Sweet Beginnings Bakery

Wonderful bakery! Not just for their cakes, but their cookies and cupcakes are awesome.

I’ve been looking for a great bakery for years and I finally found it.
Owned by a local couple, Sweet Beginnings is a great mix of traditional and modern treats. My family and I have ordered several cakes from here ranging in simple chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream to a bit more involved almond & espresso cake with chocolate ganache.
The bakery is our go-​to for celebrations. They are very accommodating with orders and even have cakes to purchase right out of the cooler for last-​minute treats. Regardless of what we have ordered, the cakes are always perfectly moist. The buttercream, which I’m quite picky about, has a great consistency and flavor; never overly sweet.
We usually stick to cakes, but we have tried cupcakes, seasonal goodies and cookies, too. All of which have had the same great quality.
I haven’t ordered any carved or stacked cakes yet, but from the look of their Instagram, they are very talented at decorating, too.
The bakery itself is welcoming and clean. There are a couple of display cases facing the door and one to the left side of the room with other options. There is a cute room to the right with wedding cake and other large celebratory mock ups. Although I haven’t explored the room closer, I’m guessing it is for tasting and ordering large cakes.
The service, in person and on the phone, is friendly and knowledgeable. I will be a customer for years to come!

My little cousin had an easy bake oven when we were kids. Her baked goods were much better. My tongue wished it had a neck so it could hang itself.

Sweet Beginnings made the cassata cake for my husband’s Rat Pack themed 60^th birthday party. Cake was AMAZING! It was the hit of the party! My very large italian family will all be customers for a long, long time!

When I got married in Buffalo in August 2013, I wanted to order a groom’s cake for my husband and I had heard great things about Sweet Beginnings Bakery. I set up an appointment during a time that I was going to be in town (we were planning our wedding from out of state) and they were very accommodating. I am not sure who I sat down with for the consultation, but he was wonderful… enthusiastic and very friendly. I had a cake design in mind and when I showed it to him, he said that it would be no problem! Needless to say my husband loved his Xbox cake that you guys made and it was a big hit at our rehearsal dinner and with his groomsmen. Even the people at the restaurant we held our rehearsal dinner at were impressed by the cake. Your bakery did a phenomenal job with my husband’s grooms cake and it was some of best red velvet cake I have ever tasted. Thanks again! :)

I stopped in here last week for the first time on a whim. I wanted to pick up a tasty little treat for my other half on the way home from work. I was hoping to find a cannoli to purchase, however I was disappointed upon gazing through the glass and finding zilch. I decided to settle on a colossal chocolate chip cookie cupcake, topped mile high with frosting. It was even accented with a charming fall scarecrow surrounded by leaves, smiling back at me. For $ 3.50, I was set. I proudly gallivanted home with my delightful finding. After dinner, I couldn’t wait for us to dive into the cookie-​cupcake (hoping we would make it to the bottom through all the frosting). To our dismay, it was not tasty at all. The cookie cupcake was ROCK HARD. Such a disappointment. Not only did it taste stale, it tasted days old. I have had baked goods sit around the house for a couple days that tasted better than that. I had to microwave it in order to make it edible. After a couple of unsatisfied bites, it was tossed into the garbage. I really expected more from a bakery like this (there were wedding cakes on display all over inside).
Needless to say, Tops or Wegman’s bakery would have sufficed. Heck, I should have just whipped up a batch of something myself.
I guess I will give it 2 stars instead of 1, just because I have only been there once and tried one item. Unfortunately, I probably won’t be back to try something else.

Sweet Beginnings made the cake for our wedding. The cake itself was absolutely delicious. Chocolate with a chocolate mousse filling and a white cake with raspberry filing. So good.
In person the cake also looked good. We just had a very simple white icing with flowers that matched our bouquets between the layers. Upon looking at the photos, though, I’ve realized that there were spots where there were missing flowers and where the icing was kind of messed up. Clearly it wasn’t a huge deal because I didn’t notice until we got the photos back later, but clearly it wasn’t perfect.
Very nice people at the shop, though, and they were accommodating of the fact that I had to come in for an appointment a month or so earlier than they normally schedule for weddings, as I was planning from New England.