the cake was. It was an absolute pleasure to work with Carla. She tweaked the cake recipe just slightly for us and was very focused on making our wedding a success. She is a truly gifted baker, and we would definitely recommend her to anyone who asked. Thank you so much Carla for making our day so amazing!
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    Casandra Sent on 12/13/2016
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    Service was great, but even more outstanding than the service was how yummy our cake was. Carla met with us for our cake testing outside of her normal work hours, and she was a delight to meet, you can tell she is very passionate about what she does. It was very hard to choose a flavor, all the cakes we tasted were exceptional.
    We chose a simple design and it came out beautiful. I ate entirely too much cake for days after the wedding, but it was still very delicious for days.
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    Edward Sent on 12/02/2016
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    Carla made the wedding cakes (two dozen small heart shaped cakes in addition to the one large main cake) with three delicious flavors for my daughter's wedding. The cakes were a big hit.
    On my daughter's first anniversary, Carla sent her a complimentary small replica cake.
    Thank you, Carla.
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    User2872153 Sent on 11/19/2016
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    Exceptional service! Amazing end result I couldn't be happier with how my cake came out :)
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    Soo Sent on 10/13/2016
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    I can't sing enough praises for Honey Crumb Cake Studio. They gave us our dream wedding cake, which was important since it was the one detail I hoped to get perfect (we're serious about cake). Besides everything being BONKERS DELICIOUS, the cake was beautifully decorated on-site at our venue. Carla was wonderful to work with: she was always communicative (heyyyy wedding vendors, this is important!) and never pushed us for a larger/more expensive cake (exact opposite in fact). Her team is kind and friendly, and clearly love what they do, which is evident in their product, as well as the way they treat their clients. Our guests raved about the cake, many letting us know it was the best they've ever had (goals, achieved). We only got to try three flavors, but something tells me that they're all equally delightful. Can't thank everyone at Honey Crumb enough for being one of the best vendors we worked with through our process.
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    Jamie Sent on 07/29/2016
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    Carla was referred to me by wedding planner who had her cake done by Carla on her wedding day. When my fiancé and I met with Carla to taste the different cakes and see the different designs, we knew immediately we had found our cake designer and maker! The only trouble we had was narrowing down what flavor we wanted! We went back to see Carla again to taste again and to go over sketches of how the cake would look. Carla was professional and worked within our budget. The cake was absolutely stunning and even more important it was delicious!!
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    Bethany Sent on 05/16/2016
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    Carla at Honey Crumb Cake Studio was amazing to work with. She was incredibly responsive and walked my now husband and I through the whole process of designing a cake. From the tasting to design drafts to the final product, she was wonderful. Carla is a true artist - she took our colors and wedding theme and turned it into a work of art. Our guests raved about it - both its gorgeous look and amazing taste. We highly recommend Carla for any wedding!
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    Tim Sent on 04/19/2016
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    Honey Crumb bakery was the last of 5 wedding cake tastings. We definitely saved the best for last! I knew from the moment Carla sketched a black and white drawing on a piece of paper at the tasting that she would create an amazing cake for our big day! Granted I am an emotional man, but when I walked into the room as Carla was finishing setting up the cake, tears of joy instantly appeared. It was even more beautiful than I had imagined! Five weeks later and I still have friends and family commenting about how great the cake was - not only visually, which was stunning! But also the taste of the cake. Cocoa Arabica is my new favorite! Your wedding day is one of those big moments in your life - don't focus on price. She was very comparable to the other vendors we tried and without a doubt, she will create a memory for you!
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    Michelle Sent on 12/10/2015
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    While organizing our wedding, we were fortunate enough to meet many talented and enthusiastic people along the way. After hearing several people recommend Carla, we met with her and tried several samples of cake. We were immediately sold on her creativity, amazing portfolio of work and excitement. Carla was extremely easy to work with and very detail oriented, methodical and organized. She is an absolute pro. After only a short planning session we arrived at a cake design which was perfect for us for our November 8th wedding with 100 guests. On the day of the wedding our cake arrived - Carla had color coordinated it perfectly with our cake-toppers (which we brought to our initial meeting) and delivered a beautiful cake which our guests absolutely loved. And...it...tasted...delicious (can't stress that enough). We highly recommend Carla to anyone planning a wedding who wants the absolute best!
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    User2431316 Sent on 11/17/2015
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    Carla and her team are AMAZING! They did mini cakes for my wedding and they were stunning. Exactly what I had envisioned. They were also sinfully delectable. Carla worked with me on the designs so that they could fit my budget, too! Incredible. I couldn't be happier!
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    Ines Sent on 11/17/2015
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    We absolutely loved Carla!!! I would strongly recommend her to everyone. Our cake vision was a little complex but she made us the PERFECT Disney wedding cake. I'm kind of sad the wedding is over but we will definitely work with her in the future for other cakes.
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    Gabriela Sent on 10/27/2015
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    We got married on 10/10/2015. Cake tasting is one of the most fun parts of planning your wedding. My husband and I went to several cake vendors in the Seattle area, and while many were good, no one even came close to Carla. She may be a bit expensive (like most other cake vendors out there) but she was totally worth every penny. We met with Carla on a weekend and pre-arranged which cakes we wanted to try. We explained what we wanted for our dream cake and showed her a photo of the details we wanted, and to our surprise Carla sketched a beautiful and perfect cake that exactly matched what we had in mind. We later requested to try an additional two flavors and Carla was nice enough to arrange that for us. We ended up going with a three tier cake with two flavors: the pink champagne cake with raspberry mouse filling; and the citrus grove cake-- a lime cake with blood orange meringue filling. Both flavors were AMAZING. I like to bake, and the most important thing for me is that cakes be deliciously moist. Carla's cake were just that.

