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    Baking Institute

    3.8 (127 reviews)
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    Updated 2 months ago

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    Cate B.

    The cake was delicious and delivered on time and looked beautiful. The communication was always extremely prompt, They were very easy to work with. I am very happy.

    Marble, lemon, tiramisu and chocolate cake tasting!
    Sandy N.

    Igor was very detailed and helpful during our tasting. Initially we picked 3 flavors but he added a 4th one. Definitely worth a spot to check out. We have 100 guest @4.50/pp plus $400 design and cake total was around $970 with delivery. Pretty reasonable and they have many designs!

    Wedding Cake from the Baking Institute
    Jennifer R.

    We can't say enough good things about the Baking Institute! They made the most beautiful cake for our wedding that fit nicely with the decor. They also had a great variety of flavors to choose from. We went with the Lemon Zest and Chocolate Raspberry Heaven and couldn't get enough of both of these flavors. The tasting experience and choosing our cake design was also wonderful. I was able to bring my parents with us for the tasting, so it was a really memorable experience for all of us. They were very detailed with all of the cake design options. They even asked for a picture of my wedding dress and they helped pick out a cake that fit the wedding dress/vibe of the wedding. It was very personal and custom! I would highly recommend working with the Baking Institute for your wedding cake!

    Me and my Fiancé are getting married June 2,2024 and we went yesterday to our cake tasting and we were so excited and the lady we were with, her name was Ciera and she was so spaced out and awkward. First issue was that they served the cake on a paper plate with clear plastic utensils like c'mon couples come to take photos, at least make it look presentable. Second issue was Ciera herself, she didn't introduce herself or anything and didn't even give us descriptions of the cake flavors ( yes we chose the flavors but that was a month ago and it was all thrown on 1 plate so we couldn't tell what was what) and everything was extremely rushed and she didn't try to make it special at all for us and we were in and out of there in 10 minutes. Honestly if we weren't spending so much already on our wedding I would have gotten up and left and chose another place to make our wedding cake.

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    T. A.

    Myself and my family have been ordering cakes from here for the past 10 years. Baby showers, birthdays, graduations, holloween, Easter, etc. All of which adds up to thousands upon thousands of dollars of business. Today, I received the delivery of a cake, I paid $620. The cake was to celebrate one of the most meaningful promotions of my career, and I couldn't have been more disappointed. The cake looks like someone without experience took 5 minutes to throw it together. Posted are the photos of what we requested along with what we received. If there was any doubt about what was ordered, a follow-up phone call should have taken place to us 2 weeks ago when the order was placed. Or a 1 minute Google search would have yielded the proper details if the photos and original request were unclear. OR call us for clarification if there were doubts. Today, after multiple calls, emails, and photos were sent, we were told we would receive a full refund. However, it was not the initial response we had received, AND it doesn't change that the moment is ruined. The detailed fondant work " IS " what draws us to this bakery. If I just wanted a cake without the special decor, I would have bought one from Costco. By the way, Costco cakes taste delicious and moist for a mere $30 dollars. This is the business, this is their specialty, you only get one chance to get it right for the moment.

    The inspiration photo for our cake
    Crystal M.

    Horrible service! I provided an inspiration photo for what I wanted my wedding cake to look like and they did a horrible job executing what I asked for. I also paid extra to have the cake look this way - when I called to ask for my money back since the cake looked horrible I was told by the general manager Igor that in his opinion it was beautiful. I was very unhappy with the cake and the service of this place and would not recommend.

    We chose Baking Institute to bake and design our wedding cake. We worked with Igor, who was very helpful in making the right choices for the design and flavors. We went with a 4-tier cake with one layer being marble cake with raspberry mousse and the other two layers with marble cake and white chocolate mousse. Both combinations were outstanding and loved by our guests. There was a small upcharge to choose mousse filling, but it was definitely worth the cost. We loved Baking Institute so much that we decided to order another cake for our baby shower. We highly recommend Baking Institute for anyone who is looking for a delicious cake for your wedding or any other special occasion.

    It was a rough start with the baking institute in Northbrook but they came through with flying colors on our wedding day. First of all, don't expect a big fancy bakery. Totally disappointing! They are located in a dingy, remote industrial park. The inside of their office is dark, dank, and unassuming. There are several old fake cake examples to look at while waiting for the most disagreeable sales person ever! Brought pictures, told the guy what we wanted and he proceeded to minimize all our requests. Even saying that we don't need to put frosting flowers around the whole cake...so weird...especially if it's in the middle of the dance floor and not against a wall. The cake samples they brought out didn't have frosting and I feel that is really peculiar. We left dumbfounded and confused. After talking to our coordinator at the banquet place and she called over with our concerns, things got better. The cake ended up being beautiful and delicious.

    Our finished wedding cake from the baking institute. Thank you Igor!
    Nina H.

    This review is nearly four months overdue but I wanted to give credit and thanks to the wonderful staff and Igor (Head baker) @ the baking institute. The baking institute was one of our vendors for our wedding this past year and they did a great job with our cake selection. At first when My husband and I arrived for our first appointment and cake tasting, we weren't sure what type/flavor or design of cake we wanted. After looking at several Pinterest photos, the task of choosing seemed daunting. There's just so many things to consider when choosing "The Cake" but Igor helped smooth that whole process over by simply asking some basic questions like: What's our color scheme? What does my dress look like? What cake flavors do we like/don't like? What are the flowers we've chosen? And from all that info, he was able to design a cake that was to both my husband's and my liking! Overall, everyone enjoyed the look and most importantly the taste of the cake. I would highly recommend this place to anyone considering a purchase from the baking institute. They are by appointment only so please call ahead.

    Our gorgeous cake! (Flowers from Kimberose)
    Catherine P.

    Our reception hall, The Cotillion, uses the Baking Institute for their wedding cakes as part of their reception packages. Originally, they double booked our appointment and had to reschedule for another day. When we finally went in, we expected to meet with a designer or baker, but we met with an office person. She provided zero creative advice and more or less just took our order. We tasted 3 different cakes with a variety of frostings and ended up ordering an almond cake with a hazelnut frosting. We wanted something different than your standard wedding cake and achieved just that. Overall, we were happy with our cake, but would have liked some sort of guidance from an expert and did not receive that at all After all, I have never ordered a wedding cake before and had no idea what I was doing. I provided them my own sketch of my cake and they used this to make our cake. It came our beautifully and tasted delicious, but we basically ordered from their "menu" of options. We skipped the fake flowers and let our florist, Kimberose, decorate the cake with real roses and I'm so happy we decided against the edible flowers. Real roses were the way to go! Would I use them again? Possibly.

    Does this look right to you? Looked ready to fall over and wasn't supposed to be like this. Tasted so bad little kids wouldn't even eat it
    Miss T.

    Worst cake ever! Not only was it not what the bride ordered, it was leaning so badly that the reception hall was afraid to put her topper on it for fear it would tip over! My first thoughts as matron of honor when I saw that cake were WTF?!? My sister was introduced and immediately almost started crying when she saw it. And how could she not, when it was right in front of her. The cake tasted so nasty my 4 year old wouldn't even eat it. She should have used Berkots or Fleckensteins because if the cake looked jacked up, at least it would've tasted good!

    a three tiered wedding cake
    Stephanie C.

    We had a great experience with the baking institute. Our wedding cake was absolutely beautiful and looked exactly like how we wanted it too. It tasted delicious too!!

    Our cake with the RIGHT colored ribbon

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