A Picture (Cake) is Worth a 1,000 Calories

by Ann Brenoff (RSS feed)
Dec 3rd 2009 at 4:02AM

SusieCakes, a custom-cake bakery already well-known to Southern Californians, has gotten some big mileage nationally from two "guest cake appearances" on the popular Bravo "Million Dollar Listing" show. Realty agent Chad Rogers shows off the confectionery artwork in a segment where he holds an open house (with the $700 cake showing the house and "Cake Chad" standing outside it, dressed identically to "Real Chad.") The cakes made a repeat appearance in another episode about Rogers getting legal joint custody of Starla, the longhaired Chihuahua he shares with his girlfriend, who is much prettier than her cake.

Custom cake orders are extremely popular and account for over half of SusieCakes' sales. All the desserts are made on-site in one of the four locations, and follow traditional recipes -- read: They use real sugar and real butter. Being purists, SusieCakes only uses buttercream or cream cheese frosting - no fondant or marzipan.

Chad isn't the first celebrity to have ordered a custom cake from SusieCakes. Frequent patrons have included Brooke Shields, Marcia Cross, Laura Dern, Kobe Bryant, Maria Shriver, and Jim Belushi.

Tags: birthday cakes, BirthdayCakes, cakes, celebrity shopping, CelebrityShopping, custom cakes, CustomCakes, los angeles, LosAngeles, special cakes, SpecialCakes, susiecakes

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beanspants Dec 3rd 2009 8:34PM

buttercream is disgusting, and that ipod cake looks like my mom made it. hope she doesn't charge very much.

Andrew Dec 4th 2009 1:03AM

Yeah, I agree. It looks amateur. They may do fancy decorations, but it's still a flat rectangular cake.

Anybody who knows anything knows that I Dream of Cake does the best custom cakes (Google VP Marissa Mayer etc). It's more sculpture than cake! Look at the picture of the Hermes Kelly bag cake. Their Louis Vuitton cake was so realistic they got a cease and desist letter from LV. How do you top that?

http://idreamofcake.com/

Andrew Dec 4th 2009 10:35AM

btw, we got them to my father's 50th birthday cake. Not only do they look amazing, I can assure you they taste amazing too - really moist because they use all purpose flour instead of cake or pastry flour.