Bumblebee Bake Shop

So I needed a vegan and gluten-​free cake for my friend’s 40^th birthday. I have no problem with dairy or gluten, and thought there is no way I could get a proper cake without those two ingredients, but I thought I would try to find something and hope for the best. I scoped out several bakeries before deciding on Bumblebee, and I am so glad that I chose them. Ordering process was easy and their communication was prompt and helpful. Delivery was right in the specified 2 hour window, and the women who delivered the cake was friendly and helpful.
I went for the 8 * 8 square chocolate cake with vanilla icing and a custom design printed on it. The design turned out perfectly and the cake was surprisingly tasty. Everyone at the party was very impressed with the cake, even the non vegans. The cake is definitely more dense than you would normally expect, no doubt due to the different flour blend without wheat, but the texture and flavor were excellent. Highly recommended!

Well I was back this year for the birthday picnic. Same chocolate cake and icing with a great design that they did for me. Another hit! I’m a fan.

Contacted them 10 days before my event (I needed a one layer simple cake sheet with baby shower design for ³⁰⁄₄₀) and they could not accommodate me. So maybe not a good option for you if you are not super early in your planning…

I needed a 9×12 sheet cake for my workplace. It was delicious and beautifully decorated, they cheerfully delivered to Civic Center, and I would order again the next time I need a cake or cupcakes.

Gluten free-​Vegan food lovers pay ATTENTION!
This place was beyond all expectations. I ordered a gluten free-​egg free-​diary free cake for my 2 year old daughter’s birthday. I sent them an email on Sunday night for a cake needed the next Saturday. I got a reply within an hour– at 11pm!!! my daughter has all the above mentioned allergies and we were celebrating her birthday in San Francisco though I live in Scottsdale, Arizona so I knew I coudn’t afford to make errors.
Melody at the bakery was so helpful to the point where she checked that the sugar image on the cake was allergen free! Within the next day she sent me an image of my daughter’s favorite Jake and the Neverland pirates image (though i just said the party was themed after Jake and the Neverland Pirates), we made payment and set a delivery location.
Come Saturday the cake was delivered on time with no issues. Now for the taste… at the party even the guests with no allergies loved the cake. My daughter loved the cake. It was very well done, maybe not highly intricate and polished like the cakes you see for weddings but simple image with elegant writing. It was a fantastic moist two layer chocolate cake (my daughters fav) and nice creamy vanilla frosting. Very reasonably priced and no additional charge for the short notice. I had to give out the bakery location to so many on the spot! The other bakery (C’est Si Bön bakery in San Jose) I had ordered some cake pops, made so many errors-​they made cup cakes instead with wrong flavors and colors and it was not as good as the GF vegan cake! Plus they charged me extra for the short notice. Thank God I ordered the Birthday cake from Bumblebee!!!
Thanks Melody especially for the quick email responses and great cake. you made me very happy and my baby even happier!

We just had a wonderful party for our son’s 1^st birthday and the cake was what made it so memorable. It was moist and sweet and delicious. I’m enjoying the leftovers today! Thank you Bumblebee! Scrumptious!

I called Bumblebee Bake shop to make a karaōke cake for my husband’s 40^th. I loved them for a number of reasons!
1) No fondant. I really don’t like fondant or the taste of it and this bakeshop doesn’t use fondant
2) the price is totally reasonable. I called around and to get anything creative was like ordering a wedding cake! yikes! [I had them make me a microphone cake]
3) Flavor. My hubby loves peanut butter but was worried a peanut butter cake would be too polarizing but it was just right. Sweet but not too sweet or too peanut buttery! My husband loved it.
4) Design– I love the detail of the design and the microphone looked awesome (see pics)
5) Easy to work with team — I just emailed the team, told them what I wanted and asked them to drop it off at the karaōke bar. I just showed up and there was the cake. Ta da! It was so easy!

I got the Red Velvet, which was absolutely delicious and decorated very cute. Melody was a pleasure to work with, I highly recommend!

Thank you Bumblebee Bake Shop! My birthday cupcake favors were beautiful and delicious. The frosting was in my favorite color (purple) and they were packaged in cute, individual boxes. Cupcakes had a s’mores theme, with mini marshmallows, graham cracker and Hershey chocolate toppings.

