Very dissatisfied with the results of the cake, attention to detail is lacking. It seems as if the cake was rushed. This is a big day for the family and expected that the cake would resemble the drawing. It's a one layer...I based the decision to order from you based on reviews and passed designs. The spelling of the name is wrong as well Disappointed to say the least!!!!!! read more

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I had a special friend who was retiring soon, and I wanted to surprise her with a three tiered cake. I looked online for someone who was good at making cakes, and I found spectacular cakes by lady Vivian, her website and reviews from other customers looked amazing,so I decided to give her a try. I have her a picture of what I wanted, but when I got it, it was nothing like it. Look at the photos below and you decide. read more

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Vivian made the cake for my son's 1st birthday and she nailed it! I gave her an inspiration photo and she made the cake exactly how I pictured it. It was reasonably priced as well, at $40. The cake fed 10 of us! Vivian was great at communication and the whole process was a breeze. I will be hiring her for any other parties I have that require cakes! read more

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Vivian's cakes are gorgeous and delicious! Ordering the cake was very simple and the cake turned out just like the picture. We got the red velvet cake and it tasted incredible! Will definitely be ordering from Vivian again. read more

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Three calls were made and Vivian was the choice hands down. She created this awesome birthday cake(Wine box with cheese, etc) for a dear friend, from pics sent to her. Vivian's phone, email and in-person demeanor never wavered during contact and she answered all of my many questions while maintaining professionalism. The chocolate butter cream cake was Super delicious. The Birthday lady, family and friends enjoyed the presentation, but most of all the taste of the cake. It was so light and moist! Vivian is a keeper!! Will definitely order from her again. KG read more

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I spoke with Miss Vivian via email gave her an idea of what I wanted... Definitely a smooth transaction, the cake was absolutely delicious. I would highly recommend using her as a baker. She will be my go to from now on. Thanks again for the wonderful service. :) read more

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So pleased with my order! Throwing a baby shower where bees/honeycomb/hives are the theme. Vivian only needed a week notice for 30 cupcakes. They are beautiful and perfectly done for the theme! Will definitely use her on future requests! Give her a call! read more

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I sent her a picture of the custom cupcakes that I wanted (highland cow) and she quickly whipped them up EXACTLY like the photo! I was actually surprised how perfect they looked. They also tasted great. Highly recommend. read more

Thank you Vivian for a beautiful and delicious cake for my wife's 40th birthday. Everyone lived the cake. Vivian replicated a beautiful 3 tier that I found from found google searches. Bottom tier was chocolate with mocha, and navy blue rosettes, middle lemon with a lemon curd and raspberry filling and the top was German chocolate. Everyone loved it and took some home! Thank you Vivian!!!! read more

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Vivian was the first baker we met with when looking for a wedding cake for our October 2015 wedding--and the last. We went for a tasting with her and hired her on the spot. Looking through her portfolio, I was impressed by Vivian's range--she can rock a seven-layer white wedding cake with pillars and a fountain, and also create a colorful topsy-turvy carnival delight. She worked with us to create something elegant yet unusual for our fall brunch wedding, and we were thrilled. We had a two-layer paisley-shaped cake. One layer was chocolate raspberry chip (which you MUST try) and the other was French vanilla with lemon filling, all covered in vanilla buttercream tinted a pretty peach color. We asked for an informal, dynamic spackle-look to the frosting, and she delivered. She also created edible flowers and added chocolate-covered strawberries to complete the look. The cake looked beautiful and tasted delicious--I really appreciated that the frosting was not overwhelmingly sweet. It also froze well, so that it still tasted fresh after we got back from our honeymoon. Pricing was pretty good for a wedding cake; we paid about $225 for 40 servings of cake (though our caterer wangled more than that out of it), and that included delivery to KC and the flowers and strawberries. Vivian delivered it right on time to our venue and set it up quickly and beautifully. Everyone loved the cake. A great product isn't the only important thing when hiring a vendor--liking the person who performs the service is just as vital. Working with Vivian was great. She always answered the phone promptly, welcomed us warmly into her home for our tasting, and took copious notes about our likes/dislikes. She welcomed reference photos, weighed in with her professional opinion when asked, and really let us know that she is extremely competent as well as passionate about her job. Vivian takes obvious pride in delivering beautiful, fresh, yummy cakes, and effortlessly makes you feel at home while you taste and design them. I highly recommend Spectacular Cakes for your event--you'll be just as delighted by Vivian and her cakes as we were. read more

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She did an amazing job with my son's 2nd birthday party cake. It was a construction site and it turned out much better than the picture that I gave her. She was great to communicate with and I did everything over the email with easy payment option via email. I strongly recommend her and She will be our to go person for every occasion. read more

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The cake was nice. The price was fair. I had a schedule change and she was accommodating and the cake was completed on time. I will be a repeat customer. Only change I would request it the was the cake is packaged up for transport- needs more support. read more

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I got my cake from here and I think the word spectacular isn't enough it was awesome tasted great was exactly what I want it did it quickly and on time and was very reasonably priced I will be a return customer because she makes great cakes! read more

Spectacular Cakes - 21st Birthday Cake looked fantastic and tasted great! - Desserts Near Me

I ordered cake with Ms.Vivian twice. Both the times, she did exactly what I have asked for!! She does a great job!!

