Gerhard Michler Fine European Desserts

Ordered the hazelnut/​chockolot cake for a friends birthday, and it was simply awesome.
Beautiful, decadent and sophisticated. Ordered the day before the big event, it was ready on time with the inscription perfectly done.
Navigating the location (parking, and finding them in the building) of the «Jolt N Bolt» café’ — the «retail» outlet for Gehard Michler is a bit of a challenge. The cake proved worthy of any effort to order & pick-​up.

Mary is the absolute sweetest (no pun intended)!!! My Maid of Honor recommended Gerhard b/​c she’s been buying cakes from them for years. Not only that, Gerhard Michler came on the ‘preferred vendors’ list my venue provided. I couldn’t be happier picking them. We had a 3 tier cake, angle food cake, tiramisu and top tier mocha. The cake was absolutely stunning and delicious. I even had two slices at our wedding and I never have cake at weddings. Thanks, Mary!

An absolutely euphoric experience! This review is for their individual retail items served at Jolt N Bolt. Everything I had was outrageously delicious!
First, the perfect tiramisu. It was light and not too sweet. The layers did not bleed into each other. The bottom layer never got soggy.
Oops! A cookie sampling at the register blew me away, first. Had to stifle my glee!
The next evening, the pear and almond tart at home. A fork tender buttery crust balanced with the pear and almond paste. Excitement with every bite!
Have I gushed, enough?

Their cakes are amazing! And I mean their regular cakes, not wedding cakes. I can just imagine how elegant their wedding cakes and custom cakes turn out. They pay close attention to detail and each cake is artfully and artistically completed to perfection.
I ordered the tropical pearl for my mother’s birthday. It contains yellow cake topped with mango passionfruit mousse with another layer of hazelnut cake and raspberry jam. It not only looked beautiful but it tasted just as good. The mousse is light and fluffy. The layers of cake aren’t too heavy and very moist. The cakes aren’t too sweet which is probably why I LOVE them.
I’ve also been able to try their raspberry pistachio crème brûlée cake which was also delicious and their best seller. A great balance between sweet and tarte without being overbearing.
The cake was a square of about 8inx8in for $ 28. Not bad at all for the quality and quantity you get!
I called in to place the order a week in advance and picked it up the day of dinner. I paid when I picked it up.
Hint: you call the bakery to place a phone order for your cake but you pick it up at the Jolt n Bolt Café. The café does accept credit cards.

Love the cakes here. Everything is delicious. Fav bakery!!! Love the strawberry with vanilla cream and mango passion fruit

With less than 2 weeks left before our wedding, my husband and I finally decided to settle on a dessert — and a croquembouche cake it was!
With such outstanding reviews of Gerhard Michler, how could we go wrong?! And they did not disappoint… Not only were they able to accommodate such a short turnaround time, we did not even have to meet face to face to make it happen! We ordered petit fours as well, and there wasn’t a bite left of the cake or any dessert at the end of the night.
They also delivered everything to our destination in Woodside, CA. All was very reasonably priced, especially for such a delicious dessert spread that we had.
Only regret: not eating more dessert during the wedding ;)

We worked with Gerhard Michler twice; once for petit fours and small bites for our western wedding celebration and another time for our 3-​tiered-​cake for our eastern wedding celebration. All the desserts were ABSOLUTELY delicious. For the petit fours, we had the fruit tartlet, the chocolate orange almond bar (I will never forget how delicious this tasted… I still think about it fondly whenever I think about our wedding or see pictures of our dessert table!), and strawberry mango cake. For our 3-​tiered cake, we did a simple chocolate cake with strawberries and a butter cream frosting. They are super flexible in working with our budget and were very responsive to any communication we had! Oh and the complimentary tastings are a major bonus! On the days-​of, they were on time and professional (they deliver!). Mary was just so wonderful throughout the planning process! We would definitely consider Gerhard Michler for any future dessert needs at special events. We highly recommend them to anyone looking for a dessert vendor!

