The Icing Baking Company

I had an Icing cake as the result of my contract with Osprey's Landing. Booking the tasting was very easy and fun. We surprisingly picked a strawberry shortcake and I was SO pleased with the results once our wedding rolled around. The cake was three tiered with sugar fall flowers and leaves cascading down the front. Not only was it beautiful, it was delicious! I had people tell me it was the best wedding cake they ever had. The Icing also provided my husband and I with our own personal cupcakes that we enjoyed the next day. And best of all, The Icing provides you with a cake on your one year anniversary so you don't have to save your top tier for a year. We had a wonderful experience with The Icing and will be using them again.

Excellent service! They delivered on time, everything exceeding our espectations in beauty and taste.

Our wedding cake was amazing!!!!! Not only was it beautiful, but it tasted great too!

I cannot say enough about this little hidden gem! While planning my wedding I happened to get an advertisement via email and was impressed with the flavor choices and designs of the cake. Having a couple of disastorous tastings at our local bakeries and not being overly impressed with the bakery website photos of wedding cakes I decided to just pop by the bakery and pick up some cupcakes to try on my own. I have tried several of the popular "fad" style cupcake bakeries and always disappointed...definitely not the case with The Icing! I was unbelievably impressed with their cupcakes. Simply amazing! I set-up a tasting and the owner met with us herself. The tasting was amazing and not only professional but delicious! After discussing what our design ideas were we left ecstatic with choosing The Icing to do our wedding cake. We ordered a two tier wedding cake along with several dozen cupcakes. We cannot express how pleased we were with the end result. They matched our colors perfectly and the design of the cake was EXACTLY what we asked for. If you are looking for DELICIOUS and reasonably priced than this is definitely the bakery for you. I would highly recommend them to any bride and definitely think if you go for a tasting you will definitely walk away with the same opinion that I have!

We chose the pink champagne cake, and couldn't have been happier! Our cake was exquisitely made and delicious! The staff brought all of my ideas and ramblings together and made the cake of my dreams! It was delivered and set up absolutely perfectly! The fondant didn't taste awful like it does on most cakes, which is a plus! I would recommend their cakes, cookies, cupcakes, and bread to anyone!

Our wedding cake turned out beautiful and was DELICIOUS!! We also ordered cookies and dessert shooters as part of our wedding favors and they were a huge hit. The staff at the Icing are super friendly and very helpful.

My wedding cake was as delicious as it was beautiful. My guests raved about how tasty the cake was and enjoyed every piece of it.

Lynette and her team are true artists. They designed our cake to be exactly what we wanted and it tasted amazing! It was expensive but worth the price. Highly recommend getting some cupcakes from their bakery as well!

Thank you for doing a great job on our cake it was so good and so detailed I loved everything about it.

I could not believe the detail and quality of the cake decorations for our wedding cake. The Icing went beyond both my wife's and my expectations and our cake was just ourstanding. We had a medieval/enchanted theme and the cake was designed like a castle with a dragon crawling up the side and a fairy on the top of the castle. When I first saw the cake I was stunned by how well it was put together and the detail that The Icing used. Both the fairy and dragon popped out from the cake and the detail on each was amazing. They did such a great job that they receive top marks from me. Oh I alomst forgot to mention the the cake was so delicious also and everyone enjoyed it.

Our cake was so gorgeous!! Lynn was so great in meeting our needs and exceeded our expectations. For our consult, she sat down actually sketched the design of our cake. There are so many favors to choose from and the signature flavors are delicious!! I will be a returning customer for other occasions!

This was the best cake I ever had! We went around and tried a few places but their cake blew me away! There was so many cake flavors and all of them were so good! we had the spring cake and strawberry champagne and they were sooo good! I am so excited for our anniversary cake that they make fresh for us on our 1 year! The only thing was that the price was higher than I thought it should be. Since my family was helping out I could afford it! Everything looked exactly how I wanted it to look though! I would not have had a different baker!

The Icing Baking Company were the best hands down. They created my cake with an original design. It matched my wedding dress and it was absolutely gorgeous. The cake was delicious not too sweet just the right flavor and texture. Absolutely amazing. People are still talking about the cake. They also did my grooms cake and he loved it, they did a military cake for him with the United States Army symbol and then had cupcakes with Dallas Cowboys stars and LA Lakers logos he was so happy and it tasted great!!!! Would recommend them to anyone I know, they were recommended to me and I am so glad that they were!!!

The Icing did a WONDERFUL job on my cake. It looked exactly how I wanted it to, and it tasted AMAZING! We went with two flavors, caramel and peanut butter cup. It was moist and delicious. I had family members telling me that it was the BEST wedding cake that they had ever had. VERY pleased!

