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Albemarle Baking Company

Albemarle Baking Company

Charlottesville, VA
4.8 out of 5 rating, 51 Reviews
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    Absolutely delicious

    We worked with Albemarle baking company twice: for our micro-wedding and for the larger celebration event a year later. This bakery provided beautiful and delicious cakes; we have received many compliments on them since the events, some going so far as to say that “it was the best wedding cake we’ve had.” We loved that the bakery provided non-traditional options for the exterior of the cake---we chose marzipan layered over buttercream, a delicious alternative to normal thick buttercream or fondant. The cake arrived on time to our venue, and made its way to the florals / staging area and kitchen without incident or us having to worry about coordination. We highly recommend Albemarle Baking Company for your event, and particularly recommend that you try the chocolate and praline cake.
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    Molly C. Sent on 11/11/2019
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    Thank you, Alb. Baking Co and Gerry!

    I have loved Albemarle Baking Company for as long as I can remember. The Rossberg children grew up going there and we're quick to introduce out of town visitors - anyone, really - to ABC. About a week ago, I had Princess Cake at my wedding at Alumni Hall and it was AMAZING (as usual). Gerry was delightful to work with: prompt, professional, kind etc. etc. THANK YOU, Albemarle Baking Company! I wouldn't have wanted anyone else to make my wedding cake! (flowers on the cake provided by our florist, Willow Branch Flowers)
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    Erin Sent on 04/13/2018
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    This was our dream wedding cake! It was not only stunning to look at, but the taste was the best cake we have ever had! We knew right when we tried the princess cake that it had to be our wedding cake. We are still receiving compliments. Gerry was flexible to work with and provided excellent service. We are so thrilled you were apart of our special day!!
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    Lindsey Sent on 10/30/2016
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    Delicious, professional, and easy to work with! We are so grateful to have chosen Riki and Albemarle Baking Company to make our wedding cake this past October. They did a fantastic job making, delivering and decorating our cake. It was absolutely amazing! Our guests are still raving about it (and trying to eat our left overs!)
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    Elena Sent on 01/18/2016
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    Riki at Albemarle Baking Company did a fantastic job on our wedding cake! The cake was delicious, beautiful, and exactly what we wanted (it was also extremely affordable compared to other bakeries in the area we also considered before picking Albemarle Baking Co.)! Riki worked with me to design a multi-tiered cake with different icing patterns on each level – the buttercream roses on the sides of some of the tiers really took my breath away – Riki is so talented! We had a lemon pound cake with vanilla buttercream icing and Bavarian cream filling – absolutely delicious. It seemed to be a hit with all of our guests and my only wedding regret was that I didn’t eat an extra slice of our wedding cake before the wedding was over! The good news is that Riki makes you a small recreation of your wedding cake for your one year anniversary (so you don’t have to freeze your top tier), so at least I’ll get to eat more of it in a year!
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    Emily Sent on 09/20/2015
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    Our cake was to-die-for delicious, and absolutely gorgeous. Many thanks to Rikki for making our wedding cake dreams come true!
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    The wedding cake was DELICIOUS. And it looked exactly how I wanted it to look. Riki is very responsive and professional. I would recommend this bakery to everyone.
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    Lucy Sent on 08/04/2015
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    Riki Tanabe created the wedding cake of our dreams this past June. Many, many thanks to him for his amazing artistry and imagination in creating an extraordinary dessert finale to a beautiful evening.
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    Olivia Sent on 06/15/2015
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    We used this baking company for our wedding cake and it was amazing!! We did part vanilla with butter cream and part chocolate with a ganache-praline between the layers, and oh my goodness. Everyone gobbled up the cake all night! We asked for a textured pattern on the cake and added some cake flowers and it was beautiful. I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful cake. Working with them was really easy and trying the taster cake to pick out our flavors was really fun and a great value! The $25 you spend on the cake (large round) is put towards the final cost. Free cake for days and great service, highly recommended!
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    Shaun Sent on 05/11/2015
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    Albermarle Baking Company provided our wedding cake. We got married on May 1st 2015 at Pippin Hill Winery. The initially tasting was delish, they offer a Princess cake that we didn't change a thing about. It is a traditional Swedish dessert features vanilla sponge cake layered with bavarian cream and covered with a thin sheet of marzipan. They even offer to give you a top tier every anniversary, and we were planning on flying back to Charlottesville, VA anyway next year but definitely stopping by the bakery. I sampled a few other cakes while I was there and they were all good. The Princess cake was just perfect for a wedding cake. Definitely would recommend this bakery.

