Cakes by the Sea

For starters, if I could give this place more than five stars I would! I was maid of honor this weekend we had the grooms cake as well as the wedding cake made by them. Unfortunately the grooms cake was cut and it wasn’t supposed to be. So the morning of the wedding I called the bakery asking for ANY kind of fix with only a picture to give them. They delivered the wedding cake early and fixed the grooms cake!!! They saved the day and the cake looked even better than it originally did. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for making this day completely perfect for the bride and groom! YOU ARE AMAZING!!!

We celebrated our granddaughters birthday in Myrtle Beach and wanted a special cake. Cakes by the Sea created a Great birthday cake for her… exactly what she wanted. Super moist cake with exceptional raspberry filling. A little pricey but worth it.

We were on vacation in Myrtle Beach and I needed a cake for my son’s 7^th birthday. I looked at the website and loved what I saw! After a few emails, I ordered my cake. Cakes by the Sea was terrific with email communication! They always answered all my questions! I picked up my cake on the specified date, it was just what I wanted and awesome for my son! It was not far from Myrtle Beach. Less than 20 minutes from Broadway at the Beach area! The cake was delicious!!! Moist and sweet, but not too sweet! I highly recommend Cakes by the Sea!

This was a MOST disappointing cake that cost almost $ 500! It looked ok although not exactly as ordered. I could take that. BUT I could not take the taste … All you could taste was sugar… When the sugar crystals crunch in your mouth, it is NOT good! There was no butter cream flavor, no hazelnut flavor (filling) and a massive glob of chocolate filling in one of the tiers. Also, the topper, which I provided, was just shoved into the top without a cardboard layer so when we took it off the top tier to save for 1^st anniversary it totally took off the top layer of icing. The quality of this cake was more in the $ 200 range and not the $ 500 I paid. Would NOT recommend.

Wonderful vendor to work with for my wedding. I sent a few pictures for what I thought I wanted my wedding cake to look like. They worked with that and when I visited for cake tasting I got to see some of their ideas as well. We worked together to design my cake. It was beautiful!!! Three tiers, blue and white with edible shells and my Disney castle cake topper. Not only was it beautiful it was DELICIOUS!!! I had lemon, chocolate and carrot cake. Fillings are included in the price, as was my cake stand. I had a mix of cake and also cupcakes. Everything was delivered on time. When my mom returned the cake stand after the wedding they gave her another cupcake as a treat. Chris is a really great person to work with. The cake looks like fondant, but is NOT-​it is DELICIOUS icing. They do beautiful work!

My sister bought a cake and ever since this the bomb. We love this place. Staff is great desserts are the best. It’s a wonderful flavor and great works of art are done in this little space. Cash only!

I had an awful experience with this bakery for my wedding cake. We had a destination wedding in Ocean Isle, and had made a trip to the area two months in advance to meet with vendors and work out the details. We had gotten recommendations for Cakes by the Sea, and so called to schedule an appointment for a tasting. They told us we didn’t need an appointment, and to come in anytime. When we showed up, the staff was incredibly rude to us and said they were too busy and we should have made an appointment for a tasting. When we explained that we tried to do so, the woman at the counter said they wouldn’t say that and would never have scheduled a tasting for a Saturday — which they never said on the phone. I was nervous about the whole experience as it was, and almost walked out then and there, but we didn’t have many options since our trip was short and tightly scheduled. So despite my misgivings, we ordered a cake from them. We paid for everything up front — almost $ 400 for the cake, plus a $ 100 deposit for the cake stand. We paid for the cake with a credit card, but they wouldn’t charge the deposit for the cake stand — it had to be either cash or check. I didn’t have my checkbook with me, so we paid cash. On our wedding day, the cake was delivered on time; it looked nice and it tasted fine. They told us we could return the cake stand anytime, and get our deposit back. So a few days after our wedding, we went to return the cake stand. When we first walked in, they couldn’t find our paperwork and tried to insist that the cake stand we brought in was used at a different wedding. All I knew was that I had the cake stand that they brought to our wedding. After some searching, they finally found our paperwork. But they said they didn’t have record of us paying the deposit. They said it would have been recorded on our order receipt, which it wasn’t. We left the bakery to look through our paperwork to find our copy of the receipt — which we found but it was no different from the order receipt they had at the store (carbon copy). We went back to the shop with the receipt. My husband went in alone. (I was way too upset at this point, and stayed in the car. He’s much better at dealing with rude people than I am.) When he went in, they then began to insist that if we had paid cash, we would have had a different receipt — something other than the order receipt as they had first indicated. They went on to accuse us of trying to swindle them out of $ 100. If I had known this was going to be such an issue, I would have kept the cake stand! Why would we pay so much for a cake and try to swindle them for a fraction of that cost? It’s not like we stole their cake stand and tried to falsely return it or something. The whole situation was frustrating, but it was the attitude of the staff that made it so awful. They were rude and insulting, and were straight up accusing us of thievery. This is not a memory that I wanted to have attached to an otherwise wonderful wedding experience. We had budgeted a certain amount of money for our honeymoon, and had factored that deposit money into it. Just rude, rude, rude.

We had them make a cake for our family reunion and mom’s 70^th birthday – celebrating our future. We can honestly say it was the most beautiful and best tasting cake ever! Thank you so much for making this a fantastic occasion!

High quality cakes and pastries. Cash only. I have to say it was better than Carlos’ in Jersey! Only not as famous!