Luscious Layers Bakery

Used their cupcakes for our wedding… Great stuff. Very professional and punctual. Sad to see them close.

I used Luscious Layers for my wedding cake (and surprise groom’s cake) in July 2014 and for my husband’s 30^th birthday party cake (and mini cupcakes) in October 2014. I have been so happy with the reasonable pricing, the look of the cakes, and the taste! I highly recommend. Ashley and her whole team are great to work with!

We had a great experience with Luscious Layers Bakery! They provided us with our wedding cake, favors and other pastries for out sweets table. Our guest loved everything and the cake was perfect! We made several changes to our order during the planning process and they were always very willing to help. And to top it all off… the prices are VERY reasonable! You won’t be disappointed!

Luscious Layers created two cakes for our wedding this October. Ashley did such a fantastic job and they were so easy to work with. From scheduling our initial tasting to the wedding day… everything was smooth sailing! We had two different cakes… a three tier with orange ombré frosting and a two tier superhero cake (one layer was batman and one was superman). The flavors were pumpkin, lemon with coconut filling, and champagne cake with passionfruit filling. All were YUMMY!!! My only sad face is that I didn’t actually get to eat the passionfruit cake on the wedding day but I know from our tasting it was fantastic. The cake was so moist and the creamcheese frosting was the perfect balance to not make the cakes too sweet.

I’ve been meaning to review this place for a while. I ordered two cakes from them and both were amazing. My favorite flavor from them is the champagne and strawberries. I’m not much of a chocolate fan.
What I like about them the most is that they are so friendly and they work with you to get the cake you want. I wanted to get a zombie themed cake for my boyfriends birthday this summer and it was hard to get the right look I wanted along with a price and they made both work for me. The cake looked amazing and tasted really great too!
Their cupcakes are also really good which is always on my list to try.
The people working there are really nice and proffesional and I give them 5 stars for everything.

My husband and I used Luscious Layers for our wedding cake and cupcake tower at our August 2014 wedding. We had a great experience with Ashley from the beginning. We had a tasting and consultation about 10 months before our wedding. We knew we wanted to have a cupcake tower for our guests instead of a full cake because it was a little cheaper and it fit the theme of our wedding. We had a topper cake that we cut during the reception and then the cupcakes were for the guests (about 120). All the flavors we chose were delicious!
Ashley did a fantastic job keeping in contact with us as it got closer and working on final touches. When we first signed the contract she sent us detailed computer mock up designs of our cake and cupcakes. It turned out very elegant! The cake /​cupcake was actually one of the easiest parts of our wedding planning. We didn’t have to worry about anything!

Soooooo, I’ve waited & waited to write this review because I wanted to base it on taste & customer service. I was in charge of the cake for my cousin’s shower & LL was my choice after reading Unilocal reviews months ago! Skye & her team are the ABSOLUTE BEST! From their patience, kindness, & the taste of the cake, I am BEYOND pleased & will certainly refer & use LL in the future. Thank you for making EVERYTHING perfect! Everyone thoroughly enjoyed looking a eating the cake. Lol.

LOVE Luscious Layers!
We got married at Loft on Lake May 10^th and our cake turned out so beautiful and was delicious. We got lots of compliments on it from our guests. Ashley was fantastic to work with, as well. She was super responsive and made sure to get the cake exactly how I wanted it! I highly recommend them!

This was the most awesome and easiest decision ever! We had an awesome cake tasting as we needed gluten free and all tastes were amazing! Ashley helped out and made my cake look beautiful and taste wonderful! This was such an ease knowing they had it all under control for me!

Delicious! Came here for a wedding food tasting and the tastes were amazing. It is a bit pricey but everyone is super friendly and you can tell they use fresh ingredients. Definitely stop by!
I appreciate how they make vegan and regular cupcakes, so there is something for everyone! :)

Disappointed! I just had their chocolate cupcake and it was dry, not moist at all! I dropped some off at my son’s day care. If I had known how it tasted I would not have given it to them. It tasted as if it’s been sitting out for days!
2 stars bc lady helping me was nice.

I wasn’t happy at all with my wedding cake from Luscious Layers. I hated how it turned out – not what I expected. I gave them pictures of the design and it’s nowhere near what I wanted. They were also late in delivering the cake and cupcakes. When they finally arrived, it was an hour late. What’s worse was, when I counted the cupcakes, 10 were missing! I had to call them and tell them to come back! Overall not a good experience for me.

Luscious Layers Bakery was the best choice for our October 2013 wedding! They made both our wedding cake and our grooms cake. The big difference between this bakery and others, is Ashley doesn’t nickel and dime you for different types of cake or frosting, they all COST the same. There’s one flat rate, you just choose the one you like best.
I have to rant and rave about our groom’s cake as it was the most realistic looking cigar box I’ve ever seen. No one at our wedding believed it was actually a cake! Even the cigar box labels were exactly as the sample box we provided! Not only did the cake look great, but it tasted great!
I would definitely recommend Luscious Layers to anyone looking for wedding cakes or just a local bakery!

