Martha was so amazing to work with!! She squeezed us in for a last minute tasting when our Covid-delayed wedding totally snuck up on us. We wanted a small cake for cutting and photos along with an assorted table of fun desserts for our guests, and boy did she deliver! With almost no direction from us, she created the most beautiful (and delicious!) cake, along with an amazing assortment of super delicious desserts! When we first called Martha, we didn't really know what we wanted. Luckily for us, Martha did a great job of suggesting interesting and unique flavor combinations that we fell in love with. Since we loved everything at the tasting, we ordered extra, and got to-go boxes so our guests could take home leftovers. Thankfully we had our tasting just a couple weeks before the wedding because by the time we made it to the dessert table, it was almost empty - no need for to-go boxes! I can't wait to work with Martha again - maybe an anniversary cake?!? :) read more

Amazing cake for our wedding! Stunningly beautiful and so delicious. Martha worked with us on bringing together all the elements of our wedding. She made a delicious cake with two different flavors. We had lemon cake with strawberry rhubarb and chocolate salted caramel. Our guests couldn't decide which they liked better. We also got the mini blueberry pies which were a huge hit. When describing what I wanted in a cake i never imagined how beautifully Martha would be able to make. She was wonderful! read more

Hanami Cake Design - a blue and white cake with gold accents - Desserts Near Me

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Garbage. Her page doesn't make it clear there are other options than quarantine cake. The cake tasted like burn toast with frosting.

For a truly wonderful and unique cake I highly recommend working with Martha at Hanami Cake Design. We were able to design a unique cake from the ground up including two great unique flavors. If you can imagine it, I am sure Hanami Cake Design can find a way to create the wedding cake of your dreams! read more

Hanami Cake Design - a three tiered cake decorated with flowers - Desserts Near Me

If you don't want to pay 55 dollars for the worlds tiniest cake, order elsewhere. I told my fiancé the cakes she make look beautiful but I only saw one option and it was QUARANTINE CAKE, the option did say happy birthday so I thought it would be made accordingly.it didn't travel the size of the cake until after I paid so I thought that's weird because it gave me an option for flavor and everything else. I went through and reread everything and started asking questions, still hadnt realized that 5" was the size because of its placement. so now my fiancé's super disappointed and embarrassed because he was excited. Just go to Walmart or really anywhere else at all. I'm out of luck because today is his birthday. read more

If you are looking for a beautiful, unique, delicious SHOWSTOPPING wedding cake in Portland/midcoast Maine, look no further than Martha Elk of Hanami Cake Design. Martha was a joy to work with throughout the entire process, from our initial tasting to our wedding day. Martha made us not one, not two, but THREE gorgeous vegan cakes for our wedding weekend (which also encompassed multiple family birthdays - hence the two additional cakes), as well as gluten free, vegan cupcakes. Martha was the only cake vendor we found who met our top two criteria: (1) someone who could make us a vegan cake in an array of flavors without limitations (many vendors told us they could only make a plain vanilla or chocolate vegan cake), and (2) someone who was responsive, organized, and professional. We feel so lucky that in addition to meeting those requirements, Martha makes the most delicious vegan desserts we've ever tasted, and she is an absolute artist. Not to be biased, but I have never seen a more beautiful wedding cake than the one Martha created for us. She worked with us very closely to come up with a unique design that incorporated our wedding colors, multiple "on-trend" elements, and encompassed three flavors of vegan cake. She even found an elegant and creative way to incorporate our favorite hobby - rock climbing - by adding two mini gold leaf-covered rock climbers to the cake's prominent geode feature. Our guests absolutely loved it! Her cakes are a bit pricey, but worth every penny. Martha is a cake genius and I highly recommend hiring her for wedding cakes and any other special occasion! read more

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I want to give a Special Thank you to Hanami Cake Design who made my Wedding Cake and my Mother's 60th birthday Cake both were splendid and so delicious. She is very talented and very easy to communicate. A big Thank you read more

The vegan birthday cake I ordered for my daughter was a BIG HIT!!! I picked it up Dec 23rd and kept it refrigerated until Dec 25th when it was served. The cake was beautiful, moist, and delicious! Martha offered many options for a vegan cake. She made the process easy, from making a selection, to ordering, to pickup. I would certainly recommend Hanami Cake Design to anyone looking for an extraordinary cake for any occasion. read more

In planning a wedding for 180 guests, there are so many decisions, but I knew the moment I met Martha that having Hanami Cake Design do the desserts was going to be a solid choice. Martha could not have been more enthusiastic and professional in her knowledge of baking, her communication and her timeline. She was willing to go very far down a whimsical road to test various desserts and in the end, she was responsible for a full weekend of desserts for our destination Maine wedding. Unbeknownst to me, the organizers of my bachelorette party ordered the most delicious chocolate-flaked almond-flavored log roll from her. Polite friends tried to just have a bite, but went back for full slices. For the welcome picnic we had blueberry pies, and vegan and regular whoopie pies (when the regular ones ran out, guests who were not gluten free ate the GF ones and were surprised at how good they were). At the wedding we had vegan and regular sheet cakes along with a showpiece cutting cake (that got eaten as well!) of red wine chocolate cake with a camping scene on top, complete with a glowing candle for the campfire. Martha handled the volume and variety impeccably. If you're looking for something unique, unquestionably delicious and absolutely professional, I can't recommend Hanami Cake Design enough! read more