Veniero's Pastry

Our cake was absolutely delicious -- we got a three-tiered chocolate cake filled with vanilla whipped cream, strawberries and bananas with vanilla whipped cream icing. Our guests gave it rave reviews. If I had it to do over again, however, I would have stuck with a very, very basic design for the outside of the cake. I chose a plain white whipped cream icing but asked that they put a few thin strips of dark chocolate across the tiers as a sort of abstract design. Shown a photograph of what we wanted, the baker was enthusiastic about it and seemed to understand what we were requesting. Unfortunately, he did not quite get it. What we got were some stripes of light brown icing -- not strips of dark chocolate -- wavering across the cake. The icing stripes did not look very professional, and did not coordinate well with the fresh purple hydrangeas we provided to decorate the cake. They did, however, do a nice job arranging the flowers on the top tier and around the bottom of the cake. While I was thrilled with the taste of the cake, I was very disappointed in its appearance. Oh well.