The Whole Cake

Kelsey was so wonderful to work with and the cake speaks for itself. It was so good and equally pretty. The restaurant was also very impressed with her communication and professionalism and her desire to set it up as optimally as possible. Wonderful experience and we will be back again to have her make more cakes!

There really isn’t a better person to make your cake than Kelsey at The Whole Cake. And here’s a secret… I’m not a gluten-​free gal, and really wasn’t interested in even tasting her gluten-​free cake. I had the chance to taste some cupcakes, and accidentally sampled one w/​out gluten. I LOVED it, and was telling everyone at my table they needed to try it when my brother pointed out that it was indeed the gluten-​free one. I liked it even more than the other delicious cupcakes. She makes gorgeous cakes too.

I live in Sarasota and found, The Whole Cake, through Unilocal.We are getting married in San Francisco. So I was very nervous about ordering my cake, on such a very special day, from somebody I had never used before.
I sent messages to a about a dozen cake makers. I didn’t hear back from probably six of them. I had a lot of questions and some got discouraged after answering the first one or two questions. Kelsey was wonderful. She answered all of my questions.
So I decided to go with her.
Then, I had a cake topper made and had it mailed to her. She was wonderful about that too. She looked at the cake topper and realized that it wouldn’t look good on the cake. She immediately let me know what I would need to adjust on the cake, based on the design top of flowers. We agreed to make the adjustments. Had she not, I would’ve had a great topper and a great cake, but they wouldn’t have looked good together. I was so glad that she had the foresight to make changes.
My nephew picked the cake up on the day of our wedding. When I got to the restaurant for the reception, I was stunned at how beautiful it was. It looked better than the photo I had chosen.
I’m adding a photo of the cake, see you can see what a beautiful job she did.
Thank you so much!!!

Kelsey made us the most delicious and amazing wedding cake. Great tasting cake was one of the highest priorities for me and Kelsey’s cake was absolutely perfect. The biggest debate of the night was which flavor was better… the rasberry and vanilla bean or the carrot cake. I even heard a few comments on «the best carrot cake I’ve ever had».
We will definitely be back for our next celebration… just wish it were sooner!

We loved our wedding cake – as did all the guests. We had vanilla bean cake with fresh raspberries as well as banana cake, and gluten free versions of both, too. I got so many compliments on how yummy the cake was, as well as its simple beauty with the combination of vanilla buttercream frosting and fresh flowers. Kelsey, thanks so much for making us the most delicious and beautiful cake in the world!

I used The Whole Cake for my parents joint birthday party. I ordered two fantastic cakes one was a gorgeous stiletto shoe and perfume bottle and the other was a replica of my dads favorite boat. Everyone enjoyed the cake and they were huge highlights at the party. My parents are still amazed! I highly recommend the Whole Cake! From the designers creativity, on time delivery and deliciousness I couldn’t have been more satisfied. Thank you for making my parents party so magical!

I am not a huge fan of cake, as a general rule. So… cake wasn’t a priority for me when it came to planning my wedding this past year. However, my partner (now wife) found Kelsey and my parents were excited about capitalizing on the opportunity for tasting, so we met Kelsey in her Oakland studio. I was blown away. This cake was delicious. Each bite tasted homemade from scratch, moist, heavenly. The opposite of the institutional, generic wedding cake we tasted at other «top» wedding cake bakers in the Bay Area. We ended up with two flavors: chocolate with sea salted caramel and a vanilla with fresh berry flavor (sounds boring, but was to die for!). The early grey was a runner up, but we were worried it might be too adventurous for some of our guests. Kelsey was/​is a sculptor and we were drawn to her succulent-​topped cakes and cutout creations. It took us a while to get our design ironed out, but she was patient with us as we discussed the iterations. We appreciated that she worked with us to keep the cake within our budget. Thanks Kelsey!

Kelsey made an incredible cake for David and Mandy’s wedding. Undoubtedly the most delicious cake I’ve ever eaten with almond and fresh fruit. And sunflowers and other gorgeous flowers reflecting the ceremony they had in Sutro Heights Park in the afternoon. Thank you Kelsey.

We planned our wedding for fifty guests in three weeks. Kelsey just happened to be available and we are SO grateful! Our three tier wedding cake was delicious and beautiful! It was for 60 guests and was more than ample. We had vanilla bean cake with vanilla buttercream, lemon cake with raspberry filling and chocolate cake with chocolate filling. The design was lovely and just exactly what we hoped for. The price was very fair especially considering the high quality, delightful flavors and beauty of the whole cake. Thank you so much Kelsey for being a big part of our wonderful wedding.

After discovering Kelsey at a Wedding Fair on Treasure Island (alone)
and tasting her AMAZING flavors, I was hooked! She explained to me
that her cakes were vegan (cool, since it didn’t taste vegan at all)
while her frosting (not to sweet) was butter cream. After playing it
cool, or I thought I did, I walked around and phoned my fiancé, who
was at a Giants Baseball game, and told him I found our wedding cake
baker/​artist. I contacted Kelsey shortly after our initial encounter and was able to schedule an «at home» tasting, how convenient.
The Look– I stumbled upon a Día de os Muertos wedding cake topper (or
what we used as our cake topper) and collaborated with Kelsey on a design. What was great is that she listened to exactly what I said we wanted and created it. Our wedding cake had white frosting with a red papel picado on the base of our two
tier cake.
I only hope for your wedding day you chose The Whole Cake.
Note: The day after our wedding we had cake left over and we actually had family members asking us for extra slices.

The only criterion I had for a wedding cake was that I wanted it to taste good. I didn’t care that much about how it looked. Kelsey. made a beautiful, and most importantly, *delicious* wedding cake for my wedding. She has a modern approach to wedding cakes that I really appreciate (I was set on «no fondant»).
I had guest after guest compliment me on the tastiness of the wedding cake. Most people will be like, ohh you look pretty, oh I liked your wedding, etc, etc, but I had guests come up and say I LOVE THE CAKE NOM NOM.
so there you go! She is great.

I saw one of these cakes at a friends wedding and loved the sculptural design. I have been meeting wt them to come up wt the design for my up coming wedding. I am really excited to have such an interesting and original cake for our wedding.

Kelsey magically created a delicious and magnificent work of art for our wedding, on very short notice. Our tall tower cake alternated layers of her fabulous vanilla bean cake with layers of dark chocolate, with hazelnut crème frosting in between. Amazing. The exterior was ivory butter-​cream frosting overlaid with a modern, laser-​cut lace effect in shades of caramel and wheat. She added touches of gilt for a bit of glamour. The cake was stunningly beautiful as well as a gourmet taste treat. Our guests raved about it.
Kelsey was a joy to work with. I can’t recommend her highly enough.

We hired The Whole Cake to do a wedding cake for us and we couldn’t have been happier with the results!
We ordered a layered lemon zest cake with butter cream frosting. Between each layer was just the right amount of raspberries. It was absolutely delicious and everyone at the wedding said it was the best cake they ever had. People were going out of their way to tell us how wonderful and beautifully designed it was. From a simple sketch we gave her, Kelsey designed a double-​tiered square cake with succulent sculptures and it came out better than we could have imagined.
We had a very tight budget and Kelsey was more than willing to work with us. She gave great suggestions about how to stretch our budget. She even threw in an unexpected tier to the cake even though we just ordered a simple sheet cake. That totally went beyond our expectations and was really appreciated.
Kelsey was professional, courteous, punctual with the cake delivery, and blew us away with her talent. I am looking forward to another chance to order a cake from The Whole Cake.
I WOULD RECOMMEND THE WHOLE CAKE WITHOUT ANY RESERVATIONS!!!