Desserts First

A wonderful experience from front to back. Delicious cake, dreamy whipped icing, well decorated and just lovely. Highly recommend - Thank you Amanda!

Today was a terrible day, I was upset and saw a booth for cupcakes at the Castro Valley Street Eats. Just what I needed, something sweet. The booth was super cute and each cupcake was individually boxed. They also had French Vanilla and Maple Bacon cupcakes, red velvet cookies, apple pie (only $5) and caramel squares (yum!!). I choose the Mocha one and boy was I surprised... I swear, this cupcake is one of the best I've ever had. The frosting was light and not too sweet, the cake was light and fluffy (chocolatey flavor too). Right now, I'm sitting here wishing I had bought a dozen to eat all myself...to eat my sorrows out with this delicious goodness. Final Thoughts: Next time I have an event in need of a cake (or even a company party).... and maybe my future wedding, I will definitely be calling Desserts First!!

I contacted Amanda a couple weeks prior to my daughter's birthday. Her communication was outstanding. She was happy to discuss my vision and provided me with options for my custom tea party sugar cookies. I was messaged promptly the morning of delivery and updated once the no contact delivery was made. The cookies were exactly as we had discussed with great attention to detail. On top of everything else, the cookies were delicious. I have never posted a review on Yelp but knew that Amanda deserves the praise. 5 stars!

I have order form this place a few times, they offer a lot of fun seasonal specials! The cookie kits are so much fun to do with kids. I recently found out they do custom cakes as well and will be reaching out for an upcoming celebration.

For the price I thought it was not that great. I paid $66 for *2doz cookies* The cow and pig cookies and the numbers were the right size (the way it was decorated was good enough) but the letter, and stars were a tad smaller than I expected it to be. Though the colors were on point and it blended well with my theme. The taste is just okay - hit or miss. Not a lot of kids ate it at the party. It was mostly my husband who finished it days after (he said it tasted good).

I have ordered some custom themed birthday cakes for my family from Amanda at Desserts First, and she has done a beautiful job!! She gives so much attention to detail with the decorating, and the cakes have been absolutely delicious! Moist, flavorful and special. We have also purchased cupcakes from their food truck and love those as well. So many flavors and varieties - a definite treat!!

I have had the pleasure of working with Chef Amanda Rose and the Desserts First crew on multiple occasions and they never disappoint. I originally met Chef Rose thanks to her involvement with the Chamber of Commerce and the Food Truck Mafia in Castro Valley. She was vivacious, personable, and so welcoming; she told me of the story behind her company name (a very touching story about her grandfather) and I was even more sold on supporting her small business...then I took a bite of her food and WOW! Such fresh flavor, such creativity, and you can really taste the love and heart that goes into every piece that's made. Almost immediately I put in a personalized order for some of my favorite bites to serve up at my family's annual holiday event and her food was gone in less than 90 minutes! I actually had to hide some cookies and cupcakes for myself just to enjoy after playing hostess!Since that first order, I've gladly become an ambassador for Desserts First and order for basically every special occasion! Chef Rose is so creative, talented, and I commend her for utilizing as many natural colors and ingredients as possible (i.e. you want pink frosting? She'll make it with fresh fruit first compared to the knee-jerk of food colorting!). I cannot say enough about Desserts First! I'm looking forward to ordering more and watching her business flourish! Oh, and can we talk about that new dessert trailer?! Amazing! Congrats to Deserts First! Call me anytime you have leftovers, Chef Rose!

I ordered the chocolate coffee cupcakes! Best cupcakes ever!! I highly recommend them for all of your dessert needs! My daughter's Frappy 14th is now complete! Thank you Amanda & Debbie!

We ordered a large cake for my sister-in-law's baby shower and it came out amazing! Amanda made everything go so smoothly from ordering all the way to delivery. Will definitely be ordering from her again. Absolutely loved the strawberry filling in the cake and the cake was nice and moist! Thank you so much Amanda!

Off the grid food trucks rotate at our friends' complex every Wednesday, and this week there were cupcakes! We couldn't decide, so we got one of each and split everything between 4 people because you only live once/hump day/*insert any other reason to go each a bunch of sugar on a random weekday*. It was great! My favorite was the banana cream pie, and everyone else's favorite was the spiced caramel apple.