For Goodness Cakes

For Goodness Cakes is a Charlotte-based home bakery owned by Haines Barksdale, offering wedding cakes and special occasion cakes from a licensed professional kitchen in the Cotswold neighborhood. Haines completed the Pastry Arts program at Johnson and Wales University in Charleston, trained under wedding cake specialist Kathy Allen and pastry artist Geoff Blount, and formally started For Goodness Cakes in 2004, making it her full-time occupation in 2007. Located in the Cotswold neighborhood of Charlotte, between SouthPark and Uptown; operates as a home-based business with address provided upon request. Couples highlight the cake flavors, the detailed design process including sketch consultations, standout sculpted groom's cakes such as a record player replica, and sugar flowers precise enough to be kept as keepsakes.