Nadines Bakery

Bakery offering custom and special occasion cakes, plus cookies, pastries, and other treats.

About Nadines Bakery

Nadines Bakery is a Tucson bakery known for custom cakes and special occasion sweets. The business website identifies Nadine's Pastry Shoppe as a Tucson tradition with more than 30 years of service to Tucson, Arizona, in information published in 2005. Its offerings include cakes for birthdays, anniversaries, office parties, baby showers, bridal showers, and other occasions, along with pastries, cookies, breads, and other treats. The bakery also maintains a focus on wedding cakes, with designs intended to show the range of possibilities available for formal celebrations.

The bakery describes its products as baked daily and says that all of its products are Kosher. The website also states that Nadines is probably the only fully Kosher bakery in Tucson. In addition to its regular selection of cakes, pastries, cookies, and breads, the shop accepts orders for cakes made for specific occasions. Its wedding cake work includes a variety of styles, from simple designs to more elaborate tiered cakes, as well as square cakes, grape designs, gold accents, and smooth rolled fondant finishes.

Customization is an important part of the wedding cake process. The designs shown on the website are presented as examples rather than a complete catalog, and the bakery explains that its cake decorators can work with clients to create a design of their own. Some of the listed specialties involve detailed handwork. Autumn leaves and sea shells, for example, are individually made and painted, with airbrushing used to add color. These decorations can be painted to match a wedding's color scheme. The bakery notes that this particular work requires a minimum of four weeks' notice, subject to availability, because of the additional production time.

Nadines also presents wedding cakes as a place to explore different flavors and finishes. Its examples include chocolate cakes, cheesecakes, truffle, and mocha, described on the site as gourmet alternatives. Rolled fondant is used for a particularly smooth appearance, while other designs emphasize simplicity, gold details, or the spacing between tiers. The bakery says that its grape design is popular and that the separation between tiers can be changed to suit the desired look. Square cakes are described as more difficult to construct, while still offering a fashionable and distinctive shape.

Beyond larger cakes, the bakery offers cupcakes, including filled cupcakes identified on its website as a newer creation at the time of publication. Cupcakes and pastry combinations can be presented on an acrylic stand, and the bakery lists silver-plated square stands for rent with its cakes for weddings and other special events. The stands range from 14 to 22 inches and are described as hand crafted for event presentation. Cookies are another part of the bakery's special occasion selection, with cookie trays available for holiday gifts and parties. For Tucson celebrations, the process begins with choosing the type of cake or treats needed, then discussing a custom design or order with the bakery.