After ordering at least 10 cakes from Clays, I have to wonder if the negative reviewers are from competing bakeries. Everyone on the mainline knows Clays is The Cake Place. Visit Clays just before any holiday and you'll see their shelves full of pre-ordered beautiful cakes. Their cake designers truly are artists. I've only ever seen buttercream icing on their cakes. They don't cheap out and use fondant. If you want sharply sculptured corners, go somewhere that sells fondant cakes. Clays' designers sculpt beautiful images out of buttercream.
The cakes are delicious. They do not taste old or frozen. The cake is moist, both the butterpound and the regular. And, their colored icing doesn't have that weird metallic taste found in a lot of grocery store brands. The only not-stellar cake I've had from them was a chocolate chip pound cake, it was a little dry.
Try to pick up on a Friday since they get PACKED on Saturdays. And, they only take cash or checks.
I want to add, my DH wouldn't care one way or another what color my BD cake was, LOL and I wouldn't order my own baby shower cake, so read my review with those facts in mind. And I happen to find the baby shower cake pics pretty...some people are impossible to please and I thank my lucky stars I don't live with them.
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