Blue Bird Bakehouse Review

A review of the experience of Blue Bird Bakehouse written by Hortense Davidson.

Updated October 10, 2021

Basic Information

What do they offer?

Wedding Cakes

Features

Business Attributes:
- Woman-owned Business

Location

address1: 17 Woodleigh Dr
city: Taylors
state: SC
postalCode: 29687
latitude: 34.908235
longitude: -82.296015

Email(s)

[email protected]

Phone number(s)

(585) 610-5241

The Reviews

Written By: Hortense Davidson

My husband and I were looking for a bakery to do our wedding cake as we both enjoy baking quite a bit. We searched high and low for a bakery in the area that did wedding cakes, until one day we decided to check out bluebird because they have a gift certificate package through our venue, Shafter Estate. We went in for tasting and were offered several different flavors of cake and frosting. We both love a variety of different flavors, so this was great. We ended up choosing strawberry with cream cheese frosting, chocolate with peanut butter and chocolate fudge frosting, and vanilla with raspberry puree and chocolate fudge frosting. The cake was moist and the frosting was full of flavor. We also decided to get a few dozen cupcakes, in the flavor of our cake, as well as hazelnut with coffee puree and chocolate fudge frosting. The staff at Blue Bird were great and our cakes turned out beautifully! We also found out that Shatterhouse, a wine and cheese shop at The Shafter Estate, also sells cake at their store. So we decided to get another 6" round cake in the flavor of our choice, which was marble with hazelnut and coffee puree frosting. It was great to have two different flavors to choose from! We were also able to get our cake set up on the cake stand we wanted, as well as 2 additional round cakes in our flavor of choice. All of the cakes were pretty big, so we ended up having to get 2 additional 6" cakes in our flavor, so we could have 1 round cake to cut at the wedding. It was all very pricey, but we really wanted the flavor we chose, so it was worth it. Once we decided on the set up and flavors, we went to the Shatterhouse to buy some cupcakes. They have a bunch of different flavors, but we ended up getting about 10" round ones in our flavor. They also have a gift certificate deal through Shatterhouse, so we decided to get a 10" round cake in our flavor to sell at our venue, in order to make some money to pay off the set up and all of the extra cakes we had to get. It was all pretty pricey, but it was worth it to us to be able to do what we wanted. The whole process took a little while and was a bit more expensive than we expected, but it ended up working out. Then, a couple weeks before our wedding, we got a call from Blue Bird asking if we wanted to do a tasting…so we got to try out all of the flavors we had decided to pick, which was great. Our wedding cake was delivered to our venue about a week before the wedding. It was beautiful! It was exactly what we wanted and everything we could have asked for. It tasted amazing also. It was so good, that we decided to eat our top tier the week after the wedding instead of trying to save it for a year…we just couldn’t help ourselves. It was so good that we had our venue pack up 2 more rounds in our flavor to take on our honeymoon. It’s been about 2 months now, and we’ve been eating those while we can’t wait for our 1 year anniversary.  The whole process was great, and we are really glad that we decided to go with Blue Bird for our wedding cake. They did a great job, and our cake was delicious!