Creative cakes By Donna

Look at the website before you visit - some options are included in the package (like fresh flowers for the topper) that were not mentioned during my visit. Cake was delicious!

We had heard that Donna was good but we had no idea she was this amazing! Our guests couldn't belive the cake was real; it was so perfect & beautiful! Donna coordinated beautifuly with our wedding flowers to accent our cake. The chocolate mousse chambord was delicious & the fondant was definitely worth the extra money. I think we might have been the first couple to ask her for a top tier of "funfetti" cake, but she did it & we can't wait to try it on our one year anniversary!!

We had a choice of 3 bakeries to go with that our venue provided, after reading past reviews and talking with colleagues I decided to go with Creative Cakes by Donna. I was greeted by one of Donna’s staff and we went right in to the tasting. Donna and her team really helped us as soon as we walked in, we had one thought of how we would like the cake to look and once we were explained the difference in shapes and styles of the cake we choose a 3 tier round cake in their “Signature" Cake, that is filled with Chocolate Chambord Mousse layered with Fresh Raspberries. It tasted so amazing, and looked classic and timeless. I am very happy with my choice and would recommend Creative Cakes by Donna to friends and family for their own special occasion cake.

Couldn't be happier with our wedding cake. Not only was it beautiful to look at and exactly what we wanted, but it was DELICIOUS too! Donna is very friendly and pleasant to work with. Cake was excellent! My only regret is the massive power outages that followed our wedding because of the New England hurricane Irene, so we weren't able to save the top for our anniversary :(

We loved our cake by Creative Cakes by Donna. She amazed us with the detail in our wedding cake and was very nice to work with.

I LOVED my wedding cake. We did not do a traditional wedding cake - our theme was bright happy colors and she delieverd! It was neon green, blue, and pink with gerbera daisies flying off the cake with wire. It was delicious too! Love the fondant!

The cake tasted amazing! We submitted our own design and cake topper. She worked with our florist, all behind the scenes to put real flowers on the cake. It was beautiful!

My husband and I didn't really know what we wanted. When we went for our tasting, everything was delicious! She helped us make a decision, made a beautiful design with what little help we gave her and delivered us the perfect cake we didn't even know we wanted!

Donna was amazing. We went for our cake testing super early because my husband was really excited about it :) She brought out amazing things to try event her fondant was amazing!!! The cake she gave up was gorgeous. We kind of prepped her with photos and talked about some ideas we had then told her "work your magic". She sure did!! Everyone at the Wedding commented on how great the cake looked and tasted! We would recommend the chocolate raspberry chambord!!!!!

The best wedding cake ever! Donna gives you personal attention always. Look no further.

The cake tasted amazing and looked beautiful!!!!

Donna and her team did an wonderful job with our wedding cake. It looked and tasted amazing!

We did cupcakes for our wedding and Donna was so accommodating. I gave her very vague guidelines on what I wanted since I wasn't completely sure myself. She was very realistic and up front about cost and feasibility of my ideas. I basically just gave her my dress swatches and left it in her hands and she completely delivered! The cupcake tower was gorgeous and she created the most beautiful blend of fall colors and flowers which fit in with my theme perfectly. Not to mention, they were delicious!!

Donna's cakes are great. Fabulous tasting, very moist and such a great variety of cake to choose from. I would recommend Donna's cakes for all occasions.

Our cake was the finishing touch to our wedding! It was beautiful and tasted amazing!! Everyone was so pleasant to work with and had such great ideas. The hardest part was choosing from all their amazing flavors and combinations. We were absolutely thrilled with the spice cake with a cream cheese frosting. Our guests loved everything about it! We can’t wait for our one year anniversary so we can enjoy it again!

Not only was our wedding cake beautiful, but it was delicious. Donna and her staff were wonderful to work with.

My wedding cake looked and tasted absolutely amazing!!! Highly recommended

We could not have picked a better place to make our wedding cake! The cake tasting was amazing - everything was so delicious and Donna was absolutely fantastic. She created the perfect wedding cake. Everyone loved it and raved about it! Thanks so much Donna!

