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Congratulations to commenter #44 Catherine who won Martha Stewart’s Wedding Cakes book giveaway below!
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I was lucky enough to score a copy of the stunning new book, Martha Stewart’s Wedding Cakes. It’s so gorgeous, I’d absolutely love to keep it for myself… but I think a weddingbee reader would love it even more, so we’re giving it away!
The book showcases over 100 of the most inspirational cake creations ever featured within the pages of Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine. There were truly too many beautiful cakes to choose from, but I thought this beehive cake featured on page 69 was particularly appropriate. 
To enter, simply tell us your favorite cake baker! You have until 8:00 pm EST tonight to enter. Good luck!
PS - Congrats to Tea and Shannon for winning the last t-shirts in our weddingbee t-shirt giveaway!
PPS - We have another contest from from Cat Seto Custom Invitations tomorrow so stay tuned! Don’t forget to check out Wedding Week on Cat’s blog where she’s going to be featuring her favorite wedding invitation designers, dresses, her sketches and DIY ideas.
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My mom started doing wedding cakes because my cousin couldn’t afford one. Now people from all over hire my mom to do their wedding cakes!
yipeeeeee!
my favorite baker is my fiance! he’s designing our wedding cake! =)
I looooooooove Sugarbakers out of Catonsville, MD. Now only if I was getting married in Maryland, I would definitely use them!
Confection Art in York, Maine!
April Reed! Her design is so clean and modern and her cakes are delicious. In lieu of a regular in-store tasting, she sends you a care package with 10 little jars of different buttercreams, fillings and jams, as well as, 4 large slices of cake. My fiance and I spent a whole night mixing and matching!
April even created a special yuzu chocolate ganache for our wedding! Yuzu is a japanese citrus fruit which my fiance and his family love!
But I do second Jesi’s Duff Goldman….he’s freakin awesome!
Richard Festen at bakingarts.net made the most delicious white cake I have ever had. I’m drooling thinking about it right now.
Wendy Kromer! love her stuff
I vote for the Cake Man Raven. Red velvet anyone? mmmmmmm
Favorite cake baker: Myself! I love to bake cakes so much so that I am doing my own!
I love my cake baker http://www.sweetweddings.com/
in St. Augustine Florida. She not only is just as sweet as her cakes - but her flavors are unique and her designs are intricate and gorgeous. OH and the icing on the cake, her prices are really quite affordable. So even the gal on a budget can feel like she is indulging in a sweet luxury for her wedding.
I love Van’s Bakery. It’s a French, Chinese, Vietnamese bakery. There cakes are always so light and refreshing.
def. Duff Goldman from Queen City Cakes!!
I haven’t found a cake yet…. 
I can’t pick just one! I must pick two! I heart Margaret Braun and Sylvia Weinstock! Please pick me!
I love Joeleen from My Sweet Design…..she values taste as much as design, which I think is super important!!
I vote for Kim Boos at Haute Cakes in Colorado!! She makes yummy organic and vegan cakes as well as more traditional ones
Elegant Cheese Cakes in Half Moon Bay! mmMMmm!
My baker, of course! Sweet Binney’s in West Des Moines, Iowa.
i LOVE april reed! Her cakes are a work of art!!
I haven’t picked my cake yet, but so far I like Margaret’s French Bakery in Campbell, CA.
i LOVE ron ben-israel. his flowers are beautiful, and his cakes are classic without being overdone.
I Heart Margaret’s French Bakery from Campbell, CA.
I love Shinmin Li of I Dream of Cake in San Francisco. She is amazing!
http://www.idreamofcake.com/
Ditto Ace of Cakes - Duff Goldman and crew.
(hello the owl cakes!!!)
Definitely “Perfectly Sweet” in Los Angeles! They make the BEST tiramisu!
Cake Man Raven in Brooklyn. Their RED VELVET is to die for.
I LOVE Make my Cake. They have two locations in Harlem, New York.
tammie coe cakes taste delicious!
I’ll have to “third” Duff Goldman!
Tony’s bakery! It also serves bubbletea!
Liz Marden in Delaware! Her cakes are thin layers upon layers of different things like berry, cream, chocolate, jam all in one cake - so beautiful when sliced!
