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I highly highly highly recommend the Pastry Garden. The cakes there are AMAZING. I LOVE cake and theirs is the BEST. I have been to showers and weddings and can always tell when it's a Pastry Garden cake. I went there last month for my cake tasting and the woman who owns the place is SO NICE. They have so many options and will work within your budget.
When I left I asked if she needed a deposit and she said "No...everyone always comes back." I'm sure that's true. They have a few locations in Dutchess County, but they do the cake tastings at their Rt. 44 location in Poughkeepsie (next to Adams Fairacre Farms). They also deliver. I don't think they take cake reservations more than a year in advance, but it doesn't hurt to call....or order a small cake for someone's birthday just to try it!
I don't know if they do wedding cakes but Jean Claude's in Warwick is an Amazing bakery! It's definitely worth a call or better yet stopping in for a pastry and coffee.
Thanks Ladies!!!
I have heard a lot of praise about Pastry Garden and they are actually the recommended shop for a caterer we're looking at. But....the cakes on their website look so old fashioned.....
Jean Claude has a website! Yay! I don't live local so I've been relying a lot on websites. :)
Don't go by the Pastry Garden's website....it does come across as very outdated. They have a book with tons of cake examples at the store. When you go for your tasting you can look through the book and pick out what you want or bring your own photos. They can do some pretty cool stuff.
Pastry Garden is AMAZING!!! I love them. Not only was the cake actually as delicious day of as at the tasting - really unbelievably good - it was exactly what we discussed! I went into the tasting unplanned, with zero ideas about what I wanted in the wedding cake, and we ended up with something I loved. It was a 7 layer white cake with alternating layers of chocolate ganache and a *fresh* berry compote (not jam). People still remember how good it was - and it was our only dessert.
I can't wait for our one year anniversary because they offered to make us a fresh one for free!
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Janna,
Thanks SO much for sharing a picture!!! That does look amazing! That is very similar to what I'm looking for except I want square and it won't be pink. :P
Would you mind sharing how much you paid for that? That looks SO much better than nay of the cakes on their websites.
I know I shouldn't base completely off the website. But not living there we don't have the luxury of visiting places every other weekend. So I'm doing a lot of my research online. Alright, I think this place is definitely worth a visit then because I have heard a lot of good reviews.
Definitely make a stop at Pastry Garden, you won't be sorry! I buy myself a birthday cake from them every year, and all of our family's birthday cakes come from them. (and occasionally when I get a sugar craving I get their chocolate mousse brownies- OUT OF THIS WORLD) DELICIOUS! I think they're too busy baking cakes to update their website! :) Word of mouth is definitely how they do business. I'm drooling now.. mmm.. Pastry Garden.
The cake actually was included in the price of my venue - but I think it was $100 more to use Pastry Garden as the vendor vs. the standard option. The owner worked with us and she created this off a picture from a magazine so I think she can do pretty much whatever you want, including more modern looks. They also do the more traditional old fashionged cakes because I assume a lot of their clientele want them.
Lulus Bakery in West Chester is incredible. They were rated West Chesters best bakery more than 5 years in a row. We ordered our cake from there for our summer 2009 wedding in the hudson valley
Wow.. thank you for the picture from the Pastry Garden. My caterer recommended them, but I wasn't so sure after looking at their website. I feel better about them now though. I needed to see that b/c I live in CA, so I can't really visit their shop.
I got my cake from Adams Fairacre Farms (Kingston location). It was lovely looking, tasted delicious, and was VERY reasonable- around $250 delivered. They said it was to serve 125 people, but we had A LOT left over.
They have a book at the counter to choose from and all the cakes were pretty lame 80s looking monstrosities. However, their cake decorator is pretty talented and can duplicate many styles. I don't think they do fondant if that matters to you. I just sent the decorator a few inspiration pictures and she did a great job coming up with a nice design (I didn't see the final product until the wedding!).
They have locations in Kingston, Poughkeepsie and Newburgh.
Here's a picture of my cake:
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liljuliet,I just wanted to let you know that I contacted Pastry Garden a couple weeks back and they said they don't really schedule appointments until 6-8 weeks prior to the wedding. That is WAY too close for me. At 6-8 weeks I don't want to be worrying about picking a baker.
Anyway, I'm not planning a wedding locally either but will be meeting with 3 caterers and a baker in 2 weeks. I can let you know how it goes if you're interested!
rosychicklet,
I saw your cake on another thread and it's amazing! Especially for that price! I will have to see if we can swing by and pick a slice or something next weekend! Thanks!
Adams was very easy to work with. The cake was chocolate with white chocolate mousse and chocolate truffle filling with buttercream frosting.
Doing the tasting was really easy- they make cupcakes of the various combinations for you to just take home with you and try out.
I booked Pastry Garden in January for my August wedding. Maybe you misheard and they said 6-8 months?
I found a picture I loved on flickr.com and printed it for them, and they are going to replicate it. I'm really looking forward to it.
Gerbera Unfortunately, I am 6 weeks out with no baker.... haha. it wasn't supposed to happen that way, but it took me from January until April to find a florist. I would like to see more of their work though. I'm a little uncomfortable still because their website does not look very modern at all. I would LOVE to hear what you find out from the other bakeries. I'm considering Cakes by Lindsay in NJ.
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The Pastry Garden is really good, I love their cakes. My wedding cake came from them as well. Though when you sit down with them make sure you bring color samples. I asked for harvest yellow roses on my sister-inlaws fall wedding cake and I got pastel yellow. My wedding cake came out just the way I wanted. Though I got a birthday cake from them once that said Happy Birthday Mealisa. (my name is Melissa) Once again just spell it out for them. Though another place you may want to try is Corsino Cakes (www.corsinocakes.com) the chef is a CIA grad and he is pretty good. He does all those sculpted cakes that are hot right now. He is from the area and his stuff looks pretty cool, you really want to try him out.
I am getting convinced to go with Pasty Garden! I am going to call them and see if they have a minimum number of servings for a wedding cake. My wedding cake would be a presentation cake because at the dinner we are having sticky toffee pudding...and it's AMAZING! I would just go to the shop, but I live in Spain and won't be back in NY until July...please keep posting info. though!
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Hi all!
I'm getting married in Hudson Valley in August of 2010 and am looking for someone local to make my wedding cake. I guess the area would be Lower-Mid Hudson Valley? Millbrook, Marlboro, Warwick Area? Anywhere within a hour would be fine. So far I've found 2 or 3 I like but are probably a bit far for my venue.
Who did you or are you using for your wedding cake? It would be even more perfect if they can do sculpted cakes for the grooms cake also. Thanks!