Krissy’s Cakes

This review is just based on the tasting…
Facts:
1) Unlike a lot of places, Krissy actually serves cake slices for the tasting, rather than cupcakes, so you will truly know what your cake will taste and bake up like.
2) If you’re a fan of sweet butter cream and icing… go elsewhere. Krissy uses a very light cream with just a touch of sweetness, you would never know that it’s butter cream (thank God). She uses very high quality ingredients and it truly makes a difference.
I’ve tasted several other bakeries in town (I won’t mention the establishments)…and no one comes close to what Krissy can deliver. Not only are her fillings/​creams light and fluffy, the cake itself is very moist and just melts in your mouth. What a difference quality ingredients make!
3) Prices: Krissy’s prices are very reasonable. Depending on what type of cake flavors you choose the average is about $ 3.75 a slice. She’s very honest and good about giving you recommendations based on your budget. Superb customer service.
If I haven’t iterated this enough, Krissy’s cakes are ridiculously good (it almost makes me sick to have to give away 5 stars). After my first tasting of her strawberries and cream cake, I told Krissy «I want to kiss you all over»…finally someone knows how to make a damn good cake that’s not loaded with sugar. You can actually taste the natural flavors.
Brides…do yourself a favor a set up a tasting with Krissy, you won’t regret it.
Suggested flavors: Strawberries & Cream, Lemon Cello and Champagne Strawberry.

My review is based on the process of ordering a wedding cake from Krissy’s Cakes, which I was very impressed and satisfied with.
As a vendor, Krissy’s Cakes is very organized, knowledgeable, helpful and flexible! I had been in contact with Krissy’s Cakes for the past month, emailing back and forth dates for the cake tasting. She was prompt with her responses and able to accommodate. On the actual day of the cake tasting, I had to change my appointment time last minute and they were more than happy to accommodate my request.
At the actual tasting, Krissy was able to take us through all the steps and clearly explain all the aspects and details. She was also very helpful in providing suggestions and options! I’m a very practical, logistics, planner-​type, so I really appreciated her to-​the-​point and organized approach.
Krissy was NOT pushy at all and very willing to give us time/​privacy to discuss and taste the cake. She helped me to find the best solution and selection for my tastes/​preferences and did not try and sell me more cake than I needed.
Location/​space: The cake shop is a bit far up north for me, but it’s fairly easy to get to and is a nice space with lots of example cakes and pictures.
Cake: Overall, I liked all the flavors. In particular I liked the Red Velvet, Chocolate and Vanilla flavors. It’s a good consistency for cake. Slightly less dense than I normally like cake, but definitely not too light or dry. The frosting is a lighter than I would have expected, but it keeps the cake from being overly sweet.
If I select Krissy’s Cakes for my wedding, I will be sure to update my review!

The first time I had the absolute pleasure of trying Krissy’s Cakes was at a dear friends wedding a few years ago. I can be a total cake/​pastry snob and must honestly say I have VERY rarely enjoyed wedding cake… until my friend’s wedding! I literally asked her who she got her cakes from when she returned from her honeymoon and I made note, knowing that my then boyfriend would… eventually…propose and that I just HAD to have her cake at the wedding! Fast forward *a year and a half* and I got engaged and quickly booked Krissy as one of my first items after our engagement! Seriously — who remembers a cake a year and a half out? People who eat Krissy’s Cakes… that’s who.
Most wedding cake either tastes like a freezer, is a hard and compact, or is dry and crumbly. Krissy’s cakes are moist, fluffy, perfectly sweetened (ie — not over sweet so you can actually enjoy it), with perfect flavor combinations and the best, velvety and buttery butter cream I have ever had in. my. LIFE. I had two of my bridesmaids join my fiancé and me for the tasting and we all loved it. My fiancé doesn’t even like cake and he loved it! In fact, my bridesmaids loved the cake so much they booked Krissy to make each others baby shower cakes, which I was also able to enjoy recently. Both cakes were the talk of the party!
I get married in October and I just can’t wait to dig into my cake! I also ordered a take away cake to nom on in the hotel — knowing I won’t really get to indulge the way I want to in front of everyone ;-) Oh! I spoke so much about the flavor and texture I forgot to mention — Krissy makes beautiful cakes — her butter cream is smooth, the tiers are just right, the decorations are ADORABLE and well placed, the piping is beautiful, handwriting is lovely… I could go on and on. For my last comment — Krissy is a DREAM to work with. I asked SO many questions and she quickly responded to each one and was also so sweet! I really just can’t say enough good stuff about this place.