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    Albemarle Baking Company's reply:

    At Albemarle Baking Company, we encourage you to enjoy your cake within a few days of receiving it. We do not freeze our cakes, and do not recommend doing so. For a nominal fee, we will gladly make a fresh anniversary cake for you to help you celebrate your one year anniversary.
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    Abbey Sent on 03/10/2015
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    I highly recommend Albemarle Baking Co! Riki created a gorgeous, elegant cake for us. He is a great listener and was able to give us the cake of our dreams on our budget. It was also delicious. Many of our guests said it was the best wedding cake they had ever tasted!
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    We had a great experience with Albemarle Baking Company, who made our wedding cake! Riki made our cake and had a meeting with us in person, where we tasted all the different flavors and designed our cake. We did a very chocolatey wedding cake so ABC also made a more vanilla-flavored sheet cake for those guests who don't like chocolate. Both cakes were absolutely delicious, very moist, and both were gone in a flash! Their pricing is very reasonable and they are extremely professional. But the best part about a cake from ABC is the praline crunch - it is to die for! We definitely recommend Albemarle Baking Company for your event!
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    Amy Sent on 08/26/2014
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    This bakery is by far the best bakery! We ordered a tiered wedding cake, and a sheet cake for extra. This bakery offers a Tasting cake (for a small fee) that includes layers of all of the available kinds of cakes and fillings. The cake was delicious. I definitely recommend this bakery, I like this better than any other bakeries in the area, and it's not as expensive as the others.
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    Sarah Sent on 08/27/2014
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    Riki was always so responsive to my questions and ideas. We ordered a wedding cake, groom's cake, bridal luncheon cake, and birthday cake for my wedding weekend and they were all gorgeous cakes that tasted even better than the looked.
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    Kristina Sent on 09/10/2014
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    What can I say but melt in your mouth deliciousness !! We had a three tier cake for our wedding. We met with Ricki from Albemarle Baking Company, told him what style we liked. Prior to meeting with him I was asked what type of cake I wanted when we went to meet him he had made us our own cake to try. WOW!! Yum!!
    The day of I didn't see Ricki but our cake made it and he used some flowers that our florist had left and decorated the cake . Not only was it amazing in taste but looked it as well!
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    Rhonda Sent on 09/01/2014
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    We met Riki on a whim as we stopped by and he was very flexible to meet with us without an appointment. Being from out of town and having a destination wedding at the Early Mountain Vineyard, it was so nice to work with a cake designer that was so responsive, full of suggestions and willing to deliver to our wedding venue. After meeting with several cake decorators, we felt Albemarle Baking Co was the right vendor for us and they did not disappoint to deliver exactly what we had anticipated. We would highly recommend for anyone who is looking for a professional, talented and tasty cake designer. Thank you Riki for all you did to make the perfect cake and planning experience for us....And the miniature desserts that we added to our sweet station were amazing too! -Lo and Rhonda
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    Mary Sent on 08/19/2014
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    By far the most AMAZING cake I have ever had. Not only was the cake absolutely beautiful, it tasted divine. I was amazed at how well he was able to construct a cake based off of our meeting. The cake was exactly what we were looking for. Absolutely recommend!!
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    Beckie Sent on 07/14/2014
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    I have to say that I have tasted a lot of wedding cakes and they are typically nothing to write home about. The cake from Albemarle Baking was the best cake I have ever had and I cannot even begin to count how many of our guests articulated that same praise. It was so light and delicious! Thank you so much!
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    We were going to get our cake from Whole Foods. Tasty cake, pretty inexpensive. Then I thought, why not try to support a local bakery? I looked around the area and Albemarle Baking Company stood out as a good option; and I knew them from experience, having feasted on their ham and cheese croissants in the past.