They are just absolutely amazing! Due to personal reasons, my husband and I had to put together a wedding in 2 WEEKS, and The Icing was still able to make us a reasonably priced, beautiful, and delightfully tasteful cake in time. I definitely plan to use them for future events (birthdays, promotions, etc.)

The Icing did a fabulous job on our wedding cake. We had a four tier round fondant. They are extremely professional and a pleasure to work with. My only complaint is that they are a bit expensive but in the end the cake was delicious and absolutely beautiful so it was well worth the money.

I loved the Icing! Their work is just wonderful. My fiance and I wanted a sculpture cake and I was a little nervous. Sure, they look great on Cake Boss or Ace of Cakes, but at a local bakery? Yes! Our sculpture was of a mountain with a waterfall, campsite, figures of us and various animals and it turned out great. And from looking at their books I could see that the more traditional cakes look great too, they are especially good with their fondant work. And if my fiance wasn't set on red velvet I would have had a hard time picking the flavor. The flavors I tried were amazing and they have quite a selection.

One other thing I have to mention that really set this vendor apart from a lot of others. While I was planning my wedding my fiance was deployed and due to the nature of his deployment, we didn't have a solid homecoming day/week. So we had to ask every vendor what would happen if we had to change the wedding date. The Icing was the most flexible with us by far. A lot of vendors will tell you they want to "help make your day special" but I felt like they really meant it. I would highly recommend this bakery to anyone!

Our wedding was Oct. 16, 2011. We met for our consultation and were given design books to look at . We were also presented with delicious samples of cakes and fillings to choose from. They were so good we couldn't decide then, but were assured we could decide later. I showed them the design I had come up with and was assured it wouldn't be a problem to create. The price of our cake was reasonable and we also purchased our topper. The Icing also delivered our cake on a Sunday, which most places would not do! On our wedding day, I was estatic when I saw our cake- it was exactly what I imagined and had pictured! The colors matched our wedding colors perfectly!! When we cut into our cake, it was fresh, moist and sooo delicious! I can assure you I had plenty of each flavor. We also received many compliments from our guests- on both the taste and appearance! My husband and I have and would recommend The Icing to anyone!

I enjoyed working with Lynn so much. My wedding day was made so much more special because she listened to everything I wanted!

The Icing did a beautiful job on our wedding cake. It tasted delicious and was gorgeous. Although there was a very small issue which occurred during our experience with them, the owner resolved it to my complete satisfaction with her professionalism and courtesy, and I would absolutely tell any bride to use them!

The Icing prepared my wedding cake for my 9/24/2011 wedding! It was the most beautiful cake I have ever seen! We met with them and designed it and they were so accommodating! Not only was the cake beautiful, it was delicious! I love the idea of the smaller cakes to give to guests around the bottom, and our guests had nothing but wonderful things to say about it! Thank you so much! I recommend The Icing for any and all occasions!

The Icing provided us a wonderful cake. It looked beautiful and tasted wonderful. The one on one interaction with everyone in the bakery was pleasant. We would recommend them to anyone who needs a cake. They have great cupcakes too.

The wedding cake was amazing! Numerous people were talking about it the next day as they munched away on the leftovers! The vendor was great to meet and sit down to discuss the cake ideas and flavors as she sketched out the ideas for the cake. The taste testing made me want to have every flavor as an option! If fact after the tasting we went back and bought a variety of cupcakes to simply enjoy! The cake was very creative as the top of the cake had two people made of icing. Of course it was us, the bride and groom, in our common style of athletic clothes. We loved it! Such great detail! Also, even though the vendor was located in Stafford, VA they were able to deliver the cake to the National Harbor! I definitely would recommend this vendor to every bride and groom.

The Icing staff were wonderful. We used live flowers for the topper and the artist bride designed the shape and decorations. The Icing staff were open working with the bride and family members coordinating everything over a long distance from tasting and design to delivery and set up. The end result was stunning and the champagne cake was to die for. Others loved the alternating layers of chocolate raspberry truffle (especially the groom). The Icing was definitely the best choice.

We had a great experience with these vendor. We had a few flavors of cupcakes which were delivered on time and they were amazing! Great to work with!

Cake tasted amazing and looked beautiful!!!

I wanted to make sure that our wedding cake had both the look and the taste we wanted. My husband and I absolutely loved their cakes, the wedding and grooms cake, which were equally beautiful and tasted amazing. We will be getting any cake in the future from here. You definitely get what you pay for.

