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Desserts By Dana

Desserts By Dana

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    Paige M. Sent on 08/13/2022
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    Best Cake Ever!

    This cake was AMAZING! We instantly fell in love with Desserts by Dana on our first trip to do our cake tasting and have not been able to get enough since. We stop into the bakery every chance we get to pick up a sweet treat! Dana was polite and really helped us realize our vision of what we wanted from our wedding cake. While so many wedding cakes can feel bland, our guests raved about the flavors of this cake. Cannot recommend Dana highly enough!
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    Karly B. Sent on 12/13/2021
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    phenomenal

    After the recommendation from our wedding planner to reach out to Desserts by Dana for our wedding in October, we set up a tasting to get everything started. It was a shock from the beginning to meet directly with Dana himself. We told Dana early on that we didn’t want a huge cake for our wedding. We wanted a variety of different flavor cupcakes and cookies for our guests to enjoy with a small cake for us to cut. He customized everything around our wishes and gave great advice. He was easy to communicate with throughout the process and the cupcakes… they are a slice from heaven. The variety of flavors he offered was phenomenal. We highly recommend using Desserts by Dana!!
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    Alexis Sent on 03/08/2020
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    Beautiful and delicious

    We had our wedding at Deerfield and we needed to select from 1 of 3 bakeries. We chose Dana's. Our cake tasting was so much fun. Dana is a great guy and a great baker. We chose to have a 4 tier cake. Cookies and cream with white chocolate mousse and then red velvet with cannoli cream. Let me tell you, this was delicious and gorgeous. We cannot wait until our 1 year anniversary to eat our top tier!
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    Chloe Sent on 08/01/2019
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    So AH-mazing!

    My cake was included in my wedding package with the venue. The cake is amazing! I met with him directly to discuss my cake vision, and he did exactly what I wanted. The tasting went so well, and all of the flavors are to die for!! If I lived closer, I’d be ordering from them all the time! Highly recommend!!
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    Aaron B. Sent on 06/03/2019
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    Best cake in Delaware

    The title really says it all. We tasted cake at a few different bakeries, but Dana had the best taste by far. In addition, Dana met with us personally, which went a long way towards building our trust in him. He was even able to recreate a cake design from a picture my wife found on pinterest. It was a perfect replica, but I guarantee that ours tasted better.
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    Natalie Sent on 12/12/2018
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    DREAM Wedding Cake1

    Dana's went above and beyond to make my fairytale cake a reality! I couldn't even believe how beautiful it looked, and how AMAZING it tasted! seriously. The apple spice cake with buttercream was an absolute dream. We couldn't even wait a month to eat our top tier! They were incredibly easy to work with and their work was STUNNING.
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    Jessica Sent on 10/23/2018
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    Fantastic!

    The best cake I have ever eaten (I'm serious)! We did two flavors, pumpkin and marble for our Fall wedding. We received so many compliments. Dana did a somewhat naked cake for us and added flowers from our florist. He was fantastic to work with and communication was easy! HIGHLY, HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend!
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    Amber Sent on 11/14/2018
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    All that we expected

    The cake tasting and cake for my wedding turned out great. No complaints. There's very little communication from the time of the contract being signed to wedding day. It wasn't needed. I reached out a month prior and was told we were all set.
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    Whitney Sent on 09/02/2019
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    Great experience, delicious cake

    Our cake was included in our wedding package. We met directly with Dana for the cake tasting. We had multiple layers of different cake/icing combinations - all of which were delicious! Dana was able capture my vision for exactly how I wanted the cake to look! Would highly recommend!
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    Angela Sent on 07/15/2018
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    Dana took our vision for our wedding cake and made it even better with his creativity! It was delicious and our guests are still telling us how we had the best wedding cake they ever tasted! We were so pleased with the whole process!
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    Lyndsey Sent on 06/22/2018
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    Our cake was the first thing we booked in our wedding planning process. We knew exactly what we wanted it to look like and who we wanted to work with. Our tasting was absolutely delicious and we were able to pick out everything we wanted that day. I knew I wanted a giant cake even though our guest cap was 80 people. When Dana's team came back with our first "draft" I told them I wanted it to be BIGGER. And they did a great job accommodating this crazy lady and her big cake dreams. It was now big enough to feed 230 guests. The day of went as smoothly as possible and my giant cake was the biggest hit of the night. Everyone raved about it from how it looked to how it tasted. I told the staff at the venue that I didn't want those tiny slivers of cake that people usually get at weddings. I wanted big cake slices and I wanted to encourage guests to try multiple flavors (each layer was a different flavor: vanilla, strawberry, orange and lemon with white chocolate mousse filling). It went so well that the groom and I each only got one piece and no leftovers :( We'll be coming back for more cake on our upcoming birthdays and anniversary next year. Many thanks to Dana and his team for our perfect summer citrus cake!
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    Rebecca Sent on 06/07/2018
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    We came in with an unusual cake topper and a very general idea of what we wanted for the cake and he hit a Homerun! All our guests raved about the cake, how it looked as well as how it tasted! I'd include a picture of the cake but I don't want anyone to steal our idea.
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    Jenni Sent on 12/03/2017
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    We were so happy with the way our cake turned out! Wish i had a picture to post right now. It was beautiful and delicious. We had lemon raspberry for one layer and chocolate mint for the other.
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    Nichole Sent on 09/16/2017
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    We are so happy with worked with Dana for our wedding cake and dessert bar. When we got to the reception we saw how beautiful the cake looked, and we were in awe. Dana and his team handled all our requests and modifications without a problem. Our cake wasn't simply beautiful and perfectly designed...it was also...DELICIOUS :) We are still getting compliments on Dana's cake and all the yummy treats he made for our dessert bar. We will go back to Dana for all out future cake and dessert needs!
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    Marline Sent on 08/12/2017
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    From the first time we met Dana we knew we wanted to book him for our wedding cake. He did a great job with the design and the cake tastes so good!!! We even had a dessert table display and his team did the set up and break down.
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    Nicole Sent on 08/13/2017
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    We scheduled a meeting with Dana discuss weddings cake details. Dana is very nice and really knows what he's doing. On the day of the wedding my looked beautiful and was delicious. Would definitely recommend this bakery for any event.
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    Ashley Sent on 06/28/2017
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    My husband and I were so lucky to win the $1,000 wedding cake at the Dover Bridal Expo May, 2016. Our cake tasting was such an enjoyable experience! The cake was amazing and after we got cupcakes. Our Wedding was June 10, 2017 and our cake was better than I would have ever imagined. Everyone loved the cake! Afterwards we weren't told what to do with the Cake holder and they were nice enough to go pick it up for us! I would recommend them to anyone! Can't wait to use them fore future occasions.

