The Cakery

Looking at wedding cakes is kind of fun to be honest with you. It is amazing what people can do with sugar. I have included an image of some cake designs that I really love.

First, I felt as though I had to learn a bit about wedding cake making to know what I was getting into. I thought very briefly about making my own cake. I LOVE to bake and thought it would be pretty awesome to save a ton of cash and just make one myself. Until... I really started thinking about what a total nightmare I might be getting myself into. If it wasn't my wedding, and I could spend hours on it and not have to worry about ALL the other wedding stuff that needs dealing with, sure, making a cake would be bad-ass. Sara (who is freaking awesome and is a close friend of our) and I had a discussion about how we both want to be Maggie Gyllenhall's character in "Stranger Than Fiction". My little punk-rock, art-girl, cake-baker fantasy would more than likely become my pissed-off, teary-eyed, stressed to all hell cake-disaster nightmare. Baking a big-ass cake the day before my wedding that should be gorgeous AND delicious was probably not the best idea ever. So I turned to the professionals.

After spending a ton of hours pouring over bakery reviews and cake photos, Doug and I took a trip to STL to visit his folks and I called to set up a cake tasting at The Cakery Bakery in dogtown.

Something to keep in mind
Fondant + wedding = super freaking expensive.
The Cakery + the best buttercream ever + delicious red velvet cake - fondant = cheaper

The Cakery let us pick up the cake samples instead of sitting with someone. I just had this image in my head of the scene from "Pscyho" where Norman (Anthony Perkins) has Marion (Janet Leigh) in his weird little office/study with all the dead animal heads starring down at them from walls. Replace dead animal heads with cake toppers, and I imagine the experience to be just as creepy. HAHAH...

So Doug, his parents, Sara, Dustin and I took the cake samples to a local restaurant to give it a taste, it was incredible! Even the waitress said it was melt in your mouth amazing. We tried the Red Velvet as well as the French Vanilla. They also gave us a little tub of the buttercream which Sara, Doug and I had no issues throwing our fingers into and scooping out a huge heap of it to eat. SO GOOD! I didn't need to meet any other bakers. The Cakery is the jam and they have been so nice! I put a deposit down and we are set! Plus, my mom is super sweet and has offered to buy the cake! Thanks mom!!