A baby's first birthday is such a huge milestone for a family & throwing a nice party to celebrate…read morewith family and friends is quite the norm here in Hawaii. I looked and scouted for vendors for my daughter Kairi's first birthday when she was only five months old and after doing many searches and recommendations from other mothers I found the perfect bakery for my daughters gourmet CocoMelon cake. There were a wide array for flavors to choose from and the creativity was deeply admired. We enjoyed the beautifully designed outer portion as well as the inside which was displayed at her party and reserved for our immediate family to enjoy! The service and coordination was excellent and on point and I highly recommend Damduk Bakery for any occasion & will definitely be returning for more! Great job! Thank you for making our daughters first birthday so memorable!

Honestly, I am long overdue for a review. Small business owners of literally just Jess & her…read morehusband (the delivery guy xD) , is able to make the cake of my dreams. I have been sneaking tastes of the cakes, cupcakes, and cookies from this baker for well over a year now, because her husband would bring over goodies to work for celebratory occasions. Talk about a sweet friendship. Btw, I am sooo picky with desserts, but I LOVE desserts. I hope that makes sense because Jess, the baker of Damduk, made that "cut" in fulfilling my sweet tooth. Not too sweet, pretty in appearance & edible without all the fondant. My personal favorite is her carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I am not the type to go out of my way for carrot cake, but hers is moist & spiced up so right, you'd think it's fall season with every bite. & that cream cheese is so (insert Pacha meme from Emperor's New Groove). Red Velvet is another good flavor to go with the cream cheese icing. Trust, I am not an icing fan (i usually scoop icing off) but her Swiss cream is palatable. Messaging through IG is how we communicated and she is pretty straightforward. Pick up is in Aiea and delivery is extra & optional if you got a lot going on your plate. I have been looking for some sort of excuse to buy a cake from her & my birthday is so far away or I am always traveling for it. My fiancé took the initiative & custom ordered it for our engagement day & it was the cutest surprise! The cakes that I have gotten from this bakery has been so special & memorable for me. I really appreciate Jess and her hard work into making the cakes so perfect for me. It is so nice when you find a reason to celebrate & you know it's going to be a good time because you are assured that the product will come the way you want it, if not, better. I am so happy to do this review & I really hope Damduk Bakery gets the exposure it deserves :)

These cookies are amazing! I strongly recommend that strawberry cheesecake cookie. The snicker…read moredoodles are also amazing. I am getting a some for the office.

I received Valentine's Day sugar cookies from Clairey Bakes. This business sells custom made…read morecookies, cakes, brownies and other sweets. They specialize in customization. The sugar cookies were delicious. If we knew where the store is, we would stop by to see what's available for purchase. I do not know if they have a store or if the business only handles custom orders. If you get a treat from Clairey Bakes, it will be delicious!!!

AS SEEN ON FOOD NETWORK! Yep! She can say that now. She competed in the Christmas cookie baking…read morechampionship a couple years ago. Anyway, this was my 4th year ordering pumpkin themed cookies from Frescia for our annual Pumpkin Party. She always surprises me with something beautiful and new! These cookies are always a hit and great party favors. I always get them individually wrapped.

Can't get enough of these great cakes. Love the minis, truffles, and cup cakes too. Great service…read moreand professional set up. Try these and you wil never buy a cake anywhere else.

I get Sour Sisters bread at the Madison Farmer's market - delicious sourdough bread! Our favorites…read moreare the seeded, rye, and cranberry walnut breads.

