Boyden's Southside Bakery

Excellent donuts. Definitely worth the drive.

Very courteous and quick service. Family operated business for a couple generations. Everything that I have ever tried here, has been absolutely delicious. I have not found a chocolate covered éclair that comes close to theirs. While I haven't tried a specialty cake (in response to the two largely negative comments over a span of 9 years), I would be surprised that the quality wasn't as super as the rest of their baked goods. I would recommend Boyden's Bakery to anyone and everyone.

My daughters formal wedding was yesterday, in the statehouse, downtown Indianapolis and was so beautiful, that is until the cake arrived. The cake was so ugly the guest were shocked!! I cried for her. What an embarrassment.The cake I ordered and even provided a picture of was not the cake that was delivered.The cake delivered looked as if a 10 year old made it. I paid $400.00 for this God awful thing. IT IS A WEDDING!!! One of the most important parts of the celebration is the CAKE!! Shame on you!! This is a day that will only happen once. If that wasn't bad enough guest alerted me that the cake was leaning forward they were afraid it would possibly fall off of its stand, so we had to do the cake before we wanted to because we were afraid the whole cake was going to fall over. There were 150 guest, most confided they will never use Boyden's Bakery for a wedding or special event. What also upset me is 5 years ago Boyden's messed up our other daughters wedding cake. No one would eat the large bottom layer, they filled it with the wrong filling and it tasted nasty. But I thought okay, simple mistake lets try again, I like to support small businesses in central Indiana. Now I know exactly why after so many years in business you have stayed as small as you are. You had a chance yesterday to gain more customers. A few of the guest at the wedding are with Indy Event Planning. They said, they will never use Boyden's they felt so sorry for my daughter. Bless her heart she didn't even want to stand by the cake let alone have a picture taken by it. She was a trooper and did the whole cut the cake thing fast so the caterer could cut the HIDEOUS thing up, so she didn't have to look at it ever again.

The top tier was destroyed, that should have been kept for the one year anniversary. They took the very small silk flowers the co-owner asked for so they could place them throughout the cake. What they did was shove them all over just the top tier, cutting off only half of the 12inch stems, so that when the flowers along with the remaining 6inches of stems were removed the multiple Swiss Cheese like holes made the cake fall apart. All they were left with a crumble MESS!

My husband called and spoke with someone who said she was the co-owners wife, (daughter-in-law) of the sweet woman who had owned and operated Boyden's Bakery for years. The sweet woman who always took complaints as a way to better improve the bakery. My husband spoke with the daughter-in-law for thirty or more minutes today and he thought they may have come to a satisfactory conclusion for both parties, that obviously was not the case......She ended the negotiations by hanging up on my husband. I agree with the post from 2008 it is definitely a Donut Shop!

You can tell from the minute you walk in that this is a true family run business. They are so friendly and inviting. The pastry there is the best I have ever had. Everything I have ever eaten from Boyden's has been super.

The best danish doughnuts ever....... The cinnamon twist at about 5:00 AM right from the oven....... just melt in your mouth.



None better and I have been everywhere

We have purchased a few birthday cakes from Boyden's, and the Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing is delicious!