    Carla was wonderful to work with. She is an incredible professional who created a comprehensive contract we could sign online. It was really easy to communicate with her. When the wedding grew closer and we realized we would have 100 guests as opposed to 150, Carla adjusted our cake dimensions and the price accordingly without any trouble at all. Carla delivered our cake and arranged the fresh flowers the florist had left on the cake artfully while we were at the church. Our cake was gorgeous and tasted amazing. It was a perfect way to end our delicious meal. My mom was still talking about how delicious her slice of cake was a full two weeks after the wedding. I was so happy I got to bring back some leftovers so my husband and I could eat them at home the next day.

    Our wedding cake was perfect. I highly recommend that you consider Carla if you want a beautiful and delicious wedding cake that you'll remember for a lifetime.
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    Lilia Sent on 10/14/2015
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    Carla's cake's are soooo delicious but her professionalism is the real icing on the cake.

    We reached out to Carla after seeing her exceptional reviews and awards. She was flexible and excelled logistically when it came time to arrange a meet up so we could try out her delicious baked goods. Throughout our planning process she responded in a timely manner with quotes and a sketch of our cake. She was patient as we figured out whether or not to add different flavors or cupcakes. On the big day, our cake arrived on time and looked beautiful. Our top layer was even vegan and gluten-free for guests with dietary restrictions. The flavor of her cakes is not that of a typical over sugary, dense, spongy wedding cake - this cake is delicious, moist, and rich in flavor. We are looking forward to our one year anniversary when Carla will make us a small cake to enjoy. I'm sure the first bite will quickly transport us back to our magical day.
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    Lauren Sent on 06/08/2015
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    The cake was exquisite! Carla totally understood my vision and did a great job... It was perfect!
    She has lots of flavors to choose from and they are all SO GOOD! We picked 3 different flavors for our cake and all were delicious. Thank you, Carla!
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    Melissa Sent on 02/27/2015
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    Carla came as a recommendation from both a Bridesmaid and my Day-Of planner and I couldn't have been happier. I planned my wedding from the other side of the country and Carla worked easily with me via email and calls to make sure my vision of a GOLD cake was exactly what I was looking for. I sent my Bridesmaids for the tasting and let them pick the cake flavor (what a great bonus to being in a wedding, right?) and on our Wedding Day the Cake was absolutely stunning (and delicious!) All of our guests loved the flavor (Toffee Vanilla Latte) and we wish we could have spent more time enjoying it!
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    Colleen Sent on 09/12/2014
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    Carla made my wedding cake and it was sooo amazing. I tried probably 5 or 6 places and none of them could compare to Carla's cake in terms of flavor (which was my highest priority). She was mildly expensive-- I think our cake was $9/slice, but I consider it 100% worth it. We did a 2 tier cake with champagne cake with cream cheese frosting and raspberries on top, and on bottom a dark chocolate cake with a salted caramel buttercream. Both were mind blowingly delicious, and she made the cake look beautiful-- we had a wood theme so she covered the sides in molding chocolate and painted a park pattern on. She came and did the setup while we were getting ready, and we borrowed a stand from her-- all very painless and easy. Recommend!! I only wish she had a store front so I could buy her stuff all the time!
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    Pauline Sent on 08/18/2014
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    The cake was delicious. The design was imaginative as all I provided was the concept and the product was more than I had asked for and precisely the point. The quality of service in the delivery and the cake, the instructions on how to handle it was meticulous. The baker herself was a delight. If you want the quality of product and service you want Carla Reich to do your cake.
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    Silvia Sent on 05/26/2014
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    Great service. Carla made a cake specially for us with unique flavors. Very professional and at the right price.
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    User1386400 Sent on 01/08/2014
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    There aren't words to express how amazing Carla's designs are. In fact, her personality is as vibrant and beautiful as her cakes! We had the pleasure of working with Carla for our cake design and delivery. I'm not joking when I say her cakes are AMAZINGLY delicious. Everyone was complimenting her artistic abilities and cake flavors all night long. I highly recommend Honey Crumb Cake Studio for any event.
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    Danielle Sent on 08/28/2013
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    Owner and Designer Carla Reich is the REAL DEAL* A truly talented artist-baker-designer* After all the various cakes & designers that I had the privilege of meeting with and sampling cake- I wish someone had told me about HONEY CRUMB CAKE STUDIOS* I found her online- we met up over coffee, sampled cake and drafted up several, not one, not 3 but several idea's on creating the perfect cake for our wedding.
