To request a tasting box, please submit the "Tasting Request Form" found at the bottom of this page.
Wedding Cake Pricing
We have two
categories of wedding cakes:
Custom-Designed Cakes - For couples who have a specific vision for their wedding cake and want to incorporate meaningful elements into their design. A phone consultation is necessary to discuss options and clarify all of the details. A quote is provided via email afterward. Pricing for our Custom-Designed Wedding Cakes
is calculated in two steps...
Step 1 - The BASE price: This is the cost for JUST the cake - (baked, filled, iced, and assembled). It is determined by the number of servings needed, your flavor choice, and your icing preference. Base pricing starts
at $5.50/serving and increases from there, depending on the cake, filling, and icing that you choose. (Keep in mind that it is not necessary to match the number of cake servings to your expected guest count. The number of cake servings needed will be less.)
Step 2 - The Design: This is the cost of making your cake into a beautiful piece of art. It is determined by the amount of time/labor required, the cost of any special materials used, and the skill level needed to execute the design. After we calculate the cost of your design, we add this amount to the base price of your cake, and that gives us the total cost (excluding delivery). On average, our custom-designed cakes cost between $7.50 - $10.50 per serving. It's important to note - the more time and materials needed to create your design, (i.e. - the fancier the cake), the higher the cost will be. Please keep this in mind when considering your budget.
Pre-Designed Cakes - For couples who want a simple, yet elegant and classic wedding cake, we've selected some of our popular, signature designs. Customization is limited with these cakes, which puts them at a lower price point. Our Pre-Designed Wedding Cakes are $7.25 per serving in a basic cake flavor with buttercream filling (excluding delivery). Please see our gallery of pre-designed wedding cakes (located below our custom-designed cake gallery), for nine, beautiful design choices.
Delivery
- There is an additional cost for wedding cake delivery - this is determined by the amount of time and mileage it takes to travel to and from the venue. We work with and are proud to be a preferred vendor for many of the Lehigh Valley's top-notch wedding venues.
Custom-Designed Wedding Cakes:
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Buttercream cake with ombre, fondant ruffles, hand-piped lace appliques, and sugar flowers in shades of cinnamon and champagne for an autumn wedding.
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Fondant-covered with cascade of sugar greenery, berries, and blossoms.
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4-tier fondant cake with riser, marbled hexagonal decor, sugar orchids, and some whimsical gold accents.
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Marbled gray and silver fondant cake with black and white accents, topped with white sugar lilies.
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Fondant cake with gold accents, edible lace, sugar orchids, and ivory draping.
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Dusty blue fondant cake with silver risers, molded fondant details, and a full cascade of white sugar flowers.
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Buttercream cake with sugar greenery, berries, and roses in red and ivory for a Christmas wedding.
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Buttercream cake with sugar flowers, berries, and gold accents.
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Buttercream cake with cascading sugar roses and greenery.
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An amethyst geode cake with marbled buttercream and "moss-like" texture around the bottom.
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Buttercream cake, iced in an aged marble texture, with a stunning spiral of sugar succulents, roses, berries, and greenery.
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Buttercream cake with silver accents and a cascade of white sugar flowers, including roses and dahlias.
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Cranberry to pink ombre on the bottom tier with sugar roses to match.
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Piped, delicate vines (inspired by the bride's dress) and sugar blossoms in spring colors. The cake topper was passed down to the bride from her mother.
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Buttercream cake with ridged texture and large sugar roses in blush and burgundy.
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White on white buttercream cake with sugar roses and greenery.
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Sparkled buttercream cake - alternating tiers of swiss dots and lace appliques done in a "brush embroidery" technique. The couple wanted their two dogs to be included, so we sculpted them from fondant so they could be represented on the cake!
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Buttercream cake with a cascade of sugar roses in shades of white.
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Pearlized buttercream cake with sugar roses and leaves.
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White on white - buttercream cake with a spray of white roses across the front/center.
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Fondant-covered cake with sparkled tier and sugar rose accent.
