cake divas

Cake Divas are awesome! Seriously, they must use some secret ingredients because their cake is completely amazingly sweet and delicious, light, and sticky gooey at the same time, I don't know how they do it.. But they went the extra mile to also make a special sweet shop for us and the cake we envisioned within our budget. The cake was unbelievably beautiful and tasted even better than it looked if that's possible. Fun, professional, and personable. Thank you Cake Divas for taking such great care of us! :D

Cake Divas have some great vegan options and the cake was delicious BUT they really screwed up on the design. Their style is very clunky and I was hoping for something a lot prettier and more delicate. They actually lost our sketch and details but did make us some cupcakes to make up for that. Check out their portfolio online but don't think they can make anything with a different style other than what you see there. When I emailed them after the wedding to express my disappointment, they never got back to me.
Oh, they also didn't have a cake stand for a cake for 50 people so I had to buy my own because they "don't really keep stands in stock." What?? You are a wedding cake maker and you don't have many stands in stock? That made no sense to...

Cake was yummy! They accommodated our request to add Argentine dulce de leche to the chocolate cake, worked with us on pricing and delivered on time. Customer service was excellent, although, it was hard to get a hold of them at times.

Excellent! I met with a couple of cake makers and Joan stood way out! She drew the most amazing picture as we described what we wanted. It was fantastic, we could tell straight away how passionate she was and how dedicated she would be in making our idea a reality! She did a spectacular job! Highly recommended

AMAZING!!!! Our sweet potato cake with brown sugar frosting was PERFECT for our gorgeous fall 2010 wedding. It was a little hard to be in contact with them because they are in Culver City, but it was worth the drive to go out there! They really impressed our guests with a stunning 6 tiered cake! We had about 300 guests and EVERYONE is still talking about our awesome cake!!!

DELICIOUS cake and wonderful flavors. I basically sampled all the cake shops in Los Angeles, and you will get the most for your money here.

Alexis was amazing when we first met with her in our search for the perfect wedding cake. We went in not really knowing what we wanted and left with a sketch and idea of our perfect wedding cake. The tasting was amazing! They brought out trays of varities of cake flavors, fillings, and icings. They were all delicious (and I hate cake!!). I was very impressed that as we sat and looked through books and books of photos, Alexis was taking all of our comments into concideration and sketched out what turned out to be our ideal cake.
The day of the wedding, the cake was presented beautifully. It looked so much more amazing in person than I had anticipated. I was very impressed. It had a beautiful cascade of fresh flowers on the front that perfectly mirrored all of our bouquets and centerpieces for the wedding.
As for taste...it was fantastic! We ordered two different types (because they were all so delicious and we could not narrow it down to only one). The first type was lemon cake with fresh lemon curd and cream cheese. The second was dark chocolate cake with homemade whipped cream and a trio of fresh berries (raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries). Everything was great! I would surely use them again for any cake needed for a special occasion!

Our decision to hire Cake Divas came easily to us once we tasted their cakes. They start by having you come in for an hour and they give you choices of cake flavors and little cups of frosting flavors. Alexis guided us through the process, suggesting popular combinations, while at the same time creating a beautiful drawing of the ideas in our head. When she showed us the drawing, our jaws dropped. She is an amazing artist. Yes, we will definitely be saving her drawing for our scrapbook. But, the most important part is that the cake looked just like her drawing. She even coordinated with our florist to put several strands of pearls around the bottom of each of the four tiers of cake, as we asked. We chose the bavarian cream and lemon curd for two of the layers (with white cake) and coconut cream (with chocolate cake) for the other two layers. It was moist, yummy and most importantly, delivered professionally and on time to our reception venue. I recommend checking them out and asking for Alexis. Sometimes, she's hard to reach, but you'll hear back within a couple of days. It's worth the wait. We're looking forward to having them recreate our top tier on our first year anniversary...when we can actually have the time to sit down and enjoy a slice quietly.

They were friendly, professional.I can't say enough good things about the Wedding Cakes!They did exactly what I wanted and more. I was very happy with their service.