My husband and I recently used The Icing for our wedding reception which included a decorated cake as well as cupcakes for the guests. Not only was everything delicious but as a Bride that put the entire wedding together herself, I never had to worry about anything. They set everything up for the reception and were extremely cooperative. We thoroughly enjoyed the taste testing sampling that they provided. Not only did they have several cake and icing flavors but also various fillings that they can incorporate into the cakes. My only regret or wish was that I could have more flavors as everything I have tried there has been delicious. They also allowed us to come up with flavors that they would do for us for our special day that they normally don't do on a day to day basis as their cupcake flavors are seasonal. We recommend them for everything from weddings, to baby showers, or even just cupcakes for a work function. Lynn and her staff were accommodating and easy to work with. I cannot thank them enough for their courtesy and professionalism.

Lynette was not easy to work with. I will say her cakes are very good but as for her she is very rude and not easy to work with. I do not think the cake was worth what we paid for it. We dropped off a $100 cake topper that I purchased for her to put on our wedding cake and when I got to the reception somone elses cake topper was on our cake and looked nothing like ours. When I confronted her by email she was extreamly rude! If I called the store they would say she was there and she would call me back and I called 4 times and never got a call back. She did not seem to even care about the mistake she had made one bit. I would never recommend this place to anyone getting married. Your wedding cake should be exactly what you want and she does not seem to understand that. Customer Service should be important to her and clearly is not. She sent me the most rude emails I have ever seen! We now have pictures in our professional album of a cake that we hated and a cake topper that is not what we wanted at all. Very ugly!

The Icing came into my life when things were turned upside down, AND I'm so glad they did!
I was blown away when I went in for the tasting, especially after some other tastings I had experienced.
They took the picture I gave them and did an amazing job replicating it. They took time to sit down and sketch out and design our cake. My cake was pretty “simple”, but I know that no matter what I had asked for they could have made it exactly how I had dreamed.
Although the design and look of the cake is important it’s not the most important thing though...the most important thing is that their cakes are the BEST cake I've ever had. I had many wedding cakes covered in fondant and every time I’ve ended up peeling it off and throwing it away…but not my wedding cake! They use very high quality fondant and it was delicious!!
I didn’t know about them before the wedding planning process, but now that I know where the bakery is, I'm in there for every special occasion cake I need.

Our cake was delicious, and beautiful! The staff were very helpful, and professional. We got exactly what we expected!

Everything about our cake was perfect! It was delicious and looked beautiful. There were so many flavors to choose but the Pink Champagne was awesome!

We used them for our wedding on May 1st at the Rock Hill Plantation and they were amazing! So easy to work with and they make the best cakes! We had a cupcake cake and it was great because we were able to use different flavors! (try the bacon cupcake). Not only was the set up beautiful but all the flavors were great. Our top cake for us to cut was a chocolate mint and let me tell you it was amazing! If you walk into their store you will be forced to try something because everything looks so great!

I chose to celebrate my wedding with a small 6" cake and 18 dozen cupcakes. After visiting four cupcake bakeries in the vicinity, none could hold a candle to the quality at The Icing. We selected six different flavors, each was decorated simply but beautifully. None of my guests could stop at eating just two, and everyone took a few home with them! That said, I was a little put off by an unexpected delivery fee (which the owner was kind enough to reduce by half due to my misunderstanding) and their adamant refusal to provide signage for the different types of cupcakes. I also had a scare a couple days before the wedding. The check my parents mailed to them had not arrived and they wanted payment by end of business day, THAT DAY, and it couldn't be over the phone. Blessedly, my father was already in town and ran over with a credit card. Turns out the suite number for The Icing was not the on invoice and the post would not deliver without it. All said, I would not chose another baker. No one makes a better tasting cake in Virginia. And I'll be sneaking back into the store for more for the rest of my life!

There are really only 2 good things I can say about The Icing. The cakes are beautiful and delicious and you have a few options for a reasonable prices (if you dare ask about them).

Their customer service; however, leaves a lot to be desired. They offer very reasonably priced "Simple Elegance" Cakes that are not custom and offer limited choices on colors, fillings, flavors etc.... my husband and I were fine with their choices but when we expressed interest in these more affordable cakes (a custom on by them would have cost more than double), we immediately recieved attitudes and were informed in a round about way that these cakes are designed for military couples who are on a budget and have to plan their weddings quickly. We were not military couple- just a young couple looking for a way to have an attractive, tasty cake without breaking our budget. We were rudely informed of the limited options offered for these cakes and left alone to chose which design we liked based off of a print off with 2 inch images. No one checked on us, offered to answer any questions, or anything. We chose the cake, signed the contract, paid the invoice and were told when and where to pick it up.