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Buttercream cake with lace embroidery pattern and extra large sugar roses.
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Buttercream cake with alternating sparkled and smooth tiers, accented with sugar roses.
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Buttercream cake with smooth finish and blush sugar roses with greenery.
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2-tier buttercream cake with sugar flowers in vibrant colors for a spring wedding.
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Floral palette-knife painted cake.
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Buttercream cake, iced rustic style, with suar blossoms and greenery.
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Buttercream cake with neutral-colored sugar flowers and draping greenery.
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Trio of smaller cakes for a wedding in leiu of one big cake.
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Buttercream cake with gold leaf accents and sugar flowers in shades of dusty rose, burgundy, and dusty gold for a fall wedding.
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Buttercream cake with palette-knife painting technique.
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Rustic buttercream cake with hand-made eucalyptus and sugar roses in shades of terra cotta and wine.
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Smooth-iced with arrangements of sugar greenery.
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A very "dressed up" cake with loads of fondant ruffles, white sugar roses, and fondant wraps on the top two tiers.
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Buttercream cake with piped scrollwork and sugar roses.
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Buttercream cake with ridge texture and sugar succulents and roses.
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Buttercream cake with chocolate ganache, Oreos, and chocolate-covered strawberries.
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Buttercream cake with sparkled tier and sugar roses.
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Buttercream cake with scrollwork and a cascade of sugar flowers.
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Buttercream cake brushed in hues of dusty rose with a single sugar rose accent.
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Extra tall fondant cake in blush pink, white, & gold with sugar roses & eucalyptus.
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Fondant cake in blue with over 200 sugar flowers in pink and white.
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White on white art deco design.
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Art Deco-style buttercream cake in ivory and gold.
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Buttercream cake with detailed scrollwork brushed in gold and gold and ivory sugar roses cascading down the front.
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Buttercream cake with arrangements of sugar succulents and greenery down the side.
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Buttercream cake for a "Starry Night" themed wedding.
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Rustic elegance - tall buttercream cake with horiztonal ridge texture, sugar roses in blue and white, accented with our hand-made greenery.
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Cool-toned, hand-painted birch cake with peeled bark design and sugar flowers.
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Fondant-covered cake with sugar greenery and roses in white and purple.
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Buttercream cake with sugar flower spray.
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Buttercream cake with rosettes on the bottom tier, horiztonal ridge tetxture, and sugar roses in blush and wine.
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Buttercream cake with sparkled tier, scrollwork, rosettes, and sugar flowers.
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Buttercream cake with rustic ridged texture and clusters of sugar flowers.
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Celebrating the bride's Asian heritage - a buttercream cake with red cherry blossoms and the double happiness symbol, accented in gold.
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For a planetarium wedding - night sky colors on a buttercream cake with gold crescent moon and gold leaf "stars".
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Rustic, semi-naked cake with sugar roses in ivory and terra cotta for a fall wedding.
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Autumn wedding cake - iced in ivory buttercream, and decorated with fondant leaves, berries, and pumpkins.
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Buttercream cake edged in gold with layers of sugar flowers in cream, ivory, and terra cotta.
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For an autumn wedding - an abstract "falling leaves" design in buttercream, with accents and sugar flowers in shades of copper.
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For an autumn wedding - a combination of buttercream tiers and a fondant tier made to look like a harvest basket. Accents of leaves, branches, and of course, (real) apples.
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An elegant and monochromatic take on fall - ivory leaves, pumpkins, and berries with gold accents on a fondant cake. (This was Adele & Mike's wedding cake.)
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A stunning fall cake with a full cascade of sugar flowers in the bright colors of autumn.
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Rustic buttercream cake with sugar flowers, pinecones, and greenery for a winter wedding.
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Christmas gifts cake with sugarpaste bow and holly.
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Winter wedding cake with greenery, pinecones, cinnamon sticks, and lots of bright red berries.
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Deep green rosettes alternating with tiers of white with gold accents for a Christmas wedding.
