While in Southern California, we got a mess of wedding stuff taken care of, including a YUMMY cake tasting. Obviously, ya'll know this "task" occupies the #1 spot on the fun-things-to-do-when-planing-a-wedding for me. The fun baker had us taste four happiness-making flavors and I had a perma-grin on my face the rest of the day....mmmmm.....kinda want to go back.
Here are the four types we tried:
We're hoping that our guests are already planning to demonstrate extreme wildness and a general lack of restraint, but we certainly don't need to set them up for out-and-out rioting behavior. In order to quell the masses, we'll plan on limiting the cake options to two; hopefully this decision will create less of a logistical nightmare.
The cakes were SUPER DELISH. Come wedding day, they'll look super homemade and be styled in a simple, old-fashioned manner. Mostly because while our personal dessert palate is diverse and open to a mess of influences (fancy! mousse! french!) , our ultimate FAVE is a good old-fashioned layer cake with gooey frosting. I'm hoping the cake will go with the laid-back approach to our wedding.
Here are the four types we tried:
- Apple Crumble
Burnt Sugar Cake with Roasted Apple Filling, Burnt Sugar Buttercream and Crumble. The apple filling was shipped in from this little farm in Vermont and was ah-mazing.
- Chocolate Caramel
Chocolate Cake with Housemade Caramel, Sea Salt, Dark Chocolate Frosting and Carmelized Rice Krispies. Shut up, caramalized rice krispies??
- Bananas Banana Cake with layers of Housemade Toffee Crunch and Milk Chocolate Frosting. Duh, had to try the banana one, right?
- Vanilla Gorilla Vanilla Cake with Tahitian Vanilla Frosting and Sugar Sparkles. So simple, so pretty.
She was so sweet!
We're hoping that our guests are already planning to demonstrate extreme wildness and a general lack of restraint, but we certainly don't need to set them up for out-and-out rioting behavior. In order to quell the masses, we'll plan on limiting the cake options to two; hopefully this decision will create less of a logistical nightmare.
The cakes were SUPER DELISH. Come wedding day, they'll look super homemade and be styled in a simple, old-fashioned manner. Mostly because while our personal dessert palate is diverse and open to a mess of influences (fancy! mousse! french!) , our ultimate FAVE is a good old-fashioned layer cake with gooey frosting. I'm hoping the cake will go with the laid-back approach to our wedding.
Post-tasting, we were in a predictably massive sugar coma. This state of being worked in my favor as I pretended to navigate Jamie (driving at the time) back to the freeway. I totally took him a cockamamie way that first led us to a random residential area and its maze of cul-de-sacs. Whoops. Unintentionally hilarious.
L: It's ok, Jamie, I think I've got it now. Hmmmm...whoops. Dead end, again. Let's see. Try turning here. Ya, here. Go straight for like 3 miles.
J: (10 minutes go by) Uh....it's looking kinda industrial around here.
L: Crap. Ummmmmm....turn around, NO! Left! Turn left here! Damn.
J: (5 minutes later) Are you taking me somewhere to kill me?
L: Yes.
L: (3 minutes later) Turn right. STOP!!! STOP HERE!!! PULL OVER!!!
"Recognize this building?"
What about from this angle?
Nothing yet?
Stock cars under the blue tarps, complete with Pennsylvania plates!
We could see Phyllis's car from the locked gate!
- that's where michael scott was going to jump on the trampoline into the bounce house!
- this is where oscar tried to say jim was racist for thinking the cleaning people spoke spanish!
- and there's the spot michael totally hit meredith with his car and broke her hip!
- etc.
You see, I had arrived to this building with my own agenda.
If I keep my eyes shut really tight, will Jim be standing behind me?
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No?
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What if I peek juuussst a little?
Damn.
Nothing.
Now I have to stand here and pretend this is a worthwhile excursion.
Maybe Hudson will have better luck?
jim?!
dude. JIM.
ji...
look crazy lady,
that jim guy ain't here.
can we go now?
Next time you're in the Burbank area, holler at me and we can get you to the building where the cast of the Office does their magic. It's a non google-mappable address, but the legwork is done for you and we can easily get you right in front of the building. With one condition, of course... If you see Jim Halpert, slip him my number, ok?
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you crack me up!
wait, so was it planned to surprise take him there??? i'm confused on whether you accidentally got there or if you meant to go there...
Love! Cake tasting is the BEST. The vanilla one sounds especially tasty. Um, was Hudson at the tasting? And did he bring a random furry friend to the tasting?
I was so excited scrolling through the pics, a small part of me thinking, "Wait! Maybe Jim will appear behind them!" Oh well, it was fun looking at the Hudson pics anyhow. As always.
Every time Hudson pops up on my computer background a student exclaims, "What a cute dog! What kind is he? Is he yours?" Uh, no... I'm just a dog stalker!
-Christine
so cool but it looks so much nicer in your pictures and not as gloomy as it does on the show!
katherine, it was definitely a plan to get him there post-cake-tasting.
And christine, believe me....i was also disappointed.
at first when I saw the building I was wracking my brain trying to think of why that studio might sound familiar. All I could think of was how that window+parking lot looks just like The Office. Turns out you have brilliant friends.
How do you have this randog (random dog, go with it) in your photo and no explanation? Hudson had puppies?
Cake tasting - YUM. Totally with you on the cake vision. TOTALLY owe you an email. You know what I"m talking about, wink wink, nudge nudge.
is it weird that I ACTUALLY thought the show must be filmed in Scranton? I mean, I know everything is filmed in LA, but why am I surprised here?
i am laughing out LOUD in starbucks. in a not-so-friendly-to-out-LOUD-laughter starbucks. I LOVE THIS!
oh, yeah. great about the cakes, too. they're already all yummy in my tummy. i think, though, a second, just to make sure, tasting is in order....right??
I DO have brilliant friends! And I'm totally down to go to more tastings, Jen. ALWAYS.
amanda - i thought that too! i'm sorry, but i think it is way cooler that many of us have been to places mentioned in "the office"... steam town mall, lake wallenpaulpack (or how ever you spell it), the list goes on.
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