Los Angeles Dessert Tour: Cake Monkey Bakery Makes Me Want to get Married
Wedding Cake Tasting
I don’t want to get married. Ever. It all seems way too stressful. To live the rest of your life with the same person?! Everyday?! Forever and ever?!? And have children? Who will grow up to be ungrateful rebellious brats? You have to be unselfish and make decisions for other people?! No thanks! I’d rather life a happy-go-lucky, stress-free life not tied down to anything. I’m still young, so maybe that’s why I don’t get it. But I do know one thing for sure – I want a wedding! The dresses, registry, honeymoon, and a Cake Monkey Bakery wedding cake.
Raspberry Red Velvet Cakewich
I think Cake Monkey Bakery just might be my favorite Los Angeles bakery yet! Or ever, which is why I want them to do my wedding cake. Their gorgeous cakes are innovative, well flavored, moist, and all around delicious. Other than the deliciousness, my favorite thing about Cake Monkey is their uniqueness. They do not carry the standard cupcakes fare the 5000 other bakeries in L.A. do. Instead, their menu features mini layer cakes (3″ cakes, with 2-5 layers), pop pies (grown up Pop Tarts), and cakewiches (cake sandwich dipped in chocolate). Every dessert they make has a twist. For example, their chocolate cookie is stuffed with crumble, caramel, dark and milk chocolates. Doesn’t sound like any chocolate chip cookie I’m familiar with! And have you ever heard of an inside out s’mores – graham cracker and ganache sandwiches topped with marshmallow whipped cream?! OH and there are cakewiches! Cake sandwiches dipped in chocolate. Currently, they are a custom order and delivery based business, with snack items available at local eateries.
I haven’t figure out the exact details of my wedding cake yet, but I do know these need to be involved somehow:
Cake Monkey Crunch Cake: My FAVORITE cake!!! Banana Cake with layers of Housemade Toffee Crunch and Milk Chocolate Frosting. The bananas are roasted which makes the cake seductively rich and puts it way ahead of any other banana cake I’ve ever had. And I love the milk chocolate frosting. Most places pair banana cakes with a darker or more bittersweet frosting, but the milk chocolate used here is the perfect complement to the rich, nutty, taste of the roasted bananas. Scrumptious. The toffee crunch is a nice foil to the soft cake. The biggest, fattest, layer of my cake is definitely going to be this flavor.
Lemon Poppyseed: This flavor is special request only, but its so good I wish they would add it to their regular menu! Usually lemon cakes annoy me because they taste artificial, but the flavor here tastes natural and is super refreshing. The poppyseeds add some fun crunch texture to contrast with the moist cake. Kind of makes me feel healthy!
Light and Airy Lemon Poppyseed Cake
Pop Pies: I’m not sure how I would incorporate these into m ycake… but they would be a lovely addition to the party favors! An uber gourmet version of childhood favorite Pop Tarts, these are nostalgic-ly sophisticated, with intense flavor and addictive textures. Brown Sugar Cinnamon is my favorite. At $3.50 a piece, they cost about the same as a box of pop tarts but don’t taste like corn syrup or make you feel like a 7 year old boy after eating one. They convey more of a classy elegance to be enjoyed and savored slowly, possibly with your grown-up coffee.
Grown Up Pop Tarts
Cake Monkey Bakery is currently in negotiations for their new storefront! So maybe I will be able to ditch the marriage thing and still have my cake.
Call to order at 877.640.CAKE (2253) or email info@cakemonkey.com
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Have a lovely weekend friends!
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Its time to announce the winner of our Alice in Wonderland dessert cookbook contest! The randomly chosen winner of Xanthe Milton’s Eat ME! is…
Christine of Wyndsong Writes About Everything! Christine wanted to win this book because
“both of my sons are WAY into Alice in Wonderland. I’d love to give my oldest a Alice in Wonderland party for his 17th b-day. And this would make it perfect!!! He wants to make his own Mad Hatter hat, and I love creating great cakes and other desserts for my sons birthday, but since they’ve been older, I haven’t had much of a chance to really make something great for them. This would make their days!”
YAY so glad you won this book so you can make their days! Congratulations! Please email me your shipping information so you can get the book 
I’m having some issues with the comments on my blog, so if you commented on the last post to enter the contest but don’t see your comment there, don’t fret! I received all your comments and submissions, but for some odd reason I can’t figure out, they are not showing up on the blog post. But I can still see them in my comments box and chose the random winner that way. Thank you all for entering!
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