If it weren't for the price of the cake I would have walked right out of the shop.

THE CAKE WAS DELICIOUS. Everyone said so - not just us (who picked our favourite flavours). It was SOOOOOO good!!!

We chose a ganache covering instead of fondant (1st bride in 5 years apparently), and it's the most delicious thing ever. Because they use all natural products (no wax or crisco added), they were very concerned that the ganache might look lumpy or fall if it was too humid. We didn't care though - it was so good that if you covered a shoe with it, you'd probably still want to eat the shoe. (At least, we would consider it... ;-)) We had a spoon-textured cake with sugar flowers instead of a painted design, and it was gorgeous - no troubles at all!

And just in case you're wondering - the inside of the cake was as delicious as the outside!

The only issue we had was that they are sometimes slow to respond to emails (once or twice they didn't respond), but when we called they had all the necessary info, so if that was the only problem... not too bad, eh?

We also like that instead of having you freeze the top of the cake, they give you a coupon for a free (fresh) anniversary cake to be used in the first year of your marriage.

(Did I mention how phenomenonally delicious the cake was?!?)

Lynnette Drake, owner of The Icing simply makes the best cakes, cupcakes I have ever tasted !!! She not only made my daughter's wedding cake, but made cupcakes for her shower as well. At both events our guests raved about her cakes, many requests for seconds !!! She uses all organic ingredients, only the very finest chocolate etc.; she creates her own unique flavors, and her Red Velvet and Pink Champagne wedding cake {ours} is to die for. Guests asked for her address and phone number !! You owe it to yourself to make a quick trip to Stafford, Va. to experience Lynnette's creations !! Thanks ! Chris {mom of the bride}

Lynn and her team provided a completely unforgettable wedding cake. First, I was floored by the option of having two different kinds of cakes, but they were unbelievably moist and tasty. There has been an on-going debate with our guests as to which cake was their favorite! I'm anxious to taste my one year anniversary cake!

Since our wedding was not in the delivery area, they packed the cake so well that it survived a several hour drive by a friend, without a blemish on it. It was beautiful.

I will gladly visit again for other kinds of cakes.

I did not get a cake tasting with this vendor and this disappointed me greatly. We walked into our appointment excited because everyone knows how exciting cake tastings are! Turns out, there was no tasting, only sitting there talking about what kind of design we wanted and what flavors we liked. We ended up going with a Simple Elegance (meaning simply decorated)cake because it was much less expensive than an elaborately decorated cake. It was 3 white tiers with a colored ribbon around the bottom of each layer. The cake ended up looking VERY plain and my florist fixed it up. I never saw it look plain because my florist took it upon himself to fix it up so in the end it just looked amazing. The cake was DELICIOUS though. It was so moist and flavorful that it makes me want to get our anniversary cake out of the freezer right now and eat it. With the Simple Elegance cake, delivery was not included, but when my caterer (Caroline Street Catering) found out, she called in a favor and they agreed to deliver my cake for me. My vendors rocked :)

The Icing is wonderful. The whole staff is friendly and very good at what they do. We decided to go with a square cake and we didn't do a wedding topper. Instead we had them put sugar flowers going around the cake. It turned out perfectly. And the pearls matched my dress :) The flavors were amazing and everyone loved them. We went with mint chocolate chip and pink champagne. We definitely liked the fact that they allow you 2 flavors of your choice, one for the bride and one for the groom. They are well worth the money. Thank you guys so much for making our day special.

Our cake turned out better then we imagined. I wanted a simple and elegant cake. Lynn achieved that and more.

The cake was exactly as I had pictured! Everyone loved the great flavors pink champagne and black and white! YUM!

My wedding cake could not have been more perfect! Lynnette & her design team helped us design a cake that was for our wedding- not cookie cutter from a book. It was everything we hoped for and more. The flavor selections were amazing- we had such a hard time choosing 2! Our guests were amazed at how moist and delicious the cake was- the best wedding cake anyone had ever had. I can’t imagine why anyone would be unhappy- Lynnette always got back in touch with us within a day & made suggestions when we needed it.
Her staff even bright along cupcakes for the kids at our wedding with only one day notice!
Thanks for making our wonderful day even better!

We order a “couture” cake from The Icing-so we gave them guidelines and let them have creative freedom. It was the only surprise at my wedding and I was so excited. They not only met, but exceeded my expectations!
The entire art staff at The Icing is amazing. They hand painted the entire cake and It was superb!
I was really surprised at the pricing. The Icing initially seemed more expensive, but when I visited with other bakers and they added on for every detail, filling and change The Icing was actually completely reasonable. They were up front about everything- there were no hidden charges no matter what flavor we chose- and they were all delicious!

