In the Orlando area, there are two vegan bakeries that do wedding cakes. The first one is BabyCakesNYC. They have a small spot in Downtown Disney, and all of their cakes are also gluten free and low glycemic. I like their cakes, and so does my fiance. I was a little worried that the texture of their frosting might throw off some guests, but we looked into their wedding cakes anyways. Their designs, however, are not very attractive to us. I can definitely see how they would fit in with other weddings, but it just was not us as at all. So BabyCakes got crossed off the list.
Raphsodic Bakery on Mills is the other one. They also have gluten free cakes, but it's not all they do. They are also ridiculously accommodating with allergies.
My fiance and I have been there many times and think their wedding cakes are beautiful, but we just never saw their flavors as our thing for our wedding. We didn't want to write them off, though, because no bakery is going to understand what we want in a vegan cake better. When we set up the tasting, my fiance got to pick a bunch of different cakes, frostings, and fillings to try out. This was a nice change from everyone giving us plain chocolate cake when we didn't want chocolate cake at our wedding.
We tried a chocolate biscotti cake, a spice cake, a lemon caramel cake, an almond cake, and a marzipan cake. For frostings and fillings we tried a vanilla butter cream, a spiced vanilla butter cream, chocolate butter cream, chocolate ganache, and apple butter.
Holy crap everything was so good. The marzipan cake might have actually been the best cake I've ever had. The frostings were rich and flavorful and didn't have that chemical taste that so many others had. I was in love.
When we started talking about designs, the owner was great. Since they don't use fondant and chemical food colorings, she was very open and honest with us about what the design limitations were. Within those limitations (which are a small price to pay for something so good and good for you), we could still definitely create a cake that would look beautiful and fit with the rest of our wedding.
When she gave us the prices, I almost cried. They were the lowest prices we'd been quoted for. I called my mom afterwards and told her the cost and she didn't believe me. They are also much more flexible with payments and orders than more traditional bakeries, which is great for us.
I don't think it really needs to be stated, but this is where we are getting our cake.
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