I feel like Emily S. just wrote my review for me! We also recently used Gerhard Michler to make the croquembouche for our wedding. I had never worked with them before but used them based on their reputation and the fact that very few people can make a croquembouche. Mary was fantastic to work with (professional, friendly, responsive, communicative). We didn’t taste a single cake anywhere; I knew that we wanted a croquembouche and nothing else. Theirs was not only stunning but delicious. It was exactly what we had envisioned for our wedding and there was not a single puff left at the end of the night.

I ordered the flourless chocolate cake for my husband’s birthday and it was delicious. I ordered it on Thursday night and picked it up on Saturday afternoon without problems. The price was very reasonable for the quality and taste! I will be ordering more cakes from them.

I really loved the cake we got here for my mom’s birthday. I ordered it on a Friday for a Saturday pick up and it was ready when we popped in with no problem. I would say that the quality for the price is unbeatable and I don’t know how anyone could pick a grocery store cake over these gems. Their cakes are really pretty too! We got the Sausalito cake and boy that passion fruit flavor just pops. This week I will get a chocolate-​y cake for my dad’s birthday. I look forward to trying more of their cakes out as well as their tarts and strudels.

Like most of the previous reviewers, we worked with Mary and Gerhard for our wedding cake — actually croquembouche. Mary was a really wonderful to deal with and our cake tasting was by far the most enjoyable vendor appointment we had during the entire wedding planning process! Mary also sent us home with a box of goodies that we devoured almost immediately.
Most importantly, the croque was beyond beautiful and delicious!!! We received so many compliments and were absolutely blown away by how gorgeous it was!
As someone who found this bakery on Unilocal,I can tell you that you can’t go wrong for a wedding or any special occasion.

The. Best. Wedding cake. EVER!!! Mary and Gerhard were fantastic to work with every step of the way. I had a vision – something intensely, obscenely chocolatey and with a chess theme – and they created a masterpiece beyond my imagining. Firstly, as you can see from the picture I uploaded to Unilocal,it was gorgeous – decadent chocolate fondant with a chocolate chess board and chocolate chess pieces. Secondly, it was the best tasting wedding cake ever. Scratch that. It was one of the best CAKES I have ever had, period. The tasting itself blew me away, but the cake on my wedding day was even BETTER than all the delectable things I sampled. I cannot recommend Mary and Gerhard highly enough. Best advice: work with them to create the cake of your dreams, and then add some platters of their incredible petite-​fours. My guests were in Sugar High Heaven!

Thank you for the beautiful and delicious wedding cake! Mary was a huge help, and because I live in San Diego and my wedding was in San Francisco we had to correspond often through email. Mary always responded in a timely manner, and was very thorough. Do not look else where for a wedding cake! Best customer service, and best cake in San Francisco =)

Wow. This place is on its A-​game. Mary was always quick to respond, answered all million of my questions via email and delivered on her word. The result was a gorgeous cake that tasted as fabulous as it looked! It was a custom piece, all imagined in my head and Mary and the Michler team were able to create it. We had a chocolate cake with a dulce de leche and fresh sliced banana filling, covered in a chocolate ganache and decorated with handmade orchids. It was moist, flavorful and sweet enough without being that kind of cloyingly sweet that makes you want to go into a diabetic coma 20 minutes later. I was super impressed because I knew I was taking a chance on asking for a cake that might be so overly sweet that my guests might go over the edge after a few bites, but not so! It was a perfect balance. I am definitely looking forward to ordering all my special occasion cakes here.

Called in to see what cakes were available for my daughter’s, birthday. I was told a cappuccino chocolate cake was. I asked off there were any animal derived ingredients in the cake because we’d need it to be vegetarian. Marge (Margaret), advised that it had dairy. I said vegetarian, not vegan but anyway. It is animal derived. So that’s cool. I then asked her if there was any alcohol in the cake. Nope. So we were good.
I let Marge know that cappuccino isn’t probably the best for a two year old so of there were any small items maybe we could get those. She mentioned some tarts.
We held the cake. It was about $ 24.50 including $ 1.50 for the customized chocolate birthday message. She advised that we’d pick up at Jolt ‘n Bolt.
We get there, and I look at the cake and it looks like it has some gelatin situation going on. So, we drove from Oakland to Dogpatch only to find out that almost every cake they carry has gelatin in it. They had one vegetarian cake that we ended up buying. A lemon coffee cake concoction. I went with the flow but it was a disappointing experience.
I’d be wary if you’re vegetarian or vegan.

