Christine Dahl

Christine Dahl made the cake for my wedding and it was stunning. Perfect beyond words and it tasted delicious — we ate every bite! She was such a pleasure to work with, I can’t recommend her enough. Thanks Christine!

Amazing! We love cake and this was seriously the best cake we have ever had! The passionfruit coconut layer was to die for. All of our guests raved about it!!.
She was easy to communicate with and so sweet. The cake was delivered and decorated on site. When we saw it we were blown away. It was exactly what we wanted.
Christine is so talented we loved that she made the cake from scratch.
GO FOR A TASTING and you will be so happy you did!

Christine designed and made our wedding cake for the wedding. The cake was gorgeous and absolutely heavenly, she matched our wedding colors and really did a great job creating a beautiful masterpiece which everyone loved! Christine was really sweet and has a lot of experience so it was easy choosing her. We had a hard time choosing just one flavor because at the tasting they were all amazing. We went with 2 — vanilla, passion fruit and coconut for 2 layers and a chocolate raspberry for the other 2 layers. The cake disappeared fast because everyone loved it, one of my friends even had 4 pieces it was so good! Christine did a great job decorating and assembling the cake, it was perfect and really was a great part of the wedding. I highly recommend her, really high quality cake with great and professional service!

5 stars all around. Christine was extremely pleasant in person and guests LOVED the cake. One friend commented that the cake was better than the one at his wedding (and jokingly asked me not to tell his wife). I heard nothing but people raving about the cake. Christine’s cake was wonderful. I liked the passion fruit and the chocolate layer the most.

Christine just made my wedding cake about a week ago. I was thrilled with how it turned out and so did all my guests. The cake was light and delicious and the fillings just melted in your mouth they were so good. The cake was so good that we ended up finishing off the entire thing and will have to order a top once our 1 year rolls around. Christine was great to work with through the entire planning process and even sent me pictures of the cake afterwards. Highly highly suggest Christine for any event!

Christine Dahl made my wedding cake for my reception and it couldn’t have been better.
At first I wasn’t sure what to expect. I thought to myself, «It’s just a cake.» I soon learned I was wrong at the tasting. Christine provided some samples for us to try and I had to refrain from licking the plate. I ate every single bite. Even though some of the samples were from cakes that were previously frozen they tasted better than any cake I had ever had before.
I have a very busy job that does not allow for much down time let alone phone calls throughout the day. Christine and I communicated almost entirely by email or mail. She worked with my florist and the reception site regarding drop off times and coordinating services.
I ordered a three tier cake for 75 people, two cake and filling flavors, with butter cream frosting, fondant and fondant mold decorations. I gave her a picture of what I wanted and she produced it exactly. I gave her a fabric swatch of the color I wanted for the fondant and she matched the exact color.
The cake texture was light and soft. The fillings, frosting, and fondant were sweet without being overly sweet. The fondant was soft and not chewy. Everyone at the reception kept remarking how delicious and flavorful the cake was.
Christine definitely has talent for creating exquisite tasting and beautifully decorated cakes. I would use her services again in a heartbeat.

Thank You Christine for the amazing cake! We had such a beautiful wedding and the cake was the finale it needed! My HUSBAND, doesn’t not eat sweets, but he had a slice of the chocolate raspberry ganache and the passion coconut!!! And o even saw him sneakin bites off my plate! You were kind, courteous, and efficient and the cake was TDF!

Christine made a beautiful cake for my son’s 21^st birthday and was a true pleasure to work with. Despite the fact that we were organizing the ingredients and decoration remotely (I’m in Boston, our son is at UCSB), she was the consummate professional in guiding me through the decision process. The result was fabulous: my son and his friends raved about the taste and design. If you’re looking for a truly special creation for a special occasion, I would go with Christine every time.

Christine bakes the most delicious cake I have ever eaten — and I don’t particularly care for cake! Christine was a pleasure to work with and creates the most beautiful wedding cakes. She has hundreds of designs to provide guidance and is very accommodating. By the end of our wedding there was no left over cake! When we got back from our honeymoon, we had a nice card from Christine with several picture of our cake. We highly recommend Christine!

Christine created a beautiful and very yummy cake for our wedding. She worked with us to customize the flavors — we ended up with three different layers and they were all delicious. The cake was delivered and set up on our wedding day with no problems.

Christine made the cake for my wedding. The cake was not only stunning, but so delicious and fresh. Christine is a true professional. Both my husband and I enjoyed working with her and our vision came out perfectly. Her husband is also a baker and baked us an assortment of cookies and brownies for our dessert table– everyone loved them. After the wedding, Christine sent us beautiful shots of our cake and a hand written tank you note. I would definitely recommend Christine for wedding cakes!

Christine has very poor interpersonal skills. Very snotty over the phone. She made both me and my ideas feel like they were nothing. $ 200 dollars is not a lot for a cake… trust me I can afford it, but I wouldn’t put a cent of my money toward her. She later referred me to someone of lower caliber who might be able to «handle my job.» I couldn’t get off the phone with her fast enough.

