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| - Bethel Bakery is locally famous for its wedding cakes. I bought my wedding cake from them, and they definitely proved that they deserve their reputation for excellence.
The cake itself is moist, combining airy lightness with rich decadence. The flavors taste natural, not the synthetic chemical tastes you get from inferior cake, and there are many flavors of cake and flavors of filling to choose from and combine however you would like. (I chose a marble cake filled with alternating layers of chocolate mousse and raspberry. It was so good that the guests literally mobbed the cake. Some of them devoured 3 and even 4 pieces. Good thing I ordered extra servings!)
Bethel Bakery is famous for its buttercream frosting. I am a frosting snob. I usually won't even eat the frosting from most cakes. Bethel Bakery's frosting is the real deal. Creamy and rich, great mouthfeel, sweet without having that horrible oversweet grocery-store taste... now I want my wedding cake all over again, just so that I can scrape the icing off and eat it.
The bakery is really good at decorating, as well. I ordered a basketweave design with cutout fondant sunflowers on it. Basketweave is a really challenging pattern to make despite its simple appearance, and it was beautifully done. For people planning a trendier wedding who want a more up-to-the-minute cake, you can also have the cake covered in a variety of fondant designs. You can get round or square tiers, and have them either stacked or separated.
Bethel Bakery also delivers wedding cakes for an extra fee, which I highly recommend. (How much would it suck to be responsible for destroying your own wedding cake on your wedding day, because you were too cheap to have the guy deliver it?)
All in all, they did a great job, made a delicious and beautiful cake (really, it was so pretty that it was on the front page of my photographer's website for a long time), and I'm going to stop writing this review so I can go down there and maybe see if I can buy a cupcake or something -- that buttercream is calling my name.
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