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    Rylie Sent on 05/25/2022
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    Best banana pudding around

    We ordered 60 banana puddings in mason jars with our custom monogram on the lid for our wedding reception.
    The ordering process was so simple, everything was delivered on time and all our guests were absolutely obsessed with them.
    We’ve love Magnolia’s banana pudding for years!

    Magnolia Bakery's reply:

    Riley, we're so glad to know you had a great experience ordering from us. Thank you for making us a part of your special day!

    Jose & The Magnolia Bakery Team
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    Kathleen M. Sent on 04/02/2020
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    Tasted as good as it looked!!

    The cake looked beautiful and tasted amazing! Their customer service was outstanding and we felt really special throughout the entire process from tasting to the wedding day. Pricing was pretty competitive too!
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    Sharon M. Sent on 03/06/2019
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    My experience

    Accommodating to my needs, executed our wedding cake well.
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    Cori H. Sent on 04/16/2020
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    You Cannot Beat Classic Magnolia Bakery Cupcakes for Your Wedding!

    I LOVE cupcakes. So it only made sense to have a cupcake tower instead of a classic cake for our wedding. Our wedding venue actually included a cake or cupcakes in the wedding package- but come the tasting, all of us there were in agreement that the house made ones were pretty awful! Luckily we still had about 2 months until our wedding so after a bit of back and forth trying to find the correct Magnolia bakery (only some of them handle wedding orders) and manager to speak with (Shenequa helped us out and she was amazing), we placed our Magnolia cupcake order. We were able to choose the flavors we wanted, customize the icing colors and decorations to match our theme, and they were even able to include some gluten-free cupcakes for our gluten free guests! Although I did not personally receive the order day-of, our venue did, everything appeared to arrive on time and in good condition. New Yorkers know and love Magnolia Bakery (full disclosure: especially me) so you really can't go wrong!
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    Taylor Sent on 06/14/2018
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    All of our guests are still talking about how terrific our cake was! Magnolia Bakery was our first - and only! - stop for cake tastings about 8 months before our wedding. Everything from the presentation at our tasting to the attention to detail for creating each tier of our cake was amazing. Everything showed up on time and perfectly, and working with Shenequa + her team was a breeze! Definitely the best cakes in NYC!
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    Laura Sent on 11/06/2016
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    Brooklyn the caterer at Magnolia's went above and beyond to ensure my wedding went smoothly! She kept in great contact with me when I wasn't available, and kept my order perfect to how I wanted it! Plus, she and her team stayed late for me at their catering location so so could get the cake myself all the way from Monmouth county, New Jersey! Thank you for the most delicious, perfect, decadent cake ever!!!!
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    Rebekka Sent on 09/16/2016
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    Crystal Gardens at Navy Pier in Chicago, IL has a longstanding relationship with Magnolia's Chicago location, so if you use Magnolia for your Crystal Gardens event you get a great deal. To top it off, Magnolia (regardless of location) is absolutely delicious. I have had their stuff both in NYC and Chicago, and it's heavenly every time. For our wedding, the wonderful Stephanie was our contact person at Magnolia. She prepared a beautiful tasting with us, looked over designs, spent a lot of time emailing ideas and quotes back and forth until we figured out exactly what we wanted: a two-tiered sparkle cake with a gazillion mini sparkle cupcakes. AMAZING!!! SO beautiful, so delicious (their Hummingbird flavor is the best!!!), and so easy to work with! Thanks Stephanie at Magnolia!
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    J Sent on 06/29/2016
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    I lived near the original Magnolia in the West Village for 20 years so I always dreamed of having them do my wedding cake. But I was getting married an hour outside NYC, and my venue provided a free cake, so I thought fine, I'll use the free place. I went to a tasting and it was gross--"buttercream" frosting that was actually Crisco. (I know shortening holds up well at room temp, but I hate the taste.) I tried another bakery in NJ, figuring Magnolia was too far away . Also gross. So I finally did what I should have done in the first place--I called Magnolia. It turns out they deliver in a refrigerated truck to my venue all the time (for a fee.) And after talking to other bakeries who were chaotic and seemed like they'd never handled a wedding before, our contact, Brooklyn, at Magnolia was SO organized. She had it down to a science. She set up a lovely tasting for us at the Upper West Side location, with a lace tablecloth. We got to chose flavors for three mini cakes (and bring the leftovers home with us). We were trying to decide between getting a big tiered wedding cake, and doing a bunch of little cakes as a buffet. Brooklyn gave us tons of options and suggestions on what cakes/sizes would work for a buffet and even with the $100/hour delivery fee and a small fee for cute polka dot decorations on two cakes, we came in on budget! We got a chocolate cake, a vanilla cake, a banana cake, a carrot cake, and banana pudding shots, plus we rented cake stands to display it all. It was not only gorgeous but SO DELICIOUS. Our guests died over how good it all was. If you are getting married within an hour or so of NYC, Magnolia is the only way to go! Totally worth it! Ask for Brooklyn, she will make it all go smoothly.
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    Gaynor Sent on 06/27/2016
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    We absolutely loved our wedding cake, it was exactly what we wanted & tasted amazing. Service was great & very helpful when discussing ideas.
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    Beautiful, delicious, reasonably priced wedding cake! The guests loved it. Victoria was so easy to work with throughout planning.
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    Magnolia Bakery provided the perfect three tier wedding cake for our celebration dinner. Everyone was super helpful, particularly Ben, who arranged our last minute cake stand hire and confirmed all the day-of plans! There were no issues with delivery at all - perfect and professional! The cake itself was absolutely delicious, particularly the red velvet tier! I have to mention that our cake tasting was one of the best experiences during our wedding planning - we met with Kerry, and were given four sample cakes to try, plenty of iced tea and the little "Mr & Mrs" embossed forks just added a lovely touch! Kerry answered all our questions, gave us plenty of inspiration and ideas, and sent us away after the tasting with the remainder of our cakes and a few other sweet treats -- if there was no question we wanted a Magnolia Bakery before the tasting, it was a done deal after!
