Bread Basket Cake Company

Pros: Very tastey cake. One of the best I've ever had. Matched what I wanted on my cake; however my cake was for 14 people and a design I picked out of their display case. $45 for a 9" cake (not bad...Remember I said it was one of the best I ever had).Cons: Things don't run smooth behind the counter. It looks like they had teenagers running the place with no suppervision. At one point I had to change the size of my cake and they lost my order. I had already paid for my cake and they had no record of it. An hour later, one of the older teenagers found the purchase slip and oder form (thank God!). The workers their don't seem to know how to handle their customers (either they don't care or don't understand what customer service is). Last but not least, they are able to dealiver a cake 4 hrs away to San Diego but they couldn't drive 3 hrs to San Luis Obispo because it was too far??? My wedding was beautiful but small and simple. I had about 5 weeks to plan it by myself and if I had more time I would have went somewhere else.

All I can say is that I asked my now wife why we had to wait a hole year to eat the rest of the cake. Our guests went for 2nd's. That's right 2nd's on wedding cake.

I booked my cake two weeks before my wedding. Yes its expensive, but best tasting cake ever! The delivery girl dropped off the cake an hour earlier than scheduled, but that's okay-better than late!

Cake was beautiful, fondant was to thick and hard.

Bread Basket makes delicious cakes! My only complaint is that they are VERY EXPENSIVE. My cake was very pretty; however, the color of the teal frosting I asked for was so dark that it almost looked black. That's okay though! Everyone really liked my cake and it tasted great.

My wedding cake was delivered with seams exposed on all 4 tiers and cracks on 2 of the 4 tiers. When looking at a side profile, you could see lumps and just looked awful, which in the pictures on their website or when you go into the store, have none. The cake was dry and tasted nothing like the cake we were given to taste. The girl that dropped the cake off, simply dropped it off and took off. When the day of coordinator saw the cake, she immediately called the emergency number that was given to me when I ordered the cake and the line had been disconnected. The store was closed as my wedding was on a Sunday. My maid of honor and day of coordinator took pictures of the damaged cake and then had to put flowers on the cracks to hide them from the guest and me the bride. The maid of honor (paid for my cake) and when she returned the cake pedestals, she asked to speak to the owner, but they were not in. She asked for a manager and they weren't there either. She dropped of the pedestals and the pictures of the damaged cake. When she finally was able to speak to the manager, they didn't care how the cake was delivered and said we caused the cracks by putting flowers on the cake. First off, we weren’t even suppose to have flowers on the cake and secondly, since when is the customer wrong???? We were told we would only received $50 for our compensation. $50.00???? REALLY????? The cake was almost $800.00. They said they took photos of the cake when they dropped it off. We asked to see the photos and they said no, that wasn’t going to happen. So basically, they know the cake was broken, damaged, looked awful but instead of telling the coordinator, they just dropped it off and ran taking NO responsibility for their mistake or business!!!!! We have had to hound them about the deposit and compensation, which we still have not received. BRIDES….. hope this doesn’t happen to you!!!!

Not a fan:

I called there today to book an appt for my wedding cake and I was told very curtly that I was trying to book too early? Really booking too early for a wedding when most things book out a year in advance.

My first contact with them was via e-mail and I received a curt message from Linda telling me to call the bakery. When I called to talk to Linda not even a minute after I received that e-mail, I was told by one of the workers to call back once I hit my 6mos mark and they hung up.... What the heck? I will certainly be crossing the Bread Basket off of the list alright. What horrible customer service.

I had the good fortune of having 5-star vendors for my entire wedding... everyone made everything perfect.

However, I had the worst experience ever with the Bread Basket. When we showed up for our cake tasting appointment, they kept us waiting for 45 minutes, and finally tossed 2 slices of cake our way. After tasting them, no one took the time to help us design our cake. We left upset and determined to find a more hospitable baker. After tasting other surrounding bakeries, we decided the Bread Basket had the best tasting cake, by far! So we went back and ordered our simple little wedding cake from them. I say simple because it was 2 tiers, white fondant, with white pearls cascading.... what we got was a 2-tier cake with white fondant, and green pearls at the base. After countless calls to the bakery to confirm our order - they still messed it up!