By far, the best birthday cake I have ever gotten. Owner/​manager Alex was super nice. We were late to pick up the cake, and he kindly came back to the office just for us, so we didn’t have to screw up the birthday party. Will definitely go back again!

My GOD! Shame on ME! How did I forget to write a review for Gerhard Michler?!
Ok, let’s rewind. My then fiancé and I had already gone to several cake tastings. I know cake tasting is supposed to be the fun part of wedding planning… however, I started to have doubts about not being able to find the «one» who’d be making our cake. All the other tastings we’ve gone to were either way too expensive, cake was too sweet or too dry, or they just didn’t have our flavors.
Then I stumbled upon Gerhard Michler. As it turns out, they became the «one» for us! I had completely forgotten that I wanted to try them out! I’m so glad I bookmarked them on Unilocal!
Throughout the entire process, Mary was very helpful. It was hard to reach her by phone, but she’s really responsive via email. We went in for our tasting and we loved ALL the items we tried! She even put a little dessert box together for us to take home! mMm…
Designing our cake was effortless and so much fun! Since my husband and I are HUGE SF GIANTS fans, we had the perfect cake toppers. We didn’t want any flowers on the cake, so we chose to have simple sation orange ribbons on the bottom of each tier and added silver pearls to the top of each tier. Mary even made a home plate for our oh so perfect SF Giants Hello Kitty cake toppers! We went with buttercream instead of fondant… I’m not a huge fan of fondant whatsoever. The only tough part was deciding on the flavors. We ended up choosing 4 flavors. We opted for a 3-​tiered cake. Top layer was a choclate cake with mocha. The second layer was white cake with passionfruit and mango. The bottom layer was a white cake with rasberry and lemon. These were so refreshing and not overly sweet. The cake was also super moist and fluffy! Our sheet cake, we opted for tiramisu… my favorite!
Since pricing came up to be less than what we expected, we added on some scrumptious desserts for our dessert bar! We ordered a big box of macarons, napolean squares, fresh fruit tartlets, and mocha cream tartlets. These were such a hit! So much that I only got to devour one macaron at our wedding! (Sad, but true.)
Most couples choose to save the top layer of their wedding cake and freeze it for an entire year, then take it out during their 1 year anniversary to enjoy. However, we decided not to do so, since Mary said they’d bake us a fresh cake when the time comes. :)
So fast forward to our wedding day… the cake and desserts… we received so many compliments and we couldn’t have been more happy as to how everything turned out. Our cake was marvelous, yet simple. It perfectly showcased all of our wedding colors.
From that day forward, we had decided we’d only go back to Gerhard Michler for any cake needs. Mary, Gerhard, and staff — thank you for EVERYTHING! We’re truly thankful for all the work you put in to make our day that much sweeter!

One word:
CROQUEMBOUCHE!
I will have it for every anniversary :-)

Mary did an awesome job of attending to all of the details we’d requested re: our wedding cake. It tasted great, looked epic, arrived on time, and was decorated perfectly (fresh flowers, ribbon, smooth-​as-​silk icing with meticulous bead-​like detail which she suggested). We couldn’t have been happier, and our guests thoroughly enjoyed it!!!

When I was a kid I was a complete dessert hound. Breakfast? No thanks. Dinner? Nah. Delicious snacks? Meh. Cake? HOLY JESUS, GET IN MY FACE. I’ve mostly grown out of that, now favoring the savory end of the spectrum, but Gerhard Michler reminded me that sweets are worth saving room for.
His walnut spice cake is lightly sweet, not a cloying gross mess like most commercially available desserts, layered with a coffee cream and finished with an apricot gelee. The bûche de Noël? A total crowd-​pleaser, yummy genoise rolled around buttercream and topped off with cute sugar mushrooms and hand-​painted chocolate tiles. Beautiful AND delicious.
Parking’s a bit dicey, you can park in one of the delivery spots (not recommended because guess what, delivery people do use them) or pull up on the sidewalk. If you do the latter do expect to be flipped off by charming families out for their daily constitutional. The cops do not seem to give even one shit, though, so joke’s on you, charming families!