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    Jacki Sent on 12/28/2015
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    Magnolia was the perfect choice for our wedding cake! The tasting was fun, memorable, and they sent us home with treats. We should have ordered even more than three tiers as our guests went back for seconds and we ran out of cake. We didn't think people liked cake that much and had other desserts, but everyone flocked to the cake! Victoria was a huge help and answered all of my questions promptly. She also worked to customize the cake by making it a confetti cake, my husband's favorite. I always hear Magnolia referred to as expensive, but I compared with a few other vendors and their prices were quite reasonable. Overall fantastic experience, and we would recommend them to anyone who wants a surefire, delicious wedding cake.
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    Samantha Sent on 07/09/2015
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    We opted for a cupcake tower instead of a traditional wedding cake and LOVED our assortment from Magnolia. We live in Manhattan and frequent the shops often but wanted our wedding guests (most of whom were from out of town) to get to experience them as well....the cupcakes were a huge hit and a fun little touch to our July 4th wedding with sparklers and champagne added for our toast.
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    Lindsey Sent on 06/08/2015
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    We bought our cake from grand central magnolia bakery. The cake tasted amazing!!! It was so easy to order, collect and eat! I would recommend this bakery for any cake occasion, this was for our wedding day and it couldn't have been any better!
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    We travelled to New York from Scotland and arranged to have our wedding cake supplied by Magnolia Bakery. It was easy to organise and the correspondence by email was timely and helpful in terms of working out what would be most suitable for us on the day. The cake was beautiful and delicious and we thoroughly enjoyed it!
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    Neil Sent on 07/18/2014
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    Our wedding cake turned out amazing and was delicious! Everyone that had the cake could not get enough of it, red velvet is the way to go. The cake looked beautiful!
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    Lindsay Sent on 07/31/2014
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    People are still talking about our wedding cake! So... wedding cakes are WAY more expensive than I ever imagined. That being said, if I'm going to pay that kind of money, I want it to not only look good, but taste amazing! That's what you get with Magnolia. We had a New York wedding, so it seemed the obvious choice, and we weren't disappointed! It was beautiful- just what we had asked for, and tasted awesome! As far as using Magnolia as a vendor, I'd HIGHLY recommend them!
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    Fantastic. Went out of their way to make a color they don't normally make. All for a small cake they didn't really make much margin on.
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    Nicoletta Sent on 09/19/2013
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    Excellent quality wedding cake - and very tasty! Had many compliments about the red velvet...also was inexpensive and worth every bite!
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    From the get-go I knew I wanted to have Magnolia as my wedding cake vendor as it is my Husband and my favorite bakery in New York City. I worked with Katie out of the Columbus Circle location and she was such a sweetie pie. We met for a tasting (even though I knew what everything tasted like already because I practically go there weekly) and she was so receptive to my ideas and helped with inspiration. She kept my budget in mind and really worked with me to make everything beautiful. We paid a little extra to have them decorate everything and put monograms on the cupcakes but it was totally worth it.
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    Jackie Sent on 03/03/2013
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    We worked with Lara during the whole planning process with Magnolia Bakery. She helped us make a deconstructed wedding cake that looked beautiful and wow'd our guests. She was super responsive in all emails and helped make recommendations with her input. The cakes looked beautiful and even more importantly, tasted great!
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    Danielle Sent on 03/30/2014
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    We got Magnolia's cupcakes instead of a wedding cake for our wedding, and it was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding. The coordinator/manager at the bakery was awesome - we went in for a free tasting (YUM!) and we chose three flavor combinations - classic vanilla/vanilla, devil's food cake with whipped frosting, and lemon meringue. We also had our choice of colors for the wrappers of each flavor - we picked colors to coordinated with our wedding colors. The manager also helped us choose the right number of cupcakes for each flavor based on the number of guests, and we also purchased from Magnolia's 'take home' boxes, which our guests LOVED because some of them were too stuffed from dinner to each dessert (or they wanted to take a second cupcake home with them!) The delivery and everything was easy. We loved working with them, and we LOVED the cupcakes!!11
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    Kim Sent on 05/29/2012
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    I am originally from NJ and LOVE the Magnolia Bakery. When I saw at the beginning of the year that they were beginning to ship their cupcakes nationwide I knew I had to have them for my wedding in Wrightsville Beach, NC. I contacted their event manager Hannah and while I was in NYC for my bachelorette party met with her at the Columbus Street store and had a tasting. She allowed me to order my cupcakes through her directly since it was a wedding and I was nervous going only through the website. My wedding was on Saturday and 84 cupcakes of assorted flavors arrived Friday afternoon to my resort. My planner called me in and they were amazing. Hannah included sugar shells to put on top of each cupcake to hide the small hole that comes when they are shipped. The icing was flawless on all the cupcakes and even I was astonished at how well they were packaged and traveled. All of my guests were amazed once I told them where they were from and how I got them there. It was definitely worth it.
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    Lam Sent on 10/22/2009
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    YUM! The cupcakes were a huge hit at the wedding.
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    Robert A. Sent on 03/25/2015
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    Fantastic taste selection and quality of cakes l and my friends have ever tasted
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