Thank you so much for the beautiful wedding cake- it was delicious and beautiful. You created the sugar flowers exquisitely. The cake was everything we wanted.
I can’t wait to have another event to order a cake!

All I can say is Wow! They matched my colors perfectly, it was just like my sketch (which they provided since it was designed for me). It was so easy to pick a cake when they halped walk me through the overwhelming process of designing my wedding cake.
It tasted great, looked amazing and was everything I wanted.

Lynette gave me the impression they were going to make my cake look the way it looked in the book...When it got to my wedding day....the 2nd tier from the top looked like it was falling apart.....the whole cake looked crooked. I was really looking forward to that cake looking top notch and her adding it to her portfolio. I was really disappointed. Also we asked for certain colors in the cake and they did completely different colors than from what we asked for. Sorry Lynette, I really enjoyed meeting you but you really let me down when it came to my wedding day.

Our wedding cake was absolutely beautiful, but most importantly, it tasted wonderful. I have been to a couple of weddings where the cake looked great, but it tasted horribly. Not Ours!!! The icing did a fabulous job at creating a red black and white cake for our special day. Everyone raved over this cake because it wasnt the traditional, boring, wedding cake that you normally would see. We chose the flavors, strawberry cream/pink champagne and we couldnt have been more excited about our choices. The icing will be my one stop shop for cakes and "sweets" from here on out!

I absolutely loved my cake. It tasted so wonderful, and was very moist. The colors matched just right to the colors I asked for. They provide you with an anniversary cake, so you dont have to save the top teir of the actual wedding cake, which is just great! They have very original flavors that will please everyone!
I got a cake topper made of icing. This was the only part that I was disappointed in. The grooms arm looked like it had fallen off and cracked and was just stuck back on, the brides gown was cracked. And the football jersey that the groom was not the color that I had specifed it was supposed to be.

Our cake was delicious and beautiful. We received many compliments from our guests.

The wedding cake was very pretty, and the grooms cake was nice ( I expected a little more from it). Both were delicious, which was the most important thing to us!

The Icing made us a fantastic cake for a good price. Even more impressive: we had no idea what it would look like. At a discounted rate, they made us a cake if we gave them artistic freedom (with some guidance from us, of course). The cake turned out beautiful! We were a little wary, since the cakes at the tasting were dry and they were slow to respond, but the actual cake was super moist and delicious.

I'm sure the cake wasn't perfect, but it was a hit, and unlike some of these other fruitcakes posting reviews, we were out to enjoy our wedding.. not stress out and hunt for flaws!

I went to The Icing with a picture of what I wanted for my wedding cake and they were able to turn that picture in to a reality for me. The cake was beautiful and more so it tasted absolutely delicious! I received a lot of compliments from my guest about the moistness and flavor of the cake as well as the fondant. The Icing also included a small honeymoon and anniversary cake so we didn't have to remember to get the reception staff to save the top portion of the cake for us. They also provided us with a taste testing before hand so we had a good idea of what the final product would taste like. They had more than enough flavors to choose from which made our decision very difficult. We also provided The Icing with a cookie cutter that they used to make our cookie favors. This was one of my favorite details of the wedding because it was so personal and they did such a wonderful job making the cookies for us. Oh, and they tasted wonderful! We HIGHLY recommend The Icing and hope that some day we will be able to use them again for one of our events!

I had the Icing bake my Cake for my Wedding and it came out beautiful!!! The cake was simply breathtaking and EXACTLY what I wanted. The price also was amazing. In addition to both those, the cake was absolutely delicious!! I had a white cake with lemon cream cheese filling. So delightful. The Icing in Stafford is the place to get your cake ladies!!

I hired Lynn Drake of The Icing to do our wedding cake. We placed our security deposit last fall for a 3 tiered white fondant cake with alternating layers of quilted fondant with a navy blue ribbon and rows of pearls at the bottom of the tiers, and a silver oval monogram like the ones displayed beautifully on their website's gallery.

In January, we called Lynn and discussed changing our reception time due to a conflict with the ceremony venue. She stated moving it to 3 PM meant she would drop off our cake at 1 PM and it was no problem. So far, so good.

We called her in March after getting our final head count and changed our order to a 4 tiered cake. She said she would send me an updated invoice and it never came. There were apparently problems with her power being out during the winter storms that prevented us from getting a cake sketch via email, so I figured she'd send me the updated invoice when the balance was due. The day before the balance was due, she emailed me the old invoice and inquired about when I would pay. It took my husband and I at least 6 phone calls within 24 hours to reach her (as she never returned our messages), and finally we caught her on the phone and she agreed to send the updated invoice that we should have had back in March.