We just had our wedding and Luscious Layers made it even better with the beautiful (and delicious) cake they made for us!
The entire process was easy from the tasting, to the cake design, and all the final touches. Ashley was amazing to work with and provided great detail making the process seamless.
In the end the cake turned out BEAUTIFUL, it tasted GREAT, and everyone thought it was one of the best they tasted (we had the marble, hazelnut mousse, and cream cheese frosting). On top of the cake, we had multiple guests that needed gluten free options and Luscious Layers provided delicious options for them.
I would definitely recommend Luscious Layers to anyone looking for a wedding cake or any other bakery needs, I will definitely be returning!

I have to say that the service at Luscious Layers Bakery was great. I spoke with Laurie and sent her some pictures of a cake I wanted her to replicate for my daughters 1^st birthday party. I am a pretty picky person and with all the details I asked for I was very impressed. The cake was almost identical to the pictures I had sent her. I would have added more lashes to the elephant eyes to make her look more fluttery but it still was perfect and everyone loved it. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 was that they had forgotten (I had forgotten as well, being in such a hurry) to give me her smash cupcake. I had to call anyone who was headed from the city toward Jefferson Park to pick it up and all before they closed at 2 pm. This was a bit of a hassle but everything worked out. Thanks again!
Miriam

I ordered my wedding cake from Luscious Layers and everything about working with them was EASY. They can customize your cake to your choosing, yet make helpful recommendations. The quote and the actual charge were exactly what we talked about and additional charges were all upfront. And they delivered the cakes to my venue without anyone having to coordinate. Choosing the flavors, however, was the difficult part!
Our choices were:
Champagne with strawberries and cream
Chai spice with nutella
Chocolate with cookies and cream (I may would have passed on this but figured some of my guests make prefer chocolate).

Holy crap, I love Luscious Layers! Seriously.
Long story short… I wanted a shark cake and had a specific idea in mind, but it turned out much better than I imagined! I’m not even sure I want to eat it, that’s how much I love it.

I couldn’t be happier with the process, people or product that Luscious Layers Bakery followed/​presented/​produced!
I was looking to make a highly customized birthday cake and had very specific ideas of what I wanted to include, what color, etc!
While ordering a cake can be quite the task, as I soon realized I need to not only pick the cake flavor, but also the filling and frosting, the team here was most patient and helpful! Their suggestions were wonderful and they were more than flexible in working with my preferred method of communication (email), timing, tasting, et al!
Everyone at my party commented on the delicious and pretty cake!
Bottom Tier: Marble Cake + Chocolate Mousse Filling + Cream Cheese Frosting
Top Tier: Champagne Cake + Strawberries and Whipped Cream + Vanilla Frosting
The quantity was generous, the price was highly competitive, and they delivered and on time!
Really, I wish my birthday came more often just so I could order a cake from here more often!

«How is your day going?» «Would you like a sample?» «Enjoy the rest of your afternoon!» This is the kind of friendly service I love from any place. The man in the purple shirt — a hue perfectly matching the grape soda cupcake — was so pleasant.
Prices have gone up to $ 1.50-$ 1.90 since the last time I had tried Luscious, FYI. Though I definitely did not intend to walk out with a giant box of cupcakes, I left with an almond, pistachio, fudge, banana nutella, and mini red velvet cupcakes. Funny how quickly that happens.
Overall, the cupcakes could have used more flavor. Needed more almond flavor, more pistachio flavor, more, more, more! Great call on the b. nut combo, and I liked the lightness of the whipped cream on the fudge cuppie.
A couple of the flavors tasted like they weren’t baked fresh that day. Know that the cakes are kept in a chilled case, so bring to room temp before you indulge.

Luscious Layers is my bakery fire department, police station, and EMT. They rescued and revived me from baby shower planning stress! As the baby shower I hosted drew closer, I knew I didn’t have the time or energy to produce my own sweets, so I called on Luscious Layers for my dessert emergency needs.
Through a few emails and a visit to the bakery, I crafted a sweets table for the guests and mommy-​to-​be. The sweets table consisted of lemon bars, mini-​eclairs, and white chocolate cake, raspberry filling, and vanilla buttercream cake one bites. Let’s just say that the sweets table went over very, very well. The lemon bars were so lemony, sweet, and delicious. The mini-​eclairs were decadent, smooth, and creamy. The daddy-​to-​be and my husband went crazy for them post shower. The cake one bites were a dream come true. One guest described them as like a wedding cake tasting. Luscious Layers definitely saved the day with sweets table.
They went above and beyond the call of duty with decorated cookie favors. They’re like the mother who miraculously can lift a car to save a child in peril. The cookie favors were exactly what I envisioned. Luscious Layers created the most perfect cookie favor: pastel pitter patter feet. They looked exactly like the baby shower invitation! The cookies were adorable and tasty. Also, they packaged them in cellophane and ribbon saving me valuable planning and cleaning time. They helped complete my baby shower theme the way a rug really pulls a room together.
I can’t thank Luscious Layers enough for making my first time hosting a baby shower a smashing success. The sweets table rocked while the cookies were cute and yummy. The staff were incredibly nice too as they had my husband do a quality inspection on the mini-​eclairs when he picked them up day of the party. I’m without a doubt going to be a repeat customer with a return trip or two for mini-​eclairs for the new parents and cupcakes for special occasions.