Classic Cheesecakes & Cakes

My husband and I had a wonderful time our tasting and opted to go with 4 layers of cheesecake for our wedding cake. I emailed the owner several times discussing the flavors, order of the flavors, and design. We wanted our biggest tier to be vanilla bean (our favorite). I sent pictures of the lace on my dress so that a design could be made on the icing. I also asked for there to be flowers cascading down the cake. There were no sketches or drawings sent back to me so I assumed it would be taken care of how I asked.
On the wedding day, to my surprise, the design was not what I hoped it would be and there were no flowers (which I paid the florist for) on the cake ! At the cake cutting, we cut into the bottom layer expecting to see vanilla bean but much to our surprise it was chocolate (our least favorite). Hopefully the guests didn’t see the look of disappointment on our face when we cut into it but this is something I will unfortunately always remember about our wedding day. We were so disappointed on how the cake did not turn out how we wanted, especially for how much we were paying for it. After the wedding, Mark did offer me a vanilla bean cheesecake for his mistake, but we are still so disappointed our guests didn’t get any of the cake we originally planned on them having.
Maybe the bakery is getting overloaded with weddings and orders or maybe ours just wasn’t as important as other orders, either way I probably wouldn’t recommend to other brides based on my experience.

We were planning an out of town wedding and had one day to find a wedding cake. Classic cheesecakes had great reviews on Unilocal so we tried it out. Both me & my husband are not cheesecakes fans, but this cheesecake is just amazing. The cakes were so light and creamy. My favorites were the vanilla bean and cookies and cream, while my husband loved the chocolate truffle cake. We had 5 tiers, each a different flavor. Everyone at our wedding wished they could have tried all 5 different flavors

After our tasting with Mark in which we tasted all his delicious cheesecake and pound cake options, we decided to go with him for our wedding cake. We had a bold idea for him (a Hogwarts cake) and he was more than up for the test.
So eight months later and we arrive at our wedding reception with our jaw’s dropping. It wasn’t just us, it was the other hundreds of guests that could not stop staring at this magnificent and very large (had to feed 400 guests) cake. It wasn’t just cake, it was artwork. Everyone wanted to take photos of and with the cake.
It was a very hard to cut that cake because it’s just so awesome and you don’t want to mess with it but luckily the cake was as good as it looked. The pound cake was very good and the cake was very rich. We used chocolate chocolate chip and raspberry marble as our two flavors.
The cake will be in our memories forever and Mark really pulled off an amazing feat. We uploaded the photo to his page and him and his team deserve a lot of credit for making our dreams come true. The cake was just amazing.

Mark is amazing! He did our wedding cake 7 years ago and it was the most amazing 4 tiered cheesecake. Now we have 2 kids and Mark always does our birthday cakes. His cakes not only look good they taste amazing! He’s the best!

Josie and I got married 3 years ago. As with most weddings, trying to rein in costs at every turn is difficult to say the least. However, Josie loves cakes and this was an area that we were not going to skimp on. After meeting with a couple of bakers and tasting their wares, we finally made it to Mark Lotti’s shop. It will soon be apparent why we never looked further… in fact, I wonder if anyone ever keeps looking after seeing Mark; I can’t imagine why you would need to.
As other Unilocalers have mentioned, his cakes are ridiculously delicious, moist, and dare I say addictive. Josie makes fun of me because I normally like only the basic flavors (vanilla, chocolate, um… vanilla again…) but even I found every flavor just as deserving as the next to be the winner. Eventually, we went with a different flavor for each tier (lemon, grand marnier, and strawberry).
Of course, the flavors are just the half of it. A good cake has to look good, as well, and that’s where Mark really shines. We were really unsure of what we wanted our cake to look like other than white, classy and modern (yeah, were lots of help!), but Mark took a look at our invitations which had a blue filigree design on it and used that as a recurring accent on a 4-​tiered cake (3 circle tiers on top of a hexagon base). Although the cake wasn’t totally white like we originally thought, Mark’s idea to go a little out of our comfort zone really paid off. The cake was beautiful and is still used in our wedding photographer’s online gallery.
But wait, there’s more!
It’s classic CHEESECAKES for a reason, folks. After looking through his grooms cake portfolio, I was blown away at what he could do with cheesecake designs. Cheescake is his 3-​dimensional medium and he is a maestro. As much as we loved the cake tasting, the cheesecake tasting was even better. After tasting them all, I was torn between vanilla bean and oreo… until Mark said we could do half and half. SOLD!!! Being GT grads, I had Mark do a 3-​D Ramblin Wreck cake with half vanilla bean and half oreo. The detail was amazing as it really looked like a white and gold 1930 Ford Model A. Again, this photo is one of the dozen or so featured on our wedding photographer’s cake gallery. Since they do on average 3 weddings a month (I’m guessing), I think it speaks volumes for Mark’s work that he has 2 cakes featured since they’ve done countless weddings over the last 3 years.
We still go by there a couple times a year to get just a regular cheesecake because they are that good.

My man surprised me with a Frangelico white chocolate cheesecake for my b-​day last night — oh MY was it delicious! They even frosted it and spelled out Happy Birthday — who has heard of a frosted birthday cheesecake before?
I will say it’s dangerous having one of these around the house — better have some will power or a big crowd to feed — even though the cake is SO rich it’s tasty enough you want to just keep eating until you fall into a sugar coma.
PS: my husband had only accolades for the customer service. He called in his order and when he went to pick it Mark showed up to make sure it was what he wanted. (Mark had just stepped out and the shop called him back when J arrived). Apparently very easy to deal with and great service — always worth an extra star (although the cheesecake alone gets 5 :)

The very definition of sinfully delicious. The cheesecake is so good, the pound cake is so good, it is all just so good! And so rich. This is where to go when you want luxurious indulgence-​type desserts — dieters and diabetics, beware!
I tried so many flavors of both pound cake and cheesecake trying to pick a wedding cake, and I can honestly say, I never ate one that wasn’t amazing. We went with Bailey’s Irish Crème and the pineapple-​coconut pound cake layers in the end (and double chocolate cheesecake for the groom’s cake), but it was a VERY tough choice. The whole idea of cheesecake wedding cake is really cool — Mark (the coolest computer programmer-​turned-​baker ever!) disguises them to look just like regular wedding cakes. I love this place, and would recommend going and at least standing in the doorway to look at the display cakes and smell the delicious-​ness coming from the kitchen (you can get a sugar high just coming within a five yard radius of the building).