I have not visited Bethel Bakery, and would normally not submit a review without visiting a place, but given that most of the raving is about the cakes I felt a review of their cake is appropriate.
The decoration was beautiful. My birthday is in winter so a standard candy cane design that they offer was ordered for me. It really was decorated well, and looked very close to how it was advertised. The decoration for this design included a hefty amount of glitter--so if you prefer to avoid eating glitter you may want to request to leave it off.
The cake itself was fine. It was the standard white/chocolate marble. It was moist and not too sweet--which sounds like the start of a great cake, but it was severely lacking flavor. Of any type. Perhaps some of the other cake flavors actually have flavor, but the marble did not.
Now the real reason I felt compelled to post a review is that the frosting was NOT good. Many people seem to love this frosting, but to me it tasted like lightly sweetened, fluffed crisco. I applaud the fact that its not over-sweetened, as frosting at other establishments typically is. But the flavor & texture imbued by the shortening overshadows the appropriate-sweetness-level. I know shortening is often found in frosting--but given that the cakes here are priced at a premium, I would expect them to look good AND taste good.