Tough decision… I have to go with Duff Goldman~~Ace of Cakes!! That book looks amaaaazing
April Reed
Also, The Dessert Deli in Buffalo, NY! YUM!
Sylvia Weinstock, of course!
definitely Elisa Strauss
My favourite baker is my mum. Ever since I remember, she has made for my siblings and me the BEST birthday cakes, different ever year, both in flavour and design, a lot more effort than I could ever imagine. Now that we’re grown she has put that love and energy into her own wedding cake business!
KonaKakes in San Diego…I love their Carmel Macadamia Nut cake! Yum!
The “princess cake” at the French Bakery on Westwood Blvd in L.A. is killer. But I’d have to say my Nana’s chocolate angel food is the best cake evah!
Enchanted Wedding Cakes in Shrewsbury, MA
My mom! She is baking my wedding cake, I can’t wait.
Sylvia Weinstock!
I don’t think she’s ever made a cake I don’t love
the cakery! yum!
Elisa Strauss of Confetti Cakes! Her cakes are so elegant and beautiful and fun a the same time.
My favorite cake place based on taste is Riveria Bakehouse in Ardsley, NY. Their cakes are so delicious I make up excuses to get one!
Celebrity baker — Duff Goldman, no doubt!!
Local baker — Teacake Bakery, Emeryville, Calif. The teacakies are just the cutest things!
Wendy Kromer!! The cover of the book is my favorite Wendy Kromer cake.
Truthfully, my favorite cake baker is my grandmother. While it clearly wouldn’t have happened since I’m only 24, part of me wishes I could have gotten married 10 years ago when she was still happily baking away, so she could have made my wedding cake (or at least a little one for us to cut, since she wasn’t a professional baker!)
Toba Garrett–the fine lace and blown sugar snowballs she makes are outrageous…and her books are so detailed and teach so well!
Party Favors in Brookline MA! (at least, that’s my favorite that I’ve actually eaten!)
Best buttercream ever.
Being from Las Vegas, Freed’s bakery is the best for wedding cakes since they do like a 100 a week.
Sylivia Weinstock course.
Deerfield bakery in IL.. been going there since i was little yumm
I am going to have cupcakes because of my love of Magnolia Bakery!
Deserts Unlimited in Hoboken, NJ! How can us students not get the freshmen 15 with it so close by!!!
Beckers Bakery in Cleveland is the best tasting cake and Wendy Kromer is the most wonderful decorator!
The bakery I’m hoping to get to work with: ele cake company from Dayton, Ohio!
Duff Goldman - love ace of cakes.
awesome prize! duff goldman!!
Carrie of Carrie’s Cakes, based here in Utah. She’s finally getting national recognition, too (was published in one of the big wedding mags a few months ago)–she is a hidden wedding industry gem, for sure!
Not gonna lie, it’s my mum! she’s amazing
Cakery in Burlingame, CA! Tasty princess cakes!
Duff Goldman-ace of cakes is such a great show!
OMG Duff Goldman FTW… or Sarah, our baker at the Cakery in Woonsocket, RI =)
Billy’s Bakery in NYC is FABULOUS!
Kings Hawaiian
My MOH! If she didn’t live 300 miles away, she’d be baking our cake. I would love to give her this book as gift. She’d love it!!
i love Nora for Cakes by Nora here in LA. she works out of her own home and her cakes are absolutely beautiful. Just tell her what you are invisioning and she will make it better than what you had in mind!!!!
My friend Paul who’s baking our cake. He makes a super-delicious ricotta cake, the best carrot cake I’ve ever had, and amazing white-chocolate frosting!
I’m a cupcake girl myself, and love Sugar Sweet Sunshine in NY. for big cake design, can’t go wrong with Sylvia Weinstock!
Ruth Moxley of Scanway Catering in Halifax, Nova Scotia. http://www.scanwaycatering.com
hmm… My local bakers at Lovin Oven in Round Lake, Illinois. They make amazingly yummy cake for a pretty good amount. I hope to get my wedding cake from there. 
Oh…so many to mention! I love the designs of Elegant Cheese Cakes (Half Moon Bay) and also La Farine’s (in Oakland/Berkeley) princess cakes and Citizen Cake’s (SF) crocumbouches and Miette’s (SF) cupcakes!
