Green Lily Bakery

When I first started looking around for a bakery for our wedding, I was overwhelmed by all of the choices. I was able to narrow in on Green Lily Bakery because: a) we wanted a dessert bar and Jessica had a ton of mini dessert options; and b) I thought it was so cool that she is committed to local and organic sweets. Our tasting with Jessica confirmed our initial feeling, and we walked away having chosen an almond and raspberry wedding cake and all kinds of desserts (cake pops, cookies, donuts, cannoli, mini pies, crème brûlée, etc.). The desserts on our wedding day were out of this world! Jessica put aside a box of each of the mini desserts for us so we could enjoy them after the wedding, and we devoured them. Our cake was also fantastic. We had a small hiccup (or from Jessica’s perspective, a pretty big hiccup) with one of Jessica’s ovens malfunctioning the day of the wedding and the desserts being delivered later than anticipated, but they were there in time for everyone to eat them and they looked beautiful. Jessica felt so bad that she offered to give me a free birthday cake, which I gladly took her up on (apple spice — also delicious). Jessica does not make run of the mill wedding cakes and desserts — she creates delicious works of art! I highly recommend her.

This was the only disappointment at my daughters wedding. The wedding cake was awful and not what we expected at all. First of all, Jessica was over 30 minutes late arriving to set up the cake. That was not a big deal to us. What really upset us was the quality of the cake. A fresh baked delicious cake was what we were promised. When we cut the cake two and a half hours it was set up the cake layers were still frozen and we could barely cut through them! They were so dense and heavy that no one was able to eat the cake. It was terrible. We threw it away. Thankfully we went with another bakery for the grooms cake which was delicious.
I feel it is important to mention that we also used Jessica for the bridal shower and the desserts were also inedible. We ordered cupcakes and cookies and neither were good. The cookies were dry and the frosting on top was gummy and off tasting. The cupcakes were mushy and overwhelmed with frosting that tasted like sugar and shortening. Not the delicious buttercream we experienced on the sample cakes.
Do not be fooled by Jessica. She will deliver amazing sample cakes but will not deliver them at the actual event. On a final note. She forgot to even put the lemon curd in the top tier of the wedding cake. We had expressed our concern to Jessica after the shower about her baked goods. She assured us that the wedding cake would be exactly like the samples. However, it was a frozen, poorly prepared cake.
I suggest looking for another bakery.

BEST BAKED GOODS AND SERVICE EVER!
I reached out to Jessica at Green Lily Bakery to prepare a three-​tiered dessert tray for my friend’s baby shower and her business was excellent every step of the way! She was accessible, responsive, and easy to communicate with; she worked with me to put together a specific vision, and even delivered the desserts to the event day of. Most importantly, the desserts were BEAUTIFUL and DELICIOUS! Everyone loved them, especially the spectacular cupcakes. I would recommend Green Lily Bakery to anyone who wants superb baked goods and high quality service, and I will definitely be working with them again!