Southern California Wedding Cake

[hannahcooks]

I'm getting married and we've set up our wedding cake tastings at Sweet Lady Jane, Susina (formerly Sugarplum, and one of our favorite lunch spots already), and Hansen's Bakery.

Anywhere we're missing? We're looking for more of a really, really great chocolate cake for 110 people than a traditional wedding cake.

[hollywood]

Michel Richard?

[Carolyn Tillie]

After Sweet Lady Jane's, why look elsewhere? Their cakes are downright magical. (yeah, yeah, I KNOW they are expensive...)

[dfunghi]

Try Caprice on Pico accross from Trader Joes in Santa Monica. Jean Louis is a great pastry chef. Sweet Lady Jane's is hard to beat for quality and taste.

Congrats and Mazel Tov

D

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Edited April 9, 2004 by dfunghi (log)

[jschyun]

I'm not a big fan of sweet lady jane, but I can't think of any other options at the moment, I'm not in L.A. I've been at events where slj did the cake (I think the berry one and the chocolate) and I have been to the shop several times. I like a more tender textured cake.

Minority opinion of course.

[JFLinLA]

Skip Hansens, unless you want to go for laughs. Of course, that's where I got my wedding cake but that was a really long time ago and I didn't know any better at the time. Please forgive me.

What about Cake Divas?

[hannahcooks]

Y'all, thanks for all your help. I dutifully wrote down all your suggestions for next weekend- except we found the perfect cake Saturday. Not at Sweet Lady Jane, which, for all the hype, looked much prettier than it tasted. And definitely not at Hansen's- we should have taken the advice to skip that!

We're getting five beautiful, delicious St. Honore cakes from Susina, which I cannot recommend highly enough. Their cakes were all far and away the best we had that day, and the best we could remember having, ever- and the owner is so amazing and helpful.