Duff Goldman, Ace of Cakes!
My aunt, who although hanging up her professional chef apron years ago offered to make my wedding cake and mini wedding cake favors I totally wanted but would never be able to afford!
Debbie Goard of Debbie Does Cakes in Oakland. She is AMAZING. Her cakes are so realistic. Check them out-I first saw a chihuahu cake in Bark magazine.
Chef Duff of course!
i love Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes too!!
Sugar Plum bakery in Virginia Beach VA!
Sylvia Weinstock takes the cake on this one…
her cakes are beautiful, and timeless!
Craig’s Cakes in WI
My HFGIL (that’s Hopeful Future Granny-in-Law) learned how to bake cakes while her mum cooked for a German baroness. She makes food the whole family swoons over, and has adapted all the favourites to be gluten-free. No doubt she’ll be baking my wedding cake, but I’d love some ideas on how to make the cake look as good as it’ll taste!
Panini Bakery in Dallas!
My favorite baker is Clotilde Dusoulier, baker and author of the blog Chocolate and Zucchini. Hers was the first blog I read regularly and how I began to start writing my own. Her treats are amazing to look at, amazing to make and amazing to share!
Rossmoor Pastries in Southern CA.
schubert bakery in san francisco… yum!! and they have awesomeeeee cupcakes as well! =D
My step mom, Rosalba, she makes beautiful and tastey cakes!! She’s doing bot mine and my sisters cakes. She’s already done both of our engagement cakes. Just need to get ideas for what we’d like for the wedding…
Duff Goldman of Ace of Cakes. His whole team is great!
I love Goldilocks. It is a filipino bakery chain but the one in Daly City (San Francisco Bay Area) has been making cakes for my family parties since I was a wee one.
I love Bronwen Weber and Colette Peters. I always love what they make when they are on Food Network Challenge!
A Piece of Cake in Bradley, IL. Absolutly awesome.
Turn OFF the FoodTV, girls. I love Duff, and would love to hang out with him, but try someone LOCAL.
Wendy Kromer, Sandusky, Ohio. Local, and amazing.
Hands down.. Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes!
His laugh is so contagious!
Grand Central Bakery in Portland, Oregon. Ok, so they don’t make traditional wedding cakes but they bake fantastic bundt cakes! My favorite is the mini chocolate burbon bundt cake.
Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland OR. Awesome!
I feel really lucky to be getting our cake from Christine Dahl, Santa Barbara Cakes. So yummy!
http://www.santabarbaracakes.com
(but secretly I love Baskin Robbins 31 Flavors ice cream cake mostest!!!)
Baked in Brooklyn, NY!
No one compares to Sylvia Weinstock!
duff goldman <3!
Can’t beat the beautiful designs of Truli Confectionary Arts
Ive never tasted their cakes… but just by the look of it… they seem so yummy!!!
I love Crumbs’ red velvet cakes/cupcakes!
i love final touch and the great dane baking company!
Ace of Cakes! Duff Goldman!
My mom! But I also love Mike, of Mike’s Amazing Cakes in Redmond, WA!!!
Sylvia Weinstock!!
Gourmet bake Shoppe!!! sooo gooood!
Barb LaBerge of Cake Creations in Alberta, Canada!
CAKE…based in San Diego!
I love Bronwen Webber from the Food Network challenges and also Marina Sousa’s work.
I love Rasperberries n’ Creme in Oklahoma City. They make the best cakes for any occasion!
the cakery in burlingame….YUM!
Stockbridges Cheesecakes in Shelton, CT. They got voted #1 in Best of Connecticut 8 years in a row and is featured in countless bridal magazines. Their cheesecakes are fluffy and light and just plain yummy!
i’m a major fan of warren brown, the owner of cake love!
I love Colette Peters cakes as well as the Cakegirls in Chicago! it’s funny, i am looking for a cake for my wedding now so the book would be perfect hehe.
being a frugal bee, it is hard to beat schubert’s bakery based on quality and price!
I my Dad and Mom. But I also like cakes from diff. kinds of stores here where I live.
this place called Aki’s. They have this delicious guava cake. Yummmmm!