Amazing cake! My husband and I had a blast meeting with her to pick out the cake and could not have been happier with the final product. Was a perfect fit with our theme and design and the cake itself could not have been more tasty! Our guests are still raving about it and a few even said they stole other's slices while they were upi dancing.......it was a HUGE hit!! A wedding cake that definately got eaten!

The cake was so beautiful. Donna has so many choices!

My cake was EXACTLY what I wanted- I had given Donna a picture from a magazine at our meeting and my cake looked PERFECT!

Ms Donna was absolutely fabulous!!...planning a wedding from soooo many miles away was no easy feat....but She made it effortless....not only was our cake absolutely fabulous but Ms. Donna delivered the cutest "Broom" cake...lol. Donna was wonderful and I would definetly recommend her services to any and everyone!!

We loved Cakes by Donna, the cake was delicious, we got lots of compliments about it and it could not have been more beautiful. I highly recommend Donna.

Donna and her crew did a wonderful job on our cakes! My wedding cake was absolutely stunning and the groom's cake was an awesome drum set with tremendous detail. Most importantly, both cakes were DELICIOUS! Guests are still talking about how much they loved them a month later!

Absolutely beautiful and delicious!!!

Beautiful work

The wedding cake was included in my package with the reception hall. They were easy to work with and made my beautiful wedding cake even better then I had imagined it! I definitley recommend them!

Being able to view other cakes on-line was very helpful. My daughter LOVED how her cake looked. This was the best wedding cake I have ever tasted. We went with the strawberry shortcake....AWESOME. Donna and her staff are wonderful.

I was in love with my cake! I never had to take the 1.5 hr drive and was able to do everything over the phone. Donna sculpted exactly what I envisioned and god did it taste good (even the parts on my face)!

I think the customer service Donna and her staff provided were top notch. My husband and I went to have our tasting and we were treated so well and Donna helped us pick out a cake that was perfect for us. It can be very overwhelming with so many to choose from! The cake looked beautiful and tasted so good on our wedding day! I was thrilled with the whole process and the end result!

Absolutely fantastic! My guests -- many who are "foodies" -- said that it was the most delicious wedding cake they had ever tasted, and I happily agree! I enthusiastically recommend Donna's cakes to other brides, and I look forward to ordering a cake from her for a different occasion in the future!

OMG, when i got to see the cake..i was speechless, it was better then what i had seen and soooooo beautiful, she was able to get me the exact same flowers as i had asked and that meant sooo much to me, they took all the time for me and where very nice adorable people!! I would always recommend them!

Tons of options for cakes- very flavorful- the entire reception guests raved about the cake- chocolate with mint mousse!

There is a reason that the Riverhouse deals almost exclusively with Creative Cakes by Donna. The service ahead of time was great, and the cake was beautiful and delicious. We could not have asked for anything better.

I loved my wedding cake! Donna was very attentive and filled with great ideas for my wedding cake.We had a summer wedding, and our cake was a lemon cake with raspberry filling! We loved it. The lemon taste was very subtle and and it complemented the raspberry very well. It was not too sweet nor tart but a perfect balance. Thank you Donna.


julie

The most important factor for my husband and I was the flavor of the cake and boy, does Donna have some wonderful flavors to offer. We chose the Orange Grand Marnier cake with strawberry filling, it tasted like a creamsicle! And we had to have the fondant, it was delicious, it tasted like a marshmallow. Not only did the cake taste nyummy but the design was just perfect as well. We had a beautiful 3 layer cake, in a celadon color with white scroll design and beautiful cream colored roses which were spread down one side of the cake. Absolutely fabulous!
One very small inconvenience is that if you want, you may rent a cake stand from Donna but someone(you, your family or friends) will have to return it within 3 days after the wedding. Donna does not come back to the site to pick up the cake stand, but really no biggy!

Donna is the sweetest woman you will ever meet, and her cakes are AMAZING!! If you book at Saint Clements Castle, you get her cake for free. She has tons of different flavors. We went with the classic chocolate mousse and it was really delicious. All the guests were complimenting our cake.

