Delicious Bakery

On US-31 South in Alabaster, in a small suite easy to drive past if you’re not looking for it, Delicious Bakery has built a loyal following on custom cake work that ranges from tasteful wedding tiers to birthday cakes shaped like alligators and army tanks. It’s the kind of shop that locals tend to find through word of mouth, usually after seeing a photo of someone else’s cake and asking where it came from.

The bakery’s specialty is custom cake design, and the range on display is wide. Birthday cakes have been built as ladybugs, Harley-Davidson motorcycles for a sixteenth birthday, and full-scale army tanks, alongside more traditional tiered and ribbon-decorated designs, plus cakes for quinceañeras, sweet sixteens, anniversaries, and promotions. Standard round or square cakes come in 6-, 8-, 10-, and 12-inch sizes, with sheet cakes offered in quarter, half, and full sizes. Flavor options include yellow, chocolate, red velvet, German chocolate, Italian cream, carrot, blueberry, piña colada, caramel, strawberry, orange blueberry, coconut, Mexican cake, and Mil Hojas, and the bakery says it will try to accommodate flavor requests or dietary needs that aren’t already on the list. Cupcakes, cookie cakes, and 3D custom designs are also available, and every birthday customer who calls ahead gets a complimentary cupcake to celebrate with.

Wedding cakes get the same level of attention, with clients working directly with the bakery on flavor, filling, and decoration rather than choosing from a fixed catalog. The bakery asks for at least a month’s notice on wedding orders and will coordinate design details with a couple’s other vendors, such as florists, to match a wedding’s theme. Traditional, modern, rustic, chic, and trendy styles are all part of the bakery’s range, along with matching groom’s cakes for couples who want two cakes on the day. Beyond cakes, the bakery case rotates through flan, sugar cookies, Mexican wedding cookies, chocolate chip and thumbprint cookies, brownies, turtle bites, peanut butter balls, petit fours, mini bundts, cinnamon rolls, macaroons, eclairs, turnovers, and pound cakes, along with eleven flavors of cheesecake that include key lime, New York style, red velvet, turtle, and Oreo, plus chocolate, lemon, and coconut pies.

What sets Delicious Bakery apart from a typical grocery store cake counter is the willingness to build almost anything a customer can describe. The gallery of past work includes an army tank cake complete with tread details, ladybug cakes finished with piped spots, and novelty designs built for milestone birthdays and celebrations that call for something more personal than a sheet cake. That flexibility, paired with fresh-daily baking, is the core of what keeps customers coming back for repeat occasions rather than treating it as a one-time special order shop.

The bakery also runs a deli counter alongside its cake business, using Boar’s Head meats for sandwiches such as The Delicious Sandwich, built with chicken, turkey, mayo, avocado, tomato, lettuce, and provolone, and a roast beef sandwich with lettuce, tomato, and mayo. Homemade chicken salad, served with tomato and lettuce or wrapped, and potato salad round out the deli case, while tamales are made available on Fridays as part of the rotating Mexican-inspired offerings. Sandwich combos pair a sandwich choice with chips and a canned drink for a quick lunch. It’s an unusual pairing on paper, a full-service cake shop and a lunch counter under one roof, but it fits the practical, neighborhood feel of the business: people stop in for a slice of something sweet and end up picking up lunch on the way out, or vice versa. The bakery also offers cake delivery for an additional fee for customers who don’t want to transport a finished order themselves.

Delicious Bakery keeps a fairly standard small-business schedule, open Monday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., while staying closed on Sundays. For anyone planning a birthday party, wedding, or other celebration in the Alabaster area, or just looking for fresh cupcakes and a quick lunch, Delicious Bakery has carved out a reliable, family-run niche in a corner of town that doesn’t have many other dedicated bakeries. It’s a straightforward, no-frills shop built around the idea that a cake should look like whatever the customer imagined, whether that’s an elegant wedding tier or a full-blown army tank covered in fondant treads.