Please don't use this business! I'm not sure why the other reviews are praising this baker. When I originally met the baker I was skeptical because she makes cakes out of her townhouse and it wasn't any clear signs of where I was supposed to be going. She was pleasant and stated she baked for many years. After placing a deposit with her, she basically became unresponsive to my calls and emails. I attempted many times to contact the individual and she told me that she "doesn't have time to sit at the phone all day and that she has another job..." from there forward trying to communicate was far fetched! She sent many disrespectful emails and I now have to find a new baker for my wedding cake. This is not a good business and nor is Ms. Vivian professional. This is not the experience that any bride or anyone else should have. The owner/ baker is extremely rude.... read more

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I wanted a Harry Potter cake for my granddaughter's birthday. Sent Vivian a picture and she nailed it! Also ordered cupcakes. My granddaughter loved it! It was all so moist and so very, very good. I highly recommend this place. Very reasonably priced, also. I will definitely use Spectacular Cakes again. read more

I live in CA but was planning a birthday celebration for my dad in KC... a lot of family we're coming from out of town and I wanted to get a really special Italian Themed cake for this special birthday... I yelped cake bakeries and found Spectacular Cakes, and I'm so glad I did! Vivian is great to work with and so accommodating!! I had found some ideas on Pinterest, and when I called her to ask if she'd be able to do it, she was so great! I emailed her the pics I had seen, just as ideas, and had seen pics of her cakes and thought they were amazing, and figured she's come up with something great!! Well she exceeded my expectations and the cake was amazing!! It's exactly what I had in mind! She did SUCH an amazing job! AND the cake tasted amazing as well! It was Lemon Butter cake with Lemon filling... the lemon flavor was JUST RIGHT, and the buttercream frosting was so good and the fondant was good too!! The detail she added to make the Italian themed decorations was beyond amazing! Everyone loved the cake!! I wish I was local, I would order from Vivian ALL the time!! She has so many flavors to chose from and she will do an awesome job and is a pleasure to work with! Thanks Vivian! read more

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Perfect birthday cake! We are so glad we chose this baker!!Vivian was great with communication. She delivered what we have requested perfectly! read more

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Once again! Vivian outdid herself. My husband contacted her to make a chocolate covered strawberry cake for my surprise birthday party. He provided a picture and her cake looked way better! The cake was delicious :) read more

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I too decided to use Vivian for my wedding cake! It was absolutely beautiful and tasted as good as it looked! Her cake is moist, the perfect amount of filling, and the frosting is sweet but not too sweet. We went with both a white cake with banana cream and a lemon cake with lemon curd...my wedding guests loved it! read more

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After our original caterer (and cake maker) fell through, we were left to scramble a bit for a new cake maker. We put together a list of 3 or 4 places and contacted them. Vivian at Spectacular Cakes replied quickly and we met with her soon thereafter. After trying some samples we were pretty much hooked! The cake was delicious and Vivian was super easy to work with. We left the meeting planning to meet with a couple more people but within about 10 minutes of leaving we had decided that we thought she'd do a fantastic cake at a great price and it would be delicious so we booked her as soon as we got home. Vivian took a bunch of notes the day we met with her and she ran with those details and that was about all the direction needed. Day of, she delivered our cake right on time and it was perfect! Exactly what we were hoping for. On top of it, she made us a small sugar-free cake for my mother-in-law who is diabetic AND we got wedding mints because, well duh, they are awesome! Everyone was excited to see mints and thought the cake looked great. When we finally cut it up and served it, everyone LOVED it! We got raves about how good it was. And they were all right, that cake was fantastic! On top of all of that, Vivian's prices are fantastic. Great cake, great service, great price... Can't beat that! We highly recommend you get your cake from Spectacular Cakes. You won't be disappointed! read more

