PDX--Wedding Cakes?

[fierydrunk]

Repost from Portlandfood.org:

Well, Hollis and I wed next month and are having our big party at the Downtown Stumptown, just like I wanted!

BUT--we have decided to get a good wedding cake now that we are having friends cook hors d'oeuvres rather than have Simpatica cater.

Can anyone reccomend someone who could make an amazing cake? Not the norm either! In fact, I wanna see any color but white icing!

[kartoffel]

Pix Patisserie makes an excellent Croquembouche, if you want something non-cake-y. Their more cake-y concoctions won't disappoint, either.

http://www.pixpatisserie.com

[tsquare]

Talk to your fellow egulleteer (?):

Melissa McKinney

Chef/Owner Criollo Bakery

mel@criollobakery.com

[heyjude]

Check out http://www.idolci.com/. Jane Burkholder's cakes are gorgeous and you can see all the possible flavor combinations.

[duckduck]

There's also www.pollyscakes.com and I've been told that the best tasting cakes come from JaCiva's. I would think they would have someone talented enough there to do something not so white. (This coming from someone that loves plain white icing with lots of boldly colored fresh flowers. They've always been my favorite cakes. )

[trillium]

Last summer when some friends did a wedding I got to taste a lot of the cakes they tasted. They ended up going with Polly's cakes because the dude getting married is European and hates buttercream. She could do marzipan "frosting" and no one else could. The cakes were very beautiful and tasty (and pricey!) but the servers at the Shogren House didn't really know how to cut them and they butchered the cakes, pulling the marzipan off because it wasn't cut through when they plated them, smashing the cake to crumbs, etc. etc. If it had been me, I would have been pissed to spend that much money on a cake and have it trashed...the pieces were really sad looking...but still tasty. JaCiva's cakes rated the lowest on the list and the stories they tell of visiting the place are pretty darn funny. Let's just say the European still talks about the awful "champagne" cake (you could have a pink! cake). They didn't bother bringing me any to taste so this is second-hand. The bride actually liked Joseph's cakes (out by Sellwood) and I did too (got to taste them). They're your basic American style cake (everything is really really sweet) but done nicely, and lots of frosting and filling options (just no marzipan). The prices were very reasonable for the quality.

Good luck!

trillium