Oak Mill Bakery Reviews
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4.6 out of 5 rating
4.6 out of 5 rating
403 reviews
93% recommend it
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Rachelle A. Sent on 10/07/2022Amazing all around!
I loved working with Oakmill bakery for my wedding cake. Basia was so responsive and friendly! We had our cake tasting virtually since it was during peak covid and it was such an amazing experience. They worked with my inspo picture and the day of the wedding everyone was RAVING about the cake! Highly recommend!!! -
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Taylor R. Sent on 07/09/2022We recommend Oak Mill Bakery!
We worked with Oak Mill Bakery for our wedding cake, and from start to finish, it was a great experience!
For our original tasting, we met with Basia at their Arlington Heights location in March 2020. The appointment was fun and productive—we spent our time viewing their look-book of designs, discussing photos we brought in as examples of our vision, and, of course, tasting several combinations of cake and frosting. They kindly served us water and tea alongside our samples. At the end, we elected to go with a 3-tiered vanilla cake with vanilla custard filling and cascading flowers.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we pushed our event all the way to 2022, which Basia was able to accommodate. The day of our wedding, the cake looked absolutely beautiful! I was in awe when I saw it for the first time walking into our reception hall, and I had to take a moment before cake cutting simply to admire it! It was delicious, and we received many compliments from our guests following the event.
We’ve visited Oak Mill on separate occasions simply to try their other desserts. Likewise, everything we’ve purchased—small cakes, tarts, cookies, and other confections—are sweet, tasty, and fresh.
We recommend Oak Mill for your wedding cake and other sweet treat needs! -
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Shamus T. Sent on 04/14/2022Cake You Will Remember
Oak Mill Bakery has a number of beautiful wedding cakes on display at their bakery in Arlington Heights, and we started working with Bill there. The first step was to arrange a tasting. We had two of our close friends join us for a cake tasting. For an hour, we leafed through books of cake designs, and tasted various cakes and frostings. At the end we had decided on our cake design, and flavors. It was a very enjoyable experience. We ordered the cake, and provided our own topper before the wedding. The cake was absolutely beautiful, and tasted delicious. I receive numerous compliments from guests about the cake. It looked, and tasted wonderful. I recommend Oak Mill Bakery without any hesitation. -
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Joanna Sent on 12/04/2021Very easy going
You NEED to have their almond bread and chocolate fudge!!!! All my guests loved our cake. For my cake topper I gave them what I wanted and what I had in mind and they definitely understood the assignment! This was included with my venue so I have no clue what the price was. -
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Erika F. Sent on 10/05/2021Guests said it was the best wedding cake they've ever had
So glad we chose to go with Oak Mill Bakery for our wedding cake! Basia was so professional and helpful during our tasting and leading up to the wedding. They nailed the design we wanted and our guests were raving about how good the cake was! -
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Janae N. Sent on 01/15/2022Best gf cake ever!
It was very important to me to have a gluten-free wedding cake, as many members of my family have Celiac disease. BEST DECISION. Everyone I told the cake was gluten-free was shocked!! It tasted AMAZING!! So many compliments from our guests. 10/10 recommend. -
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Anna T. Sent on 06/27/202110/10 would recommend
Oak Mill Bakery did a wonderful job with our wedding cake. They work closely with our venue, Alpine Banquets, to ensure that everything went smoothly with the wedding cake. Alpine Banquets coordinated with the bakery all of the details of the delivery and the guest list. The only thing we needed to do was schedule a tasting appointment, and then TASTE the cake. It was fantastic. This venue could be used in the city, but also in the suburbs. -
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Shannon K. Sent on 09/04/2019No worries
The cake tasting was done 5 months ahead of time and was a fun experience. They don’t create every flavor combo imaginable (which makes sense) but they have a little bit of everything. It up to you to create your own bite. A little confusing at first but once you get the hang of it it’s fun and you do understand exactly how your flavors will taste.
My cake arrived on time and looked exactly how I envisioned. Oak mill worked directly with my venue so after choosing my cake I didn’t have anything additional to do. It was a seamless experience and my cake was SOO good. I had lemon cake w a raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream - very moist and lemony.
