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Tipsy Cake

1043 N California Ave, Chicago, IL | Map it  

60622 41.900543 -87.696821

(773) 384-4418

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Neighborhoods:
West Side, West Town
Categories:
Dessert Shops, Bakeries, Restaurants
Price:
$$
Cuisine:
Traditional American

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Payment Methods:
MasterCard, Discover, Visa, American Express

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Review Highlights

ambiance
100%
“Really friendly and fun crew.”
dessert
81%
“On the day of the event I went to pick up my expensive cake.”
food quality
100%
“Creative, delicious and affordable cakes that will leave your guests wanting more!”
service
80%
“Good bakery, good service”
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value
75%
“large purses and a shopping bag, the price was very reasonable.” View Less

Reviews for Tipsy Cake

KarenMG4

Member since May, 2012 View Profile
1Review
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Joined 15 days ago
1.0
May 15, 2012

Do not use for copying a cake from a picture. Do NOT use TipsyCake for copying another cake. I asked for a cake to be copied from pictures. The cake included silk and frosting butterflies all over it. The entire cake was supposed to have fondant icing. They charged me $460 plus tax and delivery to copy the cake. I liked the cake and the cake had many details, so I decided to splurge and order the cake. They did a terrible, unprofessional job. They didn't even put any silk butterflies nor did they use fondant for the willowy leaves on the cake (they used frosting globbed onto the side). They also did not get the proportion of the bottom cake to the top two tiers correct. It was very embarrassing to serve the delivered cake and at this price you would think that someone could have at least gone to the craft store to purchase the silk butterflies and get closer to the original cake. The only good news is that it tasted great.

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lougordon1306

Member since May, 2012 View Profile
1Review
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Joined 28 days ago
1.0
May 02, 2012

Sadly, this bakery cant be trusted & customer service is bad. We used TipsyCake as our Cake supplier for our wedding. We visited their bakery for a tasting which was lovely. We greatly enjoyed their cake, especially the fillings that they offered. This bakery was well above our cake budget, but my mother decided to get us a custom cake as our wedding gift. We were so excited about the cake to come that we spent a year telling everyone we knew about it! Everything up until the event went smoothly. Once we got to the wedding and cut into our cake per the custom, we realized they had made our cake wrong. The filling was not what we ordered. Instead of their custom, toffee crunch filling, they had used the standard vanilla buttercream that they use to 'stick' the fondant to the sides. So our cake was very poor quality and most of our guests did not even finish their piece. In fact, most were shocked that we had spent so much time bragging about such a terrible cake. Once we returned from our honeymoon, we contacted the bakery. Even though we have photos that clearly show the filling was incorrect, the bakery owner essentially told us that we were wrong. She told us that her bakers remember using the right filling so it must be true. Only, it was not. I would never use this bakery again, which is such a shame. they are capable of a good product, but their follow-thru and customer service are terrrible.

Beware unless you are fine with spending top dollar for grocery store quality cake.

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Missy K

Member since Feb, 2012 View Profile
1Review
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Joined 3 months ago
1.0
February 23, 2012

The Most Horrific Cake Ever. This was the worse tasting cake I have ever eaten. The custome service sucks and the owner is just plain rude and disrespectful. The cake tastes like dry non-sweet cornbread and not good cornbread. The 3 layer cake had no filling or icing between the layers to hold it together. This was definitely not worth the call, gas and especially not the money. The pictures on the website are deceiving, you will expect something good and receive the worse experience of your life. These cakes will definitely spoil any event and appetite. I cannot plead enough but please, please, please, please, please DO NOT patronize this bakery!!!!!!!!

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CrankyBrit

Member since Feb, 2012 View Profile
1Review
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Joined 3 months ago
1.0
February 22, 2012

Neighborhood Bakery Gone Crazy. In a city that prides itself on diverse neighborhoods this establisment has caused a riot. Feeding off it's original vibrant Humbolt Park 'hood' it's gone uptown and the owners vile comments about the 'hood' that made her money makes me want to...well...post here, there and everywhere. Do NOT frequent this establisment if you have any morals at all.

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tebbie3

Member since Aug, 2011 View Profile
2Reviews
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Joined 9 months ago
1.0
October 05, 2011

WORST PLACE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. WORST. EVER. O STARS So, I had ordered a cake for my wife's birthday. It was supposed to be a life scale designer shoe, large enough to feed 20+ people. The shoe was supposed to be complete with detailing, down to the red sole. When the cake was delivered the morning of my wife's birthday, I was livid. This was not a lifescale shoe, no, instead TipsyCake had ripped me off of over $600 for a mini, tiny, 3 inch sloppy shoe that didn't look ANYTHING like the designer shoe I had sent a picture in. This little 3 inch shoe was atop a giant white square cake, that had sloppy writing on top "Happy Birthday". It was literally the saddest thing I had ever seen come from a cake shop. No detailing on the shoe, no pristine hand work. You could see lines where they had applied color to the little Barbie shoe. They put 0 effort and 0 work into my cake, completely ripped me off, and DID NOT EVEN DELIVER WHAT I HAD ORDERED. The owner was a complete unprofessional and did nothing to rectify the situation. In the end, I had to find a replacement cake before my wife saw this devastation.

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