wedding cake :: Jens Cakes

bruinbr - 04/12/2006 Good
The cake turned out beautiful and was exactly the way we wanted it to look (Jacklyn placed the flowers for us). Unfortunately, it didn't quite taste as yummy as the sample we had tried during our cake tasting session. The wedding cake was much denser (like pound cake) than the light and airy toasted almond we had tried originally. Overall it was still good, but I'm giving them the A-/B+ for the difference in taste and because after we sent our deposit, it was much more difficult to get a hold of Jen or Anthony. Phone calls and emails were either never returned or returned over a week or so later. Even just returning the infamous cake pillars was difficult because we couldn't get a hold of them. We ended up just leaving the pillars in a bag at their front door. Also, when I did get a hold of Jen, she told me that she would mail my deposit check for the cake pillars back to me. It hasn't been cashed, but I never received it back as promised. We had a 3-tier, stacked, round, buttercream icing cake, with triple dot design and a chocolate brown fondant band border on each tier. We could have picked a different flavor for each tier, but we just went with two: toasted almond cake with vanilla custard and chocolate cake with strawberry preserve. We served the entire cake, so we're estimating that each slice cost us about $3.