Betty's cakes are so delicious and beautiful. When I told Betty about my wedding theme and colors, she came up with sketches to show me. I was extremely happy with the cake and it was so delicious!

My husband and I were planning a very unconventional wedding at The Foundry in Long Island City. We knew we wanted an entire dessert table that coordinated with our unique Harry Potter theme. Betsy not only embraced our theme, she brought it to life. She created a lavish dessert spread with 10 different items including a butterbeer-flavored wedding cake (topped with two owls), treacle fudge, chocolate cauldron cakes and earl gray shortbread cookies. It was perfectly whimiscal and was the centerpiece of our entire reception. Betsy was absolutely a pleasure to work with and our wedding could not have been a success without her. She was always prompt with her email responses, adjusted to last minute requests/changes and had reasonableproces (dessert tables range from $8-$11 per person). I highly recommend Betsy for your own wedding! We plan on placing an order with her again soon!

Our wedding cake was delicious and elegant. It was a pleasure to work with Nine Cakes.

Ummm... scrumptious... wonderful.... light, airy... dare I say it -- magical? Those were just some of the adjectives that come to mind when I think about eating my delicious wedding cake that Betsy and Emily created for us. I attended a NY Magazine wedding event in March 2011 where I first met Betsy and tried a ridiculous coconut cupcake she made... that had to be the 12th piece of cake I had at that event, and the only one that stuck in my mind nearly a year later when I contacted her for a tasting for our wedding that was around the corner. There was something much different about it than all the others, and there was some good stuff there, believe me! But while a lot of others focused mostly on presentation and the flavors and taste were average-good... Nine Cakes had it all for me... simplistic, yet beautiful designs... with a huge focus on creative flavors and combos. If you're going to spend all that money on a cake or cupcakes for a special day... especially your Wedding Day -- it better be damn good. And ours was. Our cake tasting was so much fun. We chose the butter cream flavors and the cake flavors beforehand, Emily put them all together for us and we tried it all together. She also very sweetly made us some tea to wash it down with. My new husband wouldn't stop eating it... to be honest we wanted all 4 or 5 of the flavors we tasted... but whittled it down to 2: Mayan chocolate butter cream with dark chocolate cake & caramel butter cream with Fleur de sell and vanilla cake... we both had both flavors at our wedding. Everyone raved about them especially the chocolate. You would think chocolate on chocolate would be heavy --- think again as you try this piece. The decoration of the cake was P E R F E C T. It was exactly what we talked about and then some. Betsy is very responsive via email and is a joy to work with. We took the cake top home to "freeze for the 1yr anniversary"... which I heard is a pretty gross tradition, but did it anyway... too bad it never made it to the freezer. We polished it off by the next day... I like that tradition better :) It was a super pleasant and easy choice from start to finish with Nine Cakes. It's a no-brainer... they are the best.

Betsy of Nine Cakes is AMAZING! I contacted her 2 months before my wedding asking her to do 5 different 10-inch cakes for my wedding. She said yes, thank goodness! I chose 5 different cakes from her Spring Menu of Signature cakes, and had her decorate them in her signature way, she just added spring green and silver decorations to tie them all together. (I also rented 2 cake stands. My wedding planner picked up the cakes and stands, and returned them the next week.) So I should probably admit that professionally, I'm a restaurant pastry chef, with no time and no space to make my own cakes. (I also couldn't bare to choose one or two flavors of cake, so I chose 5.) Betsy's cakes were simply beautiful and elegant. And they tasted DELICIOUS! Our guests raved about the cakes! In fact, friends of ours who are getting married this month, called their original cake baker and cancelled just so they could have Betsy do their cakes! After the whole beautiful day, my husband and I sat down with 5 to-go containers and tasted all of the cakes at the hotel. They were all just lovely! I am so glad that Betsy was so responsive and flexible that she was willing to work with me at such late notice. Her cakes were pretty and yummy, and they were a HUGE HIT at our wedding!

DELICIOUS and beautiful cake!!!! I wish I was getting married again so I can do it all over again. Betsy is awesome and she really did a beautiful job on our cake and making excactly what we wanted.