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Buttercream cake for a winter wedding -with hand-modeled fondant cardinals, sugar pinecones, berries, and greenery.
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For a Christmas wedding - sparkled middler tier and beautiful sugar flowers consisting of red roses, white lilies, and greenery.
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Our Pre-Designed Collection:
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Classic Elegance: This cake has a perfectly smooth buttercream finish with classic sugar roses in a blush pink and a ribbon trim around the base of each tier. Customize by choosing your color of roses.
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The Birch Tree: Hand-painted birch tree cake. Customize by including your initials in a "carved" heart on the middle tier (no addtional charge). Optional sugar flower accent is available for an additional cost.
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Rustic Elegance: A ridged texture on top and bottom with a swiss dot pattern in the middle, and (3) clusters of sugar blossoms. Customize by choosing your blossom color.
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Rustic Floral:
A rustic texture on top and bottom, while the middle tier remains smooth with an accent ribbon and two sugar sunflowers. Customize by choosing your ribbon color. You may also choose roses instead of sunflowers.
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Scrolled Elegance: Top and bottom tiers have a hand-piped scrollwork design, while the middle tier remains smooth for visual relief. Customize by choosing your ribbon color. An accent sugar flower can be added for an additional cost.
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The Minimalist:
Perfectly smooth buttercream with just a bit of sugar greenery for those who like simplicity and clean lines.
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Timeless Beauty:
Rosettes and swiss dots in all white - a classic design that will look stunning in any venue.
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Love Spills Over:
textured buttercream with groupings of small sugar blossoms (in your preferred color), "spilling over" the tiers.
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Pretty in Pastels:
The top two tiers are iced in a ridged texture, while the bottom tier is iced smooth in a pastel color of your choice. A small grouping of sugar roses (in your choice of pastel colors) is arranged on the upper left.
A Budget Friendly Option:
Kitchen Cakes (not sheet cakes) Kitchen cakes can be purchased along with a wedding cake that provides a
minimum of 60 servings.
This is a money-saving option for couples who have a large number of guests to feed. You can design your dream wedding cake on a smaller scale, and then order “kitchen cakes” to provide the extra number of servings you need. These are not sheet cakes. Sheet cakes are rectangular slab cakes with icing on top that are cut into chunks. We think it's pretty tacky to serve your guests chunks of a sheet cake when they can clearly see that there is a beautiful wedding cake being cut and served to certain guests. A kitchen cake is a round, layered cake - just like the tiers of your wedding cake, except it is iced smooth and left undecorated. It is kept in the venue's kitchen until the main cake is cut and served.
Groom's Cakes
The groom’s cake is a great way to add some humor or interest to the reception. (Another alternative is to serve the groom's cake as the main dessert at the rehearsal dinner.) If you are interested in a groom’s cake, please email us at
customcakesbyadele@gmail.com. Check out our
"Celebration Cakes"
gallery for lots of great groom's cake ideas!
Wedding Cupcakes
All of our cupcakes are standard size. Flavors and pricing for this option can be found on our
cupcake page. A set-up fee is charged (in addition to the delivery fee) for placing the cupcakes on your display. (Note: We do not provide cupcake displays or towers.) A cutting cake for the bride and groom is typically ordered along with cupcakes. The pricing for a cutting cake depends on size, flavor, and decoration.
We do not work with fresh flowers, and here's why: “Fresh flowers from a florist are not an approved food or food additive and would be a violation if your business placed them on cakes.”
This statement is taken from an email we received from the Chief of the Food Safety Division (PA Dept. of Agriculture), regarding the safety of fresh flowers on cakes. Although it is common practice with wedding cakes, we do not use fresh flowers on our cakes for the following reasons:
Many common wedding flowers are considered toxic: Hydrangeas, baby's breath, calla lilies, eucalyptus, anemones, mums, alstroemeria, lily of the valley are a few examples. Additionally, most wedding flowers come from countries that do not regulate the use of pesticides/fungicides, and they contain an obscene amount of chemical residue.
