For some great ideas for custom birthday cakes or butter rich wedding cakes you can try some of these wonderful bakeries: Letizia's Natural Bakery, Artopolis Bakery & Cafe, Aigre Doux Restaraunt & Bakery, Lou Mitchell's Restaurant & Bakery, Swedish Bakery, Sweet Mandy B's, Bittersweet Pastry Shop and Cafe, Dinkel's Bakery, Corner Bakery Cafe and Weber's Bakery in Chicago.

Did you know: There are a lot of women who work in the Chicago area baking beautiful birthday cakes and other special occasion cakes. Not many of these are big businesses, as a matter of fact, they are very small. But their hearts are big and they know what they are doing with a pound of sugar, butter and a couple of eggs.