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My venue is in San jose, and I need a bakery.  I don't need a super fancy cake, but it seems like cake prices keep creeping up (my mom even said, laughingly, that eggs are too expensive.)

Where are you getting your cake?  I'm just looking for something simple, possibly in fondant, and probably just lemon cream inside.  Ideally... I didn't want to spend more than a few hundred dollars because I get the feeling only half of my guests will eat the cake.  My venue does not provide a cake but thankfully they do not charge a cake cutting fee.

I live in LA now, but I'll be in the Bay over memorial day weekend, so if you have any reqs, I can try to schedule appointments (i hope.)

Thanks!

thanks Emilee for the reccommendation for Bev.  Her cakes are nice, not over the top and easily enhanced by flowers... and she is cheap.  Wow!  And even though she is in Livermore, she doesn't charge a delivery fee within 60 miles!  YAY!

I emailed her asking for her availability.

I second JCM's suggestion!  FI and I are using Jen's Cakes too....we went to several cake tastings before Jen's Cakes and those were all so-so.  After the tasting at Jen's Cakes, we booked them that same day.  Their cakes are so yummy and well-priced.  To make things less expensive, we are using a sheet cake with just a two -tier cake and its definitely under $5/slice...I think its more like $3 something bc of the sheet cake. 

I may check out Safeway when I go home.  It really depends on how they make the cake - I am not a huge fan of a ton of cream on the cake that's overly sweet, which is what I find a lot of cakes to be.  My mom is looking at Asian bakeries for me, since there isn't as much of an emphasis on sweetness in the buttercream, but I'm scared of some of the cakes they make, because I do not want little tiers and rows of stairs connecting the tiers with creepy little plastic guys on the stairs... and bright pink piping...

peaches, thanks for the second rec on Jen's cakes.  I'll look into her also.

We'll be going with Sugar Butter Flour. Even though their wedding cakes are $7/slice, they've got great alternative to bring the price down. You can have a small cake for cutting and then have a sheet cake which is more like $3/slice or do small individual desserts for $3.50/piece which can be fun. Check out their website for pictures. We also liked them better because they seemed much more friendly and accomodating on ideas (without charging extra for reasonable requests).