Due to COVID, I sought to celebrate my birthday in a different way. We had gotten my friend a custom birthday cake back in September, and I decided this was a way to celebrate in style. I enjoyed the process of selecting and designing a cake, that I decided I wanted to do the same for myself. I went on Instagram and searched for custom cake designers in my area in Queens, and was in between 3 different bakers. Noa Custom Cakes was very responsive, very informative, and very transparent in the way she communicated with me about my potential cake design. Her cakes are a little pricey, but you're getting a guarantee of communication and transparency, as well as the opportunity to work with such a sweet lady. This waw the reason why I booked my 30th birthday cake with her. She accepts Zelle and Venmo, and pick up in Maspeth, Queens only. I was very straightforward in my design, as well as including inspiration pics for her to review. Noa then also shared pictures of her work, as well as telling me what she can do to set my expectations realistically! We agreed on: pink to white ombre buttercream, edible gold leaf flakes, Handpainted faultline in gold, ube cake with ube ganache, with a rose gold glitter customizable topper. Noa will check on you to make sure you're ready to pick up your cake. When we thought we were at her house to do a no contact pick up, the GPS told us to walk through houses to her address. Confused, I texted her to tell her exactly where we were, and she redirected me quickly. When I got to her place, she met me outside and put the cake on a chair where we did a social distancing pick up. We had to be super careful bringing the cake back home as the box was so tall! We also had a half hour bumpy ride back home with our pup in the back, so it was triple the obstacles to get home. Luckily we made it back OK, and played tetris to fit the cakes in our refrigerator. Came cake time, Noa told me to take it out 15 min before cutting. When we cut into it, we were very impressed by the ube ganache and cake flavors. The gold faultline was a citrus flavor, and the rest of the buttercream was American. I told Noa that personally, the buttercream was too sweet to us, but she apologized for it. She told me that all cakes are defaulted with American buttercream unless we specify what type we wanted. Noa is very sweet in explaining why the flavor was what it was, and we understood. Ask her questions because she's very sweet and patient in answering them all. read more