Bittersweet Bakery, located in the city of Harrisonburg, VA, made its formal debut at the Harrisonburg farmer's market. Also, be on the look out for us at local events, festivals, and bridal expos in the area! The bakery brings with it years of industry experience, a passion for pastry, and a love for all things local!
Bittersweet offers a variety of sweet and savory treats, as well as custom orders by request. Our offerings will vary from week to week, to keep the tastebuds guessing and take advantage of the seasonal selections. We look forward to seeing you!
Bittersweet offers a variety of sweet and savory treats, as well as custom orders by request. Our offerings will vary from week to week, to keep the tastebuds guessing and take advantage of the seasonal selections. We look forward to seeing you!
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We feature a variety of sweet and savory pastries at the bakery each day. Feel free to give us a call ahead of time to make sure we have your favorites before you stop by. All items are available for custom orders, including catering. Not all items are available every day, but can be made for a custom order with at least 48 hours notice.
Of course, you can! Custom orders are our thing! Let us know what you're looking for, and we'll try our very best to make it happen if we can. We make a few items that happen to be MADE WITHOUT GLUTEN. Please keep in mind that these items are made in the same space as all of our other items that contain gluten.
If you haven't made it over to Bittersweet Bakery yet, get your buns moving in that direction! I had the great pleasure of working with Alicia and Erica for a number of years and these two woman are incredibly talented and so much fun to work with! Regardless of what you may need - pastries for a dinner party you're attending later, a croissant on the way in to work, oops! you forgot your husbands birthday, these ladies can help.
Reviews (13)
Kendall Webb
Aug 18, 2021
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So we decided to go with this bakery for our wedding cake… disappointed is the only way I can sum it up. The butter cream tasted like pure butter and the simple design we requested was very subpar. For the amount we payed and the simplicity of our cake we were disappoint since the prior reviews seemed so great.
Bibek Pokhrel
Jun 18, 2021
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Positive: Cake tasting was amazing. The flavors were spot on. Cake was moist. During the actual order, they were able to design the cake exactly what we wanted (exterior), and the cake looked beautiful
Negative: The cake was dry. The amazing flavor that we tasted earlier (tasting) was not there in the actual wedding event. The icing was too sweet and the fillings were not enough to bring out the taste. Dry bread, minimum fillings - hugely disappointed. It was basically as if the trailer was great, movie was dissaponting.
Negative: The cake was dry. The amazing flavor that we tasted earlier (tasting) was not there in the actual wedding event. The icing was too sweet and the fillings were not enough to bring out the taste. Dry bread, minimum fillings - hugely disappointed. It was basically as if the trailer was great, movie was dissaponting.
Derrick Troyer
Jun 16, 2021
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Kim H.
Apr 17, 2021
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Drove two extra hours to pick up a cake. It was so worth it for the customer service alone. The cake was beautiful and tasted WONDERFUL! It was there simple chocolate cake with Oreo filling and it melted in your mouth if that's a thing The frosting was marvelous. I usually skip but this frosting was so delicious, I could not get enough . Thank you Bittersweet Bakery!
Christa Kolcharno
Aug 12, 2020
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We hired Bittersweet to make our wedding cake. Due to the pandemic, we ended up cancelling our reception. Bittersweet made us a small cake for our private ceremony. We got white cake with salted caramel filling & it was so delicious! We also got some other pastries which were also delicious. Erica was very responsive & great to work with! I would definitely recommend Bittersweet Bakery. Their cakes are delicious!!!
Jenny Woofter
Jul 18, 2020
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We had the pleasure of working with the ladies of Bittersweet Bakery on our wedding cake and we couldn’t recommend working with them enough! Our cake had two different flavor combinations, including one that wasn’t even on the menu of options that was created to capture the groom’s favorite flavors! The care they took in creating something that we were really excited about left a lasting impression. The cake was delicious and absolutely beautiful! We got so many compliments from our guests. We can’t wait for our next occasion that requires some delicious baked goods so we can work with
Sean Morris
Jun 16, 2020
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Thadeous Larkin
Dec 08, 2019
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Bittersweet Bakery provided mini macarons and mini cupcakes for our wedding. When I initially contacted them, they already had several orders for the weekend of our wedding, but they were willing to work with us to get our order in if we picked it up/set it up ourselves, so we appreciated them squeezing us in! Not only were the little treats they prepared very attractive (which is important for photos, obviously), but the goods themselves were delicious. They were fantastic and made everything very easy for us. Great job, Bittersweet Bakery!
Brad H.
Nov 25, 2019
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This place is wonderful. The owners are super nice and the cakes are unreal. I gave them an idea of what I wanted and they executed it flawlessly and exceeded expectations. The flowers on the cake in the photo are made of icing. And the inside we did peanut butter cream.
They also can be found at the farmers market and all of their products are excellent.
They also can be found at the farmers market and all of their products are excellent.
Suzi Armstrong
Jul 03, 2019
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I waited until the last minute to order a cake for my husband's retirement party. Erica of the Bittersweet Bakery came to the rescue. My request was for anything they had available, no blue icing or flowers. Chef's choice was lemon blueberry and it was an incredibly tasty cake. As you can see by the picture it was the perfect cake for a small retirement party.
My only suggestion to Erica would be to include a business card or two with the cake. Everyone at the party wanted to know where I got such an amazing cake.
Thanks again Bittersweet Bakery!
My only suggestion to Erica would be to include a business card or two with the cake. Everyone at the party wanted to know where I got such an amazing cake.
Thanks again Bittersweet Bakery!
Jarrett Stearn
Jan 13, 2019
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Susan M.
Dec 04, 2017
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Bleighton O.
Sep 25, 2017
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