My cakes were a HUGE hit! When we met with Emily for our tasting we had been thinking about cupcakes. We were so impressed by their style and the amazing flavors that we ended up getting a cake for each of our 14 guest tables! We went over our very small budget, but it was absolutely worth it! Whether you choose cupcakes or full cakes, you will not be disappointed! Thank you, Emily, Betsy, and all the staff at Nine Cakes, for making our big day extra special!

OMG amazing! Betsy was so fabulous. So sweet and creative. We did a cupcake tower with one tier on top to cut. Wide range of flavors and they all tasted sooo good it was so hard to choose. We worked together to design the top tier and I can't get over how perfect it came out. She isn't crazy $$ either, and is such a great value!! You must go to her for a tasting at least. I promise you will love her and her cakes.

Betsy at Nine Cakes is fantastic- she was so easy to work with, professional, very sweet, and makes delicious cakes! The tasting was so much fun for my now-husband and I, as the store is so cute. She has such incredible icing and cake options, and really worked with us to find the perfect combinations. We settled on an almond cake with passion-fruit and raspberry icings; and a red velvet cake with cream cheese, to compliment the chocolate-souffle desert at Cipriani. The fondant cake looked beautiful- I had a specific vision and photo, and Betsy was able to achieve it. She was also very detail oriented making sure to get the exact colors and flowers I wanted on the cake. Delivery was seamless and professional. Overall Nine Cakes was fantastic to work with and a great choice for for a wedding cake vendor!

Betsy of Nine Cakes provided my wedding cake for my July 29, 2011 wedding in Manhattan. WOW. The cake was phenomenal both in appearance (handmade flowers of all different shapes, sizes, and color combinations that matched my flowers perfectly...she consulted with my florist... with a smooth and heavenly-looking buttercream frosting) and taste (chocolate cake with mint frosting). So many people told me they really enjoyed the cake (many didn't know that it was wedding cake as it was THAT good) and it was a challenge for for my husband and me to not eat the top layer and instead freeze it for my 1-year anniversary. Thank you Betsy and Nine Cakes!!!!!!!

We are still dreaming about our wedding cake!! That was how good it was...haha Betsy was amazing and sweet to work with. The minute we arrived at the tasting we knew this was the right vendor for us. Her professionalism and love for baking really comes across. She is also very flexible to new ideas. We ordered a three tier vanilla buttercream covered cake consisting of a red velvet bottom tier with white chocolate filling, an orange blossom cake with earl grey ganache & poire williams buttercream filled second tier, and a top tier of lemon cake with passion fruit curd & passion fruit buttercream. Needless to say it was truly AMAZING!!

Working with Betsy at Nine Cakes was such an amazing, effortless experience! She is amazing at what she does and we were already in love with her signature aesthetic so planning our cake was so easy. We surprised her at the tasting by bringing a few more people than expected and it wasn't a problem for her at all. We chose 2 flavors, chocolate cake with peanut butter buttercream and almond cake with salted caramel buttercream (my favorite, and her suggestion) and both were so delicious and well-received. She even made a special mini-cake for our relatives with nut allergies. My mother-in-law is into baking and she and Betsy got along so well. She even hired Betsy to make cupcakes for my bridal shower, too. I would recommend Nine Cakes to everyone I know!

BETSY RULES! my cake was exactly what i wanted, yummy and so super cute!!! Betsy is the nicest person ever and very talented. I highly suggest going with Nine Cakes- you wont be disappointed!

I contacted Betsy a few weeks before my Wedding. I was making my own cake topper and I was able to email her what I wanted my cake to look like. It was a breeze, she was so patient and lovely to work with. She was a great vendor. Future Brides use Nine Cakes!!

Betsy made the most extravagantly delicious five layer cake -- lemon, almond, red velvet, chocolate orange and chocolate caramel, delivered to the Eventi Hotel in New York, which displayed it very well. The cake was in turquoise fondant with gorgeous painstakingly crafted orange flowers and looked wonderful but the really important thing was how fresh and delicious it tasted... people loved it. The cake was something like $11 a slice, not bad for NY!

