Renaissance Specialty Cakes & Desserts

Renaissance Specialty Cakes & Desserts is a pre-order cake studio based in Oakland, offering custom cakes and seasonal desserts for weddings, birthdays, and special gatherings. The studio is known for individually designed cakes using carefully developed recipes and seasonal ingredients, with flavors including chocolate raspberry crush, lemon citrus, Italian cream, and almond sponge with fresh berries; wedding cakes are finished in Italian buttercream and priced from $12.00 per serving. Based in Oakland at 274 14th St., serving clients throughout the East Bay and Bay Area. Couples and guests praise the baker Elizabeth (also called Beth) by name, noting well-balanced sweetness, moist and layered cakes, and her willingness to make last-minute adjustments to get an order right; one couple called their almond sponge wedding cake a highlight of the reception.