Central Continental Bakery

This bakery was included with our reception venue (Makray Memorial Golf Club) & we ordered several sample cakes & were disappointed with how quickly they dried out. Skeptical, we upgraded the cake in hopes of having a more moist result (strawberry filling instead of bavarian cream). The actual wedding cake was STUNNING to look at & absolutely DELICIOUS to eat. Not dry at all, very light & wonderful to eat. We chose white & chocolate with strawberry filling & everyone really enjoyed it. I can't compliment them enough on the beauty of the cake - it was breathtaking.

AMAZING! I did not work personally with Central Continental because our venue contract provided the cake from this vendor. I must say it was ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS! I picked out the "FOUNTAIN BLUE SPECIAL" and I just loved the simplicity of it with a few petals around it. Thank you for being so great.

Our cake turned out amazing! The place we got married worked one on one to make our special cake! It had resembled a bubbly champagne cake! The flavors were awesome and it wasn't to sweet it was perfect! We have been going here for years and when I found out we got to use them I was at a relief! You know you will Always get good quality!

The preparation of my wedding day went smooth sailing until I had to deal with my Wedding Cake. Of all the headaches that I prepared myself for this one threw me. I was forced to get my cake at Central Continental as it was part of the venue and I had to go thru MaryAnne. If you are looking for a basic wedding cake off their menu, you should have no problem. However, anything out of the ordinary they really are not flexible. I had to turn them over to my husband. It was a sour cream cake with raspberry and cream cheese filling with non dairy topping. Sound complicating???? The end result, I did get what I wanted at double the price. My guests said it was delicious and the best wedding cake they ever tasted. I let my florist do the decorating and it was gorgeous. For the best day of your life if you want smooth sailing......go elsewhere for your wedding cake.....

My husband and I had our wedding at the Fountain Blue in Des Plaines and they work with Central Continental Bakery for the wedding cakes. Our cake was amazing, and tasted delicious! They did an amazing job! Thank you for everything!

The cake was absolutely delicious! I wish we would have had time to eat more of it during our reception! It came out just beautifully; we received many compliments on the design we chose. We also called to add challah bread to our order and they were really great in helping to ensure we would have enough for everyone. Thanks for everything!

We used this vendor for our wedding cake because it was part of our reception package. Even though we could not pick who made our cake, I would highly recommend them now to any bride. The cake was beautiful. We picked one in their catalogue and made some changes to the design to make it our own. They made the changes no problem and it was perfect. The cake itself was delicious! We got yellow cake with a raspberry cream filling, we loved it and so did our guests.

We only worked with them through our banquet hall (Concorde Banquets) but we were very impressed at how the cake looked AND tasted! Excellent!

Our venue outsourced the wedding cake to Central Continental Bakery. Because our venue did not provide taste testing for the cake we called up the bakery and they gladly made samples, of our choice, for us to come in and test. We worked with Mary at the bakery and she was VERY flexible with us. We had an idea of what we wanted and she made it happen. Our cake was absolutely delicous. (Chocolate cake - fudge - white cake - covered in non-dairy whipped cream!)

Just Delicious!

You can never go wrong with this bakery. My family and I have been going to Central Continental for ever. Best service and delicious cakes! A "must try" for all you future brides!

Great cake!! We sampled many different kinds and had a different combination for each layer. We received many compliments on how great and beautiful the cake was!

We loved our cake, Yellow cake with fresh strawberry, it tasted very good, we can not wait to have the top on our 1st anniversary.

I got my cake through my reception area. We went to the store and chose the cake from a picture book. I felt that the cake that was at my wedding was a little messy...the scrolling and icing was not even and slightly different from the book. However, in the taste department, our cake was awesome. We had white cake with mocha filling and chocolate cake with raspberry bavarian cream filling...got lots of compliments on the cake. If you pick a simple design, then the cake should turn out great.

Used this bakery for my wedding at White Pines. Very nice looking cake. When you go for a tasting, you may find yourself limited by the flavors and designs (several elements come at an extra cost). For a classic, relatively simple cake (marble/chocolate and raspberry filling) they did just fine.

Good cake, good prices, good service.

Our wedding cake turned out absolutely beautiful and was exactly what we wanted! Our guests raved about the quality of the cake, it was amazing!

We got our cake complimentary through our vendor, however it was very important to us so we decided if they weren't able to do the flavors we liked (we were willing to pay extra) and have it look the way we wanted, we would get a groom's cake somewhere else. We asked for 6 different types of cakes to try and we enjoyed 4 of the 6. The one we chose (almond cake with mocha filling), was amazing! We were so excited, we bragged about how good our cake was going to be. Then when the wedding came and our cake was brought out, it tasted like white cake with plain buttercream filling. My sister said a few of her bites she could taste the mocha...and several people came up to our head table asking where the great cake we had talked about was. We argued with the banquet servers to make sure they didn't serve us one of the cakes from the other weddings going on in our venue, but it was the right cake. Very disappointing. Also we tried to contact the bakery ourselves 4 times (two calls and two emails) before ordering the cake, but they were very rude and unprofessional telling us to call back and they couldn't help us. We eventually had to have our venue manager call for us.

Our cake was beautiful and delicious. The price was very reasonable compared to many of the city vendors we looked at, and we were so happy with the results. We also ordered cookies (it's an Italian tradition) and they were also great. They were on time with the delivery, even on a Sunday over a holiday weekend and downtown. Finally, they added extra flowers to the cake than what we ordered. The only slight downside was that during the actual meetings with the cake bakers, it was tough and took a long time to get them to understand exactly what we wanted. However, we provided some pictures, and they produced an amazing result. I was floored when I saw our cake for the first time, and I would highly recommend the bakery.

Our cake was beautiful AND delicious! We had chocolate cake with a strawberry jam filling.