    Honey Crumb Cake Studio's has the most flavorful well balanced cake I have ever eaten EVER! The design was a show stopper one of a kind. EVERY single guest had some comment to make about the cake design and the taste. I loved Carla's cake sample so much that I had her create a Seattle M's baseball cap cake to surprise my boys with the night of the rehearsal dinner. I have never seen cake go so fast. www.honeycrumb.com
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    Amy Sent on 08/28/2013
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    My husband and I just got back from our honeymoon and we could not wait to put in a rave review for Honey Crumb Cake Studio! Carla poured her heart and soul into every detail of our cake with impeccable precision! The cake we chose was strawberry shortcake made with the finest ingredients including FRESH Strawberries! The frosting was smooth and melt-in-your-mouth delicious! (NO thick gummy marzipan here!). Carla created the most gorgeous sugar flowers for our cake, I had the caterer save them and I plan on putting them into a shadow box! Carla is incredibly professional, dependable, flexible, passionate and pleasant to work with and I would recommend Honey Crumb Cake Studio not just for wedding cakes but for any special occasion!
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    User1273518 Sent on 08/05/2013
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    Our cake was so amazing – Carla is truly an artist. It wasn’t at all what I thought I would have chosen – after meeting with Carla, she hand sketched several designs. Some were very closely based on what we talked about and a couple were her own interpretation of the theme/venue/etc. She truly captured the feel better than I could have. Her cake fit our wedding absolutely perfectly, and it tasted so good. We had her decadent chocolate and red velvet. Both were moist and delicious. This is not your typical wedding cake. She uses wonderful ingredients and puts a lot of love into every cake. We really enjoyed working with Carla, including a very fun meeting and tasting, where she even brought a “bonus” flavor for us to try just for fun.
    We would recommend Carla of Honey Crumb Cakes for any event – her cake is delicious and you are truly supporting an artist.
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    Taryn Sent on 07/22/2013
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    Our cake was absolutely amazing! Not only in looks, but the taste was absolutely to die for delicious! Most of our guests told me after the wedding that they ended up taking a second piece. One of our aunts actually had to take 2 big pieces and hide them in our room so my husband and I could enjoy them after the reception. Everyone complimented how delicately designed the cake was, it was too pretty to cut into....but once we did, it didn't last long. The pink champagne cake with organic raspberries were so fresh and perfectly balanced. Carla really captured the theme of our wedding in her cake, she was so lovely to work with, professional, and I knew I was in good hands. We will be using her for our baby shower next year :)
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    Carla at Honey Crumb Cake Studio did an absolutely amazing job on both our wedding cake and the groom's cake for the rehearsal dinner. She spent many hours creating the perfect cakes and was willing to work with us to make sure each detail was "just right". The cake stayed moist throughout the night and was displayed to perfection at the venue. We highly recommend Honey Crumb Cake Studio and will definitely be getting cakes from her in the future!
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    Tami Sent on 05/07/2013
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    Carla was great, and a very professional & creative person to work with. Her cakes were fantastic, full of flavor yet light, unlike most other bakeries' cakes that were overly rich in butter cream and sugar. Another thing that set Carla apart from other vendors we interviewed was that I thoroughly enjoyed her hand-sketches of her concept cakes after I had explained different design aspects we were hoping to have. The added visual helped a great deal in making sure we were both on the same page, and it gave me added peace of mind knowing exactly how our cake would turn out well before the wedding date.
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    Natalie Sent on 01/16/2013
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    I ordered a cake for my sons first birthday in May (Peter Rabbit theme). The cake was beyond what I had hoped for, absolutely beautiful......Carla put a ton of amazingly small details on the this cake and it was breathtaking. As for taste, I am being completely honest best chocolate cake with cream cheese filling I have ever had. Carl was very flexible and responded to all of my texts, emails and calls:) I will absolutely be ordering my sons 2nd birthday cake from her. I am thinking trains and can't wait to see what she can create for us.
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    Lynn Sent on 12/29/2012
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    Carla at HoneyCrumb is amazing! We cannot begin to say enough good things about her- and neither could our guests! Everyone was drooling because it looked so beautiful and when they actually got their hands on a slice, they were far from disappointed! We've literally heard from EVERY SINGLE GUEST we talked to that it was the best wedding cake they've ever had. The red velvet was delicious (there's a reason why it's such a staple!) But it you want to WOW your guests- go for the pink champagne! I was worried it was too out there, but it was unanimously the favorite.