I contacted Betsy at Nine Cakes about 4 weeks before our wedding, which was no problem for her at all. We live in England so great communication was essential for us when planning our wedding in New York. Betsy's communication was excellent! All of her emails were very reassuring and I had every faith that she would create a wonderful cake for us. I wasn't wrong! The cake was beautiful! I had peonies in my bouquet and Betsy had created sugar peonies for the cake - they were amazing! We had a small wedding but Betsy still gave us the elements of a BIG wedding with her amazingly cute 3 tier cake. We had 2 different flavours; Vanilla bean cake with layers of raspberry butter cream and fresh raspberries / Golden almond cake with a pinch of cardamom, layered with heavenly rosewater butter cream. They were heavenly! All of our guests commented on how wonderful the cake tasted and looked. The cake had been beautifully setup at our venue in plenty of time for our arrival at our reception. Everything about the planning was completely easy with Betsy. I would definitely recommend Nine Cakes to any couples who are looking to get married in New York. I just wish we lived there so we could use Betsy for all our future celebrations!

Not only did Betsy of Nine Cakes make the best wedding cake I've ever tasted for our wedding, she was the consummate professional, easy to work with, incredibly pleasant and sweet, and hands down the best of all of our vendors. Every single person at our wedding commented on how fresh and delicious our cake was, and we could not agree more, it was truly not your typical wedding cake. Beyond how unbelievably delicious the cake was, Betsy's creativity also resulted in a beautiful looking cake. She matched the style of our invitation perfectly, bringing to life a difficult pattern that she transposed beautifully onto the cake. We can not say enough good to express how thrilled we were with our cake and with Betsy of Nine Cakes. Highly recommend for anyone interested in a fantastic (not to mention affordable) wedding cake!

I loved working with Betsy from our tasting through the wedding. We had a large wedding so we did multiple cakes and mini-cupcakes. That way we were able to do a lot of combinations of cakes and buttercreams. They were all so delicious that it was hard to choose. Our guests really enjoyed the cake at the wedding and the next day. I wanted a wedding cake that actually tasted good and Betsy's cakes are the best.

Nine Cakes, with its amazing owner Betsy, is everything you could ask for from a wedding cake vendor and more. Not only are Betsy's cakes fantastic looking AND delicious, but Betsy herself is a true professional -- extremely responsive, friendly, and great at listening to design ideas and executing them in her beautiful way. From the moment we met Betsy, we knew we could trust her completely-- both in understanding our vision and in being completely on top of even the most mundane logistics (such as venue restrictions on cake delivery or if our venue would provide a cake cutter, etc). She asked all the right questions, provided amazing suggestions, and ultimately provided us with an absolutely showstopping cake. Betsy was by far one of our best vendors, requiring very little guidance while delivering the most amazing end product. She was an absolute pleasure to work with and I would recommend her to anyone, but she probably doesn't need me to as her cakes and her professionalism speak for themselves!

I wish I could get married again just to rehire Nine Cakes. My (now) wife wanted individual-sized cakes for each guest, and Betsy ran with the idea and did a great job. It seriously blew our guest's minds when they saw all those tiny cakes -- and I blew my waistline after the wedding eating all the leftovers. Delicious, creative flavors, beautifully decorated by a really nice person.

I'm not going to say anything others haven't already said! Betsy is adorable and so easy to work with. Very responsive. And she has such fun, wonderful ideas! She designed our cake based on our save-the-date. :) When we went in the first time, she had a whole tasting set up and we were able to pick two different buttercream frostings to go with our lemon cake. (Try the lavender!) She was fun and flexible, and she drew us a beautiful design and then matched it really nicely. We had leaves all over our cake -- buttercream leaves! And they looked amazing! We were so happy with her, I would recommend her to anyone for any cake. Oh, and did I mention that the cake was delicious? MMMMMM!

Betsy is an absolute pleasure to work with, she made my spring wedding so gorgeous with her little cupcakes and cakes, I could write paragraphs about the great communication, combination of flavors, great price and absolutely DELICIOUS sweets!!

Betsy/Ninecakes is fantastic. Our wedding cake was absolutely delicious, people are still talking about it 2 months later. And it was the most beautiful cake!! Betsy was so easy to work with, very responsive, excellent value and so creative. I can't recommend her highly enough. I looked at a bunch of vendors but Betsy stood out above everyone else. We even were able to do 2 different flavors of cake (red velvet and carrot) and different flavor buttercreams within the layers, and it was so delicious. Everyone tried both flavors and had lots of complements from our guests who loved the cake as much as we did. I strongly recommend Betsy!!! She's the best!!!!