Our cake was included in the package at our venue, so we didn't put much time into researching cake vendors. When we looked at Donna's website to see what was included in our package.. we were stunned! Her work was amazing! We had tasted her cakes at a bridal show and thought they were excellent, so we were really excited to pick out our cake. We ordered a square 3 tiered cake that was a combination of two designs online. Donna delivered! The cake was beautiful, covered in fresh flowers! The cake tasted amazing as well! I never eat the cake at weddings, and I ate my piece and another piece at home! You will not be dissapointed.

I really liked working with Donna and her staff. They were very nice and helped us to work within our budget. I would recommend bringing in pictures with you when you go in for your meeting as there are not a ton to look at. But you name it, she can make it. Another thing that I noticed was a little different from some of the other cake places was that there were not as many flavors to choose from but the flavors they have are amazing. I have been to weddings were the cake looks nice but doesn't taste very good and Donna's cake look and taste good!

The cake was exactly what we asked for and was delicious. Cakes by Donna was included in our package from the Hartford Club and we upgraded our cake.

Creative Cakes By Donna was very thorough in asking me exactly what kind of cake we wanted and what we wanted it to look like. They also offered samples of different cakes to try which was very helpful. They made our cake exactly the way we wanted it and it was delicious.

Our cake was just wonderful, we spoke to one of Donna's wonderful employees and she helped us pick the most delicious cake. We chose the lemon cake with lemon mouse with raspberry filling. Wonderful.

David and Julie Buckmiller

We booked Donna off of a recommendation from close friends of ours who used her for their wedding. My husband and I had very differing ideas for what we wanted for a cake, I wanted more traditional he wanted more modern and funky. When we first met with Donna she could sense that we could not settle on one idea. She helped us come up with a cake of our dreams. We went with a 3 layer round cake. But the twist was we used light blue fondant not the typical white. It turned out amazing, with white scrolls on it and a flower topper.

Her cakes are also wonderful. I've eatten a lot of cake throughout my life and her cakes are so moist and favlorful. She has so many mousse selections too. I would recommend her for a major event or just a simple little birthday!

Donna is incredible. Although I was unsure on the style of cake I wanted her website has hundreds of photos of different styles of cakes and each layer of my cake was from a different style and it looked & tasted incredible. I also had a grooms cake made in the shape of a Red Sox baseball cap and it also looked and tasted great, too. If you are looking for an beautiful cake that tastes great too, don't hesitate to contact Donna.

Best Wedding Cakes in all of CT!

Our cake was included in our reception package and it was great! Cakes by Donna made just what we wanted, simple and delicious. Everyone that sees pictures of our wedding always asks where we got such a beautiful cake.

Donna was amazing! She was part of our St. Clements Castle package, and every vendor they recommended was sensational! From the very beginning, Donna was so kind and sweet, and patient! She always got back to me right away. I saw a picture of a cake I wanted on theknot.com, and emailed it to her, and she copied it perfectly! I WAS SHOCKED it was so perfect!!! And the inside- the moistest cake ever! I am a very picky cake eater, too- I mean, I like all cake, but really love amazing cake, and this cake could not have been more amazing. The buttercream frosting is phenomenal. Everything was unbelivable, and I would recommend her to anyone!!!

Greatest Cakes ever

It was perfect. Everyone is still tlak about it.

Delicious cake, BEAUTIFUL presentation, highly professional, and excellent customer service. HIGHLY recommended vendor for your wedding cake or favors.

Donna made the most amazingly beautiful cake for our wedding. We wanted something creative and non traditional, and described what we were looking for and when we saw the cake it was exactly what we wanted. We would up with a fondant frosting, which always tastes awful, but the way she made it layered with buttercream underneath, it was delicious! Truly a work of art, it was such a shame to cut it!

The most moist, tasty cake - never mind wedding cake - ANY CAKE - I've ever had. Chocolate Chambord with fresh raspberries was our choice - and their specialty. There is nothing worse than dry wedding cake, badly disguised with a slab of bulk-bought ice cream. Don't sleet on the cake choice - it's important! So many guests gushed about how good it was - and it was beautiful too. Fabulous job Donna! Thank you.