I used Spectacular Cakes, Vivian, for my son's wedding in 2007. The cake was beautiful and the most moist and delicious cake i have ever had. It had four layers and each layer was a different flavor. she uses real vanilla and real coconut etc, in her cakes. I also had my wedding cake in 2014 made by Ms. Vivian. It was a very small wedding, since it was my second marriage; but the cake was so beautiful and tasted so moist and delicious. Now, my daughter is getting married in Aug. 2015, and we are going to use Vivian again!!!! i would never have a cake made by anyone else. read more

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I was beyond pleased! Vivan was very professional, executed exactly what I wanted, and the cake was delicious! My guest loved it and asked who made it. I will definitely use Spectacular Cakes in the future!! read more

Vivian did an AMAZING job on our wedding cakes!! We had 4 different kinds of cupcakes, our little wedding cake to cut, and the groom's cake. They were all delicious. I consider myself somewhat of a frosting snob, and she made, hands-down, the best frosting I've ever had! The cakes were very moist, our guests kept going back for 3rds and 4ths. We will definitely be ordering any future cakes from here!! read more

Ms.Vivian made a custom cake for my baby girl's first birthday party and she nailed it. I will continue to give orders to her.

Spectacular cakes has made my son's graduation cake and his 20 th birthday cake as Walking Dead and he just loved them , Vivian does a wonderful job and her cakes was a hit at both parties . I will be having her make all my cakes for now on. Best ever. read more

Amazing! We used her for our wedding 9/14/13. All things about the cake were perfect- the taste, the design, everything. She is wonderful and I will be ordering from her for all future cakes. This is the real deal! Love her and highly recommend her! read more

I found SpectaculAr Cakes on Yelp and glad I did. After much searching to find someone that made wedding cakes at a cost that I could afford was difficult. I just happen to be on yelp looking for something else then decided to type is wedding cakes is how I found Ms. Vivian. I contacted her and ask if she could make a pillow cake for my daughters wedding. She hadn't done one before but was willing to take on the job. Let me say she nailed it! The cake was beautiful. sorry I don't have a picture but just trust me. It was 4 tier and multi colored, simply beautiful. It was moist and delicious. I recommend Ms Vivian to anyone who is looking for someone to make their wedding cake. She's awesome! Mrs Campbell read more

Vivian made an incredible firetruck cake for my sons 3rd birthday! I sent her a picture of one he had seen and liked and she recreated it exactly. The cake itself was moist and delicious and everyone loved the detail of the cake. Her prices are very reasonable compared to other bakeries in the area and I will definately use her again! read more

I do not recommend this cake decorator. I hired her for my older son's birthday cake in 2016, a 3D Minions-inspired cakes, and things went well. However, I then tried to work with her this March for a two-tier Lego-themed cake, and the experience was a COMPLETE DISASTER!! The large top tier, a Lego-man head fell over into the 2nd tier and the side of the box before we even made it to the party. The tiers had no stents through them to stabilize the top tier into the bottom tier. I was so upset that my son's cake was ruined, not just because I'd paid Ms. Vivian $150+ for the cake, but, more importantly, because one of the main highlights of my son's party was this cake that we were so excited about. I was so upset that I neared tears. I messaged Ms. Vivian during the party to put her on notice and figure out why the cake was not stable enough to make it to the party. She first accused me of dropping it, then went to it must have been left in a hot car, then went to me driving wreckless causing the cake to be damaged. None of these things happened, which I explained to her. She did nothing to reasonably remedy the situation, and I do not recommend her to anyone desiring a cake decorator to appropriately ensure a cake can be transported to an event location. She never offered or mentioned that she had availability to deliver the cake. I would have gladly paid for delivery. I had planned to use her for a second cake the next month, but given the terrible experience, I promptly found another vendor who did a great job! read more

Vivian makes the MOST beautiful cakes, but the taste is what is beyond, well, SPECTACULAR!!! The cakes are very, very moist and the frosting is especially delicious because she makes it with real butter instead of the nasty shortening that they use at so many bakeries. My mom and I ordered a cake for my parents 50th anniversary party. She had eloped and therefore hadn't had her own wedding cake. We ordered a tier of lemon, one of white chocolate, and one almond. I would be hard pressed to pick a favorite, but it would probably be the lemon, or the almond, or maybe the lemon. Well, it's hard to decide and she has so many choices that it was hard for us to select the three. Vivian brought the cake in at EXACTLY the moment I had asked her to. The guests went on and on about how beautiful and delicious the cake was. My one and only regret is that we found her after I was married because I would have LOVED her to make my wedding cake. Oh, and in addition to all of this, she is super nice and prices are very reasonable. Very highly recommended. read more

ladies i am sold on vivian and can not wait to doing business with her just from the rave reviews that were left by the others and glad that everyon were so satisfied. wedding is at the lake of the ozarks and taking it 3 hoursaway..we will see what happens.. read more