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Sun | June 18, 2006

cool cakes

These cakes are cool. I have been reading about them. Mostly looking at the pictures. I am not the kind of person who plans and dreams about her wedding, but I do like to look at cakes. Cakes in general, wedding cakes included. I often stop at bakery windows. Come to think of it, there's a cake place in the village I should check out the next time I'm in the area. It's on Bleecker by Grove. There's also Magnolia up the street but that place is way more expensive than it is cool.

The flowers are made of sugar. They're edible but they're also often saved as mementos. Pansies are rare on cakes because they wilt. Not the ones on the cake- those are made of sugar- but the ones in the bouquet. People choose flowers for their cake to match the flowers at the wedding. I think that's pretty misguided, I mean some flowers look better on a cake. Red roses on a cake looks weird.

These designer cakes cost from six hundred to a thousand dollars. There are some celebrity chefs like this guy Ron Ben-Israel who makes the cakes at weddingcakes.com. Or he doesn't make them, he has his own little factory of diligent, underpaid laborers. It's on 42 Greene Street in Soho. They call it a bakery.

I don't think I'd get a designer cake that was featured in a magazine. It's just too expensive. I think one reason people spend so much on weddings is that they have no experience buying any of the things that go with the wedding, like fancy cakes. They don't have time to shop around and get to know the options and so they pay a lot for stuff that they might be able to get elsewhere for less.

Maybe it is a good idea to start researching so that I'll have less to do later. I could just wear a fancy dress instead of a wedding dress for my wedding. That would save like a thousand dollars right there. I could start to think about what we would eat and everything. I don't throw parties so I have no idea. If I had a wedding I don't think it would be very big. I think I would only invite my family and a few friends.

It's so sad that I will probably never see cakes like these. Maybe I should try to get myself invited to the wedding of a rich and spendthrift person. I wonder if I could do the cake-tasting thing just for fun. I would pretend I was getting married and then go to all these cake places and taste their cakes. And then just tell them, "sorry I'm going with some place else."

Man, if I could eat these cakes. Like Alice in Wonderland. For years I have wanted to eat those cakes. I think it has to do with how pretty they look, so smooth and well constructed, colorful.

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