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Steven T. Sent on 09/30/2019Yumz in da Tumz
You'll want your cake from here! It was such an easy and enjoyable experience doing our cake tasting and the end result was incredible. Our cake looked absolutely beautiful and tasted absolutely amazing as well. By the end of the night it was all gone our guests loved it so much. I can't recommend this place enough! Just a great experience all around. -
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Amanda J. Sent on 09/11/2019Best Bakery in Chicagoland area!
Oak Mill Bakery did an amazing job on our wedding cake on 08/11/19!!! The cake was very fresh and delicious. Most importantly there was plenty of cake for all of my 150 guests and we saved the top layer to eat on our 1 month anniversary (Oak Mill Bakery can make a fresh top layer cake for your 1 year anniversary). We ordered a 5 layer vanilla and chocolate cake with raspberry and custard filling. Oak Mill Bakery delivered our wedding cake on-time at our reception in Lake Forest and assembled it beautifully. We also ordered 10" assorted pastry sweet trays on each guest table instead of doing a traditional sweet table. The sweets were a big hit with all of our guests and the Roshky were my personal favorite! Oak Mill Bakery staff was very knowledgeable with designing the cake and creating a cake exactly how I wanted. They also had a free cake tasting before ordering your wedding cake. I would highly recommend Oak Mill Bakery for your wedding; you will not be disappointed! -
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Dave Sent on 09/18/2019Wedding Cake, Pie, Cookies, all amazing!
Working with Basia and the Oak Mill Bakery was so easy and turned out to be a great call. Everyone loved the pies and assorted cookies we got, in addition to our cake! Basia organized a tasting for us and my wife's parents to try all sorts of cakes and fillings. Within an hour we made our choices on everything and were on our way. It was great having it be such a simple and DELICIOUS process. Thank you Basia! -
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Emily Sent on 07/02/2019Beautiful and Delicious
I got married at The Glen Club and Oak Mill Bakery was one of two bakeries that were included in the wedding package. My husband and I have had many desserts and cakes from Oak Mill Bakery before so we were thrilled. Basia was so helpful and easy to work with during our cake tasting. She was very knowledgable and let us try many different combinations until we picked our favorites. I had a vision for what I wanted my cake to look like and they made it happen exactly as I wanted it! It was a simple design and a delicious cake... we can't wait to eat it again in a year. -
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Jennifer Sent on 08/06/2019Delicious and prompt
Our wedding cake was beautiful and delicious. They also gave me free upgrades they surprised me with on my wedding day! -
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Paula Sent on 04/08/2019Affordable, tasty, and beautiful cakes.
We got a great deal because Oak Mill works with our venue Royalty West Banquets. We got a delicious red velvet cake and it was a gorgeous cake. -
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Nicholas Sent on 01/05/2019
Delicious cake
The cake was fantastic. The taste was so good and the design was perfect! -
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Sarah Sent on 10/10/2018When I initially found out that a wedding cake was included with our venue package I was a bit concerned. I assumed the cake would be your typical "meh" wedding cake with barely any options. I was very pleasantly surprised by my experience with Oak Mill Bakery, and my confidence grew as more and more brides I spoke to told me they had gotten their wedding cakes there.
Basia was so friendly, and we were able to taste all of the combinations in which we were interested. We ended up going with a lemon cake with lemon curd filling and buttercream frosting. It was delicious, though I will say I was a bit disappointed with some of the other flavors I had wanted (red velvet and almond, specifically.) However, I was pleased with the variety of options included in my package, as well as the upgrade availabilities.
The cake was GORGEOUS, especially when combined with the decor of my florist. The only complaint we received from the guests was that the wait staff cut the pieces too small! The cake top only lasted a few days before my husband and I devoured it, there was no way that thing was lasting a year. ;) -
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Stephanie Sent on 07/12/2018Loved our cake! It was beautiful and tasted yummy! -
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Anna Sent on 10/05/2017We didn't work directly with Oak Mill (our venue package included a cake from here) but they were nice and responsive. They had the design we wanted and our cake actually tasted better than what we tried during the tasting. We did almond cake with fudge filling - so good! Very pleased with how it turned out. -
