Marie's Gourmet Bakery

g back for an anniversary cake!

f several Eiffel Tower cakes we wanted, he kept trying to push us to one that he had done before which wasn't anywhere near as pretty. We really didn't want fondant, but he strongly recommended it and said that he uses this really great (and expensive) fondant that tastes much better, and he uses only a very thin layer. We deferred to his judgement on both counts, which we later regretted. As it turned out, the cake had a VERY thick layer of fondant which was completely inedible. We had picked a chocolate mousse layer, a tiramisu layer, and a vanilla with strawberry layer at our tasting session. The largest, the chocolate mousse layer, was NOTHING like we had tasted. It was overly sweet and just mush. Nobody ate it. The tiramisu layer just wasn't what we had tasted; it was nothing more than a plain white cake with what tasted like hazelnut sauce poured on it - NOT anything like the tiramisu would had tried at the tasting. On top of that, Todd kept trying to sell us OTHER services, like limo service. We were going to use him and actually paid up front for the service but had to cancel when we found that despite us having discussed multiple times that we wanted LIMO buses with seating along the sides, he had booked SHUTTLE buses (at the much more expensive LIMO bus prices, I might add). Stay away from Todd!!!

st. (Not THE best, though...we got a quote for that and decided it was way too much. We went for a simpler one with stripes and polka dots). It looked amazing. We brought our own topper. The only problem: They messed up the filling. One layer was supposed to be vanilla chiffon with strawberry filling. No strawberries! I was a little miffed we did not get a discount for that--it said right on the order form to add the strawberries. Another layer was supposed to be amaretto orange, and my husband claims that it was not--he couldn't taste any orange. But I thought that layer was delicious, whether it was plain amaretto or amaretto orange. We also had a chocolate layer that came out just right. I would absolutely recommend this bakery without reservation, particularly if you value mainly the aesthetics (and not just the taste) of the cake.