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| - This is kind of hard to sum up as either 3 or 4 stars. A true rating would be 3 1/2 stars for me.
Basically, it's an old-school, overpriced specialty bakery where you can design your own cake. Personally, I had had plans to go to Costco and get Lorelei's name on a cake there for 30 bucks. But nooooo, someone (cough - Derek - cough) insisted we get a special cake for the 1st birthday. So he made a call and spoke to someone who was very nice. He emailed her pictures of what he wanted (well actually, what we really wanted was a cake that looked like a Care Bear, but they won't do that for copyright reasons). Then I walked in, we had a ten-minute consultation, I bought a little Care Bear "kit" with three tiny figurines on it for 8 bucks, and I almost dropped the baby when I heard that this half-sheet cake would be costing me slightly more than a Benjamin. WUT?!
But I couldn't back down. This is my problem. I promise, next year it won't be like this! Anyway, the good news was that the cake (banana cake with regular flavored buttercream) was delicious. They made this cool rainbow out of fondant and stuck it in the back, and had the Care Bears on clouds made of piping ... but that's about as far as they went with decorations. It was sort of disappointing. But another good thing is that they included a "smash cake" for Lorelei (probably unnecessary, but whatever) for free. So that's good.
Bottom line: I've been eating this cake for a week with no complaints on the flavor, texture, etc. It looked pretty and everyone was impressed. But it was not worth what we paid at all.
Oh, I forgot to mention ... they gave us the wrong cake at first! When my uncle opened it, he said, "Uh ... 'Happy Birthday Marley?!'" Good thing we hadn't left the store yet!!
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