The cake from Cake Divas was gorgeous. It was exactly what I wanted. When I met with the consultant to choose a cake, she quickly drew a beautiful sketch of what I requested, which I have put in my scrap book. However, the cake itself (red velvet) was dry and not very tasty.

We picked Cake Divas mostly because of their reputation but also because of the taste of the cake. We met with them one time and in that one session they not only sketched our wedding cake but they also helped me come up with ideas for the grooms cake. I asked them to do a Bulldog that was wearing a Lakers Jersey(my husbands favorite NBA team) and eating a Steelers bone(my husbands favorite NFL team). That is exactly what they created and it came out wonderfully. I was honestly worried about the wedding cake design from the sketch that they gave me. I wanted them to duplicate the lace on my wedding gown on the cake. When I saw the cake for the first time it was amazing. They did such a wonderful job with the whole event. Next time I need a custom design cake I will definitely go back to them. I also have already recommended them to friends of ours that are getting married. Thank you Cake Divas for making my cake dreams come true.

I loved my wedding cake. I found a picture in my photographer's portfolio of a wedding cqke that I loved. I had him e-mail the picture and they actually made it even better.

The layers were abundant. All of the flavors were exotic combinations. We loved our cake tasting and worked closely with them to make an interesting wedding cake which everyone loved.

I had an incredibly great experience with Cake Divas! They were extremely professional, very flexible (read below,) and I was delivered my PERFECT cake - all thanks to Cake Divas. Here's a list of why I rate them so highly: 1. Taste - super YUMMY 2. They draw a colored picture of your vision on the spot (I'll be adding mine to the album) 3. Experience (I didn't want to worry about the cake or actually anything the day of my wedding...know what I mean?) 4. Flexibilty. Embarrassing to admit, but I changed the idea of my cake around 3-4 weeks before the wedding. Yes. I was that bride. Not only were they o.k. with the change, they actually said, "We want to give you your DREAM wedding cake. Of course we'll do it." 5. They DID give me my dream wedding cake. 6. Alexis was my contact. Sweet, smart, flexible, and the author of the above quote. See Alexis. 6. Alexis noticed that in the picture of my wedding cake, there was a vintage looking cake stand. Alexis tracked it down for me, and there it was, on the day of my wedding. It was great having one less thing to worry about. 6. They baked a mini top of the cake to give to my Mom, per my request. 7. You get a free mini duplicate of your cake on your one year anniversary if you supply them with a photo of your cake. Deal! 8. Quite simply. My cake was SO, SO pretty.
So, if you want a yummy, beautiful cake for your wedding look no further than Cake Divas. (Shoot me a message if you want to see a picture.)

Loved, loved, loved the cake! It was extremely beautiful... they designed it with my dress in mind and I almost cried too when I saw our logo on it! Amazing work!

My mom and I made an appointment for a consultation at Cake Divas. Our consultant was very nice and helpful during the tasting. When she estimated the total cost of the wedding cake she said that they will work with us to accomodate our budget. I gave her our budget for the cake and she went to ask her boss, Leigh. Leigh came out and spoke to my mom in such a rude and offensive manner. Instead of offering a polite explanation and trying to work with our budget, she told us that if she knew our budget beforehand she wouldn't of gone through the consultation and waste anyone's time. She also said they were a high end bakery and that they don't do cakes that were below $8 per person. She was so rude that even our consultant felt embarrassed of her behavior.

I had to write this review because I felt that Leigh disrepected us as potential clients and my mom was furious with her attitude.

After seeing the movie Because I Said So, I fell in love with Diane Keaton's birthday cake. It was so perfect! Without even tasting their cakes, I ordered a $200 baby shower cake for my best friend. The design was loosely based on some pictures off their website and Diane Keaton's birthday cake. I was nervous, ordering such an important and expensive cake from a bakery I had never tried before.
Needless to say, they did not disappoint. The cake was gorgeous and delicious. The top tier was red velvet, and the bottom tier was marble with a cookies & cream filling. Everyone had two slices of cake and kept raving about how great it was.
Highly recommend!!!