Cake Design by Edda in Miami and Butterfly Cakes in SF.
Francious Payard all the way, baby!!!
My mom makes the richest chocolate-iest cake ever, and being a fiene I swallow it up!
A local bakery in MD!
I’m addicted to Ace of Cakes…my fiance jokes I have a crush on Duff…I won’t deny that 
I’m a big fan of Bronwyn Weber, from all the food network challenges (that’s pretty nerdy to admit, but i don’t mind)
My favorite cake baker is my own!! Her name is Mrs. Favreau - from my hometown. She used to own the local bakery and coffee shop! She has so many fun and funky and fresh ideas!!
My favorite cake baker is the pasty chef at The Grand Old House in the Cayman Islands. He has created some amazing cakes and will be doing mine in December 2008!
How kind of you, Mrs. Bee! My sister has such a wonderful talent of making cakes; she is my favorite.
My favorite baker is a new one, here in Charleston, SC. Her bakery is called The Cake Stand. Her little store is so cute AND she has mini cake happy hours after work and Free Cookie Friday’s. Who would not love that? Her website is http://www.thecakestandcharleston.com
My dream wedding cake would be from Magnolia Bakery. Nothing in the world can compete with the taste of Magnolia’s cakes… and then I’d have Wendy Kromer decorate it. One can dream!
My first bridal show I went to I sampled so many cakes! The best? Cost Co.
go figure!
My mom! She made a pumpkin tres leches cake for Thanksgiving that was to die for. Everyone that came over has been asking for the recipe.
I have a huge crush on Charm City Cakes (the bakery from Ace of Cakes), even though I’ve heard their cake isn’t actually that good. I have to rep my home town!
Duff Goldman is the Man! He’s a monster in the kitchen!!!
my mom makes the best cakes . She is not a pro… and I’m not asking her to make my cake… but there is not cake in the world I would rather eat than her chocolate - orange (I don’t know what it is) yummy cake.
Wendy Kromer is wonderful!
professional: duff from ace of cakes. love it.
amateur: my mom. nothing is better than her buttercream frosting.
My favorite baker is Watergate Pastries in DC. They make the best White Chocolate Mouse Cake thanks.
Mary and Brenda Maher of The Cake Girls in Chicago! Out of my price range (and zip code), but a gal can dream!
mmm…red velvet from The Cakery!!!
Maria Bella Nunley in the Allentown and Lehigh Valley, PA areas…. LOVE HER! She has been featured in area wedding magazines and also on Food Network Wedding Cake Challenges.
My mom…
Mark Lotti with Classic Cheesecakes & Cakes in Atlanta. He is amazing! The cakes are beautiful and so tasty.
Definitely Ron Ben Isreal in NYC. His cakes are works of art. And as an added bonus, they are absolutely scrumptious!
I heart my Grandma! She makes the most fabulous cakes and they tast amazing too! I want her do my wedding cake but we are ahvign a wedding a bit far from her home and it would be hard for her to travel and deal with a cake since she is 80 years old and although spry and active she tends to forget things a bit more now than she used too. I gues I’ll have to find another baker…:-(
Duff Goldman, sadly I found out about him after moving away from Baltimore. Love a creative cake.
Professional: Dunia Borga of La Duni in Dallas….she makes INCREDIBLE cuatro leches cakes!
Almost-professional: my husbands grandmother. When she was younger, she baked cakes in her apartment and sold them to Cafe des Artistes in New York!
My Grandmother!!! She made the most beautiful cakes out of her tiny kitchen. We have pictures of most of them - even the one my Dad dropped. Her signature cake was lemon - she grew them in her backyard!!! I am going to use her cake topper from 1940 in honor of her. =)
Wild Flour in Rocky River, OH!
So fun - such a cute store
Susan Morgan with Elegant Cheese Cakes! If I could quit my job, I’d definately take on cake baking/decorating full time. LOVE it!
Lori at Atlanta Cupcake Factory! Perfect creations!! These cupcakes are incredible with amazing flavors! And she is so cute!