The day before the wedding, I called her to confirm that we were good to go for delivery at 1 PM. She had no idea what I was talking about. First she thought ours was a wedding on Sunday (4/18), and when I told her ours was Saturday (4/17), she then exclaimed, "Oh, the reception at 5 PM, right?" and I had to remind her that ours started at 3 PM and she agreed to deliver the cake at 1 PM. The overall impression was that she had forgotten about our cake. She hurried to get off the phone because she was running errands.

The day of the wedding, my mom had been advised by a staff member at our reception venue that Lynn arrived, set up the cake in a matter of minutes, and then rushed out in a hurry. Once we got to the reception we knew why. Our wedding cake that we paid over $700 for was completely unprofessionally done with cracked and dented fondant that she didn't even bother to fix, a crumbled corner that she very conveniently angled out of our view in the back (but a diligent bridesmaid caught it on camera for me), uneven rows of pearls, broken rows of the navy blue fondant ribbon, and a sloppy monogram that was also made out of broken pieces and was crooked and not even centered on the tier.

I emailed Lynn Drake on Monday, 4/19, to see if she would provide me with an explanation as to what happened. I also enclosed pictures of the cake so that she could see all of the problems with the cake that she delivered. Our wedding cake was, I'm sure, a last minute "creation" that she threw together (or let someone without any experience) make because she was unprofessional and could not keep up with her orders, clients, and moving her business to a new location - which was a constant excuse for her not returning calls or sending emails as promised. So far, she has not bothered to respond and I'm sure she is busy "running errands" and handling the relocation of her business, so I have linked to the pictures so that other brides can review exactly what The Icing delivered for our wedding cake.

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My wedding cake turned out great!! The cake was delicious and gorgeous!!! I love the fact that the anniversary cake was prepackaged. I never would have thought of that. I would definitely use The Icing cakes again. Thanks for everything!!

Although the cake tasted great , it was a little tilted and it was not completely evenly layered. It was pretty but noticeably tilted and uneven. Also we had asked her to mix the two flavors that we had picked into each layer so that everyone could taste both flavors. She did not do that. The grooms cake was supposed to have bacon cream chesse filling but there was no/ very little bacon to be found. I was a little disappointed with the final outcome.

Amazing, Amazing, Amazing!!!!! My wedding cake was beautiful, elegant and tasted so good we couldn't stop eating it.

Lynette was the best vendor I worked with during my wedding plaining. She was easy going, professional and by far the nicest person I had to deal with. Our wedding tood place in October so we went with a Fall Leaf theme and Lynette took the colors of my bridesmaids dresses so the leaves on the cake would match thier dresses perfectly.

I would recomend Lynette to everyone that wants a cake in this area. I will use her again for special birthdays, anniversarys and baby showers or bridal showers that are in the future. I can't thank her enough for what she did to my cake!!!!

The Icing truly created the centerpiece of my wedding! The cake was exactly as we discussed, only better!! She made wonderful suggestions, and made a one of a kind cake for our special day!

The cake tasting AMAZING! Her flavor selections were truly amazing and picking only 2 was the hardest part of the planning process.

I would definitely recommend The Icing and cannot wait to have her make a cake for us again!

Our cake was delicious, we received so many compliments on it. Even the fondant was delicious, and I do not normally like fondant. The cake looked exactly as Lynette sketched it when it arrived, absolutely perfect. The only "issue" I had was after we booked with the Icing I never got a response to any of my emails.

My husband and i choose The Icing for our wedding cake because during our consultation we thought Lynette was very professional and the cake flavors were wonderful! But then as time passed she was not very responsive as it was getting up to the couple weeks before the wedding...she is hard to get in touch with and not good at returning phone calls. Also we had requested a brown ribbon band on our cake to match our wedding colors which was not there the day of the wedding...but even without it the cake still looked beautiful...but we paid alot for our cake and when we showed up to the reception were surprised it was not exactly the way we had asked for it. But besides that it did taste great and was still beautiful.

The cake was the most important part of the day to me. We wanted not only a centerpiece, but a cake that would taste phenomenal and be a memorable piece of art. The Icing did exactly what we wanted. Thank you!

