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| - I ask Birthday Boy: "2 weeks till your birthday! What kind of cake do you want?"
Birthday Boy: "A cake with almond fondant."
Me: "Uhh, what? Almond cake? What? I dont understand."
Birthday Boy: "No, almond fondant. Like, a cake covered with almond paste. Fondant. But almond."
...And here I thought Birthday Boy would ask for a chocolate cake with chocolate icing and we could go to Crave and call it a day. Where was I going to find almond fondant cake in the bakery-barren city of Calgary?!?
Thanks to Lionel C for coming to my rescue and recommending Amandine Bakery. Off I went to check it out and place my order.
Small shop in random strip mall on Centre Street. They had a ton of baked goods on display, but looked like their specialty was cakes, because they had a bunch of styrofoam molds of different sizes showing what say, a 10" square cake would look like, an 8" round cake would look like, etc. Pretty handy. They even had a cake order sheet where I could choose my flavour amongst a bunch of really unique flavours (Oreo, irish cream mousse, hazelnut, etc!), choose my toppings, write down special requests etc. The almond fondant option wasnt on the sheet, but the lady at the counter confirmed that they would be able to do it. She was not ultra friendly or talkative and kind of looked at me like I was an idiot when all I asked how they were going to decorate the cake. Oh well. Just give me my almond fondant coated cake dammit.
I picked up my super customized delicious looking cake with no problems, and dealt with a more pleasant lady this time. We just tried the cake yesterday, and it was awesome. Birthday Boy loved it, I loved it, everyone else loved it, and I cant wait to eat the leftovers today.
Just in case you're wondering what my genius cake-ordering skills came up with, I ended up ordering a Chocolate Grand Marnier cake with almond fondant icing. YUM!!!
(3.75 stars. 0.25 stars taken off due to grumpy lady at the counter when I put the order in.)
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