Vendor Reviews: Who does what, for how much, & why you'll love them.
If you grew up in the K-W area, you likely already know Jirina's Bakery by name or by taste - or both. That's because after over twenty years in the business, Jirina's Bakery has earned a reputation for fresh, delicious flavour, and designs that can compete with any of the most traditional or ultra contemporary cake shops in the country.
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JoRa Wedding Cakes is not just another cake shop. Joanne Vincent and Hans Raess, the Owners and expert Pastry Chefs, know what it takes to deliver a great wedding cake because they've been doing it since 1987. They're old fashioned in the kitchen (where it counts), contemporary on the design table and open hearted when dealing with people. They still use their own coveted, yet-to-be duplicated buttercream recipes and when you visit their shop you are served a tasting of five different slices of cake and a sketch of your future wedding cake.
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Chrissie Boon is talented, enthusiastic, and as sweet as the cakes she designs each day. Before opening Too Nice to Slice in 2004, Chrissie had already run a successful custom cookie business, baked wedding cakes by request for over seven years, and got her Master Cake Decorator certificate. In fact, when you look at her past, it seemed only inevitable that Chrissie would eventually trade in her cookie cutter for a cake stand.
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When Yvonne Zensner isn't serving custom cupcakes and coffee to her Kitchener Downtown clientele, she and her staff are busy whipping up their infamous contemporary wedding cakes. As they work from The Cake Box's two-level King Street cupcake café, 'Sweet Indulgences!', onlookers watch in fascination - from their comfy seats at cocktail style tables - at how it's done.
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With wedding cakes that are inspired by new trends – not just in the cake decorating world, but also in décor, flowers and even fashion – Ida Thibeh Wiese, who owns Sweet Sweets Cake Art, is on the cutting edge of modern cake designs. Ida seems to constantly push the wedding cake envelope by bringing in her natural artistic ability and passion for baking to make sure that she doesn't repeat the same design twice. We checked out Ida's cakes and definitely agree that they're artistic, funky, modern and innovative and the options to have different heights and proportions just add to the unique factor.
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