    Desserts By Dana's reply:

    Thank you for this nice review. Wishing you many many years of happiness

    -Chef Dana
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    Anna Sent on 05/27/2017
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    Desserts by Dana was one of the cake vendors we were able to select for our wedding package with the White Clay Creek country club and we couldn't be happier with our decision to use them! We had a cake tasting that went great and we met with the owner Dana which we appreciated that personal touch! We were also excited to learn that this was a black owned business as we always try to support other black business owners. We had an amaretto flavored cake with white chocolate icing and omg it was sooooo delicious!! It had fondant and normally I don't eat fondant but the way he made it you could eat it since it wasn't hard or plastic tasting. I found a pic of a cake I loved on Pinterest and he was able to recreate it exactly! All of my guests raved about the cake even my aunt who has worked on bakeries for over 30 years. I surprised my sister with her own vegan chocolate cake also made by Dana and it was so delicious! I couldn't believe it was vegan. I highly recommend this baker!!

    Desserts By Dana's reply:

    Anna it was our pleasure to work with you and congratulations. Wishing many many years of happiness. Thank you for the kudos.

    Love,
    Chef Dana
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    Ashley Sent on 05/15/2017
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    Our wedding cake was perfect! We went into our tasting and consultation with only a slight idea of what we wanted, and our consultant was able to help us narrow it down and decide on cupcakes with a personal one-tier to cut into, complete with scrollwork, beading, and fondant lettering to make it our own. We were able to choose 4 cupcake flavors (we went with lemon, marble, almond, and red velvet - all got great reviews by our guests), and we chose chocolate cake with tiramisu filling for our personal tier which tasted amazing.
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    Desserts by Dana created a beautiful cake for my wedding! It was exactly as I imagined!! The cake tasted wonderful (almond with Bavarian cream)! Dana and his team were very easy to work with and very helpful!! Would use again!
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    Christina Sent on 03/22/2017
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    Our Tiffany Blue themed cake was the talk of the wedding! It was picture perfect.

    Desserts By Dana's reply:

    Thank you for the feedback and kind words. Wishing you many years of love and prosperity

    Chef Dana
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    Sarah Sent on 01/29/2017
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    Desserts by Dana did our wedding cake as well as my Grooms cake. Both absolutely delicious and Beautiful I loved the detail on both especially my husbands Grooms cake. He is a volunteer firefighter and I asked the bakery if they could do a hose/fire helmet as the cake with my husbands fire company info on it and it turned out amazing! Everyone loved it including my husband! Thank you so much for the beautiful cakes!
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    Bekki Sent on 08/11/2016
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    Our wedding care turned out beautiful!! It was exactly what I asked for and more. And it tasted more amazing than what we remembered at the tasting. All of our guests loved it. Highly recommended!
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    Kaitlyn Sent on 01/16/2017
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    Deserts by Dana was absolutely fabulous to work with! They designed the exact cake we had envisioned. They were so easy to work with and helped me combined two cakes I liked into the cake I wanted! Our guests raved about the cake as well, so delicious!
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    Jessica Sent on 07/13/2016
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    From the get to go, the team at Desserts by Dana were very flexible and excited about making our cake for our wedding! They worked with us and came up with an amazing cake design! Very simple yet classy! We got so many compliments from our guests on the beautiful cake and how amazing all of the flavors tasted! I literally have never had better italian buttercream in my life!!!!
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