Chicago Wedding Cake, the Secret Joy of Life

by Editorial Staff

Wedding cupcakesChicago has a number of excellent bakeries that specialize in weddings and special events. These bakeries will often go to great lengths to create your very own personalized wedding cake.

Here’s a short list of some of our favorite bakeries around town.

Dinkel’s Bakery

Dinkel’s (www.dinkels.com) in Lakeview offers an interesting array of styles, shapes and flavors for your cake.

Bittersweet

The pastry chefs at Bittersweet Pastry Shop (www.bittersweetpastry.com) create cakes that are too pretty to eat but too wonderful to resist. Go for a tasting with your fiance’. You will not be disappointed.

Ferrara Pan Bakery

A picture of a mammoth wedding cake greets you in the doorway of Ferrara Pan Bakery (www.ferrarabakery.com), located in Chicago’s Little Italy neighborhood. Although known for their popular candies, their strawberry shortcake torte is a great addition to any wedding. It also has fruit, for your health-conscious guests.

Swedish Bakery

If you’re of Swedish ancestry, or wish you were, visit the Swedish Bakery in Andersonville (www.swedishbakery.com). One taste of their marzipan cakes and you’ll be glad you made the trip.

As the tradition of the wedding cake evolved from being a simple loaf of bread to a tower of icing and sugar, you can also change tradition and make something more memorable for everyone involved. Good bakers will help you design something very special that you and your family and friends will enjoy.

Ali’s Cake Spots

Here are a few additions to Robyn’s list.
Alison

Cafe Selmarie

Their cakes are sinfully decadent with a rich and complex flavor in every morsel. They take dessert to a whole new level. (www.cafeselmarie.com)

Vosges Haute Chocolate

They recently added cakes to their menu of chocolate truffles, which are out of this world. (www.vosgeschocolate.com)

House of Fine Chocolates

They created our own wedding cake. Marvelous, simply marvelous. We had a chocolate cake with ganache frosting and banana & fudge filling. Our guests still wax poetic about that cake. (www.houseoffinechocolates.com)

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