I know I’ve blogged several times about how much of a cake snob I am.  I admit it.  I like my cake and I’m picky about it.   So sue me.   Needless to say, the Engineer and I took our sweet time (no pun intended) finding the perfect cake lady.  Well, I finally found her.   Her name is Dena and she’s the co-owner of Sweet Celebrations in Maryville, TN.   Dena is from Nashville and had made a good name for herself in the wedding industry when her brother decided to open a bakery in East Tennessee.  She followed and now she’s all mine! (well.. she has two other weddings that day, but she’s at least part mine).   When I first meet Dena, I’m afraid I got off on the wrong foot.  It was more of a case of ‘open mouth, insert foot’ for me.  I had made an appointment to talk to Katie from Katie Kakes.  Katie Kakes had just been bought up by Sweet Celebrations and I thought I was making an appointment to talk to Katie (turns out, Katie and I use to work together at Citigroup, but that’s a different story).  Anyway, Dena comes to interview me and I quickly tell her I thought I had made an appointment with Katie. I wasn’t rude, I was just tired of tasting cakes and wanted to be over with it all.  Since I didn’t know Dena, I was worried that this would be another dead end.  Well, Dena took it all in stride, informed me that Katie does most of the decorating and she (Dena) does the baking.   After feeling like a complete idiot, I let Dena give me the specs on the cakes she offered.   She didn’t have any samples on hand, so I made a follow-up appointment to taste the cake.  OMG, I’m so glad I did.   The cake was amazing.  She served it in these adorable white chocolate cupcake ‘cups’ and it was easily the best cake I’ve ever had.   I signed her on the spot.     She’s even going to be able to make the Engineer’s special grooms cake (I’m not giving this one away, you’ll just have to see it for yourself!)

We ordered more cake than we really thought we’d need.   And I’m not complaining  about the prospects of having left overs.