Are you a bakery snob?

[mom2rtk]

I'll order from whichever bakery uses the tastiest toxic sugar.

 

[clh2]

Totally a cake snob here. TOTALLY.

If the occasion is "cake-worthy" it is worth getting a great cake for!

I LOVE cake...let me rephrase that - I LOVE GREAT cake!!!

My 20YO DD has joked with me from the first episode of Say Yes to the Dress and the related wedding dress shows. When she gets married, I could care less what her wedding dress looks like. But, the cake better be fabulous!

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Most of the time we will bake ourselves. How's that for snob?

Although there is a vegan bakery we will go to for certain acquaintances, and there is another specialty bakery we will go to when we need a cake decorated in a way my wife (or I... but mostly her) can't do herself.

 

[monorailsilver]

For cake, no. Our local grocery store makes fabulous cakes! I have been told I make great tasting ones too & I just use a box.

I have known people who have tried TV show bakery cakes & were like "eh".

Now a cannoli, that is another story. I grew up with a place that I still love. And Italian bakery. I have tried them from a few other places but so far just one other place is pretty close.

Pignoli nut cookies, used to love them from the above bakery but my mom started to make them & hers are better.

And kettle donuts. Oh how I miss you & your melt in my mouth taste. Why O Why did Francis's bakery (trumbull, ct) have to go out of business.

 

[sukhakuli]

We bake our own. I've become a flour snob since I started grinding my own. Anything made with store flour just doesn't taste as good.

 

[akcire]

So many of the great bakeries are gone. There are a lot of new cupcake places.

I don't do grocery store cakes, normally. The cake at Whole Foods is ok, but I'm not a huge cake eater.

Generally, I just make my own now.

I never buy store bought cookies except for Salerno butter cookies. My 70 year old mother and my 3 year old daughter call them "ring cookies" and both like to eat them off their fingers.

 

[FINFAN]

yep. We USED to have a great bakery in town 15 years ago until everything went chain stores. I keep telling my DH that the first good German or Polish bakery that opens up is going to make a killing. For now, I am stuck with blah stuff from the usual grocers. Oh well, better for my waistline this way I guess as I don't buy much bakery due to it being so predictable and processed.

 

[aprilchem]

We bake our own. I've become a flour snob since I started grinding my own. Anything made with store flour just doesn't taste as good.

What kind of flour do you use for cake? I grind my own flour as well but from whole wheat. Does that work for cake?

 

[sukhakuli]

What kind of flour do you use for cake? I grind my own flour as well but from whole wheat. Does that work for cake?

I use soft white wheat. I have red and yellow hard wheat for bread, durum for pasta, and soft white for all baking.

 

[Colleen27]

I'm getting there because it seems like all the grocery stores around me are using Cool Whip as frosting these days and I can't stand it. Give me a nice buttercream, please! I'm not especially picky but I just can't stomach whipped cream style frosting. I suppose it keeps better through temperature changes, though, so it is more convenient for grocery store bakeries.

Also, our local grocery store recently changed the way they do their donuts and bagels (from in-house to a central bakery that serves the whole small chain) and now there's HFCS in everything and the taste and texture of the bagels in particular have changed noticeably. So no more getting breakfast pastries there either. A real shame, because they're the only ones around that still make salt bagels.

 

[bcla]

I'm not too particular for special events. However, if I have my choice of just bread to eat or take home - heck yes. I don't have one place though.

Acme Bread on San Pablo Ave in Berkeley or the San Francisco Ferry Building. My kid will munch on a rosemary roll and their challah is my favorite. And a Boudin sourdough bread bowl with clam chowder. That stuff they serve at Disneyland and call Boudin is passable but not the same.

If Bouchon Bakery were closer to home I'd be buying that on a regular basis. We went to Napa Valley for my latest birthday, and we ended up getting a whole lot of stuff there. Some of it wasn't cheap, but after my kid scarfed down a $1.50 brioche roll in no time flat, my wife asked me why I didn't buy more. It was that good. Not cheap, since I could probably buy a supermarket roll 3 for $1, but well worth it.

 

[DawnM]

Nope. Not a bakery snob AT ALL! The only things I like to get in a bakery are things that are too time consuming to bake myself.

Otherwise I make it myself.

We had a great bakery near us in CA, but here I haven't found a good one close by.

 

[disney1990]

We are fortunate to have an Amish Market close by. We either purchase from them or our cakes are made from scratch.

 

[doxdogy]

Sadly we have no decent bakeries down here. I do like Whole Foods for their cakes. I especially love their cakes for two.

 

[usd2bmd]

It Depends...for my daughters Sweet 16 I ordered a cake from a local bakery. we have also bought apple pies from the same bakery. But she is graduating from high school this year and for that party we will be ordering her cake from the bakery at BJ's. Mostly because we are having a fairly decent size party. (over 100 people) so to order the cake from a local bakery would be more than I budgeted for the cake.

 

[shortbun]

Yep, bakery snob. Mozart's on High Street in Columbus. Swiss bakery, yum!