C’est La Vie Cakes

I love Courtney! She is our family baker and I pray she never stops. She’s made our wedding cakes and our son’s first (airplane cake) and second (mickey mouse clubhouse) birthday cakes as well as a smash cake for his 1 year pictures. They are as delicious as they are beautiful!

Courtney is fantastic! She makes choosing a wedding cake easy and fun. Most importantly, her cakes are not only affordable and beautiful– but absolutely DELICIOUS! She works hard to accommodate your budget and make your vision a reality. Choosing C’est la vie was one of our best wedding planning decisions!

This is definitely the place to go if you want a beautiful, and most important (at least to me) a very delicious cake. I wanted a special cake made for my husbands 40^th Birthday and it was perfect! Exactly what I wanted, and everyone at the party wanted to know who made it. Courtney and Brandon are very easy to work with and so kind. Great experience and will order any cakes I need from them!

Courtney is amazing! We could not have asked for a better baker for our wedding cake! BONUS: if you love supporting small operations, Courtney at C’est la vie Cakes is where you want to go.
Courtney is wonderfully kind and fantastic to work with. Not only are her cakes beautiful to look at, they are seriously the best cakes we have ever had.
We are so used to the same cakes at wedding — big beautiful cakes on the outside that are dry, heavy, bland, or otherwise in the middle. Not with C’est la vie Cakes. Courtney makes beautiful cakes that not only look amazing, but truly taste decadent.
One thing you must do if you are going to use Courtney as your baker is try her Pink Velvet. We had four flavors, yes four (she’ll let you do that) — pink velvet, red velvet, funfetti, and carrot. Courtney was willing to meet with us, twice, and provide samples on each occasion for us to make sure we were pleased with our selections. She is also willing to make any budget work. We made a nice layered cake that was small for the cutting, and had everything else made in sheet cakes (saved a lot of money!).
We are so delighted we had the opportunity to work with Courtney, and cannot wait to get cakes from her in the future!

I would have loved to give c’est la vie a better review but I can’t. I met with Courtney at her house and it was fantastic. All of the cupcakes she prepared for my now husband and I were delicious. We almost couldn’t choose. We ended up going with the lemon with a buttercream frosting. It was so easy, delicious and her rates were fantastic. I was elated.
Our wedding day came, the cake was exactly as we wanted, it looked great.
Then came the cake cutting. It was a disaster. The cake imploded. It took us forever and in the end we had a blob of cake on our plates, not an actual piece of cake. Come to find out that is what happens when a cake is frozen first and then served.
I was a little irritated since we specifically asked her and she said she did not freeze the cakes.
My husband sent her an e-​mail telling her our issue and she never responded.
Stay away from this one — maybe macris would be better if I were a bride about to order my cake

I would highly recommend Courtney at C’est La Vie for wedding cakes. We went tasting at quite a few bakeries in town: Martin’s, Arlene’s, Adam’s, Macri’s and C’est La Vie. The C’est La Vie cakes were FAR superior to all of the others in terms of taste.
I had several people tell me after the wedding that they thought ours was the best wedding cake they’d ever tried. (e.g. «I was planning to just have a bite, but then I ate two pieces!»)
The only thing I would do differently is that I would skip the fondant on the main cake (we also ordered several sheet cakes). The buttercream is far too delicious to hide with fondant, and it looked great by itself on the sheet cakes.
Courtney was professional and great to work with. Her prices are a little higher than some places in town, but after tasting those cakes, I decided this was worth it. In my opinion, a not-​so-​tasty cake is not worth having.

I used C’est La Vie cakes for my wedding and it was a great experience. Courtney put together a tasting party for myself three bridesmaids, my mom, and my aunt. We had a blast tasting the different flavors and it was very easy for me to make our selection. My cake was absolutely gorgeous and everyone kept raving about how good it tasted. My fiancé and I devoured our top tier when we got home from the honeymoon. We had to be realistic, no cake that tasted that good was going to survive in our freezer for an entire year without someone tearing into it. She is incredible. Great value too! I believe that her cakes are fairly priced.

Seriously, the most imaginative, cutest, most creative, whimsical cake ever. Everything was so cute.
For my birthday, my husband threw a hello kitty themed surprise party for me. He told Cest la vie cakes that I love roller coasters, and so ta-​da! The cake CLV designed had Hello Kitty and her friend Badtz Maru on roller coaster carts careening around the asymmetrical cake layers.
The custom fondant sculpture of Badtz Maru is so cute.
Great for over-​the-​top (in a good way!) birthday cakes that wow your guests. You have to order one. :0)
Also, it was so convenient that the cake was delivered to the venue.