Katie Cakes

We got married in July and Katie’s Cakes did a fabulous job! We met with her and her staff a year ahead of time and worked with them throughout the year to get exactly what we wanted. They were competitive on price, very responsive both by email and phone, and were kind and helpful throughout the process. We had a cheesecake bar and a sculpted cake which turned out beautifully. Katie also decorated our cake table for us with decorations we left for her and our table turned out as adorable as I had hoped it would. We didn’t get to taste the cake ourselves (as usually happens at one’s wedding) but our guests said it was delicious! The samples we tasted at our tasting were also very delicious and moist. Thank you, Katie!

Katie Cakes made my wedding cake and wedding cupcakes.
AMAZING.
Katie met with me a month before and was very conscientious about getting the flavors, colors, and design that I wanted exactly right. My husband and I love carrot cake, so we made sure that part of the cake was carrot, but I was so impressed with her other flavors that we made the bottom layer white cake with strawberries, and the cupcakes — chocolate, lemon, and coconut.
I literally had someone come up to me at the wedding and say that the chocolate cupcake was the best they’ve ever had.
The carrot cake was actually WAY better in cake form than at the tasting (I think it was because of the frosting — DELICIOUS.) My maid of honor tried it and brought me a forkful on the dance floor — it was that good — moist, perfect icing to cake ratio, and Katie added walnuts as I requested.
I also tried the lemon cupcakes — the icing was just magical! Like a fluffy whipped icing dream. The cake design was just as I had envisioned and explained, and even the table set up.
I want to make a trip back to Tahoe soon, just to get some more of those cupcakes!!!

Katie and Katie Cakes are awesome! Instead of cake we wanted mini-​pies for our wedding in Lake Tahoe and Katie Cakes surpassed our expectations. ALL (& I mean ALL) of our guests LOVED the mini-​pies. Crust, flavor and filling were superb and the presentation was outstanding.
We had Cherry, mixed berry, lemon, dutch apple and fruit tart mini-​pies and they were all excellent. Katie was great to work with and we were blown away by how incredible the set up the pie table.
I highly recommend Katie Cakes and would use them again for any occassion.

We had a dessert buffet for our wedding plus a little two tier cake as well. Let me tell you… ALL of it was delicious! We loved the attention to detail on each little dessert! Katie, Rhonda, and the rest of the staff at Sugar Pine Bakery/​Katie Cakes were all super friendly, easy to work with, and just a sweet as their cakes. We plan on getting another cake from them to celebrate our 1 year anniversary… oh hell maybe every anniversary from now on. They are that yummy! If you’re a bride in the Tahoe area I would definitely recommend them!

Amazing! Not one complaint!
I first communicated with Rhonda via email a few weeks before my arrival to see if they could make a small birthday cake for a friend I was visiting. She was super friendly and always responded in a timely manner. I ended up changing my flight to the day before, friends actual bday, and they changed the order to that day no problem. When I realized I wouldn’t be getting into town until right around the time they closed? No problem. I called the day before, paid over the phone and was able to pick it up at the side door where the night crew was making bread. Katie was there making a cake (duh) and she was so friendly, as was Rhonda. I ended up being about 40 minutes later than planned and they were still completely friendly and acted as if it was no issue.
Oh and the cake? German Chocolate. Super good. And I don’t even like German Chocolate cake. It was super affordable too. Anyway-​I become a Tahoe local as of August 11^th and I will surely be sending any cake referrals to these gals!

The flavor of the wedding cake I ordered was out of this world. However, I almost cried when I saw how they had butchered my vision of what I wanted the cake to look like.

Had a cake tasting there over the weekend for my June wedding. The overall experience was excellent. The cake was really really good. The presentation was great, and the process was really fun! We left confident that our cake is going to be great and knowing that we had hired the right people for our special day!

We love love loved our wedding cake from Katie Cakes! It was adorable and delicious! They were so much fun to work with and really helped bring our unique ideas to life. The only reason I didn’t give them 5 stars is because it took so long to get the examples that Katie drew for us, and when we did receive them they were not really what we had talked about. However, they did work with us to make it, not just right, bt perfect!

We worked with Katie Cakes for our wedding cake and loved it! She and her assistant did an amazing job working with us from the very beginning. Katie met with us to do a tasting twice because we needed to clarify our choices (we made them with more than a year to wait before our wedding). She was flexible and very sweet with us. She had an awesome eye for taking what we described and showed her from pictures and transforming it into the perfect cake for us.
I don’t like buttercream at all and we both don’t care for fondant, so she worked with us to choose flavors that went well with a cream cheese frosting. Really, all of the flavors she gave us to try were fantastic. We loved her ideas to combine our favorites too.
As the planning progressed we also asked her for advice on our favors. We worked with her assistant, Rhonda, to design Lake Tahoe-​shaped sugar cookie complete with blue frosting for our favors. Wow, we were impressed. Rhonda was easy to talk to, reach and was very helpful too. She even called me a couple of days before the wedding to make sure the ribbon she used went with our colors.
When you hire Katie Cakes you get Katie and a team of people who are there for you. You get an amazing cake and all the kindness you need. Just make sure you order enough for your event, because we had many guests wanting seconds!

We were in Tahoe this weekend and had a couple of birthdays while there, so were looking for a nice cake for friends. We ended up getting a bunch of cupcakes and tarts at the bakery and were really impressed. The service was super friendly and gave us a nice discount since we came back for more. They also offered us tastes of some really delicious breads. Everyone was really happy with everything we bought there and the price was pretty reasonable. We were also really happy to support such a great little mom and pop business in a City where there is so much overpriced low-​quality junk.
It would be 5 stars if only I wasn’t spoiled by living near Tartine in San Francisco… but for Tahoe, it just might be a 5.

Katie did our cake for our wedding on Sept. 12. We live far away and had to do everything over the phone so i didn’t see the cake till it was time to cut it. It was perfect! The colors were right and she even made little cala lillies on top. Plus it tasted awesome! I have the top half in my freezer for our one year anniversary and I don’t know if its going to last that long I want to eat it so bad lol! She also has the best prices in Tahoe, and I shopped around!

I ordered a cake for my mother’s 50^th birthday and it was amazing. I sent Katie a picture of a cake I liked and she, to me, designed it better. The cake and filling were also very good. My mother’s birthday was a memorable event and the cake just added to the perfect night. Thanks Katie for making my mom’s 50^th birthday that much more special.

The flavor and decorations were both disappointing. The thick, heavy, white, sugary fondant that covered the cakes had more flavor than the cake itself. The cake was very dry and the filling was mediocre.
The decorations were poor, I’m shocked at the lack of effort because her website boasts some awesome cake designs and her background culinary credentials.
We communicated via e-​mail about the details and I even provided pictures of specific items that I wanted. It was a missed opportunity for a great review.