Bocakes

I got married 1 year ago and my cake was one of the best memories of my wedding. My husband has been talking about our cake since that day a year ago. Kathy did an amazing job, it tasted so good and looked so beautiful! I called Kathy about our one year anniversary cake 3 days ago and she said normally she needs 1 – 2 weeks in advance, which I was ok with waiting since it was my mistake to call so last minute, But she did everything she could to make sure I received my anniversary cake on my anniversary. Now me and my husband get to enjoy this yummy cake tonight after our dinner. Thank you Kathy!

Our cake was absolutely stunning! It was just what we asked for as far as the color and design were concerned. It was delivered on time and set up discretely and stayed beautiful all night. The only issue we had was that our cake was mostly coffee flavor with a small tier of red velvet. The red velvet was amazing but the coffee tiers were either not coffee or weren’t how we remembered them to be. The cake still tasted great, just not like coffee. I would still recommend them!

So excited to have booked with Bocakes! Kathy was very accommodating and friendly! She met with us in the evening to work around our schedules. Her shop is beautiful and kept perfectly clean. The tasting was set up so eloquently. We were warmly greeted upon walking in. She let us try all of her fillings and 9 different cake options. It was a true build-​your-​own style tasting. She walked through recommendations and her favorites then let us free with our samples and a pen and paper. She even included water bottles for us. We enjoyed our evening more than we could’ve ever imagined.
I will be adding Bocakes to my event business’s preferred vendor list.
My fiancé and I are so excited and thrilled to be working with Bocakes!

Right off the bat we were so impressed with our experience at Bocakes. Kathy, the owner, facilitated our tasting back in December for our March wedding and put on quite the spread! I was shocked at the number of cakes and fillings she made available to us, not only for the tasting but also the cake itself!
She encouraged us to be creative, and offered basically every layer of the cake to be a different flavor with unique fillings in between each. I loved that because we ended up with such a unique selection of flavor pairings for each tier. She also did a great job of explaining the cake serving breakdown (i.e. how many guests = how many tiers, accounting for the fact that not everyone would likely eat cake). A good thing to note is that she only works with buttercream (no fondant, which was A-​OK with me!) but still can create beautiful designs and pretty much create anything a couple requests.
As we neared the wedding I was struggling to figure out favors for guests (I couldn’t bear the idea of spending a fortune on a shot glass or other tchotchke that people would end up leaving or tossing) so I figured maybe food/​cupcakes would be the way to go. Kathy gave us an excellent quote for boxes of mini-​cupcakes (again offering a variety of flavor combos!) and provided the cutest little packages with personalized labels we created. All in all Kathy was professional, responsive, and wonderfully affordable! I can’t wait for our 1-​year anniversary to be able to indulge in her cake again (did I mention she offers a complimentary 1-​year anniversary tier for her customers?!). You rock Kathy! Thank you, THANK YOU!

I was so happy with our wedding cake and how the desserts turned out. Kathy was very easy to work with through the busy wedding planning process. She was patient during our taste testing when we were indecisive and helped guide us through choosing our flavors. Our buttercream naked cake with half carrot/​half marble tasted AMAZING! We got so many compliments and there were no more desserts because everyone ate them all! The peanut butter fudge brownies and red velvet mini cupcakes with oreos on top were sooo good. She even let us borrow some of her cake stands which were very helpful considering they could be an extra cost. I would highly recommend Bocakes if you are having a wedding or special event in the Temecula area. Thanks Kathy and can’t wait for our 1 year anniversary cake!

Our cake tasting appointment was amazing. We were given many cake options and filling options, and were told to mix and match until we found what we liked. My wife and I liked three different combinations and Kathy was able to give us all three for a reasonable price.
Fast forward a few months to the wedding, the cake turned out to be exactly what my wife and I envisioned. Very elegant, beautiful, but most important, delicious.

By far the best vendor we had at our wedding! It all started with the tasting. Kathy was so accommodating and allowed us to try different combinations. The cake was amazing and her raspberry sauce is unbelievable (it wasn’t just raspberry jelly). After tasting, I knew that I had to book her, but I figured with cake that amazing she would be out of my budget. When she quoted me the price, I couldn’t sign my check fast enough!
The day of the wedding the cake was delivered and beautiful. I didn’t have to worry about anything. By the end, everyone loved the cake and there was none left.
I’ve got a huge sweet tooth and the cake was really important to me. Kathy and the whole Bocakes team far surpassed my expectations!

