Our vendor for our reception site uses Carlo's Bakery for their wedding cakes. This is the one and the same bakery with the TV show "Cake Boss". It has been around for decades in Hoboken and often was popular among the locals before the show ma...de them popular with the nation.
We called 3 months in advanced for our cake tasting, I suggest calling more like 5 months before for this baker as they become book quickly. There was a line of which there was a 45 minute wait, which since we had an appointment we did not have to wait on. We were escorted into the bakery, quite the thing for someone who watches the show, and taken to meet with Mauro, on of the head bakers.
They were very professional and very nice. We were offered coffee during our tasting and we were able to even bring my mother. We tasted 7 different kinds. It was amazing. And after we chose our design, they had a selection of about 10 and you can make edits to your cake for additional charges, they brought us downstairs and asked us if we would like anything from the bakery. We took this opportunity and everything we brought home was amazing.
On the wedding day our cake looked perfect and it tasted just like it did the day we had it at the tasting. It was moist and delicious. The hard part is keeping the cake top that way for a year.