Further, they arrived 2 hours late. I'm told by my wedding planner AND florist that this bakery is consistently late to weddings... they just don't care about the customer's needs.

With that being said, if you book your cake's delivery time 2 hours ahead of schedule, your cake should arrive in time for your reception. As for the design being incorrect, well, this was a great way to start practicing patience in my marriage. It wasn't worth crying over, especially because my guests all crooned over the fantastic taste!

To go with this bakery for your wedding, you need to decide what's important: if taste is priority, they will not disappoint. If good customer service is your objective, I'd recommend you stear clear of this bakery at all costs!

I loved my cake from the Bread Basket and have been hearing nothing but great comments from my guests as well. Their red velevet tasted amazing!!

Our cake tasted amazing. We had a four tier cake with alternating flavors. Originally we thought we were going to get butter cream frosting, but later they said that they couldn't do it for structural reasons. It was a big cake. The only hiccup was we had requested fresh fruit on the top of the cake, but it did not make it on there. Our florist came in and made it pop, but the cake didn't really need it. It looked great. We can't wait for our anniversary to get some more of their cake.

We stumbled upon the Bread Basket Cake Company when my cousin got married a few years ago. I never forgot how good his cake was. After having a little bit of cake drama of my own, I decided last minute to go with the Bread Basket for my wedding cake. Their classic fruit basket white cake with buttercream frosting was delicious! They even added a white chocolate shell to the outside the cake which made it even better than it already was! Guests at my wedding were raving aobut the cake and were asking for seconds! What they couldn't believe was how good the cake was for the price! I would definitely recommend them if you are on a budget and want a beautiful and tasty cake for your wedding. We can't wait for our one year anniversary so we can dig into our own little cake again!

All I can say is YUM!!!! You have to go there and test the cakes. They're to die for! We got a mixture of the "fruit basket" (white cake with FRESH berries) and chocolate cream with fudge swirl. White fondant on the outside. We gave them a picture of the design we wanted and it came out perfect!!! It was our perfect wedding cake!

The cake was wonderful. I was very greatfull for my wedding planner because from the little I saw of all the details it seems their customer service was kind of hit and miss. But again:The cake was wonderful.

I got my wedding cake from them back in February. I was of course delighted with my cake. They were very helpful, they gave me exactly what I wanted and I got a really good price. The reason I chose them was because of their reputation for amazing cake. My mom and I went to the tasting and they were VERY nice. They brought us 4 or 5 giant slices of cake to try - which meant i got to take them home for my dad and brother to try too - and all of them were over the top good. I am not a cake person but you can taste the quality in their cakes. I canceled my other tasting appointments it was THAT good. SO SO SO good. I would not have used ANYONE else!! Bread basket all the way baby!

The cake tasting was a bit of a non-personal assembly line. This was not an important area for us. We ordered blueberry and strawberry filling and the cake had rasberry filling. However, the cake tasted great. You have to return the cake pillars or there is $100 fee so make sure you get them back at the end of the night. We had 140 guests and they charge you by the piece. We ordered for 115 guests and the amount was perfect and we had the topper left.

What a great find! We recently were at a friend's wedding and they had a cake that was so beautiful and when they served it, it was equally wonderful.

After hours of research online and a visit to Hanson's Bakery on Ventura (where we were not offered a beverage or a fork or labeled versions of the cake slices), I found Bread Basket Bakery in Camarillo. If you are having a wedding near Malibu, this is the best cake around. The Berry Basket cake has a whipped cream filling and fresh strawberries, blackberries, blueberries and raspberries. We ordered the white Berry Basket cake with white chocolate fondant. We supplied them with a picture of a Martha Stewart cake with fern and other items and they were able to copy it and actually make it look better than the original. The cake looked beautiful and people are still raving about how delicious it was! Note: Bread Basket also offers a small version of the same kind of cake (free) for your first anniversary!

The best cake I have ever had! Reasonably priced, with beautiful results! Everyone thought it was beautiful- which it was!