My fiancée and I met in college in DC and we knew that we wanted to pay homage to our fair city via our wedding cake. We didn’t know exactly what we wanted, but we knew we didn’t want some boring cake with a stencil of our university’s logo on it. We went to 3 bakers and Krissy’s was by far the most impressive. We went to taste at the fancy pants bakery in town (every bride knows who I’m talking about) and were bother underwhelmed at the quality and taken aback by the price. The other bakery was much less expensive, but we knew they didn’t have the ability to pull off what we wanted.
Krissy was the perfect middle ground! Her cakes are great, her professionalism is top notch and her design skills are awesome. At our consultation she let us choose 3 cakes that we wanted to try (no standard chocolate and vanilla here) and then she sat with us for a good hour to hash out our cake design. We ended up with a 3 tier cake with different flavors and design themes on each one that was totally a reflection of us as a couple.
On the day of the cake was waiting for us as promised and just gorgeous! It was exactly what we had discussed and even more impressive in person. All of our guests loved our DC cake (we kept the design a secret) and we got so many compliments on the taste! The only sad part was that there was none left for us to take home. Not to worry though, we will be going back for an anniversary cake when the time comes.
I highly reccomend Krissy’s! You won’t be disappointed!

Krissy was so friendly and helpful with my wedding cakes. I say wedding cakes because we ended up with 7! She was open to my suggestions of this task and really came through. Everyone complimented the polished look, great taste and getting to try all the different delicious cake flavors instead of just one.
I really like the fact that you don’t have to freeze a layer (or cake) for your 1 year anniversary, you just call her up and get to have another great tasting cake… fresh!

Krissy’s Cakes beat out 2 other bakeries for our wedding cake, and we couldn’t have been happier with our decision to go with her!
At our consultation, I really didn’t know what I wanted, design-​wise, but Krissy sat with us and listened to what we liked, didn’t like, and drew up a design for us. She made suggestions when we weren’t sure of something. She was the only baker we went to who did that, and it was HUGE in making our decision. The time she spent with us made us feel like she truly cared about what we wanted, and that it went along with the style of our wedding.
The cake itself was DELICIOUS! We have received many compliments about how great it was! The buttercream was very light, not heavy at all, which was perfect for a post-​BBQ dessert.
Krissy and her staff were very responsive to any questions/​concerns I had, even 2 weeks before the wedding when we had to lower our count (and subsequently lower the # of tiers). I would recommend her to anyone looking for a specialty cake.

OMG! Krissy is Awesome. She is such a fun person to talk with. I showed up with 3 friends who are helping me with my wedding and she originally had made only one serving for me I told her that was just fine we would share. We talked for a bit so she could get a feel for my likes and dislikes and so on. She had great imput. Then she excused herself to get the cake she also brought us water. To my surprise she brought out four saucers of cake samples. So all of us got to try the samples. They were so good I went with them all. She helped me design the grooms cake in addition to helping with mine as she took in my ideas and such and she was very helpful in pointing out different things such as when you have colored icing the food coloring changes the taste and also it will stay on your teeth for a while and that could show up in pictures which was a great thought that I have not even considered. She made a sketch of the ideas we were telling her. Her cakes are all natural such as she uses real butter no shortening and I could tell by the frosting and the taste of the cakes. We laughed and talked some more we had a really good time with Krissy it almost didn’t feel like a cake tasting. She explained her contract and pricing to me thoroughly and very low pressure and she didn’t mention anything about putting foam in a tier like the other Bakery did. I am so impressed with her cakes I am going to be using her for my wedding cake and grooms cake. She was Great and so was the cake. Wow the orange with rasberry was great, the strawberry champagne was marvelous, and the Dolce de Leche was amazing and the vinella cream was so light. It was truelly a tough decision but like I said I chose them all. I am very satisfied with her service. Oh and I ended up getting two cakes for a lower price then what I was quoted for one cake at another bakery.

I had one of the worst customer service experiences ever with Krissy’s Cakes. We bought a groupon and when we tried to redeem it were told that we didn’t give them enough time even when we called two days in advance as requested on the groupon and their web site. It didn’t help matters much when I found out that they are closed the week before the groupon expires. Clearly Krissy is new to using Groupon to promote her business. Her comments to me were «Did I even bother to look at the website before I bought the groupon and before I tried to redeem it?» Well, yes Krissy, I did. Her other comment was, «We aren’t Walmart or HEB!» No, Krissy, you’re not Walmart or HEB. Walmart and HEB have customer service. Why not just extend the expiration date? I’m glad that other people have had good experiences with Krissy’s, but I know I will never buy a cake from them.

Bought a Groupon and used it for my son’s 2^nd birthday. They did a WONDERFUL job. The cake was seriously delish and super cute! She allowed me to upgrade my Groupon (which a lot of places do not) and I will be using them in the future for sure!

Krissy did my wedding cakes back in June, and they were amazing! Not only were they the best tasting ones out of all the tastings we went to, she was also the most enthusiastic and fun to work with. The groom’s cake was an A&M cake, I just showed her pictures and she was able to duplicate them and even added little details like the date on the cake. I couldn’t recommend her enough for your cakes!

