Gretchens ABS Cakes and Cafe

My cake was amazing!!! Loved every layer!!

I have gotten several cakes from ABS before, and I have never had a bad experience with any of the cakes before. I was happy to have chosen them to do my wedding cake. The cake turned out beautiful. The cake was three tiered, and they allowed for each tier to be its own flavor. I chose strawberry, German chocolate and red velvet. The tier made with red velvet was a hit at the wedding. They also provided the anniversary cake separately to us at no extra cost. I know that I will continue to use them for cakes in the future.

My wedding cake was 3 tiered with 3 different favors. My guests loved the cake, but I a little disappointed because I had a butterfly theme wedding and the bakery forgot to put the butterflies on the cake. However they did give me 20% off my next cake purchase which came in happy.

Gretchens made the 'Groom's Cake' and our wedding cake! They were both TO DIE FOR!
Our wedding cake was 3 different flavors - guests said they all had at least one of every flavor because they were so good!
Gretchen and her staff were wonderful to work with and are very talented. They make gorgeous cakes that taste as great as they look.
I would recommend Gretchens to anyone needed a cake for any occasion - wedding, birthday, showers, etc. They are wonderful!

Everything was exactly what we asked for and more. Gretchen’s came highly recommended from friends in Spartanburg. I did my research and they have excellent reviews dating back more than 5 years on yahoolocal.com (this speaks for itself). This is a one of a kind good old fashion bakery…like no other you will find in the Upstate of SC. We will continue to go to them for all of our special occasions or if we just want a great cake. I would highly recommend them to do your wedding cake, no matter how difficult or unique it is. Thanks Gretchen’s crew!!!

I LOVED working with Gretchen to plan our wedding cake. We actually had cupcakes instead of a cake and they were a hit at the wedding.

We also used Gretchen's for the groom's cake and it was AMAZING. They made a Clemson golf bag with a tiger tail. It was such a surprise for the groom.

We couldn't have asked for any better service. The spice cake with cream cheese frosting was AWESOME!

I wanted to thank all of the people working at Gretchen’s ABS Cakes for making our wedding day so special. I have to say that the wedding cake was beautiful and tasted equally as great, but what got me was my groom’s cake. I did not know that y’all could sculpt a cake to look just like my dog. I greatly appreciate what you did and that made our wedding date so much more special to me.

God Bless and keep up the good work!

We were referred to Gretchen by another bakery in the area because they were not available on our wedding date. We were very disappointed with the quality of services provided by Gretchen's. The cake design was not what I had ordered. During our initial consultation it was also stated that Gretchen would provide a pre-sliced sheet cake that would be served to our wedding guests. We did not receive the pre-slice cake. When we brought these issues to Gretchen the day after our wedding, she blamed our florist and hotel for the issue with the cake design and stated that we did not pick the package with the sheet cake (2 tiers of cake with a sheet cake would've been $300, but we opted for 3 tiers of cake and no sheet cake for $425). We reviewed our order slip and neither package said that one came with a sheet cake and the other did not. After talking to us briefly, Gretchen exited and left her husband to provide various excuses for why the services they provided were not what we expected. I ranked her a 1 for Professionalism and Quality of Service because all we wanted was an acknowledgement of the mistakes and an apology, but instead we received 1,001 excuses as to why it was not their fault.

We Loved the cake Gretchens ABS Cakes did for our wedding! The best part of their service is instead of having a cake taste testing with several different cakes they make you a small cake of whatever flavors you want to take home and test and sample with friends and family. They did a wonderful job and provided suggestions to a flavor we would have never thought about trying which happened to be the Most Liked flavor. Thank you to the wonderful staff!

Gretchen was great to meet with when selecting our cake. They were very flexible and could do any design that I selected. We were also able to choose any cake and filling flavors that we wanted. We were told by other bakers that pound cake wasn't a good choice for a wedding cake. Gretchen's would do a pound cake for us and it was delicious!

They delivered our cake the day of the wedding and it looked great! We were very happy with Gretchen's!

We have always used Gretchens for all our cake needs, but for our wedding events and the actually wedding cake, she went over the top!! I have tons of pics if anyone would like to see!!

I have been going to Gretchen’s ABS Cakes for more than 7 years now and they are by far the best bakery around. One year ago they did my wedding cake and it was absolutely marvelous and above and beyond what I could have ever imagined. Gretchen is the nicest lady and she even worked with me to get the price down to what we could afford (ask her about dummy layers…nobody else will do it). I have referred 2 of my good friends to her business. They now get all of their cakes from Gretchen’s also. We all agree that this is without a doubt, hands down, the best place to get a cake for any occasion!
Thanks,
Cherry, Liz and Bethany

Gretchen and her crew did an amazing job on the design of the cake! But most importantly the taste....AMAZING! We chose classic white, strawberry and pistachio chocolate chip...all a hit! I am a cake snob and the taste, freshness and butter cream icing was phenomenal! I would highly recommend her!

I can't say enough good things about Gretchen and her cakes. She's great fun to be around and our cake was beautiful (and just what we wanted). But, best of all, it was delicious! I highly recommend the strawberry with buttercream icing.

I loved my wedding cake, it was absolutely beautiful, 5-tier cake we got the Neapolitan flavor, delicious. I surprised my finance with his groom’s cake; it was a life like replica of his English Bull Dog, Ace, and it was awesome!! I got so much for the price. Great Value, Great Taste, Great Staff!

The wedding cake was exactly what I wanted-beautiful and very tasty! I would definitely recommend Gretchen's!

Gretchen's came recommended to me and I wanted to check it out. It was the only place I looked into for our cake because it was wonderful. Gretchen provided a taste test to decide on flavors and was willing to do whatever I needed. THey delivered, set up and made my cake look absolutely wonderful...not to mention the great taste!!

Gretchen is such a sweet lady, and always makes you feel like you are the only wedding cake she will be making. She is a little pricey but her cake is great. The design was a little sloppier than I thought it would be on my Wedding Day and we have heard of some bad things about her from other people. BUT, our experience was a good one.

Gretchen makes the most delicious cake I have ever tasted. My mom made me get a cake; I didn't really want one b/c I'm not that into cake. However, when I tasted her cream cheese pound cake with fudge and peanut butter between the layers at a wedding show, I was hooked. People raved about our cake.

Fantastic Cakes!! Gretchen made our wedding cake when we got married 4 years ago. It was delicious!! My sister-in-law told me, "I don't even like wedding cake, but yours is FANTASTIC!!!" Gretchen and her team are great to work with. Since the wedding we have gotten all of our cakes (anniversary, birthday, etc) from her. If you want a beautiful, delicious cake, then you must visit her!