Agape Cakes

Agape Cakes operates at 3423 West Oakland Park Boulevard in Lauderdale Lakes, on the same secondary commercial corridor as Cordon Kreyol Bakery and Flavors Caribbean Three, a stretch of the city distinct from the more heavily documented North State Road 7 strip. Its Yellow Pages listing puts the business at twenty-five years in operation, placing its founding at approximately 2001, and its category is filed simply as bakery, though the customer feedback attached to its listing makes clear the shop specializes specifically in custom cakes rather than a broader bread-and-pastry case.

Reviews quoted on the business’s directory listing are specific and enthusiastic, naming an individual baker directly: one customer wrote that “Elisha makes the best cakes!!! He is a one man army!” and specifically praised a strawberry-and-banana filling paired with a frosting made with a touch of ice cream. Another reviewer called using the bakery “the best decision I ever made” citing consistently fresh cakes, and a third singled out the shop’s red velvet cake as “so good” that customers “will be standing in line” for it during holidays. These direct quotes, describing a specific named baker and specific flavor combinations, are unusually detailed for the small businesses profiled in this collection and point to a shop with a genuine, established local following built around a signature product rather than a general-purpose bakery case.

The shop keeps a five-day retail schedule, open Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 5:30pm and closed Sunday and Monday, a pattern consistent with a bakery built around made-to-order cakes for events and celebrations rather than daily walk-in bread or pastry sales, since custom cake orders typically require lead time and are picked up rather than browsed. The location is listed as wheelchair accessible and accepts the standard range of major credit cards.

A search of Florida’s Division of Corporations records found one entity matching the business name, Agape Cakes Inc., document number P01000041402, filed in 2001, a date that lines up closely with the twenty-five years in business the directory listing reports; however, the state currently lists this corporation as inactive. As with several other small businesses in this collection, an inactive Sunbiz status does not necessarily mean the shop has closed, and it continues to appear as an open, operating business with recent-sounding customer reviews in the directory checked for this profile, but the discrepancy between the corporate filing status and the apparent ongoing operation is worth flagging for anyone with a specific need to confirm the business’s current legal standing.