We met Betsy after being led to her website by a friend who was doing her own research on wedding cakes. We had previously been led to another vendor on the LES of Manhattan, and sweet...they were not. I already had a poor taste in my mouth (I was not a cake eater growing up, and frankly up until we met Betsy, maybe I had cake 3 times in 25 years), so I was a little hesitant going in. You could say I felt like I was left in the oven a little too long. That absolutely changed right when I walked in the door. Not only did Betsy have her tasting all set up, but was so sweet and sugary towards myself and my now wife. She was open, able, and willing to do anything that we wanted, making awesome suggestions along the way. She even entertained my terrible jokes and my suggestion of making a BBQ sauce cupcake. The tasting was all I needed to get back on track towards sugary perfection. Over the next few months, she kept in contact with us, was extremely prompt with her replies (pet peeve alert), and always asked the RIGHT questions. I think she is very thoughtful, observant, and a fantastic businesswoman who also has a lot of fun with what she is doing. I suppose I have to talk about this before I talk about the wedding...but my wife ordered me a birthday cake for my birthday in July (we got married in October) so this was the first "test", if you can call it that. I have NEVER had a birthday cake since maybe I was 2 years old, so this was a big deal. It was a cornbread cake with frosting...and the best cake I ever ate. It was so great. It was a huge cake, so I shared it with some random people in Bryant Park, and they scarfed it down as well, therefore...I knew everyone would love our wedding cake/cupcakes. Fast forward a couple of months....the cupcakes and cake arrived exactly on time and looked amazing. A lot of people have cheesy cupcakes...these were the work of an artisan. The guests loved them, and since there were a lot, pretty much everyone who wanted took them home, including my mother and sister who raved about the quality. I had a wonderful experience, and save yourself the trips and the other tastings, and please go to Nine Cakes. Trust me!

My husband already wrote a review for Betsy, but I was posting wedding pictures on our blog today and I wrote a bunch of wonderful things about our wedding cake and cupcakes, and realized that I should share my feelings somewhere where others can see! Since my husband already touched on a lot of things, I really just want to comment on how beautiful Betsy's cakes are. My husband and I had our tasting well in advance of our wedding, so the look of the wedding changed slightly between the time we met with Besty for our tasting and the actual wedding. Betsy touched base with me a month or so before the wedding, and it was at that time that I sent her some photos of some of the design elements I had crafted for the wedding. She wrote me back immediately, and asked if she could change some of her original ideas for the cake & cupcakes. I said "of course", because I trusted her design sensibility...and the result was amazing. I was literally floored when I walked into our wedding reception and saw the cake & cupcakes. The best part was that they looked like nothing I had ever seen before - I felt as thought my wedding cake & cupcakes were completely unique, and one of a kind. For a bride, that's huge, because we all want our weddings to look and feel different and special. If you want a gorgeous cake or cupcakes for your wedding go to Betsy. Let her interpret your design aesthetic and make something beautiful. You won't be sorry - I promise you that!

I met Betsy at the Bridal Bootcamp as she was a wedding vendor there. She had provided samples of her wonderful cupcakes and the minute I tasted one, I was floored! I quickly grabbed one of her cards and called her a few days later. I loved the cakes so much that I asked Betsy if she could make 300 of the mini-cupcakes for my wedding favors and she happily obliged. I got married a month ago and I am still getting rave reviews from my guests about the cupcake favors from Nine Cakes. Her cakes are exquisite. They were moist, fluffy and had just about the right amount of buttercream frosting (which was light, not too sweet, whipped and overall AMAZING!). NineCakes isn't your average bakery, the menu consists of creative flavors and a multitude of unique options that it's hard to choose just one. Betsy is just an amazing person and has sincere dedication to her products. She was friendly, easily approachable and always wrote or called me back when I would try to contact her. Since my wedding, she has officially become my "pastry source" as I have already ordered two birthday cakes and cupcakes from her and will continue to do so in the future. Thanks again Betsy & NineCakes! Kudos to you!

Hello Brides to Be I met Betsy at one of the NY Bridal Expos... and I could easily say the only reason why it paid off to have went. Since then, I have commissioned TWO birthday cakes and my wedding favors. I was so impressed by her petit four samples at the expo, I knew I wanted them at my wedding. Her work seemed so flavorful and sophisticated. I just got married (9/2009) on a farm and it was really important for me that all aspects incorporate my honey theme. After discussing a few key ideas, she had a proposal back to me within 1 day and I made ZERO changes. I am a pretty anal-retentive person, but she just gets it! It was probably the easiest vendor exchange I had throughout my wedding planning. The petit fours exceeded all expectations and they were gone within minutes once word got out they were so delicious. Even the venue was impressed with the quality and complexity of Betsy's work. I look forward to working with Betsy/Nine Cakes again!