Maddie's Cookie Company is a cool little concept. The story as I understand it goes that the…read morebusiness owner and baker Maddie always loved to bake for fun, and her hobby turned into a business as she graduated high school mid-Covid-19 pandemic. She got so successful and loved running the shop so much that when she started school at Auburn this fall, she decided to major in business rather than biomed and keep selling cookies. All in all, a pretty cool origin story, haha. You can find Maddie's cookies (at least when she's home from school) in a small shop downtown. There's good signage outside so it's not hard to find. She's super social media-adept, so I'd recommend following her on Instagram so you can keep up the times when she'll be in town. You can preorder cookies that way so you can guarantee getting the flavor that you want. You can also order cookie boards, which look great for holidays, work parties, or even wedding or baby showers. I pressed my luck for Valentine's Day and stopped in to pick up some cookies. If a particular flavor is appealing to you, I'd HIGHLY recommend preordering. They were open for I think four hours the day I stopped by, and I came 1.5 hours in and there were only two packs of cookies left. Both were sugar cookies. I would have preferred a different flavor ideally, but I'll just have to preorder in the future. :) The packs are currently 3 cookies for $6. It's a little high of a price for me, but it's offset by the knowledge I'm helping a small business, and the fact that the cookies are tasty! Maddie herself was manning the cookie shop and she was perfectly sweet and very friendly. As for the cookies, they were really good! I had to delay eating them because I got overstuffed from other Valentine's festivities (lol), so they were maybe a little on the crusty side at the outer edges. Probably my fault. But they had a lovely vanilla flavor, had pretty purple and pink sprinkles/dust on them, and were nice and soft at the center. I believe she's starting to expand and you can find her cookies sometimes at other downtown establishments like Honest Coffee. I'll definitely keep my eyes peeled so I can try different flavors in the future!

Valentine's Day cookies from Maddie's were so delicious that we opened and ate them before I…read morethought about taking a picture. Those tasty moist fudge cookies were succulent and not too sweet. I have another cookie that I will try later today. If you have a chance and are downtown, please stop by Maddie's Cookie Company to support their business.

I stopped by for some froyo after work a couple of weeks ago. I used to work at a froyo shop in…read morehigh school. The trend died out a while ago but some shops still persist. I'll admit they make me nostalgic and I usually have fairly high expectations for them, since (though I'm biased) I feel like I worked at a pretty good one. The reviews for Zen Beri weren't that great but I honestly thought it was pretty good. This shop is located in a large, somewhat labyrinthine shopping center and the signage is nondescript, but there's plenty of parking and it's accessible. The inside is small but clean and cute. The staff member greeted me politely. I went to the back of the shop to check out the froyo flavors. They didn't have a super extensive selection (maybe about 10 flavors), but many sounded tasty. Eventually, the staff member offered me some sample cups, which were self serve. I'm clearly out of practice; two of my three samples came out great but one of them splattered all over my arm. It's veryyyy sticky lol. I tried the butter pecan, a coffee flavor, and one other that I don't recall the name of but remember liking...something vaguely nutty, but it's gone from my memory now lol. Anyway, the butter pecan was quite yummy; the coffee had a slightly odd taste that I didn't care for. 2/3 isn't bad. I have what I think is a pretty perfect froyo combo that typically tastes great and fulfills the build your own fantasy without overloading the toppings and making the flavor weird. I got some chocolate yogurt, paired it with a little of the butter pecan, and then topped it with crumbled Reese's and Oreos and a dusting of pecan pieces. Ideally, this creation is completed with a generous drizzle of hot fudge, but their hot fudge dispenser was either clogged or empty and my attempts were fruitless. Other than this mishap, the topping selection had lots of good choices kept clean and topped off nicely, though it wasn't a crazy extensive number of different options. I honestly find that preferable in terms of waste and decision making, but YMMV depending on what you like with your froyo. The price per ounce seemed reasonable and the employee remained friendly and pleasant through the checkout process. My creation tasted as I remembered (I've had better chocolate froyo but this one was good enough and the butter pecan was quite yummy) and I enjoyed it overall. This is a solid froyo shop and I'm glad to have stopped in. TL;DR: clean shop with polite employees; relatively small selection of flavors and toppings but what's available is fairly high quality and presented well. Worth a try!

This is a cute little frozen yogurt shop. They had self serve cups and cones with a wide variety…read moreof toppings, sauces, and hot fudge. The location was clean and bright and had friendly service.