Wonderful cakes...everyone i know is so happy with their wedding cake from Donna.

Donna was absolutely amazing. She listened to exactly what I wanted and created the most beautiful and delicious cake I have ever tasted. I made an appointment with her and she had several cake samples ready for us to try. I highly recommend Creative cakes by Donna!

Most wedding cakes look pretty but don't taste so good. Donna's wedding cake tasted incredible and looked beautiful! She is a cake genius!

Absolutely delicious! Donna makes the best cakes in the area. We loved it so much I bought a smaller version of it for my husbands surprise BD party the following month.

Our cake was beautiful and tasted amazing

Delicious accommodating and provides imput for consideration.

My cake was perfect! It was exactly what I wanted and it was also really delicious. Donna was great. A cake from her was included with the package I booked at my venue, so I only paid for the flowers she used to decorate it.

Stopping by Donna's shop to choose our wedding cake was one of the least stressful parts of planning the wedding. We went early on a Saturday and were able to see cakes that were going out to weddings that day. It was great to look at the actual cake rather than a picture. Our guests raved about how delicious and light the cake was. I'm looking forward to our first anniversary to dig into that top tier that is saved in the freezer.

My cake was beautiful! a lot was included in our package with St Clements, but I upgraded to fondant and had a lot of design on it! I only paid an extra 460$ which wasnt bad because the cake was beautiful! It was hard to cut tho with our server set because the fondant was a bit thick but it tasted great!!!

Donna made an amazing cake for my black and green halloween themed wedding. She was really fun and easy to work with. When I told her my ideas she incorperated everything into it from 2 bobble heads, to a monogramed B and peacock feathers without it looking too jumbled.

Her cake was included into the price with my venue which was such an added bonus, and I know she does this with multiple venues, and took the hassle off of worrying about another payment. Everyone loved the cake and raved about how moist it was!

I loved my wedding cake! It was exactly as I described and Donna has true creative talent!

Cakes by Donna was able to create a dream wedding cake for us from a design we created ourselves. Even months after our wedding, our guests still comment on our cake and how beautiful and unique it was, but most of all, how delicious the cake actually was. She also designed one of my bridal shower cakes which was also a huge crowd favorite. I would not hesitate to recommend Cakes by Donna to anyone.

Loved my cake, it's exactly what I envisioned in my head for it to be on my wedding day.

Our cake was delicious! I have to say after trying many wedding cakes I wasn't really expecting a whole lot which is sad since I love desserts. We went with strawberry shortcake and everyone really enjoyed it. I made sure I had 2 slices in me before I went off dancing. We worked with Donna from afar and had our best man pick up samples and rate them for us. She was very accomodating and went over the look of the cake with me on the phone. It turned out beautiful.

Hard to contact by email, but provided exactly what we asked for with our wedding cake

Cake was beautiful and delicious.

Creative Cakes by Donna was totally amazing. Her cakes were so delicious. We sampled her cakes during a bridal show at Saint Clements Castle in February of 2008 but at first we weren't impressed. But when we went to her shop in Haddam the following May, we were blown away by how awesome her cakes were. I visited her shop with my future sister in law, so my fiance did not get to come with me. But she gave me samples of each cake to take home to my fiance so that he could taste them too. I highly recommend combining the chocolate cake with the strawberry filling. In the samples she gave us, the strawberry filling was part of a white cake and the chocolate cake had raspberry filling. My sister in law and I looked at each other and both immediately took a sample of the strawberry filling from one cake and combined it with the chocolate cake from a different sample and were both instantly in heaven at the combination. It was like a creamy chocolate covered strawberry. Pure bliss! And Donna has so many pictures of decorated cakes on her website that you can look through to pick what you'd want. She has pictures of any design you could possibly imagine, so you don't have to be super creative to find the cake you've always dreamed of.

Fantastic job with our cake! She can do specialty designs and has a very nice selection. Very willing to work with us to get the cake we wanted. Her cakes taste awesome....I just wish I got to eat more at my wedding!

