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| - Had a wedding cake consultation with Lauren. She is nothing short of impressive. I got to learn a little bit about her...she has a background in Industrial Design. She is self-taught in cakes. She designs some of the most amazing-looking cakes you will see in the window of the shop. I think their white cake is the best I have tasted. The wedding cake tasting costs $25...but it includes generously sized portions of chocolate, white, yellow, marble, and red velvet cake, all with vanilla buttercream. Then I got to choose a variety of frostings and fillings I helped myself to chocolate ganache, chocolate buttercream, vanilla custard, raspberry filling, espresso, and I am forgetting one. Rolled myself out of there. White Flower IS expensive. But damn, that white cake with vanilla buttercream is outrageously good. The *only* downside is they won't design a cake that combines buttercream AND fondant. Reason being is their buttercream is 100% butter-based and HAS to be refrigerated, and fondant cannot be refrigerated. So you have to choose one or the other for a wedding cake. I was bummed because the design we wanted combined both. The sky is the limit with cake designs here but you WILL pay exorbitant prices for them. Granted, the design I wanted was super labor-intense and I was quoted $15.00 per serving (and a serving is 1.5" by 1.5"). Yikes. So if you are prepared to drop mega bucks on a cake, this is the place for you. I just want a cake that combines buttercream and fondant so I need to find a bakery that has a shortening-based buttercream so it can be left unrefrigerated.
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