When we started looking for a baker for our wedding cakes, I came across Krissy’s Cakes. The portfolio on the website was by far the best I’d seen — not a single monstrosity in the whole thing. No shaky writing. No leaning towers or uneven buttercream. Another major selling point for me was the price point — celebration cakes starting at $ 3 a serving and wedding cakes starting at $ 3.50 a serving, compared to many places that started $ 1 or more higher per person.
We scheduled a tasting and were very impressed with our options, deciding on a lemon cake with raspberry filling for the wedding cake and a red velvet groom’s cake. Krissy was interested in and receptive to our ideas. When I was waffling between a pop-​art inspired cake and something more traditional, she asked us about the kinds of colors and patterns we had in our home and how we dressed. She said based on our tendency toward vivid color, we’d probably be happier with the blue cake. She was totally right.
The cakes at our wedding were absolutely delicious. The wedding cake in particular looked like a beautiful sculpture — a tiered blue cake with abstract black-​and-​white gumpaste flowers cascading down one side.
Krissy worked with us to figure out the best way to protect the cakes from the heat, delivering them just minutes before our reception started and adding a layer of fondant to the wedding cake to help maintain its structure. We couldn’t have asked for better service, more delicious cake, or more beautiful work and design.
After our tasting, we snagged a Groupon for Krissy’s Cakes and used it to buy cupcakes from Krissy for our engagement party, and were very pleased with the results. The cupcakes were a perfect size for walking around at a party with, and the flavors were great. The dulce de leche were an especially great hit.

My wife and I order our wedding cake through Krissys cakes and love it. The cake was pretty and simple just like we wanted. I would recommand going with Krissy’s cakes.

I bought a groupon for Kissy’s Cakes… so when my husband’s bday came around I thought I would try it out. We loved it. Krissy was very nice and it was a pleasure to meet her. We have found our new go to bakery for celebration cakes!

I bought one of Krissys cakes a week ago for my birthday and was very disappointed. The Chocolate lovers cake to be specific. After being promised a «butter cream» frosting I got a cake with all the airyness of a cake from a grocery store. I doubt there was ANY butter in it at all. One of these whipped lard frostings that accompany a mediocre cake. AND not a very chocolate punch either. It seems people in general don’t know a ok cake from a great cake. I wouldn’t go back.
edit:
OK after talking to Krissy responding to my review. It seems see makes a «French» buttercream which consists of «cutting» the buttercream with meringue. Now I’m not a baker and maybe that’s techniquely a type of Buttercream. BUT!!! then say that in your advertising. To me a Buttercream is a BUTTERCREAM! NOT…“oh by the way we cut it with meringue”. I feel thats deceitful. Even though Krissy insists its great frosting… the fact remains it’s NOT very chocolatey and its fluffy. I like a heavy buttery, sweet chocolatey frosting on a cake. Especially one that is called «The chocolate lovers cake. I was NOT in Love with this chocolate cake.

Krissy did a very good job with our cakes! The best part about her cakes was that they were so delicious! We tried three different cake decorators and hers tasted the best! She was also very creative. We weren’t sure of what we wanted for the groom’s cake. She did a sketch at the initial meeting based on what my husband told her his interests were. She was the first decorator to do this. We chose her because of her creativity and her delicious cakes! She delivered two beautiful cakes to our wedding on time.

I had Kriston Woods, pastry chef and femme fatale, do my wedding cakes two weeks ago, and I’m still getting compliments. Her cakes rock! I love sweets and knew that at my wedding, I wanted the best cake ever– she really delivered. She’s friendly, very mellow and flexible, easy to get along with, and definitely knows her baking. She is very prompt and professional, her prices are lower than most, and her cake is so fresh, moist, and utterly unlike the normal sawdust you find at weddings. Even if you think you’ve had good cake before– you haven’t yet!
She returns calls instantly (or almost), and doesn’t mind dealing with bride-​brain girls who forget things like paying her on time (yes, that was me!) She has CREATIVE flavor combinations that will leave your guests begging for more, too.
For my wedding, I did 4 separate cakes…
Sunshine cake: orange poppyseed cake with raspberry filling and cream cheese frosting (my favorite)
Dulce de leche: Caramel-​y, vanilla-​y, cinnamon-​y goodness with a delicate and tender crumb
Chocolate-​caramel: Chocolate cake soaked in caramel, with ganache filling and milk chocolate buttercream frosting
Champagne Strawberry: vanilla (white) cake, drizzled with champagne, with strawberry mousse filling and vanilla buttercream.
Needless to say I gained back at least 4 pounds from her cake alone, but I could not say no. It was cake for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a few days after the wedding (and only because I successfully hoarded some for us.) Her decorating abilities are surpassed only by her sweet personality.