Donna did a wonderful job with our wedding cake! Everyone, including staff members at our reception, asked us who did the amazing job! It was absolutely gorgeous! Donna was so wonderful to us that she even gave us a separate cake for my husband because we had a hard time agreeing on a flavor. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

Donna was easy to access, personable and very professional. Her cake was as delicious as it was beautiful!

Caked by Donna was so tasty! we got to sample a bunch of flavors and pick what we wanted and I reccomend the chocolate cake with raspberry chambourd filling and buttercream frosting! MMMM

Donna made the exact cake I described to her over the phone. I sent her pictures through email of what I "kinda" wanted the cake to look like and it was BEAUTIFUL! The first thing I saw when I walked into the reception room was this towering gorgeous cake that I didn't want to cut. It was so perfect!

Donna makes the best cakes in CT! They are very tastey and moist! Loved it! She is a very talented lady. Couldn't have been happier with my wedding cake! I highly recommend her!

My cake was included in the package offerred at my wedding reception. I absolutely LOVED our cake. Donna and her team did a FANTASTIC job!! Not only was the look exactly what I was going for, the taste was incredible. My guests even commented that it was the best wedding cake they had ever tasted!

The cake was amazing and was elegantly designed. Everyone was drooling when we were cutting it!

Worked with my ideas to create my ideal cake.

I'd have to say this is the one thing leading up to the wedding that I was the most nervous about. I think it was because I was super organized and detail oriented with all aspects of the wedding. When I called Donna 2-3 weeks before the wedding to verify that she had received my detailed email (another person from the shop had called me a month or two before saying this was a completely acceptable way to communicate with her) she said she had seen it but wasn't able to open any pictures and oh by the way you need to purchase the extra details that we had asked for on the cake. I was suprised that I had to call her to find that out and a little stressed/ nervous about that - but mom to the rescue and everything ended up working out. In the end the cake was absolutely beautiful and exceeded my expectations. It was exactly what we wanted but better. We chose the chocolate cake with mocha mousse filling and it was delicious!!

The cake was excellent. My only complaint is, I asked her to match the pink ribbon on the cake with pink flowers. The flowers were a completely different shade of pink, which bothered me. Other than that, the cake was very good.

Beautiful cake

my friend got her cake from Donna and my then-fiance and i were so impressed, we were happy to go with her for our wedding. (it was easy since she has a contract with the Riverhouse. her cake was included as part of our wedding package!) i highly recommend her fruit-filled cakes; my friend had a raspberry filling white cake with buttercream, and we had a lemon cake with raspberry filling and buttercream frosting. we wanted an unusual but classic looking cake, and Donna created a three tier cake for us that had a different shape on each tier. the top was a circle, the middle a hexagon, and the botton a square. we had 12 orange daisies carefully placed (she'll do as many flowers as you want for an extra fee, but 12 are included in the base price). everyone loved our cake and we did too.

her website - www.cakesbydonna.com - has a LOAD of pictures, divided by buttercream/fondant, season, and theme. she also does cookies and cupcakes. it's easy to find a picture of the cake you want and she is great to deal with over the phone, very prompt and she knows exactly which picture you're talking about when you start describing a certain cake. her cakes are delicious and her pricing isn't extreme, what more could you want?

We planned our wedding from afar and my father was the one to help plan the cake. We first heard of Donna from a showcase at our venue. She was very flexible with all of our conflicting inputs as to what we wanted for our flavor, flowers, design, etc... we even had our own toppers to have on the cake. She took great care of them and the cake turned out fabulous. It was one of the most commented on peices of our wedding. Everyone thought it was delicous. We had two flavors and it wasn't a problem. It was elegant and a little unique just like us and tasted great too.. the raspberry filling was so good and the buttercream frosting wasn't too sweet like some frostings can get (and voerpower the cake!) It was fresh and moist and it came out great! I'd recommend her for any of your cake needs!