We had a pretty non-traditional cake. It tasted good and it was interesting so people took a lot of shots of it. My husband did not particularly care for it - he said he could have painted it himself which might be true. The craftmanship on it was much less then what I expected for something that was not cheap (at least not for us) given that they are famous with the Food Network segment and all that.

They were not always easy to get a hold of, and they gave me a bit of BS a few times trying to overcharge us, but in the end we came to an agreement, so there is some flexibility. Be firm, keep an eye on your timeline and do the math.

The tasting session was not glamorous but we were the only people there so we had their full attention, which was nice. Unfortunately the samples were a bit frozen so it took a while to get a sense of what we were tasting. If you are looking for an experience for you and your girls or your mother, this might not be as fancy as you imagine, but you will get a full sense of the flavors and will get a rather hefty box of samples to take home to your fiance or family.

I do recommend them, but DO KEEP A CLOSE eye on them and be VERY specific with what you want. Give them pictures, etc.

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One year update:

I just picked up my aniversary cake from Leigh and Joan, the Cake Divas. The cake looks beautiful and it smells amazing. Although I haven't had a chance to taste it yet, I am very much looking forward to. The size of the cake is also VERY generous.

We had a good conversation about the misunderstanding regarding the esthetics of the wedding cake and I think they did a fantastic job to both explain what happened and to understand my point of view. Lovely ladies and hardworking women!

I look forward to put this cake on our aniversary table!

Our cake was perfect. It was a vanilla three deck cake with a cherry filling. Too good to describe. Everything went well and they charged us a good amount. It was very beautiful too. We strongly recommend you get your next cake from Cake Divas.

The cake looked beautiful. They are fabulous designers. I am told it tasted delicious, too -- I was too busy to taste it. However, the great thing about Cake Divas is that they replicate the top of your cake and give it to you for your first anniversary.

The Cake Divas love their work and want to make sure that you have the perfect wedding cake. They also include a fresh top tier for your 1 year anniversary so you don't have to freeze your cake if you don't want to. And -- their German chocolate filling is the BEST I have ever had.

our cake and cupcakes from cake divas were SO moist and delicious. I'm sad that we couldn't eat more of our cake at our wedding!

We had Cake Divas do a cupcake cake for our wedding. I approached Cake Divas in about July 2008, and they were able to do the cake for our September 2008 wedding. We decided to have a tower of false (foam) tiers with cupcakes resting on top of them, and a small cake for us to cut. (We saw the idea in their portfolio.) We met with a designer and tasted a bunch of cake and opted to do four flavors of cupcakes. The aesthetic of the design was taken from our wedding invitations which featured a creeping vine border and a flourished monogram. The translation from invitation to cake wasn't quite what I expected, but it was still pretty. And - most importantly - the cupcakes tasted good! One interesting thing to note is that they promise to re-bake a small cake for your 1st anniversary if you provide them with a photograph of their final design from your event. (We'll have to see if this works out for us!) The price was average, which seemed high to me, but by the time I was getting around to hiring a baker, money had more or less lost meaning.

Our cake was amazing! We had 4 tiers, square and a bit off center.
We had chocolate, red velvet, and top layer was carrot. They decorated with dots and hydrangeas. I was very happy with it and got loads of compliments.

Our cake was a GORGEOUS, TASTY 6-tier masterpiece. Our guests are still talking about how beautiful our cake was and how delicious it tasted. Thank you Cake Divas!!!

The cake designer from Cake Divas really captured the idea what we wanted for our wedding. The choices of cakes are great, you can also have different cakes for different layers. I highly recommend people to get professionally designed cake from them. Just remember, appointment required, it is not a regular bakery that you can just walk in.

LOVE THEM!! How many times have you ever gone to a wedding and thought or heard people say, that was a delicious cake? Most wedding cakes are pretty to look at, but leave much to be desired in the taste department. These women really impressed us. We are red-velvet cake snobs and knew we had to have one for our wedding. We shopped around for this wedding cake to the point of almost giving up when our wedding consultant recommended the Cake Divas. They laughed at us when we told them what we were going through, then they brought out several other options as well as the red-velvet to try...We were sold. We are still getting compliments on our wedding cake.