    Backing up to the beginning, I found HoneyCrumb on here actually. I was impressed with the reviews so I emailed her. She is so sweet and professional.. It felt like the right fit. We met at a coffee shop in Issaquah and she brought 4 or 5 full slices of cake for us to try! They were so delicious we actually took the remainder home for my then-fiance's parents to try to help us decide! Yes, there was enough for that... how cool is that?! And for the design of the cake- took 10 minutes. I told her the winter theme, showed her some ideas (focusing on snowflakes) and BOOM! She whipped up an awesome sketch right there! The price was absolutely reasonable for such a beautiful cake. We decided to choose her instantly. After that, she emailed me a few times to double check what I wanted, make sure the quantity hadn't changed and just verify all the details. Because of all of that. everything went completely perfectly. One less headache for the couple! Go with Honeycrumb!! You will be SO glad you did! Thanks again Carla! :)
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    User1042793 Sent on 12/10/2012
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    Honey Crumb Cake Studio was SUCH a great find! Carla is a sweetheart, not to mention an artist & talented pastry chef. When I stumbled upon her website, after going through multiple Seattle wedding sites and attending the wedding show and feeling disappointed, I was finally getting excited again. I saw photos of her cakes and thought they were gorgeous! I had watched Amazing Wedding Cakes, Ace of Cakes, and other cake shows on Food Network and the Wedding Channel and had high expectations for what would be my own wedding cake. Little did I know that Carla would bring it all to reality. She offers great value. I found her cakes to look and taste better than other popular vendors at a very competitive price.

    I contacted Carla and sent her some photos of cakes I had seen on websites and wedding blogs prior to my consultation. I was shocked that she recognized them! At our tasting meeting she brought albums with photos of her work and cake samples - I was impressed by what I saw and tasted. We went over ideas and I could tell she loved her work and wanted to provide me with my dream cake for my wedding. She offered to make any flavor cake or filling I wanted and made a few early sketches of designs for our custom cake (no picking from a menu of choices here!). She was quick to respond and was very detailed each time. Carla was very kind, knowledgeable, and professional. She went over logistics and everything.

    Our wedding cake was a focal point at our reception. It was elegant and matched our decor and flowers perfectly! Our guests enjoyed the cake and were shocked to find out we had 4 different flavors. We are so happy our wedding party saved us slices of each layer for us to try after the wedding.

    Carla was such a breeze to work with. Selecting our cake was definitely one of my least stressful wedding tasks. I plan to go to Honey Crumb Cake Studio for special occasion cakes in the future!
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    Fahm Sent on 10/29/2012
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    Carla is a wonderful person to work with. She was willing and able to meet us anywhere for our consultation, and very quick with responding to emails. She asked us questions on what we wanted on our cake, our theme of our wedding and she got back to us with four different detailed sketches to look through.
    The sugar flowers were a work of art, the cake was moist, flavorful, well balanced and amazing! We received many wonderful compliments on the cake the night of our wedding day and even months after, and I quote "Your wedding cake was one of the best I have seen".
    Carla is an amazing, talented, fun & detailed oriented person. We were very happy to have chosen Carla to make our cake for our special day.
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    Erin Sent on 10/14/2012
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    We just got married yesterday and I'm just beyond thrilled with the partners we brought on for our wedding. One of the partners that made a HUGE impact on our rehearsal dinner and our wedding was Carla. She worked with me on designing the coolest grooms cake I have EVER seen and one of the most beautiful wedding cakes out there.

