Cakes In Bloom

Cakes in bloom was absolutely incredible. Rachel offered a professional yet comfortable experience! I was very please from our first meeting! The cake was phenomenal!

I love cake. I mean, I really love cake. I am also a little bit of a cake snob. As such, I had the bar set pretty high when searching for our wedding cake. My (now) husband and I were pretty set on two flavors for our October wedding — Red Velvet & Carrot and were looking for a third that would both fit with our fall theme and compliment a cream cheese base. We tried many bakeries throughout Indy (where we live), Bloomington and Brown County (where our wedding was held), one of which had been featured in local wedding magazines and is very well known through B.C. and none of them held a candle to Cakes in Bloom.
Upon first meeting with Rachel we clicked with her immediately. She was so sweet. She knew exactly what we were going for aesthetically and seemed so excited to create it for us. She was answered every question we had with ease and really worked with us to determine the best tier combination so that we had more than enough to feed everyone but still remained within budget. She was also quick to respond to every e-​mail both prior to and after our meeting with her — even with a few couple of last minute changes, she was very accommodating and I don’t think it ever took longer than a day to get a response.
Now, on the the cakes. Oh my gosh. For the tasting, she provides three different cake flavors, for ours it was red velvet, carrot (two flavors we already knew we wanted) and a third called hummingbird. If you’ve never had a hummingbird cake (we hadn’t), its this delightful cross between banana cake and spice cake. It’s moist, flavorful and delicious. Likewise, the carrot and the red velvet were out of this world. Both were incredibly moist. The red velvet had just a hint of cocoa to the taste and was delicate; the carrot was full of spices and flavor. Accompanying the trio of cake samples was a platter of at least six different scoops of frosting and a dish of filling in the center. In our case, our frosting flavors included vanilla buttercream, cream cheese, peanut butter, lemon, chocolate, and chocolate ganache (potentially a couple more but these are the ones I remember) and in the dish was a raspberry filling. Oh my lanta, I could eat that filling and those frostings all day. Obviously, many of these were not choices that you would typically want on a red velvet or carrot, but I appreciated the offerings because I came very close to turning it all around and telling her I wanted a cake with that lemon frosting and raspberry filling (it was so good!). Oh, and did I mention she packed us doggie bags with some of the extra cake and frosting she had from our tasting?
Ultimately, we did not go with the hummingbird flavor as our third tier as we were worried others wouldn’t know what it was and just not try it. Instead, we chose a toasted butter pecan flavor she had available and it was just as delicious as anticipated. Our guests are STILL raving about our cake three weeks later. I had multiple people stop and talk to me at the reception about how moist the cakes were and that it was «the best wedding cake» they’d ever had. One of our guests, that lives in Long Beach, requested her information for the next time she is in town. It was that good. We had plenty of leftovers of the red velvet and butter pecan that we happily ate and gave a little bit out to friends and family. Our carrot cake layer wound up being the most popular and was eaten before we ever got a bite. However, our anniversary layer was the carrot. We may or may not have broken into it a little bit…
If you’re in need of a high quality, yet reasonably priced cake and a fantastic vendor to work with then Rachel with Cakes in Bloom is exactly who you are looking for.

Rachel’s cakes are amazing! My family could not get enough. I ordered a birthday cake for my daughter with peanut butter buttercream filling and the cake was a rich dark chocolate. It tasted great and looked great too! I sent Rachel a picture of a pretty cake I found and she matched it beautifully with pretty extras like pink ribbon around the cake stand and writing on the cake that tasted so good! She delivers right to your door, what more can you ask for! She is very talented!