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DeRusha Eats: The Prettiest Birthday Cake Ever
You love your wife, right? Or your husband? Or your boyfriend? Or your mistress? Clearly, you love someone. I hope.
And when that special, beloved individual has a birthday, that person deserves better than a cheap cake from Costco (unless that person is my soon-to-be 5-year-old, who is getting a cheap cake from Costco).
When my wife had her birthday a couple weeks ago, I called up one of the top pastry chefs in the country. Because she works just down the road.
Michelle Gayer was nominated for a national James Beard Award—the only nominee who runs her own bakery instead of working in a fancy restaurant. The Salty Tart is inside the wonderful Midtown Global Market.
And check this beauty out:
This is a vanilla bean cake with white chocolate frosting. The topping: fresh blueberries and dried lemons. Stunningly beautiful. Inside: lemon and blueberry fillings. And yes, it was as delicious as it looks.
I just called the main phone number and Michelle asked me if I wanted chocolate or fruit, and I told her to come up with something cool. She did. I called with about a week's notice, but I don't think you even need that much.
It served about 8 to 10. Cost: $38. And worth every penny.
So step it up, people. Go buy a special cake.
The Salty Tart
920 East Lake St., Mpls.
saltytart.com, 612-874-9206
Posted on Thursday, June 3, 2010 in Permalink
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I called Michelle a few days before my birthday this year, and we brainstormed on a dark chocolate cake with unwhipped ganache and orange curd. She ended up making it with bergamot oranges, so it smelled and tasted divine. Picture is here.
http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3295
Weird. Just before reading this I was eating the red wine buttercream icing off a raspberry-filled cupcake from Salty Tart and thinking "From now until the end of time, it should be a law that buttercream icing be made with red wine."
Red wine buttercream - that sounds insanely good. I'm a believer that all things are made better with red wine... I'll have to go over and buy a cupcake now.