Anyone with a compromised immune system can become ill from eating cake that contains chemical residue, pollen, mold spores, and/or bacteria transferred from fresh flowers. Reactions vary, but typically the symptoms are the same as food poisoning. People with the following health conditions are of serious concern:
undergoing/recovering from chemotherapy or radiation treatment; leukemia and other blood cancers; preparing for/recovering from a bone marrow or organ transplant; recovering from a major illness; severe asthma and/or allergies; lupus; or any of the 100+ immunodeficiency disorders that exist.
We are aware that many bakeries, florists, and wedding planners put fresh flowers on cakes without concern. However, we feel strongly that if it's a food safety violation and there is any risk of someone becoming ill from it, it just shouldn't be done. We hope you understand and respect our reasons for this policy.
Our Process -
Cake Tastings & Consultations
- Cake Tastings
are provided via tasting boxes, which are scheduled to be picked up by the couple. (We do not host in-studio tastings.)
- Design Consultations are conducted via phone appointments. A phone appointment is scheduled with Adele upon request of the couple after they've enjoyed their tasting.
- Submit the form below to request your tasting box and get the process started!
To qualify for a tasting, the couple must meet the following criteria:
1. The wedding date must be finalized, and the venue booked. (We MUST know what venue you will be using so we can determine if delivery can be made on your date.)
2. You must be shopping for a FULL
order
(one of the following):
- a full-sized wedding cake (75 serving minimum).
- cupcakes with cutting cake (100 serving minimum).
- a wedding cake (60 serving minimum)
with additional kitchen cake(s).
TASTING BOXES: Our tasting boxes are $40 and must be paid for in advance. An invoice will be emailed to you; and that can be paid online with any debit/credit card. The cost will be credited back to you if you book us for a FULL order. If you wish to purchase more than one tasting box, you may do so, however, the cost of only ONE box will be credited toward your full order.
Tastings for smaller orders: If you are shopping for a small wedding cake (65 servings or less), a tasting box can still be purchased; however, the cost is not
credited back.
***If you are booked with Woodstone Country Club your tasting box is free.
Our tasting boxes include the following:
- Your choice of (4) cake flavors (see our menu) *Please choose your flavors from the CAKE menu & not the cupcake menu.
- Your choice of (3) filling flavors (see our menu).
- A sample of our vanilla bean buttercream.
- Enough samples for two (2) persons.
- Disposable plates, napkins, and utensils for two.
- A written guide to walk you through your tasting, along with considerations for cake design, cake photos, and instructions on how to set up your phone consultation.
After you pick up your tasting box:
1. Enjoy your samples at home at your convenience.
2. After tasting, if you wish to move forward and discuss cake design, email me to schedule your phone consultation. (Include any inspiration photos of cakes, colors, flowers, etc.) I'll reply with a date/time for our phone appointment. (Please allow a few days for this.)
3. During our phone consultation, we'll discuss the details of your cake and come up with a design that you love; and, afterward I will email you a detailed design summary with pricing for your review.
4. If you approve the design summary and wish to book with us, I will send you a contract for the order. A signed contract and non-refundable deposit of $250 - $500 (depending on the cost of your cake) is required to book your date.
*It's important to note. . . that purchasing a tasting box does NOT guarantee that your date will remain available and we'll be able to make your cake. We are booking weddings continually throughout the year, and there is a possibility of your date booking up during the time between your tasting and your decision to book us.
"Tasting Request Form"
To request a tasting box, please complete and submit the form below.
Dear Brides & Grooms:
We are currently experiencing an overwhelming number of tasting requests and inquiries, and our response time is taking longer than usual. We are working hard to keep up with inquiries the best we can. We really do appreciate your patience.
Please note - Our studio is CLOSED Sunday through Tuesday. (Email is not checked on Sunday.)
Also - the number of tasting boxes that go out each week are limited - please understand that we need 2 to 3 weeks advance notice to schedule your tasting box pickup. Thank you!