They are amazing artists! I had a vision in my mind and only 1 "sort of" sample photo with me when I went for our first meeting. I was a little aprehensive about the front door area of their location, but I walked in and had their undivided attention. I looked through their books, and within minutes of speaking with them and looking at the photos (commenting on what I liked and did not like)...there was a drawing put in front of me that was as if she photographed what was inside my mind! I was speechless. The cake turned out perfectly!! Just as the picture, a huge 5 tier masterpiece. It also tasted amazing! On our anniversary, they already had the information for my wedding, I just gave them my name and location to have them look it up. We revieved a very generous cake topper for free. Yum Yum!!

While everything else about my wedding was not perfect, the cake did meet my expectations. It turned out almost exactly like what I saw and sent to her. I highly recommend them as they made a wonderful, beautiful, and tasty cake.

I highly recommend Cake Divas as their staff was very professional and was able to fulfill our requests of what we wanted our cake to be like. They also catered to our desire to have a tall cake even though it was beyond our budget. It was a delicious and beautiful cake.

cake divas is one of the best in L.A. and our cake was awesome. we designed our cake and they made it exactly how we wanted it and most importantly it was delish!

Mouth-watering, gorgeous cakes!

The best tasting cake we tried in Los Angeles, seriously.

They were also very helpful in creating my dream cake that other wedding-cake suppliers said could not be done. I was truly impressed.

They were awesome my cake was perfect and beautiful. it also was delicious.

The best cake ever! Not only was it perfect looking, it tasted amazing! They can do ANYTHING! They did Ashton and Demi's wedding cake... Mine had beautiful layers (one had wedding vows and our names on it!), and underneath was red velvet, sweet potato with brown sugar filling, and coconut with banana filling cake! For my new husband (a hunter) they made his groom's cake to look like an elk head... I know.. real classy! But, it was the hit of the wedding and the chocolate fudge cake underneath was hard to resist. They also made sugar cookies in the shape of a wedding cake with our monogram for each guest... they were incredible!!!

The cake looked pretty, and tasted even better! Even if you don't decide to use them as your bakery, go do a tasting with them! Their cakes are all declicious! Our wedding was on the hottest day of the year, and it still looked beautiful!

Amazing! I will start by saying that the entire bakery smells incredible from the moment you step through the door. My family doesn't like cakes and my husband wasn't a cake fan before the wedding, but EVERYONE loved all of the cakes in the sampler. My husband described our wedding cake as slices of heaven. Working with Cake Divas was an easy experience. They were incredibly receptive to really any idea I had and provided helpful and creative advice to supplement what I wanted to start. Regardless if you want a simple cake like mine or a more elaborate one, this place can do it all. They aren't inexpensive, but the product is worth every dollar. The cake was already included in our caterer's minimum so the price wasn't a big deal, but if you want an incredible cake and need something cheaper--King's Hawaiian Bakery in Torrance.

They were amazing! Very professional but super fun in helping to plan our wedding cake. the cake was so delicious. Even after a year, my friends still rave about our wedding cake!

Great cake poor delivery. We had a cupcake made to feed 30 people. The cake showed up 2 hours after we started eating our 1st course so we have no professional photographs of the cake. It took 5 calls from the Matre'd, and 2 calls from our photographer before the cake showed up. When it did show up they were short 10 cupcakes. They also did not fill them correctly either.

The cake is delicious. If you use them pick the cake up yourself!!!

The cake was wonderful and they were open to design that I wanted. overall, it was great.

cake was beautiful, delicious and exactly what we wanted. had to change our venue at the last moment and cake divas worked with our constraints wonderfully. very professional...highly recommend.

Amazingly creative cakes. Open to organic and eco-friendly. Great service.

I love these ladies. When you take a crying Quinceanera girl on a 2 hour drive to find the best cake you really make her life when she meets the Cake Divas... who could ask for more.. .their lemon on lemon cake or their oreo filling wow! Need I say more!

Get the Vanilla Cake with Passion Fruit its to die for! These women are truly magical with their cakes, they are amazing