    We set up a consultation and tasting cake with Riki, the baker there. The cake was superb. My fiancée and I have very different tastes in cakes, but he was able to do different layers for the cake to make us both happy. At the consultation he had an iPad and was able to show us different styles of cakes, which was very helpful because neither of us had any clue about design. At the wedding itself, everyone loved the cake and it looked incredible.

    Why go with Albemarle over others in the area? What I also liked was that local transportation was included for us, so we didn't have to pay extra to have the cake delivered or worry about doing it ourselves. We liked that he had a gluten free option -- a flourless chocolate torte -- that I heard was great from my gluten free guests. I liked that he was responsive and easy to communicate with -- which I found while doing the wedding planning is a rarity among many people in the wedding business. Other wedding cake vendors were either twice the price or didn't even respond to my contacting them. And I liked that the pricing was great -- comparable to Whole Foods, but the product is better -- and he offered to do a small cake for the photos and then a sheet cake for the guests to save money (which we didn't end up doing but was a nice possibility).

    They did a great job and I would highly recommend them.
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    We ordered our wedding cake from Albemarle Baking Company and were very pleased with the service and the quality of the cake. Riki was easy to work with and helped my husband and I decide on a cake size and shape to fit our needs for our 175 person wedding. During our tasting we got to try several different flavor combinations from a cute sample cake, and Riki explained the differences in flavors and icings and how we could customize our wedding cake. He was able to work off of a sketch I drew of my ideal cake design and the final product was spot on. Not to mention the flavors were DELICIOUS! We went with buttercream frosting and both a chocolate and yellow cake option, one filled with chocolate ganache and praline crunch and the other with bavarian cream and fresh berries. Price was also very reasonable, a better deal than we found while shopping for a cake vendor. Overall, we would definitely recommend Albermarle Baking Co. for any type of event.
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    Megan Sent on 04/28/2014
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    Everyone who attend our wedding is still talking about how delicious our cake was. Couldn't have asked for better. We felt that we were in good hands from the moment we signed the contract.
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    Patti Sent on 10/29/2013
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    What can I say, the cake was delicious, Riki decorated it beautifully with flowers left by the florist, and it was virtually exactly the picture I showed him as inspiration. I would definitely use them again!
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    Colin Sent on 10/31/2013
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    Riki gave me exactly what I wanted for my wedding cake - a beautiful design that actually tasted as good as it looked! He made it easy to change my order before finalizing the price - number of servings and flavor choices. I wanted a particular color for the bead decoration that was included in the design, and he matched it perfectly. You and your guests will not be disappointed - I received lots of compliments on the look and taste of my cake!
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    Leah Sent on 08/26/2013
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    Riki from ABC was great to work with. Throughout the planning process, Riki was very accessible and responded to my emails quickly. When I started pricing wedding cakes, I was stunned at how outrageously expensive some vendors are. To save some money, Riki worked with me to create a three-tier cake that fed 80 people and a sheet cake that fed the rest of our guests. This is a great option for those who don't want to spend thousands on their cake. Most importantly, our cake was beautiful and absolutely delicious. Definitely not the typical dry, boring wedding cake. I highly recommend using ABC!
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    Dimary Sent on 05/06/2013
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    Our wedding cake was beautiful, tasty and elegant. It was exactly how I envisioned it. We got so many compliments from the guests. They were amazed by the execution and taste. We highly recommend Albermarle Baking Co.
    Thank you Riki for being a part of our special day!

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