For everyone who was considering skipping our wedding if we didn't have cake - fear not.
We have ordered and paid for our wedding cake. We (exactly 14 days before the wedding day) scooted over to Dinkel's Bakery to taste cake - it was a dream (at least for Brian)! The moist cakes, the buttercream icing, the filling we could taste with spoons...
We love Dinkel's - it's an old-school bakery with lots of pastries, cookies, breads, etc... It's been operating since 1922 and it's was the place to get your Wedding Ham Baked Into Rye Bread (I've decided that this title should be capitalized) when Brian's utterly amazing Grandma Fergie was married in 1926. Joan, the cake coordinator, confirmed that Dinkel's did make Wedding Hams Baked Into Rye Bread - as recent as two Easters ago. She also confirmed that Wedding Ham Baked Into Rye Bread is delicious. (Can you imagine? Sweet, salty, hamminess flavoring delicious fresh bread?!?)
We tasted our samples, discussed the flavor of each choice as if we were at a vineyard. The Butter Kuchen was too rich for our event (which already is a bit heavy food-wise with Irish pub food on the menu) and the Wedding White was missing some of the flavor of the winning flavor - Yellow Summer Sponge Cake.
We gushed over the icings as well, settling on only delicious varieties that would compliment the cakes. Nothing too fancy, nothing at all original (it's cake, you know?) and nothing but delicious.
We chose to do a small, two-tier cake - called the "presentation cake" - as well as a sheet cake - called by me "the bigger, unfancy cake." We can promise that both are amazing and will make attending our wedding worthwhile.
3 comments:
I love the back story on the bakery, and confirmation of the ham in rye story. However, if Grandma was married in 1926 she would have been only 5 years old! Actually, they were married in 1946 or 1947, shortly after WWII.
Oh, and can we get some Wedding Ham Baked Into Rye Bread for next Easter? Wouldn't that be a hoot?
One last comment. There's a great story in a recent Time Out Chicago about old neon signs around the City. Dinkel's isn't in it but it looks like they do have a cool, and I'm pretty sure very old, neon sign.
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