The cake was the best wedding cake I have ever tasted in my life! We got two flavors: Pink Champagne (amazing!) and a chocolate gnache with vanilla cream. Both were out of this world! The cake was beautiful with real looking sugar flowers. My only grip is that she, Lynnette, was a little hard to get ahold of and the cake was a little on the expensive side... but it was all completely worth it. I am so excited to eat my anniversary cake.. which she gives as a gift for you to wrap & freeze! I highly recommend her!!

We loved, loved, loved our cake! It was perfect- more than we dreamed of. We wanted a very contemporary cake and The Icing created something that no one else had even tried to design, let alone make.

The taste- wow! The flavors were simply divine! Too yummy!

The Icing designed a fabulous cake for my daughter's wedding in May 2009. Lynnette customized it to reflect details of my daughter's wedding dress. One tier had pleating in the fondant, it had rhinestone accents and the flowers coordinated with her floral arrangements. It was beautiful!! It was on time, Lynette stayed in close contact regarding details and was very professional. All the guests raved about the cake and my daughter and son-in-law LOVED it. It was pink champagne flavor - delicious! The entire experience with The Icing was perfect!

The Icing was the best choice I could have made for a cake! I met Lynnette/The Icing at a bridal show and was blown away by the taste of the cakes! I scheduled a consultation/tasting even though I knew I was hiring her even before I went, I had to let my fiancé taste for himself! We decided on two flavors for the cake - Black and White (chocolate and white chocolate cake with milk & white chocolate mousses) and the Spring Classic (White cake with raspberry coulis & lemon cheesecake). As a surprise for my fiancé, Lynnette also created a Boston Red Sox cake for his groom's cake complete with Boston Creme Pie flavor (white cake with chocolate ganache and vanilla crème). The Black/White and Spring Classic cakes were wonderful but the Boston Creme Pie cake was without a doubt, THE BEST cake I have ever eaten. Trust me, I have a sweet tooth and have tasted lots of cakes in my day!

And, the greatness doesn't end with the taste! The cakes are as beautiful as they taste! I wanted a somewhat contemporary cake and Lynnette captured my vision completely and delivered a gorgeous wedding cake! People are still telling me (a month later) how beautiful the cake was and how good it tasted. As previously mentioned, Lynnette also created a Red Sox themed cake for my fiancé. It was a baseball diamond with a true-to-size Red Sox hat sitting on the top. Everyone thought the hat was real and kept touching it because they couldn't get over the fact that the hat was actually cake! It was a hit and the talk of the rehearsal dinner!

I am beyond pleased and would highly recommend The Icing! I can't wait to order another cake! : )

I did not even go to a tasting or speak with Lynette in person and the cake was exactly what I wanted. Not that I recommend doing everything over email but I told her the flavors I wanted, sent her a picture of the style and she delivered. The cake was beautiful and tasted great! And It was a great working relationship! Thanks Lynette!

I did not even go to a tasting or speak with Lynette in person and the cake was exactly what I wanted. Not that I recommend doing everything over email but I told her the flavors I wanted, sent her a picture of the style and she delivered. The cake was beautiful and tasted great! And It was a great working relationship! Thanks Lynette!

I got rave reviews regarding the cupcakes. My guests ate multiple and loved them. I would use the Icing for private parties. they were incredible.

Mrs. Drake did a wonderful job on my cake! She had so many flavors and was able to do whatever we wanted, which is why we decided to go with her for our cake. She matched everything perfectly with my wedding. The cake was delivered on time and added no stress to my wedding day at all. I definitely recommend her!!

The cake was great, everybody at the wedding loved it. The Icing has a lot of unique flavor combinations and everything tasted so good. The final cake wasn't exactly what I had pictured, but it was still pretty. I did have a little bit of a wait when I was trying to get the final invoice, but everything was worked out and it went well. We also got a cake for the rehearsal dinner which was also not as I had pictured it, but it was good as well. We were also given a "honeymoon tier" and "anniversary tier" as well as the display cake, so we are looking forward to that.

We decided to have our cake made by "The Icing" because of the amazing flavors that Lynnette makes. None of the other cake companies we looked into had anything like what she makes. We met with her for a tasting which was wonderful. We got to try pretty much every flavor combination and Lynnette drew out what we wanted our cake to look like. The day of the cake arrived on time.
On our contract we had determined that we would send Lynnette a paint swatch so that she could match the "ribbon" on the cake to our wedding colors (hot pink). The day of Lynnetter arrived with the cake and ribbon on the cake was "baby pink" and looked horrible with our wedding colors. She claimed that she did not receive our paint swatch in the mail. If that was the case, I would have expected Lynnette to call me before she started to make the cake to inquire about the actual color that we wanted. Instead she just decided to just make the cake with a random color. We were obviously upset about the situation because when you spend $700 on a cake you expect it to be what you ordered. Lynnette did leave the club immediately and went to a craft store and bought hot pink ribbon and came back and "fixed" the cake. I was happy with the final result but I could have done without the added stress on my wedding day.

