Some girls dream of their big white dress for their wedding. Others have planned out their flower arrangements to the last detail. There is always something that is the most important, the most anticipated for each bride. For me, it was the wed...ding cake. I love cake. It’s my favorite food, it is what I have been dreaming about the moment I became engaged. Kitchen Chemistry was, therefore, under the most pressure for my wedding. Let me just tell you that six slices of cake later, I’m still lamenting I didn’t eat enough cake because it was THAT good!
First off, I wanted a bakery that cared as much about what the cake tasted like as it looked. Too many bakeries only have pretty pictures and don’t even include a menu of cake flavors on their website! I knew immediately I had to have a tasting at Kitchen Chemistry when I saw their enormous list of flavors. I was able to pick some unique flavors beyond your typical vanilla and chocolate and I was eager to see if they lived up to my expectations.
I told myself at the tasting I would only have a bite or two of each flavor, since I was in the process of dieting for the wedding. I licked the plate clean. It was so delicious. It was near impossible for me to narrow down the flavors. They were helpful in helping me customize the flavors to exactly what I wanted, even when I emailed them months later and sprung on them that I suddenly wanted eggnog buttercream frosting for my gingerbread cake layer (eggnog frosting?! Gingerbread cake?! Yeah, they can do that!)
Of course, we cared about what the cake looked like too, and Kitchen Chemistry was incredibly receptive when I came in with my sketched ideas (Yeah, I told you I took the cake seriously.) We worked together to make our dream design, an nontraditional wedding cake that still looked beautiful. Our guests appreciated it as well – when we asked family to send us their photos from their phone, every person at least had one photo they took of the cake! It was that eye-catching!
The cake was a huge success. Everybody had their favorite flavor and lamented they didn’t eat more. When I pulled out leftover cake at the following day’s brunch, I had a group of people swarm around me and wish they were clever enough to have taken some home; I ended up having to share because everyone wanted one last bite!
I could write an entire essay on why Kitchen Chemistry is the right choice. I didn’t save any cake for our one year anniversary – I instead plan on revisiting and having them remaking a mini version of the wedding cake because I want every excuse to eat their cake again. It’s that good. It’s that pretty. Go get your cake there now and thank me later.