Find a New Jersey Bakery to Make Your Vegan Wedding Cake

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of planning a vegan wedding is finding a bakery to make you a vegan wedding cake that will suit your dietary needs and still be delicious and beautiful. If you are a vegan planning a New Jersey wedding, then you've come to the right place to find a vegan wedding cake. Vegan-friendly bakeries, cake shops, restaurants, coffeehouses/cafes, and natural food stores are the best places to find vegan wedding cakes, and to help you on your way, here is a list of New Jersey bakeries and other establishments that will custom make you a vegan wedding cake:

Sweet Avenue Bake Shop -- Rutherford, New Jersey (Also serving New York)

Sweet Avenue Bake Shop began as a mail-order bakery specializing in cookies and cupcakes, and now with their own retail location have expanded their services to include fresh daily bakery items, catering for weddings and special events, and wedding cupcakes and customized cookie wedding favors, with many vegan options available. Vegan wedding cupcake pricing starts at $2.50 per cupcake. The price includes frosting colored to match your wedding colors and any of the bakery's regular cake flavors. There may be additional charges for very specialized designs. Cupcake flavors offered by the Sweet Avenue bakery include chocolate, vanilla, orange, raspberry, strawberry, red velvet, and more. Vegan cookie wedding favors, priced at $5 and up per cookie, can be designed specifically for your wedding using shapes such as hearts, circles, squares, wedding cakes, and more. Cookie wedding favors will also be individually wrapped in cellophane and tied off with a color-coordinated ribbon. Cookie flavors the Sweet Avenue bakery offers include chocolate chunk, lemon-iced ginger, snickerdoodle, oatmeal raisin, and mocha brownie. You can pick-up your wedding cake or have it delivered. Delivery fees to Manhattan and North New Jersey typically start at approximately $40, while delivery to Rutherford, New Jersey and the surrounding boroughs may be less expensive, depending on the day. Delivery and set-up fees vary according to location. Address: 153 Park Avenue, Rutherford, New Jersey, 07070. Phone: (201) 935-BAKE (2253). E-mail: info@sweetavenuebakeshop.com.

Cakes by Mona -- Melville, New York (Also serving New Jersey and Connecticut)

Cakes by Mona is a bakery offering custom made unique bakery items and specializing in vegan wedding cakes. Mona's has a limitless amount of options for decoration including sculpted cakes, fondant, and handpainting. The vegan wedding cake flavors offered include white, chocolate, marble, applesauce, banana nut, carrot lemon, poppyseed, spice, and tres leches. The vegan wedding cake fillings offered include apple, apricot, lemon, raspberry, strawberry, pineapple, seven kinds of mousse, and more. A complimentary first wedding anniversary cake is included with your purchase. Wedding day cake delivery is available throughout New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Location: Melville, New York, 11747. Phone: (631) 742-1883. E-mail: mona@cakesbymona.com.

Vegan Treats -- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (Also serving New Jersey and New York)

Vegan Treats is a bakery and wholesale distributor of over 200 selections of vegan doughnuts, sticky buns, cinnamon rolls, cheesecakes, French pastries, brownies, cupcakes, cookies, soft serve, and cakes. Their goodies can be found throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, but for a vegan wedding cake your best bet is the original bakery in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Vegan Treats makes over 3 dozen kinds of vegan wedding cakes, from traditional selections like devil's food and carrot, to unique flavors such as butterscotch and lemon pineapple. However, Vegan Treats signature cakes are their 6 cake "bombs". Baked in a bundt pan, they are then cut in half, filled with mousse, and topped with additional huge dollops of mousse, before being encased in chocolate. Natural and high quality ingredients like vanilla beans and Belgian chocolate are always used. A custom special occasion cake serving 8 people is priced at around $35, so expect a vegan wedding cake prices to go up from there. Address: 1444 Linden Street, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 18018. Phone: (610) 861-7660. E-mail: danielle@vegantreats.com.

Cake Kraft -- King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (Also serving New Jersey and Delaware)

Cake Kraft is an all vegan bakery offering pies, cookies, muffins, and other bakery items, and specializing in vegan wedding and special event cakes. Your wedding cake will be made fresh and delivered to your door on your wedding day. Although the bakery is based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Cake Kraft bakery items are also available in New Jersey and Delaware coffee shops, restaurants, and other venues. E-mail: weddings@cakekraft.com.

One other choice for a vegan wedding cake in New Jersey is the Wildflowers bakery. Located in Bridgeton, New Jersey, but also serving Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Washington D.C., Delaware, and Virginia, Wildflowers make extravagant vegan wedding cakes decorated with elaborate sugar art. For more information about Wildflowers check out Find a Washington DC Bakery to Make Your Vegan Wedding Cake.