Bo Cakes was under our venue’s vendor list and after seeing their website, I immediately booked a cake tasting 2 months before our wedding. Cake tasting was free — we were served nearly 10 different flavours of cake sponge, countless fillings of fruits and berries, creams, fudges and mousses, even crushed chocolates. Kathy made the tasting a fun and creative process as she asked us to make our own cake! With all those different cakes and filling flavours she had set up on the table, it was in our hands to make our very own wedding cake. Mind you, all of them were delicious! As for cake design, I found a few inspirations on Pinterest which I e-​mailed both to Kathy and our florist since we wanted flowers as decorations. The cake stand (we chose a round wooden slab) was also provided by Kathy and only needed to be returned the day after the wedding. On the wedding day, the cake was so pretty and exactly how I wanted it! It was a 3-​tier round wedding cake and every tier was 3 layers of different flavours — it was magical!

Okay, so to start, the cakes and the desserts will knock your socks off. I swear Kathy keeps a jar of pixie dust in her kitchen, because there’s something magical about the flavors here.
Kathy is very much so the ‘get it done’ type, and boy does she. Everything you want, just as you want it, when you want it. She even went WAY out of her way (all the way to Julian) to deliver our wedding cake for us. That’s incredible, as it’s about an hour and a half drive.
There are a lot of comments about her personality too… she’s an introverted, quiet woman, but she is kind and extremely accommodating in her service. Don’t be afraid to speak up and ask her questions — she’ll give you the ‘brass tacks’ and the numbers, but you’ll also get her generosity and sweetness!

I’ve been working with Kathy for a small 2 layer cake for my wedding next year and she is absolutely great to work with. She’s friendly, easy to talk to and quick to respond to any questions. I can’t wait to see what she has in store for our cake next year and will definitely update once I have pictures and get to eat it!

BoCakes
When I booked my wedding venue in Temecula Wine Country I was given a vendor list of the «Most Popular» Bakery’s, Florists, and DJ’s. I trusted my wedding coordinator and she circled the three that she really felt were the best given her experience with them and the venue, as well as the frequency that she dealt with the vendors. My wedding was to be very intimate with only our closest family and friends. A total of 40 guests.
I called my florist choice first and she gave me a recommendation of BO Cakes the owners name is Cathy and my florist vendor spoke highly of her and her name was also on the list of vendors provided to me by my wedding coordinator. I did some research and she came highly recommended. When my fiancé and I called to schedule our cake tasting, Cathy was very kind and very sweet over the phone. She was very accommodating and she worked with our busy schedule.
When we arrived at the cake tasting, Cathy had everything set up so beautifully. She explained how it all worked, my fiancé and I had a plate of different flavored cupcakes approximately 7 flavors. In the middle of the table there was a round spinning plate with over 10 different fillings to pair with the flavored cupcakes. Cathy left us to play with all the flavors and build our own wedding cake. She came back and we told her what we wanted and she helped us put it all together. The price was very reasonable and overall it was a quick and SWEET experience. The day of the wedding the cake was delivered by Cathy and decorated by Cathy with the flowers that my florist had provided for her. The decorated cake was exactly what we envisioned.
The day after the wedding, I called all my vendors to thank them and give them feedback. My only criticism of the cake was that I tasted it and it seemed a bit «dry». Cathy was very apologetic and she offered to give me half of my money back. She was absolutely sincere in her apology and was so sorry that the cake was not to her standard. She offered several times to refund me half of my money but I declined, the cake was beautiful and it tasted good, I was probably being overly critical and it was a bit dry for my liking. Regardless, I was so impressed with her work, customer service and sincere apology that I would absolutely recommend her to anyone and everyone for any occasion. I will be going back to BO Cakes for my one year anniversary cake. She is wonderful!

We loved our wedding cake! Kathy was great to work with and went above and beyond creating our dream cake as well as setting it up on the day of our wedding. She was easy to contact during the wedding planning process, which was great for us as we lived out of state at the time.
I would recommend her services to anyone!

So pleased with how our wedding cake turned out! Kathy does a fantastic job. Our cake looked gorgeous and tasted delicious. The tasting was a lot of fun, but be prepared to be overwhelmed! There are so many great options to choose from. Highly recommend!

Kathy was great to work with for our wedding. She was quick to respond to emails, had great presentation at our tasting, and the final wedding cake was beautiful. She delivered the cakes on time and it was exactly what I wanted. Kathy is really talented at what she does but like many have said she can be short at times. Also I think she should just stop promising the free anniversary cake because there have been many complaints about that from many people.

