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Disgusting Wedding Cake and Cupcakes
I went through this same thing...well sort of. I'm getting married in October, and I scheduled an entire day of cake tastings (my mom lives out of town) and we ate cake ALL day long.
Needless to say we stopped by this one particular bakery and they were all very nice. The owner actually ran the tasting for us and gave us the background of the bakery, it's been around for 30 years blah blah blah. But in the end he spent most of his time bragging about how good their cakes were, and that they used the original recipes from 30 years ago.
So he gave us this mass of cake that had one flavor of buttercream and one flavor of cake. Yellow cake, with vanilla butter cream...which is not bad, but I'm going for a more inventive stance on my wedding cake flavors. I'm also used to bakeries offering several flavors in their tastings, but apparently not this one.
The hunk of cake that we were served looked like a small cake that you might by from a Wal-Mart bakery. And what was even worse, is that it tasted like that too. It was honestly the worst cake that I've ever put in my mouth. We kindly ate our cake, and smiled at that guy, my mom was able to stomach nice words before we quietly left the bakery and vowed never to go back!
Long story short...don't go back to the bakery. Just keep your opinions outside of their store and make sure to tell anyone who's thinking about trying them what they're really all about.
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First let me just say that I've spent the last 10 minutes reading this thread and laughing SO hard that I've been crying and also come very close to peeing once or twice.
My story has to do with a flaming cheesecake as well...although not due to a 900 degree oven. My oven was perfectly fine...turns out it was operator error.
As the ambitious middle schooler that I was, I thought I would make a cheesecake for an after dinner dessert on one of our days off from school. My little brother (4th grader at the time) and I were home alone for the day. I started out with a recipe from one of my mom's cookbooks and went to town in the kitchen. I mixed everything together, made the cheesecake batter and the graham cracker crust, and put it all together in the spring form pan. I had preheated the oven to the said temperature in the cookbook, and proceeded to place the cheesecake in the oven four about an hour to cook. Let me just preface the next part of the story by saying that my mom's stove was old...and the writing on the oven knobs was starting to fade away. 10 minutes after the cheesecake had been in the oven, my brother makes a comment about the burning smell. I said "it can't be burning, it's only been in the oven for ten minutes". So I proceed to leave it in the oven thinking that the smell must be coming from somewhere else. Another 10 minutes later, I decide that I should probably check on the cake because the smell is only getting worse. I open the oven and low and behold...the cheesecake has three inch flames engulfing the surface of the cake. I pulled the rack out of the oven and stood there screaming for my brother (yes, the 4th grader) as the cake remains flaming. He runs from the bathroom to find the flaming cake and proceeds to start hitting it with the kitchen towel. Apparently I had put the oven to broil instead of bake. Needless to say, the 4th grader put the flames out and I scraped the charred substance from the top of the cake and put it back in the oven to cook for the remaining time (on bake this time) and we ate it that night for dessert. And it was horrible...an absolute charred mess. Like many of you here, I have yet to live this story down.