I found Ninecakes through a friend who had tried their cupcakes at an event and loved them. I loved them too after the trial tasting! I ordered (Betsy's suggestion...) a mix of regular and minis and had them set up on a cardboard tier (ordered thru Sav-on-crafts). Everyone raved about the cupcakes at the wedding! Sadly, neither my husband nor I got a cupcake, despite ordering many hundreds. I had planned to order cupcake boxes because I thought there would surely be extras.. but there were NONE! A great testament to Betsy and her baking... we had "standard" flavors plus some exotics (caramel fleur de sel, etc). Amazing. Betsy was great to deal with - very responsive, very helpful and extremely professional. The cupcakes were absolutely beautiful - very minimal, yet not precious. My husband is a modern architect, and very picky about everything - and the fact that he approved of them speaks volumes! The flavors are amazing -- they are sophisticated without getting into the "weird" category. Definitely include the red velvet in your order!

Dear Brides, I planned our "Brooklyn Wedding" in 3 months during the summer of 2009. Needless to say things got hectic. Betsy was such a pleasure to work with. She was professional, responded quickly to my emails & even came over to our house with cupcake samples! The cake turned out beautifully and just so delicious. She even delivered it herself. Organizing even the most simple wedding can be overwhelming. Once I ordered my cake with Betsy I was able to relax. I highly recommend her.

We met Betsy through our wedding planner Danielle Bobish. Our idea was to have a cupcake buffet at the end of the night. Betsy was so responsive and attentive during the process of creating unique mini-cupcakes for our event. She even dropped off samples of the flavors for us to our apartment!! We also appreciated Betsy's flexibility in delivering and providing us with some rentals. The cupcakes were so beautiful and delicious and were the hit of the party!! Thank you, thank you!

My cake is the red and turquoise one with the intricate design on top. Need I say more? Even if it isn't your style, you have to admit that it was executed beautifully. We found Betsy through a friend. Or rather through a cake at a friend's party. We are so glad she baked that friend's cake or our wedding one would not have been as spectacular. The task set before her was not going to be simple, as demonstrated during the tasting. She had to deal with me, my partner, and my mother! After patiently sitting with us for at least an hour, we decided that we had to have a cake and the mini-cupcakes. All of the options were too delicious to just settle on one combination. She had genoise, shortbread, red velvet, almond butter cream, chocolate fondant, and on and on and on... We settled on a tiered strawberry shortcake cake and one hundred one-bite cupcakes with varying combinations. A favorite was the lemon cake with almond frosting. Yum. But that was just the beginning of her headache. Next we, or rather I, decided that I wanted an indigenous symbol that we had used on our invitations, to adorn the cake. That was no small feat, but Betsy came through with an exact replication. She also followed through with my desire to only use local, seasonal strawberries from a local farmer's market. In terms of price and flexibility, I have to give her 6 out 5 stars. We paid a reasonable rate, not over-the-top Manhattan prices. She delivered the cake to Westchester and was very patient in waiting for us to return the cake props. Needless to say that the cake, the presentation, and the one-biters were a huge hit. We could not have been happier with the outcome. We happily and wholeheartedly recommend her! p.s. It also doesn't hurt that she is one of the sweetest, gentlest, yet passionate people I have ever met. It was such a relief to work with someone who "got" what were trying to do- have as environmentally sustainable wedding as we could, grounded in our values of social justice and equality.

We looked at a lot of vendors before deciding to go with Nine Cakes. From the moment we showed up for the tasting, we knew from the effort she put into it that we were going to get phenomenal cakes. Betsy was far and away the best vendor we've worked with, she was conscientious, excited to work with us, and she obviously loves baking cakes. She gave us individual attention, worked with our ridiculous needs, and in the end gave us better cakes than we asked for. Honestly, her cakes were one of the best parts of our wedding - and that's saying a lot. It was an incredible pleasure working with someone who loves what she does, was playful and willing to talk to us, and - most importantly - produces such a beautiful product.