The cake was amazing, but they didnt put a monogram on it that i paid for. i didnt worry about it tho, cause they made up for it after and the cake still looked absolutely amazing. everyone commented on how amazing the cake looked

This was the best wedding cake ever!Beautiful, super professional, and built it from two photos that we wanted blended to make the exact cake we wanted.The only issue was that we told them that we had a certain number of people, and they should have told us to order 60-80% of our total guests. We didn't know that not everyone eats cake and ended up with about $500 of uneaten cake.So we are still eating it, and it's still amazing, but the courtesy of a lower price point due to a better estimation as a courtesy thought when we were ordering would have been appreciated!Overall: Love it!

Our cake not only looked amazing, but it tasted fabulous as well. Our guests still rave about the cake. One of the best things about the Bread Basket is that you don't have to save your top layer because they will make it for you at your one year anniversary free of charge.

They were very easy to work with. My husband and I couldn't decide what type of cake to get so we did two. We used the fruti basket (white cake with fresh fruit for the filling) for our wedding day, and lemon cake with lemon filling for the rehearsal dinner. Everyone loved both cakes. We will use this bakery for all speical occasions.

I loved my wedding cake. Although I didn't really get to eat it until a day later - Thanks Mom for saving some for us..

Really Bread Basket needs no advertisment. The cakes are amazing for any reason. My wedding cake was beautiful, exactly as I ordered it, and delivered on time.

Ordering was easy and they had a ton of photos to help us choose our design. Bread Basket does custom designs as well including the Tiffany Box used for my wedding shower cake.

Enjoy the tasting. It tooks us three days to eat all the cake them gave us to try.
The price is worth the yummy factor. Bread basket is not inexpensive but they are consistently amazing. You and your guests will be glad you chose them.

Great all around!

The cake was delicious and delivered on time, however it was kind of pricey. They worked with us to make it the way we had envisioned it.

Cake looked amazing, and I am told it tasted delicious! In wedding craziness, I missed out on a piece :( Tastings I had previously were sooooo good (2 layers white cake with chocolate mousse and rasberry puree, 1 layer chocolate cake with fresh rasberries and rasberry creme). It was beautiful, I can fully vouch for that! Plus they delievered to Santa Barbara from Camarillo (super helpful)Grade: A

We tried to explain to the employees at The Bread Basket that we were planning our California wedding from Florida and would not be in town until three days before the wedding. We were told we would not be able to schedule a tasting that close to the wedding. We said fine, could we schedule a tasting around Christmas-time, when we would be visiting my fiance's relatives? We were told no, because they would be very busy, but we could pay $5 per flavor if we wanted to come in and sample flavors at that time. Really? $5 per flavor? When we are plunking down over $800, they begrudged us what, like $20 to try out 4 different flavors? So we said forget it, how about if we have my fiance's mother, who lives in California, come in and do the tasting for us closer to the wedding. They said no, tastings can only be done for the bride and groom. At this point, we gave up.While we were completely appalled and thoroughly disgusted with the inflexibility and generally obnoxious business practices of the Bread Basket, we chose to go with them because my fiance's mother vouched for the quality of their cakes. To their credit, the cake looked absolutely beautiful, and while the flavor was not what I would have chosen had I been given the opportunity to actually choose a flavor, it wasn't bad.I wouldn't recommend Bread Basket for wedding cakes. As wedding vendors, they don't really have it together. But for birthday cakes or anniversary cakes, they are perfectly adequate.

If you know bread basket, you know they have the best cakes ever! Particularly with their signature fruit filling. Yum! Plus, you get a free 6 inch cake on your 1 year anniversary!

Our cake was very beautiful and tasted even better than it looked. All of our guests love it!.My only complaint is that they keep $100.00 deposit for a $10 cake plate that you have to return. Our venue lost one of the cake plates, so I didn't get the entire deposit back.

We have a BB in our hometown, and the cake was AMAZING!!!! We had tons left and by the time we came back from our honeymoon, the cake was still good!!! You can create and design your own, and no two will be alike! They went over and beyond what they were suspose to do!

Everyone loved our cake! The bread basket created an amazing looking cake (that looked just like the picture I brought in) that tasted amazing. They were very easy to work with.

