The Price is Right: Cake Edition

Laurel and I trekked down to Party Favors in Brookline, a party supply and more importantly a cake shop. They've won various "Best of Boston" awards for birthday cakes and such, but I wanted to visit because we had gotten our most delicious birthday cakes from them. The store had a penetrating aroma of butter and sugar and was jam packed with party supplies and displays of beautifully decorated cakes and other baked goodies. The lower level displayed more merchandise, but also housed their bakery and cake-decorating workshop where you could watch cakes being decorated through Plexiglas. There were vats of butter cream in a rainbow of colors on the counter. One man wore a plastic lizard on his forehead while he decorated a huge wedding cake...a strange juxtaposition. Spying a beautiful four tiered wedding cake in a glass case waiting to be delivered, Laurel and I played a lightening round of that classic game, "Guess how much that costs?" Using my mental powers of deduction and displaying a disturbingly accurate knowledge about wedding cakes, I won this round of "The Price is Right: Cake Edition," unwittingly refereed by the helpful Party Favor's employee who looked up the sales slip for us.