Donna and I worked together to create a fun and whimsical cake that went with the theme of the wedding, (candy). I had purchased bride and groom pez dispensers to go on top of the cake. Donna used teal and burgundy ribbon to incorporate the colors into the cake as well. The cake won over the crowd not by looks, but with taste. The choice was chocolate and raspberry was fantastic. Not too sweet, with great flavor and was enjoyed by all.

I ordered our cake from Cakes By Donna.

We ordered a Lemon flavor cake with a moose filling(lemon and real rapsberrys mixed in the filling. The frosting was buttercream tinted a light yellow. The cake was to die for. The lemon was not over powering and for ones that hated lemon cake just loved this cake they were very surprised how it tasted and even went back for seconds.
I am not a cake person but this cake was outstanding. It was decorated very nicely and not over decorated.

It tasted great and looked wonderful! Thanks!

Creative Cakes by Donna know what they are doing! The cake was gorgeous and SO delicious!

Donna created a gorgeous and delicious cake for us. I will say that she is not the most organized person - doesn't yet take to an efficient emailing or electronic filing system. (She admits this herself.) This lends to a less than professional environment, which may not be agreeable to all brides. She can be very scattered and will ask you to remind her who you are and to send you a picture of the cake you want over and over again. (At least that's what happened to me.) But I do understand that this is a result of her specialty being the cake baking/decorating as opposed to a true business woman. Additionally, she isn't solely a wedding cake vendor so she has tons of clients on a daily basis, which I understand. She is VERY friendly, and her cakes are just delicious. I haven't tasted a lighter, fluffier buttercream anywhere else, and I wouldn't have chosen a different vendor for our cake in any circumstance. Her prices are also very reasonable.

We Loved our cake...even though it wasn't what we asked for. The cake was included with the reception cost so that was an amazing value. The cake we ended up with was absolutely beautiful and looked just like the picture on the website, we just wanted to change the position of the flowers on the cake and though told it would be fine when we saw the cake the flowers were scattered instead of cascading. But that's fine. It looked beautiful and went well with the day. Ultimately it didn't matter because we were thrilled with the end result.

Although the cake was not an important aspect for me and my wedding, the end result exceed my expectations. We never even met with her or had a sample tasting, but Donna did an amazing job of creating a cupcake cake that matched our story theme and colors.

We both love cheesecake and dislike standard moist cakes. Donna was open to our idea and willing to make us sheet pans of cheesecake with a small two tier cheesecake for us to cut into (we wanted the cake served cold and not room temperature). She made a great New York Style Cheesecake that we loved and it was the perfect wedding cake for us. She was also willing to do everything over the phone as we planned our Connecticut wedding from California.
The cake was part of our package deal with our reception site The Society Room so I do not know how much the actual cake cost.

Creative Cakes by Donna provided the cake for my wedding at the Society Room. It was included in the price of my wedding package if I chose a buttercream frosted cake, so I did. I asked for a variation on one of their cakes, and they got part of the decoration right, but not all of it. Instead of chocolate brown ribbon along the bottom of each layer, I had frosting, which made the cake extremely monochromatic. Also, it was difficult to get in touch with Donna to order my cake by phone. The cake tasted great, though -- much better than nearly all other wedding cakes I've tasted!

Donna was very nice when we met with her to taste her amazing cakes. We chose our cake and she recorded our choice. Many months later I got a phone call by her assistant to confirm the cake. They mixed up the color choice, so I reminded her, called her back a month later to make sure she had it written down, and called two weeks before the wedding. Of course when we walked into the reception our cake was the wrong color :(. It was suppose to be pink with a brown design, but it was white with brown, still beautiful, but not what we picked out...

cakes by donna was also included in our hilton package

Cake was beautiful and tasted amazing, however the design phase was a bit frustrating. I was told to go through sample cakes and notate the different cakes and the characteristics that I liked in each. When I brought this information in I was told I needed to know what I wanted. I expected more of a creative design, as opposed to having to design the look of the cake myself.

