It took us quite some time to settle on our cake supplier. Since we had limited funds, we needed to choose one that could offer us an inexpensive cake.
We couldn't go to our wedding cake maker, Judy Uson, as she's a bit on the expensive side. We looked around in some forums, and the ones that we found, made great looking cakes but, again, were expensive.
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| That's because K(aye) used to be a pre-school teacher who now makes cakes! |
Chea did, however, find Teacher Cake and we looked at her page in Facebook. Her cakes looked pretty good, and from what we've read, they tasted good as well. We asked for a quotation for a 2 layer cake, and she emailed us a price of 6,000 pesos.
The ceiling we set for ourselves for the cake was at 4,000. We felt that paying more than that for a cake is a bit too much. I mean, most of the cakes you see at weddings, debuts, etc, are just there for show. It's a great centerpiece for parties. But most of the time, the cake do not really get cut into slices and served to all of the guests. For several-tier cakes, most of the cake are made from styrofoam. So would you really pay 6,000 pesos or more for a two-tier cake, which you can only eat one layer of? For roughly 6,000 pesos, you can buy 10 single layer cakes from Red Ribbon or Goldilocks.
So we asked Teacher Cake if they can give us a cake for only 4,000 pesos. Which they said yes to. We will be getting a slight smaller cake (10" x 3" bottom layer, and a 6" x 4" top layer cake), but with the decorations and design we wanted. Even at that price, it's already fairly cheap, especially if you compare it to the other suppliers, especially the one we were looking at fondly, Bunny Baker.
We sent the same sketch to Bunny Baker, and they priced it at 18,000 pesos.
So we dropped by Teacher Cake's house in San Juan, and spoke to the owner, Kaye. We probably spent a half hour discussing the cake and then asked a few other things. Kaye was a pre-school teacher so she was pretty soft spoken and was patient with all our questions.
We also decided that we will be getting the cookies from her as well. We will be putting the cookies at the same cake/candy/cookie buffet table.
We asked her to send her designs for the cookies that we wanted: an instagram, a camera, a film canister, and a photo film.
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| Can't wait what they'll actually look like |
We've approved the design already, hopefully, they come out looking and tasting great.
Update. You can see Kaye's pictures of Thirdy's cakes here
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