Super nice and personal company. Very speedy and do great work! Beautiful personalized cupcakes that taste great too! Great for events or to send to friends/​clients/​business partners as congrats or thank you.

I ordered a custom cake that was red velvet in the shape of a cow (an Under the Dome reference) for my boyfriend’s birthday, and I couldn’t be more thrilled with the result. I had called several bakeries looking for someone to do this for me, and Bumblebee offered the best communication, fair pricing, and really made me feel like I was being heard and my needs were being met. They were very prompt and accommodating in their communications, and very detail oriented. The cake itself was a huge hit and everyone raved about how delicious it was. I would absolutely order from them again.

I found this place on Unilocal while I was searching for a bakery to do my son’s first birthday cake, and I’m so glad I did. They did an AMAZING job. The giraffe head cake looked great, and the tiny smash cake version that they also made was over-​the-​top adorable. The cake was delicious and the frosting was to die for! (We went with vanilla with vanilla buttercream frosting.) So many guests commented that they loved the cake and wanted to know where were got it. Ordering process and delivery were super streamlined and easy. I’m looking forward to ordering more cakes from here!

Ordered a specialty cake from here.
The good —
They were able to accommodate my order, even though I didn’t give a ton of notice.
Sent a paypal invoice which made things easier.
Used a graphic we created on the cake.
The price was really reasonable for a large-​ish custom cake.
Delivered on time and in one piece.
The not-​so-​good —
Aside from our fun image, there was no style or decoration.
The writing that I asked for was off centered and not very neat.
The frosting was surprisingly thick and bordering on too sweet.
The cake was so DRY, it was a single layer cake, and ended up being one huge (about 3 inches tall) chocolate cake that was shockingly flavorless.
Not worth trying again.

So… a bitch needed a roach cake.
I needed it fast, I needed it to not cost a thousand dollars, and — briefly tapping into my sense of entitlement — I needed it to have a buttercream finish. That knocks out half the specialty bakeries in the Bay, including my go-​to folks at What the Cake. Enter Bumblebee (((holy epiphany choir sounds))).
They. were. perfect. They used buttercream, their designs were impressively intricate, they had a transparent availability calendar to make sure potential clients don’t waste time over scheduling, they had excellent flavors, their website and order forms were cute, simple, and user-​friendly, they delivered for free, and they charged a FRACTION of the cost of most other bakeries I found. I was in love.
So I place an order for a round cake depicting a large cockroach with three or four little cockroaches «scurrying» off the top and down the sides. Gross/​Cute, right? I also needed the cockroach to wear a little piece of multi-​colored neckwear — sort of like a cowl — mimicking the neckpiece worn by the guest of honor in her performance promo pictures. I thought I was doing the right thing by sending web links for photos of cockroaches to give them a sense of what I was looking for. I also sent links to a small PG image as well as a larger R-​rated image (with an advisory note!) of the guest of honor wearing the neckpiece we were requesting. I thought I’d won. I thought this was gonna be it.
But Melody wrote back early the next morning saying that they couldn’t do it. She told me I should find a bakery that uses fondant in order to achieve the level of detail I was looking for, and she apologized for the inconvenience. Womp womp womp. They were nice about rejecting me, and they were thoughtful enough to do it quickly.
I petitioned them to reconsider doing it with the level of detail they apply to the rest of their cakes, and they eventually said yes. They were patient with our back-​and-​forth and we landed on a set of compromises I thought would work for everyone.
When the cake was finally delivered to the home of the hostess, she immediately made a face that must have read «Is that it?» because the person who delivered it responded quickly «We did our best!»
What came out was a nearly black non-​specific bug wearing the cowl (which was actually done quite well) with a few other non-​specific black bugs crawling around down the cake. It’s what we asked for but in relation to the work displayed in their gallery — rather underwhelming. What texture was present was washed out when all the lines and details were drawn with the same color icing. We ended up hurriedly buying some coarse golden turbine sugar crystals from the corner store and sprinkling it on the wings to, at most, give it some kind of consistency and simulate the light translucence of a roach’s wing and, at least, make it look like something other than a beetle. That helped a lot, and most of the guests were so impressed we’d gotten somebody to even draw a roach on a cake that they thought it was fabulous.
The cake itself was dense but moist and really tasty — all the guests raved. Again, though, given their tremendous skill (these are the folks who drew the monster from Where the Wild Things Are and the f*cking Comcast digital cable remote with EVERY. SINGLE. BUTTON!), I’m both puzzled and disappointed by the execution of our little cucaracha.
I don’t trust a second visit to companies to whom I’ve given a less-​than-​stellar review (y’all not droppin MY cake on the floor) but overall, the cake was good enough that I’d probably try them again with a simpler design. A-​Ok.

