Find a New York 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 York 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 York bakeries and other establishments that will custom make you a vegan wedding cake:

Madame Butterfly Cakes -- Babylon Village, New York

Madame Butterfly bakery offers vegan options for wedding and special occasion cakes, as well as cookie wedding favors, and they specialize in handmade edible sugar art decorations. Wedding consultations are available by appointment. Address: 22 FireIsland Avenue, Babylon Village, New York, 11702. Phone: (631) 669-1069.

Cake Organic Baking -- Brooklyn, New York

The Cake bakery offers only wedding and special event cakes and they specialize in cakes that are vegan, wheat free, and accommodate other dietary restrictions. Cake bakery pastry chef Laura Gaines bakes using almost all organic ingredients, many of which are purchased from local farmers. Wedding consultations and tastings are available by appointment only. Phone: (212) 229-7863. E-mail: laura@pastryprincess.com.

Just Desserts -- Ithaca, New York

Just Desserts bakery offers one-of-a-kind, handmade wedding and special event cakes, as well as other bakery items like baguettes and tarts. They offer one vegan wedding cake which is three layers of devil's food cake filled with Belgian bittersweet chocolate mousse, topped with fresh raspberries, and finished in white frosting or chocolate ganache. Just Dessert bakery prides itself on making cakes that suits your specific needs so they may be able to create other flavors for you as well. Decoration such as chocolate sculptures, ribbons, and edible flowers are available, as is delivery in Ithaca and surrounding areas. Vegan wedding cakes are priced at $4.95 per serving, and wedding day set-up and delivery costs $35. Address: 105 South Fulton Street, Ithaca, New York, 14850. Phone: (607) 272-3718.

The Alternative Baker -- Kingston, New York

The Alternative Baker makes both traditional and alternative bakery items and wedding cakes, including vegan, reduced fat, and fruit-sweetened wedding cakes, as well as wedding cakes without wheat, gluten, or cholesterol. The bakery's products are made fresh daily, from scratch, using mostly organic ingredients, and catering is also available. Some of the vegan wedding cake flavors offered include carrot, vanilla-raspberry pound cake, devil's food, hazelnut ganache, lemon velvet, and many more. Address: 35 Broadway, Kingston, New York, 12401. New York phone number: (845) 331-5517. Out-of-State toll free phone number: (800) 399-3589. E-mail: NYBaker@aol.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.

Babycakes NYC -- New York, New York

Babycakes NYC is an all vegan bakery offering delicious bakery items such as cupcakes, muffins, macaroons, apple pie, cinnamon buns, and more, that are sweetened without refined sugar. Bakery items free of gluten, wheat, and soy are also offered. They will make you a vegan wedding cake based on any of their cupcakes flavors, which include vanilla, chocolate, carrot, and red velvet. The cost of delivery is $21 for locations below 96th Street in Manhattan, and delivery is available elsewhere at an addition cost. Address: 248 Broome Street, New York, New York, 10002. Phone: (212) 677-5047. E-mail: info@babycakesnyc.com.

Grandma's Secrets -- New York, New York

Grandma's Secrets bakery offers fruit pies and cobblers, cheesecakes, including wedding and special occasion cakes, some of which are suitable for diabetics and/or vegans. Their vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream frosting has been named the New York Daily News critic's choice of best cake in New York for five years running. The bakery's wedding customers are provided with consultations and tastings, as well as wedding day delivery and set-up, all included in the price of the wedding cake. Wedding cakes are priced at a $200 minimum. Address: 640 West 138th Street, New York, New York, 10031. Phone numbers: (212) 862-8117 or (845) 689-0652. E-mail: info@grandmassecrets.com.

LifeThyme Vegan Bakery -- New York, New York

LifeThyme is an all vegan, organic, and kosher bakery inside of a natural foods store. They offer vegan bakery items and wedding cakes including some raw cakes and desserts. Address: 410 6 Avenue, New York, New York, 10011. Phone: (212) 420-9099.

Collette Foley Specialty Baking -- Oakland Gardens, New York

Collette Foley's bakery specializes in custom wedding cakes and also offers other custom bakery items and event planning. They are happy to accommodate vegans or those with other dietary restrictions. Over 20 cake flavors, over 20 fillings, and more than one dozen frostings are offered, including rolled fondant. Wedding consultations and tastings are free of charge and are available only by appointment. Phone: (646) 246-6402. E-mail: info@collettefoley.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.