    Our cakes were the talk of the town and tasted and looked fabulous. Everyone was talking about it and I plan on recommending Carla to anyone and everyone. I also plan on hiring her for every birthday and anniversary we have. :)

    Thanks Carla!

    - Erin Billmaier
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    Jeff Sent on 09/20/2012
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    Carla is so great to work with and her cakes are absolute works of art! The cakes for our wedding were both beautiful and impeccably done -- my wife and I couldn't have been more pleased. Our friends and family loved the aesthetic details and appreciated how delicious everything was. All of her cakes and fillings are amazing and we actually liked her lemon cake the most. She is incredible and we would highly recommend her to anyone. Thanks, Carla!
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    Noelle Sent on 09/12/2012
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    Honey Crumb Cake Studio is nothing short of AMAZING!!

    Carla was so great to work with and has such great talent!

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    She was very flexible with finding a time/location to meet with my fiancé and I. Our meeting lasted about 1.5 at the Top Pot shop in Bellevue, WA. She asked what we wanted in a cake, our vision, other wedding day details. All of which could help her create the perfect cake for us. She brought along with her a number of samples of different cakes paired with icings. VERY large portions, we were able to bring the TOGO box of cakes home to my family. We had a blind taste test with 4 other people. It was GREAT

    FLEXIBILITY:
    Carla is VERY VERY flexible. 2 weeks prior to our wedding, our guest count went down by about 50 people. She was prompt at responding to my request to lower the portion count.

    COMMUNICATION:
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    VERY reasonable!!

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    DELICIOUS!! we had the red velvet, coconut passion and i believe the mocha. We also had a tier of coconut passion for all my gluten free guests - they LOVED IT!!

    CAKE DECOR:
    BREATH TAKING!! i have no other words to describe them. I had such a hard time cutting into them. I could have stared at them all night. The sugar flowers were to die for! I our caterer save ALL the flowers - seriously feel like glass!! I will be placing them in a vase to save.

    OVERALL:
    I HIGHLY RECOMMEND HONEY CRUMB CAKES!!
    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU CARLA FOR CREATING THE MOST BEAUTIFUL/TASTY CAKE(S) A BRIDE COULD ASK/WISH/DREAM OF.
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    User921956 Sent on 08/08/2012
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    I knew pretty much what I wanted my wedding cake to look like after I saw a photo online. I took it to Carla and she was confident she could create it. After tasting the most delicious flavors, my then-fiancee and I decided that her red velvet with white chocolate fondant on top of buttercream icing was the way to go. Fast forward 6 months to our wedding day, and what I saw on our cake table was exactly as I had pictured - so very beautiful and romantic, and the best cake I've ever tasted. For our one year wedding anniversary I will surely be ordering a miniature of our wedding cake to experience Honey Crumb all over again. Thank you, Carla!
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    Jennifer Sent on 07/13/2012
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    Loved the cake and Carla was so wonderful and easy to work with. I had an idea plus a few pictures and she helped me to create the PERFECT cake for my son's 1st birthday. Not only did is look amazing but it tasted GREAT! I will definitely be using her again for future events!
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    Marie Sent on 07/12/2012
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    It was my son's 1st Birthday and I wanted everything to go smoothly!! I had a specific idea for a cake and had been looking for someone to make it! With a little over a month left, I found Carla's bakery through Google. I contacted Carla and from there, everything was easy! Communication was quick and clear and the final cake was gorgeous!! Everyone at the party couldn't stop talking about how amazing the cake was! It was also delicious! Can't wait to work again with Honey Crumb in the future!!
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    Tara Sent on 07/11/2012
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    Honey Crumb Cake Studio and Carla were by far the best cake and bakery shop I've ever conducted business with! Carla took the time to meet at our house for the tasting providing many flavors to choose from. I could tell immediately that this was her passion as she used her background to sketch us a cake that fit our style and budget.

