Torrance Bakery

Our hotel venue has a contract that includes the cake with Torrance Bakery or Mayers Bakery. We only went to Torrance for a tasting and booked them. We ordered the Red Velvet, White cake with fresh strawberries, and white cake with lemon mousse. The fresh strawberries were $15 extra, no biggie. This nominal balance was due two weeks before the wedding. With all that happens the last two weeks, the $15 balance slipped my mind. I received a voicemail from the bakery 1.5 weeks before asking for the balance. I was meaning to go in person to pay. I didn't call her back right away and she called me again while I was driving with a complete attitude collecting the $15. She stated that the she left "numerous messages." When I heard that I was completely irritated. Numerous = one message. It's not like I owed $450 for the cake. It was a lousy $15. I told her that I was stopping in but she insisted that I give her payment over the phone. When I told her I was driving and my purse was in the back seat, she got her attitude again...sounding as if the world was ending if they didn't get their money and stated their balance pay off policy. Ridiculous. I finally called back and gave them a credit card. Spoke to another gal who was super sweet. It wasn't the same lady as I would've recognized her voice.

The cake on the day of was decorated the way we wanted and the red velvet layer a bit on the drier side according to my sister. We only had a bite of the white cake so I have no idea. I'm sure it tasted fine but just the way in which it was handled left such a bad taste in my mouth. I won't be ordering any personal cakes from them.

I also just remembered that at one point I wanted my cake layers to be separated so I could have my florist fill in the gaps with fresh flowers and hydrangea. I called once and remembered it was around $15-20 extra which was no big deal. But then when I actually wanted to make the change, I called and I was quoted over $100! From $20 to $100? That the lady that quoted the $100 was the same lady that called to collect.

We just had our tasting with Torrance Bakery and it was great! Melissa was very helpful, patient and friendly during the consultation; she answered all of our questions with ease.

We really liked the white cake with fresh strawberry/french white cream and the marble cake with fudge filling. Melissa even gave us extra samples to take home once my fiance pointed out that I'd annihilated the fresh strawberry sample they gave us. My parents also really liked the white cake with lemon filling. Their price quote was extremely reasonable for a custom three-tier cake for 100 people - even my dad looked pleased.

They're definitely in the running! Three more cake appointments to go!

I swear by Torrance Bakery!!!! They have been my bakery of choice for the last 5years! I have tried other bakeries and they just do not compare! If you are looking for the most moist,rich, and decadent cake, then Torrance Bakery is the way to go! Trust me!!!!!!!

We loved our cake! The design was beautiful with the white chocolate sea shells and the cake tasted sooooo delicious. We had marble cake with fudge filling and another layer was white cake with strawberry filling. Everyone raved about the cake. Mario Casias at the bakery is excellent to work with. The cake tasting was the best.

Cake was delicious, we had a four tier cake with alternating layers of marble cake with fudge filling and white cake with fresh strawberries. Everyone loved it and it looked good too. They also provided the stand rental very cheap. Great service, very professional, tasted great!

Cake: Torrance Bakery - A-
i really should give them a "B" since they didn't use the design we agreed upon, but i ended up LOVING our cake and realized that this was the better design (hence the "A-"). the cake was yummy and looked great! we had a different flavor for each tier (top: carrot cake with cream cheese filling), middle: chocolate cake with kahlua creme, bottom: white cake with fresh strawberries and french cream; buttercream frosting). we also rented the cake stand from them, which they didn't push but really should have, it totally made a difference in the overall presentation. i was a little hesitant at first, thinking it would look too overwhelming, but this is one thing my mom decided to push me on... i thank her for it now!

i also purchased a fish tank themed grooms cake for our rehearsal dinner. it was beautifully decorated and my husband loved it!

I've been going to Torrance Bakery for years, so it was a no-brainer on what bakery I would use for my wedding cake. We had a white cake with lemon chiffon filling and french cream frosting. It was delicious!

We loved our cake. We have the Style #700 with variation and it turned out great. Cake tasted great. The wedding consultant Lourie is very attentive and great to work with. Cake picture in my bio.

My husband purchased my birthday cake here for our wedding (I got married on my b-day) and they did an incredible job at making a two tier replica of two Tiffany & Co. boxes to go along with the theme of our wedding. The cake tasted so good and looked just as great. Both tiers on this cake was marble cake with chocolate fudge center. I highly recommend them!

We loved Torrance Bakery. We had marble cake with fudge filling with white buttercream frosting. Pics in bio. Our cake on the wedding day was just as good as the tasting, very moist. They were wonderful to work with.

I was so turned off by their lack of customer service here. They would say anything to get you finished and out the door because true, they are ridiculously busy! But we chose NOT to go with this vendor because they wanted to charge me an arm and a leg for a custom designed cake. Let's see, I think they said $7 a person extra which was on top of the regular cost of the cake! They have decent cakes, but the service is lacking big time. Not worth the hassle.

Great Cakes! Great pricing!

We are now addicted to Torrance Bakery!! At our wedding cake tasting appointment we were hooked. We tasted 6 cake and filling combinations and had such a difficult time choosing just one, that we choose three! After hearing me rave about the cake, my bridesmaids surprised me with a Torrance Bakery cake at my bridal shower and all of the guests there fell in love with it too. On our wedding day, the cake was absolutely beautiful, delivered on time, and tasted delicious. We also had a groom’s cake that was artfully decorated with a golf theme, and tasted delicious too. We are making up excuses to go get another Torrance Bakery cake and highly recommend them!

We used Torrance Bakery for our wedding cake. We got a cake for 125 people for about $400 and it was fantastic! We got marble cake and chocolate cake with chocolate fudge chocolate chip filling and buttercream frosting. Everyone has been raving about the cake. It was delicious!

Beautiful wedding cakes come from Torrance Bakery... every time!
Thanks for your dedication to perfection!
Michelle, Carol, Janel, Stephanie and Melinda
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