Jeremy's Cake: Fit even for his palate

It must be nerve-wracking to provide a birthday cake for one of the area’s top food critics. But some mysterious baker’s wife did a bang-up job.

At my esteemed co-blogger’s party the other night, we were served a towering creation from A Baker’s Wife Pastry Shop. Now, I’m not a dessert person. Fine wine, five-dollar-a-cup shade-grown coffee, and savory, spicy snacks? Bring ’em on. But I eat sweets perhaps once a month. For October, this was it.

Jeremy’s birthday cake was a mosaic — it went from white to dark chocolate and contained an array of hues in between, cream, walnut, and tan. As inexperienced as I am with pastry, I cannot do the taste justice. But I can say this was a more complex eating experience than one usually has when handed a slice of cake on a plate. There was a toffee flavor, something mocha, and chocolate, of course. The icing was sweet but not overly so.

This wife can bake for me any time. And if you have a yen to indulge, I’d highly recommend your visiting her, too. And for more on Jeremy Iggers’ birthday celebration, click here.

A Baker’s Wife, 4200 28th Avenue South, Minneapolis 612-729-6898.