    At the wedding, I received countless reviews of how wonderful the cake was flavor and presentation wise. Easily the most unique flavor and type of cake I've ever had at a wedding. I can undoubtedly say that I will contact Honey Crumb Cake Studio again for my future cake needs!
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    Naz Sent on 07/11/2012
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    Wow, what can I say about Honey Crumb Cake Studio and their amazing cakes!?! Nothing but the fact that it truly was the highlight of my wedding! Carla made me a GORGEOUS tiered cake, exactly the way I imagined, and I couldn't ask for more. Carla made two types of cake: Banana cake and pink champagne with raspberries!! SO DELICIOUS! I am a huge banana cake fan, therefore, I'm a huge banana cake critic, and this was perfect! Besides the fact that her cakes are delicious and beautiful, Carla is by far, a wonderful person. She is prompt, reliable, and trustworthy. She really takes the time to listen to what you are wanting, and tries to get a feel of your style and the wedding theme. She then magically pulls it all together! I can honestly say that I have no regrets and would highly recommend Honey Crumb Cake Studio to anyone looking for a magical cake lady!
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    Breanna Sent on 04/21/2012
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    My name is Breanna and my husband and I found Carla on a whim in January for our wedding in March! I had been researching many cake vendors and was having a hard time finding any places that were familiar and comfortable with doing Celtic Knot work. Then I happened upon Carla's website and saw a beautiful cake with a wonderfully done Celtic Knot. Her website gave me one of those feelings that I had found the perfect person, even though I had not even contacted Honey Crumb Cake Studio yet. My intuitions were spot on.

    Carla was an absolute pleasure from start to finish! Professional, warm, inviting, creative, and she has this amazing talent to see your vision and then make it blossom into something better that what you ever imagined! My husband and I have been so impressed with her... from her artistic vision, to her flavors, precision, and overall execution.

    Our cake was custom designed. I had made all my invitations myself, and had this specific Celtic Knot that I used on them. Carla took one of my invitations and hand painted the knot onto our cake! She even made these beautiful, intricate blue roses that we requested (my favorite flower). Our guests were extremely impressed with our cake, and we have been passing Carla's name out.

    One last thing, for how talented, sweet and customized our cake was, the price was phenomenal. Carla's heart is in the right place, and I will use Honey Crumb Cake Studio's for all of my events from now on. My husband and I really feel we have made a friend with Carla and will support Carla's business endeavor's from here on out. Oh, and one last thing... Carla even made our cake stand so that it would match our wedding colors/design!

    Thank You Honey Crumb Cake Studios!
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    Angela Sent on 12/31/2011
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    Carla Reich, at Honey Crumb Cake Studio made us a fantastic five tier red velvet and chocolate buttercream wedding cake. It was quite beautiful - much larger and prettier than we could have hoped for. The price was competitive and the service was outstanding. Response to emails or phone calls is very quick, and she provides customers with an extensive "floor plan" of the cake they will receive - and then provides exactly what she promised. Cake tasting was very fun, no pressure to choose immediately or commit on the spot.
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    Brianna Sent on 11/09/2011
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    Carla is amazing. My wedding cakes were out of this world... not only were they breathtakingly beautiful but they tasted incredible. She is very easy to work with, full of fun ideas and overall has a sweet way about her. The mustache cookie favors were her idea and also a huge hit with our guests! I highly recommend her. She will make your wedding cake fabulous!!!
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    Linda Sent on 09/12/2011
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    Carla is a delight to work with and her product is absolutely gorgeous! She created exactly what my daughter envisioned. I still remember the taste of the cupcake -- succulent! Honey Crumb Cake Studio is a gem!
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    Kim Sent on 08/27/2011
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    As I looked at these ratings I wanted to find something higher than a "5" to give her. Carla was amazing from the first moment we met. My husband and I had a unique idea for our wedding cake, tiramisu. We wanted it to be tiered, which typically they are not. Carla presented us with a taste test the first time we met, along with some ideas for presentation. Her pictures of cake options are elegant, not your typically glommed on frosting look. Carla took on the project of making our layer tiramisu cake as if it were her own wedding and the end product was perfect. Each layer was covered with a different chocolate shell to hold the tiramisu together; one milk chocolate, one white chocolate, and one dark chocolate. We even had different flavored liquids the cake had been soaked in. She brought the cake to us, assembled it for us, decorated it with flowers, and instructed the cutters on how to present it.