St. Tropez Bakery in San Diego, CA
claudia fleming at gramercy tavern - cannot count the number of times I have made her guinness gingerbread to receive rave reviews!
my favorite cake baker was our baker…kathleen short http://www.kathleenscakes.net her cakes are not only beautiful but tasty too
I dream of cake! They have the prettiest, most amazing cakes!
Just desserts!
I’m loving Laurie Lukov at the moment!
I am hoping to love Sweetie Pie’s and/or Alexis Baking Company in Napa as I’ll be tasting their cakes soon!
I love, love, love cake! ANY cake! But in the end, nothing beats my Mom’s special chocolate cake with chocolate frosting!!
willow bend bakery has the most delicious Kahlua cake!!
Wuollet’s in Minneapolis
Zoe’s in Covington, Louisiana!!
I love the Susse Shoppe in Westerville, OH
There is a baker in Athens, GA named Cecelia Villaveces that does cakes for a restaurant called The Last Resort - they are so good that we would frequent the restaurant just to have dessert and coffee or wine! When I got engaged and decided to have my wedding in Athens, where I went to college, I knew that I would want a Cecelia Villaveces cake for my wedding. Her name alone is enough to evoke a feeling of old world charm and expertise. When I found out that my venue works with her on most weddings - I knew I was set. Tasting cakes to decide on flavors is still probably my favorite wedding planning memory to date.
P.S. I still need inspiration for how I want the wonderful cake to look on the outside, so any help from Martha Stewart’s book would be much needed and appreciated. I know that Cecelia can duplicate almost anything!
Our baker - Patassire Poupon in MD and DC - yum, yum!
Margaret Braun’s artsy cakes!
I love the Ambrosia Bakery in Baton Rouge! I was my favorite place to stop by and treat my self with a little something!
This book looks amazing, I can’t wait to see the designs..I wish you could taste the cakes too!
I love cake!! Collette Peters is my favorite! I’d love this book!!
My favorite cake baker would have to be myself. I have baked many cakes as gifts for family and friends. The thrill of creating a masterpiece for their special day is what makes the hours of work worth it!
Baked and Wired, Georgetown, Washington DC. Yum… cupcakes.
Mark Lotti of Classic Cheesecakes and Cakes in Atlanta makes cakes that are to die for (taste-wise and design-wise). They’re so elegant!
my friend Hannah is an amazing baker and decorator.
Patisserie Poupon in Book Hill is great!
Our family friend Charlene– she is such an amazing baker. Plus, she operates her entire business on the side out of her home. For my mother’s surprise 50th birthday party she made a snowman (3ft long!) which are my mom’s favorite. Everything was edible (even Frosty’s broom).
She’s truly an inspiration!
My mom!
I love the Cakegirls, Mary and Brenda Maher! Gotta support Chicago!!
I absolutely love CakeLove in DC — really simple, particularly on the decorations, but just the best darn cake you’ll ever try!
I *adore* Maggie Angel, from a local bakery here in Indiana. Her cakes look great, and the bakery, thanks to her Southern upbringing, has the best Red Velvet in the world!
mom!
I haven’t had personal experiences with many bakers, but I do love Katrina Rozelle’s Tiramisu
Beaux Gateaux Celebration Cakes in SF
Bake Me a Cake in Altamonte Springs, FL. They have the most gorgeous and delicious cakes in the Central Florida area!
Sweet Lady Jane in Los Angeles, CA! I love their raspberry/lemon curd filling.
Sonja of Bravo’s Bakery! Deeeeelicious!
Dorthy Ann Bakery
Woodbury, MN
They have a great chantilly cake
ME!
ace of cakes!
My mom is the best cake baker. She’s making my wedding cake and I would love to present her with a copy of this book, regardless if I win or not!
I love Wendy Kromer - especially her cakes in the current issue of MSW.
My mother!
I just adore April Reed’s designs but I do love me some Citizen Cake!
Ritz Carlton in McLean, VA. They made our wedding cake and it was so moist and delicious! Chocolate with raspberry filling!
Simon Lee Bakery takes the cake and them some….My mouth is watering. I didn’t think cake could be so yummy without chocolate.
i love Sylvia Weinstock’s style. But I love my wedding cake creator’s flavors. Jen’s Cake of Los Gatos
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