The cake was fantastic! It was such a beautiful cake that everyone thought it was fake. Everyone couldn't have enough! We had one layer of the raspberry chocolate mouse and two layers of the fruit basket. We really recommend this place for any occasion.

The Bread Basket Bakery in Camarillo is notorious for their delicious cakes for a reason: their cakes are delicious!!! Our cake was as beautiful as it was tasty, and was definitely a hit with our guests. I highly recommend the "fruit basket" filling, which is fresh berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries) mixed with french whipped cream, sandwiched betweeen two layers of moist cake. Mmmmm... Didn't have any problems ordering, changing my order, or having the cake delivered and set up. All in all, a good experience, and a great cake. They are a bit pricier than other cake bakeries in the area, but the quality really comes through their work.

My guest are still talking about how wonderful the cake was!I think that says it all :)

The Bread Basket, did a wonderful job, we got nothing but compliments. We brought in a picture and they recreated it to perfection. They were the only bakery to provide four full size pieces of cake when were sampling so we could share w/family at home. They treated us very well.

When I went to Bread Basket for a tasting, they brought out 4 huge slices of cake. I loved the fresh berries, but the cake itself was just okay to me (a little on the dry side). The woman who helped said that they only do fondant or a "chocolate wrap" on wedding cakes, so if you want buttercream (like me), it's not a good option.

They were great. They are the most recomended cake place in town. I had no doubt they would come through and the gake was beautiful and tasted great.

AMAZING!! I am not a cake lover, but after my tasting with them I was changed! Not the cheapest cake, but certainly the best! not only did it taste wonderful, but it looked perfect. I STILL have people tell me how beautiful it was and how yummy it tasted!

Bread Basket did a fantastic job on our cake! It was beautiful and delicious! We received many compliments; including it was the best wedding cake many of the guests ever tasted. We were able to make changes to the size and colors up to a week before the wedding. The cake was delivered and set up on time at our venue. This is my only warning: A friend of mine also had her wedding cake done by Bread Basket. She cautioned me to make sure I got their promises in writing; specifically the guaranteed one-layer replica of our cake for our first anniversary. My friend’s experience was difficult until she threatened to write an article in the local paper. Bread Basket did eventully make good on their promise and provide her the one-layer cake to look like the top layer of her original cake for her first anniversary. I did get the promise in writing; including the need to bring in a picture of the wedding cake one week before our anniversary. Following our wedding I wanted to just confirm that there would be no issue so, when I went in to return the pillars and plates to get my deposit back, I asked the question. I was told at that time that they would not honor any promise to duplicate one layer of the cake. That instead, they would provide a pre-made “Special Anniversary Cake” that would look nothing like our original cake. Well, I do have it in writing so I expect them to fulfill their promise when the time comes.

I booked them too. They are terrific. cakes are great and the help was wonderful. I am having their berry cake. Yum. Worth going to Camarillo.

The cake was PERFECT! It was so good we couldn't keep guests away from it. I would recommend them to anyone. It was fresh and soooooo delicious! It was like heaven in your mouth. Worth every penny!!

I use Bread Basket for all my events, so it was an obvious choice to use them for my wedding cake! I hate to admit it, but as usual, the cake stole the show. Bread Basket cakes demand attention and come out flawless every time. I had complete trust in them to create a masterpiece.In regards to a previous review: if the couple had read their agreement correctly, they would clearly understand the "Free Anniversary Cake" agreement. It states in black and white that the Bread Basket does not offer you a replica of your wedding cake, but a beautiful, standard 6" cake. As I have stated before, I am a frequent Bread Basket customer and I know for a fact, the free cake is valued at around $35, so I think it is a very good deal.

Best Cake Ever!!! my price was for 300 people-$1,000

Our cake received so many compliments! Not only was it gorgeous and exactly what we asked for, it was also DELICIOUS. I would recommend them to anyone! They were also were great about delivering the cake to our location.

Some of the best cake I've ever eaten in my life. We go back and get one every anniversary. A little on the expensive side, but totally worth it.

the most delicious cake I have ever tasted, and the choice was fantastic and they were really good value for money

I have worked several weddings with the Bread Basket... I love them. They are the only cake I eat!
Truly worth every cent!

Amazing wedding cakes, both in taste and appearance!