    Carla is a true professional with amazing customer insight. She is flexible and eager to make your vision a reality, a much needed attribute for a busy bride and groom. I would highly recommend her for any special occasion cake. I simply cannot say enough positive things for her. I'd give her a "10" if it were available!
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    Kay Sent on 08/27/2011
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    Carla Reich made a simply beautiful cake for my daughter's wedding in June. Becky's husband is a potter and a colleague and friend had created a ceramic cake topper for which Carla's cake needed to serve as a base in addition to being a work of art in itself. The bride had made a rhubarb filling that Carla incorporated in her gorgeous yellow cake, so yet another personal touch for the bride and groom was embraced by Honey Crumb. The cake and frosting were deliciious and we have a photograph of Carla and the cake topper artist in the wedding album. There aren't enough superlatives.
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    User2366621 Sent on 10/14/2015
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    Carla Reich was amazing! My only point of sadness was that I couldn't eat more cake wearing a tight wedding dress. Make sure you have room. My dad and I chose the flavor only a week before the wedding and tried five flavors (I wanted make sure I got the right one!) and I could not have been happier about choosing the chocolate with espresso and the banana hazelnut chocolate. The banana cake (and Nutella buttercream) was amazing. I dream about that cake! It was a little on the expensive side and breaking down to pay that much was hard but I could not have been happier with my decision.
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    User1482232 Sent on 12/24/2013
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    Carla was very responsive to and accommodating of our last-minute need to find a new wedding cake vendor. Her design was creative and beautifully coordinated with our vision in content and color. Her sugar flowers were exquisite (gardenias/orchids). Her fondant was light and workable if not imperceptible; her cakes were delicious! Carla was a pleasure to work with and we would highly recommend her.
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    User1277090 Sent on 08/07/2013
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    Carla with Honey Crumb Cake Studio is amazing. She is very professional and creative. I had a very unique vision of my cake and she executed it beautifully! I did think the price was a bit high but the quality and value was definitely right up there with it. And she worked with me to get my price down closer to my budget. My only negative thing I have to say is that there was a time when I didn't get a response from her for over a week. However, she handled it very well and said she was just very caught up in making a cake for an upcoming wedding and assured me that when it was time to work on my cake, there would be some brides getting impatient with her as they waited for her response back because she would be caught up working on my masterpiece. I just loved that response. Not only was the cake beautiful and what I wanted, the taste was amazing. Aside from my beautiful venue, the positive comments I got from guests was how delicious and beautiful the cake was! I definitely recommend her. You will get the highest quality cake, a true work of art and exactly what you want as well.

    If you want to see my cake check it out here - http://www.honeycrumb.com/#!weddings-3
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    User873432 Sent on 07/23/2012
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    Carla at Honey Crumb Cake Studio was fantastic to work with from the beginning to the end. We loved how she did the tasting by giving us a box of a few different cakes and a few different frosting options to take home and try! She took our vision and provided sketches beforehand to get us comfortable with what the final product will look like...and in the end she took our idea and turned it into a magnificent (and delicious!) cake. We couldn't have asked for a better cake, or a better person to make it.

    Thank you, Carla!
    Kruti & Pritesh
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    The cake was a little more plain than we would have liked, but it was also the most delicious cake we've ever tasted and she came up with some amazing ideas, including having our first message to each other printed on a sheet of sugar "paper" and making a flower out of it. While it was a bit plain, I'd choose her again in a heartbeat and recommend her to everyone.
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    User1811032 Sent on 09/15/2014
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    Carla Reich is a delight to work with! She not only creates such beautiful cakes and desserts, they are SO delicious too - not too sweet and very light. My kind of cake. Upon meeting her at our tasting and getting a feel for her love of baking, we could tell she was very attentive to detail. She will work with you to design your dream wedding cake until you are happy with it (she sketches them out with all the details noted). She is definitely someone you can immediately feel comfortable with and have confidence she will execute your vision and then some. Highly recommend!
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    Rebekah Sent on 12/14/2014
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    We wanted a cake more for decor - If done well, cakes give guests a peek into the bride and groom's style and personality. Carla was very flexible, and met me where it was convenient for me. She brought her 4 most popular cakes for tasting, and they were big samples, so I could bring them home for the groom to try, too.
    During that first meeting, Carla asked about the location and the feel. We had 50 guests, so Carla suggested a styrofoam base to get the height we wanted - it worked great! She showed me pictures of other cakes, and while I fell in love with an ombre butterfly cake, I wasn't so sure the groom would love butterflies. She had great suggestions to keep the ombre look but replace the butterflies with flowers.
    Carla was already booked on our wedding day, so she was unable to deliver the cake herself, but she offered to make the cake if someone else could pick it up (the wedding planner). Carla even showed the wedding planner how to put the flowers on the cake, which was so so so sweet. (When the day came, the wedding planner failed to put the flowers on the cake because she didn't properly prep the flowers, so the cake ended up completely plain, but this was not Carla's fault.)
    Advice for brides: If Carla cannot deliver the cake and set it up at the wedding, pick a cake that does not require any prepping on the wedding day. (In other words, do not trust a wedding planner to add any of the finishing details on the cake.)
    Since booking her, Carla's business has continued to gain popularity. So happy for her!
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    Carol Sent on 12/26/2011
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    The quilted cake was perfect. I loved, loved, loved the final product. It was a lifetime memory. The only thing I noted was the cake was a little dry
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    User1493501 Sent on 01/03/2014
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    Revised update 3.2014
    Carla and I have finally talked and she has apologized and acknowledged that she did not handle this situation well and that the cake was not what we expected. She has offered to make us an anniversary cake and refunded part of our cost. I am more than willing to give her another try and I wish her and her business the best. Hopefully this was a learning experience and just a bad day.
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    I am not a person to write negative reviews but I was so disappointed that I felt it was important. As well, after the wedding when trying to talk to Carla about the cake and return her plate she has been 100% unresponsive to multiple e-mails and calls.
    Honeycrumb was at the most expensive end of what we looked at but the reviews were good and our initial experience was good so after interviewing 5 others we finally decided it was worth the cost. At our first meeting Carla was professional, listened to us and provided samples that were wonderful. For our second meeting she was hard to get ahold of and scattered. I did not see the cake until walking into my own reception and it was not what we had talked about nor did it match the sketches Carla drew us. The taste of the cake was AWFUL- dry, flavorless and no frosting only fondant (that we had asked not to have). Even guests made comments.
    I understand we can all have an off day. Did this ruin my wedding no. Was I very disappointed after the amount of money we spent, yes.
    I e-mailed Carla within a couple days of the wedding and a good half dozen times after that and she has never responded. I did not expect anything other than maybe an apology that she had had a bad day and realized the cake was not up to standard or maybe the offer of a cake for our first anniversary.
    To this day we have never heard back from Carla or anyone at Honeycrumb despite numerous attempts.
    There are other good cakes out there so I would strongly suggest looking elsewhere.
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    Unhelpful, inflexible vendor

