Sweet Life Bakery

Got a birthday cake for my wife. On time, looked fabulous. Compliments end there. It tasted terrible. Not just my opinion, every guest told me the same story. They had to have made a mistake somehow. It was just terrible. A Walmart cake would have worked out better.
Subsequently, I have found the «not recommended» reviews on Unilocal,which are all bad. Why would Unilocal do that? Maybe Unilocal also needs a bad review.

My mom and I were planning a baby shower from out of town for my sister in New Orleans, and were searching for a local bakery to make a cake. We had seen an image of a cake that we loved, so we had a specific idea in mind. After getting pricing from a few others, we were becoming discouraged. But thank goodness we found The Sweet Life Bakery!!! Jenny was very nice and helpful with suggesting the correct size cake for the event and picking flavors, explaining options, etc. The pricing was also very reasonable. We sent her the image of the cake we liked and it turned out PERFECT! It was beautiful and delicious and all the guests were asking where we got it from — so of course we recommended this bakery! We were extremely pleased with the service and cake and would definitely order from here again! Thank you, Jenny!!!

As I’m sitting here, enjoying my 3^rd slice of my sons birthday cake, I can’t stop thinking how lucky I am to have found this gem of a bakery! I’m no stranger to sweets but they really hit it out of the park! I had a fiesta themed birthday party for my little boy & found a picture of a cake I liked online. Jenny, who was so sweet & helpful to work with, made it come to life & it looked even more adorable & colorful than the picture! We went with lemon & mascarpone & it was SOooooo tasty! I’m so happy to live close by too! I’m getting all my cakes here. Can’t wait to try their king cakes!!! Big big thank you to this place for such a great experience! :)

My friends ordered their daughter’s frozen cake for the first time. There was not a person disappointed, who had a piece of cake. It was lite, tasty and delicious. The lemon filling was… ummm.ummm.good. I am writing a review because i will be ordering a cake in the near future.

I’m so glad my fiancé told me to check Sweet Life out for my brother’s groom’s cake! Jenny has great ideas and was able to successfully replicate a picture of a cake I saw on Pinterest.
The prices are reasonable, the cake was professional-​looking and it tasted great!
Not only do I plan to come back, but I’m definitely going to use Sweet Life for my own wedding.

I used this bakery to make my 30^th birthday cake and they were so fantastic I had to write a review!
First, they were very creative and helped me come up with a fabulous design. They listened to my ideas and made a few suggestions when I asked, but mostly were able to just make something I dreamed up come alive! (It was a 90’s theme — hence the albums on the cake!) The cake itself was very good, but just slightly too dry as it crumbled when I tried to cut through the multiple layers of cake. The icing was light and fluffy and also really delicious. I was so impressed with the flavor of the cake and icing — sometimes when you get a fancy cake you’re getting a pretty product but it doesn’t taste great — not the case here!
Overall, I was so please with my experience here and highly recommend them to anyone looking for a specialty cake!

Maybe I am confused, but it looked like a place to sit and enjoy a nice pastry. Perhaps they should focus only on wedding cakes, but there are tables in there. My wife and I craved a therapeutic treat after a bad day and being in Lakeview, thought this was a good option. We entered and the attendant made no attempt to greet or explain their products. I finally walked to the back of the store where she was busy with some icing and she asked in an irritated tone if I wanted something. I walked back to the display case in front, requested a brownie and my wife a turnover, expecting a plate, utensils and maybe a request for a beverage. The clerk placed everything in a to-​go bag, and when I asked if we could eat in, she just said «alright». Apparently there were no plates or utensils for in house consumption, other than the tables. Her curt ways made us want to leave anyway and we took the pastry home. My brownie was very good, topped with excellent chocolate icing, but I still stung from the rudeness. Would have been nicer to enjoy it there.

The ice cream in a waffle cone is very delicious. Ponchatoula strawberry ice cream was great.

Bought a cookie here — was disappointed because I really wanted a pastry and coffee. Don’t serve coffee and the pastries looked good but not a huge selection. Now, that being said, two years ago my mother-​in-​law had a cake made here for our engagement party. It was really cute and well designed, but the flavor wasn’t that great. Four stars is mainly for the delicious stacked cookie I had today, and the friendly service.

Hate being negative to any establishment particularly local ones but I waited in line and paid $ 8.50 for 3 iced sugar cookies shaped like daisies that looked A LOT better than they tasted. Not worth it. And the lady seemed annoyed to have to wait on me. It just wasn’t a fun bakery experience it was more like –getoutofhereyouretakingupspace– kinda thing. I hope this changes.

The King Cakes are OUTSTANDING! Very courteous service. My entire office enjoyed the cakes.

Sweet Life makes amazing customs cakes, they have THE BEST king cakes in town.

Jenny created an amazing Wedding cake for us. It was exactly what we wanted, within our budget, and tasted amazing. She has her own process for making butter cream icing so it is fluffier and not as dense. The cake was moist and tasty, which is not normally what you get with wedding cake. She was amazing every step of the way and would gladly get any kind of cake from her in the future. She even made us a little cake to save for our first anniversary.

March 2013
I was thrilled when I saw my daughters First Communion Cake. It was everything and more that we had talked about!!! I really have high expectations when it comes to cake and it was perfect. It was delivered and I had nothing to worry about! Every last detail we discussed was done! Thank young a million times over!!!

I ordered our wedding cake from afar for our June 7^th wedding in the French Quarter. I was unable to have a tasting do I put a lot of trust in them. It was beautiful and tasted amazing! I would recommend them for any occasion!

Highly satisfied. Ordered a special «muscle cake» which was chocolate fondant with chocolate cake and vanilla filling 3 days in advance and it came out wonderful. Workers were very professional and answered all questions I had. High recommended!

We recently celebrated my girlfriend’s birthday with a party at her house and there must have been at least 20 – 30 of Sweet Life’s cupcakes for guests. i thought they were delicious by eating about 4 on my own and the fact that there may have been 2 or 3 left after an hour tells of how good everyone else thought they were. i have yet to try any of their cakes but judging by just the cupcakes and designs i have seen for cakes i would gladly recommend this bakery to everyone i know

King cakes are awesome! I’ve had 5 this season, this is my favorite or 2^nd favorite behind Haydel’s praline. Soooooo good.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

I’m not a cake person, not a wedding person. At a bridal show, I tried Sweet Life cake and thought it was delicious, so my fiancé and I went to the bakery later to discuss hiring them to do our cakes.
Later at another bridal show, I found out that a lady my fiancé and I knew was also a well-​known baker, so we scheduled a tasting with her. It was so unorganized and I just wanted to cry. I asked for certain flavors weeks in advance because I hate almond and white cake, but when we got there, nothing was prepared. I started to dread wedding planning.
My fiancé set up a tasting at Sweet Life since we liked them so much before. Jenny and Nikki are so knowledgeable, honest and kind. Also, the shop is practically wallpapered with photos of their work, which is really great if you are far too busy to spend hours looking for cake designs on The Knot. She had one of the employees go out and get us bottles of water since they had run out and the cakes and icings came on a pretty little plate for us to try.
More importantly, the cakes are good and the icing is sooo smooth and not super sweet and thick. Yum.
I’m using Sweet Life Bakery from now until!

We got three small-​ish cakes from The Sweet Life for our wedding reception. They were delivered on time, looked fantastic and tasted delicious! Additionally, the bakery was very easy to work with, was very responsive and Nikki (the baker we met with) was very nice and had great suggestions regarding the type of cake designs we might want. I am very glad we chose them for our wedding!