You haven’t lived until you’ve tried the red velvet mini cupcakes.
Thank goodness I don’t live in SF, cause I would die of diabetes — but that doesn’t stop me from ordering mini cupcakes every time I visit!

Bumblebee Bake Shop made our wedding cake and I am more than pleased. I refused to get a fondant cake (I dislike the taste) and went straight to them. I loved our cake and our guests kept complimenting the flavor and how pretty it was. They delivered it ontime and it was lovely. I could not ask for more. One comment from a guest «Wedding cake is usually not very good, but this is DELICIOUS!»

My family loves trying different desserts. Although we have our go-​to spots, it’s always a treat to try something new. For my birthday this year, my aunt bought me a banana cake with chocolate frosting. It was soooooo delicious!!! The cake was extremely moist and the icing paired perfectly with the banana flavors! I would suggest eating the cake with milk, coffee or tea because it’s very rich.
Overall, highly recommended!

My birthday just passed, and my little sister who’s away at school in Long Beach surprised me with a special delivery of cupcakes at work last week.
She ordered me a dozen Caramel Cupcakes with three specially designed with Ernie from Sesame Street, as he was my favorite character as a kid. I have to say that Bumble Bee Bake Shop did an AWESOME job in the design of Ernie. He couldn’t have looked more perfect.
The Caramel frosting on top was none too sweet, which I was fearing, but it was very subtle, and had a great texture. The cake was textured nicely as well as they weren’t too soft. I’ve had too many cupcakes where the cake batter falls apart after one bite, but the cake was just right.
My only suggestion would be to have the option to chose at least 2 flavors for orders. While the Caramel was delish, it would be nice to try other varieties as well.
The box was decorated with a nice little bow, and is prepared with special serving directions as well. Very helpful.
Overall, the cupcakes were perfectly decorated, and arrived to me at work at the exact time that my sister had arranged for them to be delivered.
I will definitely keep Bumble Bee Cake Shop in mind for individualized and special orders of cupcakes for the future.

Yet, ANOTHER great FIND on Unilocal!!!
I live in L.A. and needed a cake/​cupcake to be delivered in SF to a friend (for her barfday) and turned to Unilocal for assistance.
–FRIDAY–
8:00am — I called exactly at 8, hoping to get an answer. No luck. Voicemail. Waited 10 minutes. Same result. Voicemail. I was startin’ to think I wouldn’t have any luck. So, I put in an order request for one dozen (12) Red Velvet Cupcakes (via their website) HOPING to get a response to see if they can deliver the SAME DAY (even though this was a last minute request). It is stated on their site they normally CONFIRM a request in within 48 hours of the time you placed an order. So I was crossing my fingers for this one.
8:47am — I received an email from Melody at Bumblebee Bake shop confirming they were able to make the delivery of 12 red velvet cupcakes on the same day! WOW! IMPRESSIVE!!!
Initially, I requested the time window of around 4pm, but I wasn’t sure if my friend would leave work early due to it being her «Barfday» weekend. I asked if I could make it earlier, around 2:30pm. After a couple of corresponding emails, the order was set and ready to go!
My friend received the cupcakes within the time window promised. Awesome!
From what I can tell, this business seems to be a small, but growing shop. If they continue to service their customers exceptionally, I see them having long lived shelf live in this industry!
Bottom line, if you need to get a cake, cupcakes, cookies etc., go with BumbleBee Bake Shop. They are reliable and responsive. Doesn’t get any better than that!

yummy!