    I don't doubt Honeycrumb makes tasty cakes. But let's be honest - there are plenty of people who know how to make a cake. When I'm planning an event, my business relationship with a vendor is often even more important to me than the caliber of the product. And in this case, I am relieved that my interaction with Honeycrumb was finite and that I won't have to interact with them again.

    I am in the market for at least one high-end, custom cake for a party I'm organizing to celebrate my upcoming wedding. Most vendors, in my experience, are willing to arrange cake tastings (for a price) so that you can try the different cake flavors before you shell out hundreds / thousands of dollars on the cake of your dreams. Not Honeycrumb! LOL absolutely not. Or, at least not on any terms but theirs. For one, at least as far as I could tell from their website, you cannot go into the shop to taste the cakes. They also do not sell a single product that is not custom-made. So - the only way to try a cake before you commit to purchasing one is to spend at least $68 on a tasting. At least on their website, it seems the only way to DO a tasting is to book a cake tasting for pickup. According to Honeycrumb's site: "We've found it's much more efficient and fun (for everyone!) if you do the tasting in the comfort of your own home, and then we discuss and finalize all the details for your cake order via email or phone." Furthermore, you can't even taste flavors that YOU pick, or even all of their flavors in one go! No, you would need to spread your tastings across TWO MONTHS to try all of the flavors. Again, in their words: "We alternate the flavors for subsequent tastings. There are 8x flavors on our menu in total. So, if you order TWO tastings, one after the other, you'll sample our entire menu!"

    But it gets better! Is it convenient to acquire the cake tasting, you ask? ABSOLUTELY NOT. No - you have a two-hour window, once a month, on a Saturday to get the cake. They generously offer that you can have someone else pick up the cake tasting FOR you, or they can set the cake aside for you for later, but they make it clear that this is a weird imposition, and that your cake might not taste as good because you won't be picking it up on the day it was meant to be "enjoyed." If I'm trying to plan an event, how is spending TWO FREAKING MONTHS trying your cakes on YOUR EXTREMELY RESTRICTIVE SCHEDULE is "efficient" or "fun" for me?

    Maybe you see where this review is going. I booked a cake tasting, and confirmed that the two-hour pickup window would happen when I was in town. But then - lo and behold - my May schedule changed. A month before the pickup was supposed to happen, I reached out to Honeycrumb to try to cancel the tasting pick-up and get my money back. I was informed that, despite the tasting happening a month in the future I would absolutely never see my $68 again.

    Yes -- Carla said I could pick up the cake on a Monday instead, but the overall inconvenience of the tasting, paired with the refusal to cancel a (non-custom) reservation more than a month in the future, left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I figured it was worth a shot to protest the charge with PayPal. Shortly after submitting the protest, I received a weird, long email from Carla whose tone was best described as "extreme hostility masquerading as confusion." I decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. I stopped engaging entirely and decided not to pick up the cake after all.

    I found the overall experience so weird and unpleasant I will avoid Honeycrumb and vendors like them in the future.
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