Christine did my wedding cake, and it was the one thing everybody raved about. Even the fondant was more than edible, it was actually tasty, which is usually not the case. The price was not bad … I think $ 250 for a three tier cake for 50 people. The top and bottom layers were chocolate with chocolate filling and a chocolate hazelnut ganache. The middle layer was a white cake with lemon filling and a fresh berry layer. She was great when we did the tasting, and worked with us to make a beautiful cake. My only minor qualm with the wedding cake was that we had asked her if the cake layers could be slightly thicker and the filling slightly thinner, as I thought it was a bit much, she said sure, but it didn’t really happen. We just went back to her for our anniversary and she made us a small cake, which again was delicious (the same chocolate hazelnut filling). On the anniversary cake, when we picked it up, it wasn’t decorated the same, and she said that was because she didn’t have a picture of our cake (bummed she didn’t call or email us — we have plenty of pics of it). Also, when we got our wedding cake, she told us the price for the anniversary cake was $ 25, but when the time came, she said it would be $ 40. I would totally go to her again for a special occasion cake, as the cake was amazing, I would just be a little more clear on the details with her.

Christine Dahl provided the cake for our recent wedding at the Santa Barbara Zoo. She was very professional and warm throughout the process, from setting up the tasting appointment to mailing us photos of our cake after the wedding!
We went to a few tastings and Christine Dahl’s cakes blew the others away. We went with a white buttercream applied in a horizontal ribbon pattern and two flavors on the inside. (Different flavors for the different tiers.) One flavor was a half chocolate half white cake with chocolate ganache and raspberry filling (my husband’s pick) and my pick was a vanilla cake with passion fruit and coconut — I think this is the best cake I’ve ever eaten in my life. No joke.
Christine Dahl seems to prefer phone contact over e-​mail– I have phone shyness so I was a little nervous at first but it ended up being fine and more direct and she actually picked up whenever I called.
I told Christine I wanted to have some succulents decorating the cake and she said she was familiar with the florist I was using (grassroots) so I told the florist as well and they took care of it — I never had to deal with it. All I know is, when I showed up at my wedding, a beautiful cake was there and was decorated with succulents that matched my wedding flowers.
Her prices are very reasonable considering the excellent quality and it was easy to work with her within our specified budget and approximate number of guests. She’s a real pro. Besides being an excellent baker, it’s clear she has a lot of experience and runs her business professionally. I would recommend you go straight to her for your wedding cake!

Christine did our June 7^th wedding cake. It was over-​the-​top gorgeous! I wish I had been able to eat more than just our ceremonial first bite! We did Chocolate with hazelnut for one layer and vanilla with strawberry for the others. I hope the cake topper is chocolate for next year, but I can’t remember? She is very experienced and had a book full of her creations. She was helpful in combining a few in order to make our dream cake and from what I could tell everything went smoothly. I only wish we had been able to eat a slice of both flavors, but we were so busy dancing and talking with our guests!

There’s just no words to describe Christine’s cakes! They are heavenly! We had a two tier chocolate/​lemon cake at our wedding in October. The guests really liked it. What’s a great bonus is that for weddings, Christine decorates her own cakes with the wedding flowers. She wants her cakes to look perfect and they do!
Fast forward six months, and it was now my MIL’s birthday. I got the same two flavors as at the wedding (this time in two small separate cakes). Again, Christine did a fab job in decorating the cakes! They were just as good as I remembered them from the wedding!

We recently travelled to the West Coast to plan our daughter’s wedding in Santa Barbara. The first impression one gets in Chef Dahl’s private kitchen is that she is an artist and perfectionist. Trying the samples was tantamount to experiencing dessert at a five-​star establishment, and her credentials in this area are already on record. In addition, the decorative options are truly impressive from a visual standpoint. If the cake is not devoured at my daughter’s wedding, I plan to sneak off to a secret location and finish every morsel of the lemon curd, white cake, and white chocolate mousse combination (the other two layers are a divine chocolate confestion).

I am so thrilled to have had Christine do my wedding cake! I had a very small wedding of 20 people and was having difficulty finding wedding vendors that would take on such a «small event” – it was very frustrating. Christine called me back within hours after I sent an email asking for more information and set up a tasting right away. I appreciated that Christine was professional and honest. She listened to my idea of what I wanted but did make suggestions regarding some of those ideas. While some bridezillas out there may not appreciate that, I absolutely did. If I were a professional baker/​cake decorator I would’ve baked my own cake – but since I am not – I appreciated her professional opinion and I could not have been happier with the results. We are still being complimented about how beautiful the cake was and how delicious it tasted! I feel SO lucky to have found Christine! She made a beautiful and delicious wedding cake (for 20 people!), delivered it, set it up, and even followed up with me after the wedding as when she picked up the cake stand the following day she noticed some items of mine that had been left behind and held them for me at her studio. Need I say more? Thank you Christine!

Christine created our wedding cake a few weeks ago… It was so beautiful I actually squealed when I saw it!
It was stunning, delicious, and my guests are still talking about it!
People keep telling me it was one of the tastiest wedding cakes they’ve ever had.
The decorations were stunning, she created a masterpiece.

Christine did the cake for our September wedding. We went to three different cake tastings (one of the best parts of wedding planning, YUM!) and her cake just flat out tasted the best. She executed our design perfectly, and a nice touch was that she asked for color swatches to make sure the color was just right – key for those anal brides out there :)
The cake was as delicious as we remembered on our wedding day. As my groom says, this was the best wedding cake he’d ever had!