I am not fan of writing bad reviews but the situation I had with Kathy more than warrants a bad review. Kathy and I had an appointment earlier this month for a cake tasting due tot the fact that I could only come on a weekend date, we had planned the cake tasting a month out.
The day before our cake tasting appointment I received a text from my sister, she was having her baby! How exciting, but oh no I had to cancel a same day hair appointment and the next day cake tasting as well.
My hairstylist was so accommodating, her appointment was the same day we were leaving to drive up to SF to see my sister and hopefully get there before she had the baby.
I left Kathy a voicemail about cancelling the appointment for the next day since her phone lines were down (as she had stated in a four page text!) Yes, four pages of text, one sentence to congratulate me (as I am driving to SF) and the rest of the four page text to tell me I could not reschedule because she was going to give my date away.
So what is that you needed, money? I would have been happy to give you money, sign a contract, if you were holding my date and someone else really wanted it why wouldn’t you offer me the opportunity to hold the date?
Needless to say, the situation really upset me. I couldn’t believe that someone would take a moment like this and turn it into something negative. My sister was having her first baby, and I’m glad I cancelled, and I’m glad that I went to go see her. I don’t care to be treated so inhumanely, do you not have any empathy? I treat everyone the way I want to be treated, and I would suggest you do the same. You see, one day you will be in the same predicament.

From the moment we met Kathy at our tasting we fell in love with her personality and more importantly, her cakes! My husband and I got married in January 2015 and had previously met with a few other cake vendors, none of which really impressed us. We were starting to think wedding cakes might just be made to only be pretty– but not taste good… Kathy changed our minds on that! Not only are her cakes, fillings and buttercream amazingly delicious, but her creations are beautiful!
Our cake came out exactly how we wanted it to, and it was so yummy!!! Kathy’s strong policy of only buttercream frosting definitely pays off. Her cakes are the best I have ever tasted, and I like to think of myself somewhat as a cake connoisseur.
Kathy is also very accommodating. We used a massive oak round that she lends out on deposit as our cake stand. The venue waitstaff accidentally held onto it, thinking it was theirs. I assumed they were going to return it to Bocakes for us, since they listed Kathy as one of their preferred vendors. I later found out, while we were on our honeymoon, that it was still at the venue and Kathy needed it that weekend. Despite being on a tight schedule, she was willing to go to the venue for us to retrieve it and still returned our deposit. We felt horrible, but she assured us it wouldn’t be a problem. We would definitely recommend Kathy to any bride and groom. I can’t wait for our 1-​year anniversary so we can order another cake from her :)

First off — Kathy is amazing! She is so sweet and you can tell she genuinely cares about her brides. We had our tasting on Sunday and were so impressed with her knowledge and the time she spent with us reviewing the different flavors/​potential cake combinations. We were provided about 9 different cakes to taste and even more filling to try out. Everything tasted delicious, so we had a hard time narrowing it down! We ended up going with a three tiered cake and couldn’t be happier with our choice!
I highly recommend Kathy and Bocakes for any of your cake needs!

I got married one year ago, and I am so happy with everything Bo Cakes did for me. The tasting experience was great. I brought five people with me, which I felt was too many, but Kathy was very nice about it and accommodated everyone. We each got a half of a cupcake for each flavor, total it came out to 3 – 4 cupcakes per person. The cake was so good and flavorful, and she has so many options for fillings that also were tasty. She uses a buttercream frosting or something on the outside, so it actually tastes good to (unlike fondant).
I didn’t really know what I wanted on my cake except small sunflowers. She gave me recommendations to keep it simple, and had the florist leave flowers on the cake table so she could arrange them on. She also let us use a nice cake stand of hers. It came out so beautiful and it tasted so good! The best thing was that she made us an anniversary cake for free, so we didn’t have to freeze the cake for a year. No one really gets to eat their wedding cake because you are so busy, so it was nice to enjoy it at our anniversary.

We recently hired Bocakes for our wedding at Ponte Winery in Temecula. The cake that Kathy and her team made went above and beyond our expectations! It looked and tasted amazing.
When we first met with Kathy we didn’t know what we wanted, and she made sure by the time we left we felt confident with our decision. The tasting process was exactly what we needed to pick the perfect cake for our special day. The whole process was fun, as all her cakes tasted heavenly! She was very organized and had a lot of examples of the different styles of cakes we could choose from. I feel so lucky to have found Bocakes to help make our special day turn out perfectly.
Thanks again, Kathy.

After reading some reviews online, my husband (then fiancée) and I decided to try it out. We booked a cake tasting with the owner Kathy. She has a cute little shop in the business center next to Royale College of Beauty. We were so impressed with her cake and customer service, we decided to book her service. Her cakes and fillings are sooooo delicious! Especially the almond cake! It was so hard to decide which cake and filling to get, we went with a few different ones!
Kathy is amazing! She really makes you feel special. When you book a cake tasting with her, she closes her shop and you’re the only ones there. She works with you one on one and tailors to your budget. We all know weddings are expensive and any savings helps! Thank you Kathy for an amazing cake! We love your cake and service!