Blue Note Bakery is a custom cake shop here in Austin. Mariah, from Dining In Austin, set up a tasting for local food bloggers and you better believe I jumped at the opportunity. I didn’t realize it, but this is where BFF Cara and Mike got their wedding cake. THAT was a good cake. I must have eaten a 1/4 of it haha (there were a lot of left overs!)
WARNING: SUGAR OVERLOAD begins NOW!
When we first arrived, Angela was setting up everything in the back so the group thumbed through photo albums of past cakes and photographed the display cakes. Once everything was set up we had a talk about the shop and how it’s different from normal bakeries. ALL cakes are custom made; we saw everything from traditional white wedding cakes to party cakes of coolers with beer and even a RoboCop riding an unicorn cake. The conversation moved toward the importance of local ingredients and Angela told us that she has her own chickens and she uses their eggs at her shop. How cool is that? It makes me want a chicken haha She only has about 20 and they roam around her yard. If she needs more eggs she knows a couple of kids down in austin who take care of chicken and she buys from them.
They also make their own fondant, so it actually tastes good.
Count them- SEVEN. Seven cakes for us to sample. I took pictures of each so I could remember what I was eating!
Tie Dye Vanilla, Orange Ginger, Gluten Free Chocolate Hazelnut, Pistachio w Espresso Buttercream and Honey Fondant, Chocolate Orange, Red Velvet, and Chipotle Chocolate with Salted Caramel Buttercream.
PHEW! And those were just the cakes….
The DIY frosting table.
I didn’t write down all the frosting- there were eleven of them! I remember my favorites though. All are homemade (of course). My top 3 were- Strawberry, Baileys Buttercream, Peanut butter. The idea was, grab your cakes then choose the frostings you wanted on each cake.
I was a little overwhelmed with all the choices and eventually just made dots of frosting on my plate so I could try them all on their own. Some of them didn’t even need frosting IMO.
My two favorite cakes
The Chocolate Chipotle
Pistachio w Espresso Buttercream and Honey Fondant
SALT was all I could think about after eating all that cake. I wasn’t even hungry but I needed something to balance out all that sugary sweet cake. A group of us went out to TexMex to round out the evening.
What a great nite!
Teddy
hahhaa. when I went there for my wedding cake tasting i also got mexican food right after, at the place right next to it. i want to try that chipotle cake. the whole set up was pretty similar for me but that cake! hahah.