How To Plan A Wedding In Sacramento: The Cake
photo by Rachelle Stogner
Freeport Bakery. ‘Nuff said.
Oh, but I’ll say more anyway, of course.
With the recent closures of several Sacramento bakeries like Philipps and Brioche, the Sacramento vendors are harder to find. No matter, though. I knew I wanted Freeport from the start and after an initial scare when they said they were booked on our day, we ended up able to get our wedding cake there anyway.
There’s not much personal attention involved in cake buying - at least not after the initial tasting session (which is the BEST part of wedding planning, by far). I don’t need to be all BFF with my bakery, and given my hatred of the industry’s prey-on-emotions ways, I guess there’s no point complaining that it was very arms-length.
The inside of the cake was perfect - just as moist and delicious as one would expect from Sac’s top bakery. The outside came out very nearly like what we’d spent quite a while describing to the cake consultant with whom we met. We carefully measured and determined the width of the stripes on the cake - which were to start wide on the top stripe and be thinner by the bottom stripe.
All the stripes came out the same, non-interesting width.
And, though one side of the cake had straight, even stripes that curved beautifully down the side, the other side - the side displayed toward most the guests - had more wobble than paving stripe in landslide country. What’s up with that? Why the wobble? And why have THAT side facing out when the other was better. The problem is very obvious in the above photo. Especially when you can compare the two sides.
All in all, though, the cake was what we wanted and I’d recommend Freeport (not cheap, but never less than tasty). Oh, but, Freeport, if you read this, you should include more than one excess cake box. Granted, we ended up with more cake than we needed, but we could only take home half of the excess because there was only one cake box. Oh well.
For more:
Day One: The Series
Day Two: The Dress
Day Three: The Photographer
Day Four: The Music
Day Five: The Cake
Day Six: The Flowers
Day Seven: The Legal Stuff
Day Eight: Random Other Stuff
You know, the last couple of years, I’ve been a bit disappointed by Freeport’s cakes. I’ve found them to be dry, except the fruit filled ones, and even those are only moist around the fruit.
I haven’t had cake from here, but I’d like to try New Roma Bakery, and see what they could do with a fancy cake.
New Roma is outstanding. I got a cake there for a co-worker’s retirement party (a chocolate “Got Milk” Cake with cherry filling) and it was absolutely delicious.
Been watching this series with some interest. I did my wedding back in ‘99 on the cheap (it cost around $2000 total) although I had some advantages in that my family and friends included a wedding photographer, a printer, a seamstress, a DJ and a caterer, who provided their services in lieu of gifts. The motto is “Use your friends wisely.”
Our cake was great - our only regret was not getting to enjoy more of it ourselves. We had and still have ample of the top layer (carrot cake with cream cheese filling), but the bottom two layers we didn’t get much of. We’d like more of that. I’m still happy for having gone with Freeport.
Of course, we should all support ALL the local bakeries, lest they go the way of Philipps and Brioche. The world should have more bakeries, as a general rule.