Lynette Drake at the Icing does a fantastic job. No matter what you want your wedding cake to look like, she can do it! She is extremely talented. The cakes are a bit pricey, but definitely worth it. Every last piece was absolutely deliscious! I was a little leary at first in using Lynette, only due to the price (I was on a very tight budget), but I would definitely recommend using her! My cake was more beautiful than I had ever imagined and turned out to be one of my favorite things about my wedding day. I will never forget how beautiful my cake looked.

GREAT cake!!! Very yummy! I even had her make a Groomsmen cake for the rehersal! It was wonderful!

Lynnette Drake has the most amazing wedding cake flavors and ideas. We had so many compliments on our cake - the best wedding cake my guests have ever had! Definitely recommend booking Lynnette!

We loved the cakes at our tasting so much that we actually went back to purchase sample cakes just because they were so yummy. All of her cakes are baked from scratch and never frozen. Amazing flavors and our cake was decorated exactly to perfections! It was beautiful!!!

I was extremely happy with the service provided. I actually thought she was booked up for the weekend of my wedding. I started taking a picture of a cake she had done to other vendors with no luck of anything that even came close. In the end she had an opening if I could come get the cake, and then when I went to order it her other wedding had changed times and it worked out perfectlyfor her to deliever it. I got the exact cake I wanted and it was by far the thing I was most proud of and excited about at the reception. Too bad I didn't get more than one bite. She was awesome about giving us a seperate honeymoon cake as well as an anniversary cake, so I'll get to have some more in a few months... sooo yummy...and sooo pretty!!!

Mrs. Drake has a wonderful cake business! First, of all the wedding cakes we tried, Mrs Drake has the most flavorful and moist cakes we found! She never freezes the cakes so they're always fresh (which we really appreciated). She also only does one wedding a week so there are no other customers competing for her attention when it comes down to crunch time. She was also very flexible with her designs allowing me to come up with a completely original design and not stick to only designs in a book. The day of the wedding the cake arrived right on time! We only had one issue which was the bottom layer of cake was very soft and the cater wasn't able to serve it. Otherwise, I would recommend The Icings to any wedding party!

We had a chance to sample a huge variety of cake flavors and the woman who owns this business works out of her home. She was professional, had a ton of pictures for us to look at and ending up making us a beautiful cake that was exactly what we expected. She also gave us a top tier to enjoy on our first anniversary. Everyone commented on how wonderful the cake tasted.

Prompt, professional and yummy!

Professional, creative and absolutely the most delicious cake.

What can I say, Creative Perfection! Lynnette and her staff take your vision and turn it into a beautiful cake for your special event that is not only stunning in her creativity but also is delicious!! I highly recommend The Icing!!

Booking your cake with The Icing will be one of the best choices you can make for your wedding day.

From the moment you walk into their beautiful shop and smell the baking you'll be hooked - and from there it gets better and better.
The service is wonderful and after the tasting you'll be looking for a way to have a 50 tier cake so you can taste all those flavors again!

The cakes are beautiful and the creative design team know's just how to bring your ideas to fruition.

We've shot many wedding's where The Icing has been the cake creator, and every one has been...

The Icing provides the most delicious desserts I have ever had. We always look forward to having the Icing deliver to the Gauntlet. We know that the Bride will be thrilled with the quality of product and beautiful desgins.

We have worked with Lynnette from The Icing for a few years now and every experience has been fabulous!!
Her cakes are nothing but perfect on the inside and out. She offers her clients the most amazing cake flavors that all the weddings guests will be impressed with. Her designs are very special and unique offering every client their dream wedding cake. Our clients have enjoyed working with Lynnette and have been beyond pleased with their end results. We are very proud to recommend The Icing to all our brides because we can guarantee The Icing will deliver the very best. They�re always on time, extremely friendly, consistent with flawless designs, and reliable. If you're looking for the simplest elegant design or a creative and unique cake, Lynnette can do it all! We have really enjoyed working with The Icing and look forward to seeing their phenomenal cakes more often at the Winery! Cheers! PPW

If you want a wedding cake that is exquisitly more than you could dream of, AND you want it to taste absolutely delicious, then you want the Icing to make the cake for your very special day. Lynette from the Icing has been here at Rock Hill Plantation House many, many times and has repeatedly amazed us with one beautiful cake after another. No two ever looked alike. She is truly an artist.