SEEKING GOOD BAKERY for CAKES
 

Does anyone know of a good Bakery or Baker in The Villages, FL or nearby - to purchase nice CAKES, like the Bakeries you find in the big cities. Looking for good quality CAKE, not the type from Publix etc. To have decorated for Birthday??

No bakeries that I know of. They can't compete with Publix. I have never been disappointed in a Publix cake.

The Southern Cotillion in Wildwood has outstanding cakes. They sell slices so you can try them yourself.

:agree: the best in the area...its where i would use if i didn't bake my own

Publix cakes are not fresh. They come in frozen in large cartons and are thawed out as needed. Bloom's Bakery in Leesburg is a good place for cakes.

Catillion cakes are amazing!

Also, if you want to take a 15 min drive...there is agreat German bakery in Yalaha - Yalaha Bakery. Google it to get directions.

Enjoy

We love Publix cakes. Some of our favorites are the carrot cake, the red velvet cake and the Italian creme cake but the chocolate with chocolate icing is excellent too. I am pretty sure they don't freeze them and defrost them at our Publlx on 466. I don't do anything else well but I am a fair judge of a good cake.

Sams Club has good cakes too and wonderful prices for BIG ones.

Their cookies are dee-lish-a-mus too!

Donna's Dream Cakes
 

Donna's Dream Cakes on us 301 in Summerfield. The BEST!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Donna...60063967373879

I've had good luck with a large crowd ordering from Sam's Club. The price is way cheaper than Publix and I've had nothing but rave reviews when I show up with one.

Wonderful cakes
 

I have a good friend who lives in Highland Lakes in Leesburg and she makes cakes for a hobby.....she has albums showing cakes she has made. If interested you can call Joy at 352-365-0487

Fresh Market has good pies and cakes

I can't believe the health department let's that place sell cakes. It looks like a run down trailer from the road!

I've bought cakes at Toojays. I think they customize.

Cakes, pies and candy
 

My wife is an avid baker. Makes cakes, cheese cakes, pies in regular with sugar and either fat free, reduced fat and sugar and sugar free. give her a call at 259-7173.

My neighbor is a professional baker. She actually made cakes for President Reagan and Nancy Reagan back in the 80's. Her name is Mary and her number is 430-4454.

Cotillion Cafe in Wildwood. I got a key Lime cake from there for a gathering of friends and everyone there said it was the best cake they ever had.

Sounds good

If you are ever looking for a very detailed and beautiful, but also extremely tast cake, Kim Alonso in Wildwood is amazing. We have used her many times now from pies to cakes and even those new cake pops. Prices are reasonable too. 330-7435 I believe.

Also has a facebook called Crumbs

I second that. I've had her cakes, and they are excellent. Her bakery is in her house. You can go to her house and see the pictures and descriptions and get a price list. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Donna...879?group_id=0

I've never had Cotillion cakes, but now my mouth is watering and I may have to check them out.

I got the lemon fusion cake from Publix for my Mother's 100th birthday party. Everyone raved about it.

Thank you lots..

Thank you for the infor., surely helps..

My vote is Fresh Market!!!!!!! Still looking for a good Crumb Cake though?

What exactly is crumb cake?

What characteristics does a good one have?

I want to very respectively and very politely ask about Donna's Dream Cakes. I had read excellent reviews about her cakes here on TOTV. One day we were driving and I saw a sign that I believe was for her business. I told my husband to go back so I could have a look. We went down a little dirt road and there was a lady standing in the doorway of a clapboard house with filthy windows and she was smoking just inside the house. There was a dog at her feet inside the house. Is that the place? Surely not.

This is what I THINK crumb cake is.

Dense moist yellow coffee cake with a brown crumbly, buttery, cinamony struedely type topping.


They have kinda good ones at Publix but never as good as Resch's bakery in Columbus, Ohio when I was a kid. I am pretty sure Martha Washington got hers from there too. We were in the same class in grade school.;)

Ok this looks like a project...wouldn't be nice if everyone baked two cakes that they are very good at, or your grandmas or moms or aunt (i have a southern jam cake to die for)...get a room at one of the rec centers...sell by the piece...and one sell whole... everyone goes home happy

Yes, that's the place. It's pretty bad inside her house.

Thank you, Bonny.

That's why I wondered how she passes health inspections...or do they even inspect her? I can't imagine eating anything out of that kitchen!

I love toojay's cakes, as well! They have a banana dream cake that is wonderful and a new one called mandarin something that is delish!

Not much of a cake eater, so I can't attest to the taste, but if you want pretty....Fresh Market cakes are beautiful. I have tasted their cookies, and whenever they have a cake cut up for samples, at the check-out, I try them. Always delicious.

Don't worry, that wasn't a cigarette she was smoking (hence the name Donna's Dream Cakes) and her dog is a service dog so it's OK. Oh, and the dirty windows keep her competitors from stealing her recipes.:icon_hungry:

I can't imagine anyone has been there to inspect !!:yuck:

They discontinued my favorite, chocolate with strawberry.

Did her hair look like George's? Mine was compared to his in the sixth grade. (Oops... oirry for the hijack.)

When I was at Donna's Dream cakes, her kitchen is separate from the house, even though it is in the same building.

If that was an older woman you saw smoking, it was her mother. She lives with her parents. I don't remember it being dirty in there. Just old.

But I was only there twice, and that was a year ago.

She has the best cannole I've ever tasted, and will do a platter of assorted small desserts that are bite-sized pieces. That's what I took to a driveway party, that and her cake pops. They went over big.

It was an older woman, @CFrance. I didn't want to start a diss-fest on her business. I didn't know how to ask without it seeming that way either. I'd read others' reviews of her business and it sounded amazingly good. I was just shocked when I went by the house. You can't judge a book by its cover and everybody is different.

Just checked the restaurant inspection website....no listing for Donna's Dream Cakes.
No license, therefore no inspections.
Here's the website if anyone wants to check out other restaurant inspection reports. After you get the list, you can click on the date and see a detailed report.

https://www.myfloridalicense.com/ins...ID=&id=3721844

Then you'll be happy to hear Yalaha Bakery is coming to The Villages this summer.

Yalaha Bakery - A Bakery Like no Other! - Coming soon! Yalaha in The Villages

Most grocery store "bakery" items are indeed not made at the store. My youngest son is a quality control manager for a company called Gonnella Baking which has several facilities around the country and they supply a large number of grocery chains with bread, rolls & cake that are either partially or fully baked and that the store either thaws out and finishes the baking process or just finishes up the decoration and final touches. They are not necessarily bad products, but they are not scratch made in the stores, as the grocery companies would like you to believe.