Since we had our wedding at Birch Meadow Banquet Facility, we automatically got our cake through Creative Cakes by Donna. Once I viewed the online photo gallery of their cake designs, I knew that we would have a beautiful cake. Donna was very flexible about altering a design a bit to fit in with our flowers and colors, along with accommodating our cake topper.
The only issue I had was that I never actually got to sample the cake flavors. It was challenging to try to fit in a visit around their limited hours. I had set up a day with them to pick up cake samples, but when I got there they had closed early. It was a little disappointing, and with my busy schedule it was almost impossible to find another time to go.
I was extremely happy with the final product, though. I caught a peek of the cake being brought into our venue on the wedding day, and I was blown away. It was absolutely perfect! I was even happier when I got a taste of it. Despite Donna's suggestions, we went with a pretty plain flavor, just marble cake with a light buttercream filling and the buttercream icing. I knew we had a lot of picky people there, so trying one of the more adventurous flavors would have been tough. I was extremely happy with the final product. It was tasty and light, exactly what we wanted.
I would absolutely recommend Creative Cakes by Donna to anyone, with the suggestion that you leave yourself plenty of time to go try samples. You won't be disappointed!

The cake came out great. However, because our wedding cake was included in our package with our reception venue, I wasn't very picky. I think she might be expensive though, but you would have to see for yourself. My only real problem was that it was a little disorganized. However, the cake showed up, and looked great.

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Donna is a friend of my family and definitely has the experience of being one of the top wedding cake vendors in CT. She has a great sense of style and design in her cake making and is up on current trends in the industry. When we went to meet her for our tasting we were interrupted several times by other customers and felt rushed. Perhaps this is testament to her great business but I felt uncomfortable describing my theme with other couples standing around waiting for Donna's attention. The cake was delivered on time and looked fabulous except for the fact that it was leaning slightly to one side. Our caterer noticed this immediately and attempted to resolve the issue by turning the leaning side towards the wall. Later, looking at photos we wished that some of the detailing didn't look so rushed. Curving lines on the cake were wiggly and appeared more like worms than the smooth plant-like stems that I expected.

Since she is included in the st.clements wedding package we had to go with her. We went down to get a sample of the cakes and they were all delicious but we never met with Donna. I only ever spoke to her helpers. She made us find any decoration we wanted for the cake which turned out to be impossible (small beach chairs and shells in september) so she told us she would make it white and just "throw some flowers on there". The cake did look very nice but it wasn't the cake my husband and I really wanted.

Unfortunately, dispite always hearing such wonderful remarks about Creative Cakes by Donna, I have to say, I was disappointed, from the time we picked up our samples, to seeing the cake at our reception.

When we arrived to pick up our samples, (and to give the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they were short staffed that day), and waited for at least 15 minutes before someone could help us. There wasnt a defined waiting area for us to be in either; I felt like I was "in the way" the whole time!! I was VERY surprised to see how disorganized the area and staff seemed to be. I didn't feel that anyone really wanted to take the time to sit and answer questions we had. I understand that this is their business, they do this everyday, handling hundreds, if not thousands of cakes every year, but, to brides and grooms, this is THEIR wedding cake. The ONE cake they'll have. I did not feel AT ALL that that we were treated as anything but an inconvience to their day. Oh, did I mention it took me an hour to drive there as well???

After calling 2 or 3 times, they finally would take my information re: flavor, design, etc., insisting that it was "too early". We selected a SPECIFIC cake design, that was displayed on THEIR OWN website, and was told they could do that for us.

As I walked by the cake for the first time after our first dance in the reception hall...I immediately noticed that the design on the cake was NOT EVEN CLOSE to the one we had selected. The day went on, we enjoyed every bit of it, but, it's a shame that something we took time in selecting, to be just what we wanted, was completely wrong.

After sharing this with a few close friends, within a week, I had two other people tell me that Creative Cakes by Donna had made errors on their cakes as well. One wedding was just months before ours, the other some years back. One of them had the wrong FLAVOR of cake all together!!

Again, dispite having heard such wonderful comments about Creative Cakes by Donna, I was nothing but disappointed. It's a shame that perhaps in their wonderful reputation, perhaps they have just grown too big for them to handle. I highly recommend finding a baker that shows a bit more one on one attention, and doesn't disregard what you've selected.