Well, I am happy to say that our cake tasting experience went much better this time.  We had three cake tasting appointments in one day.  Surprisingly, I haven’t yet developed a disliking for cake!  All of the cake we tasted was quite tasty, and everyone seemed reasonably professional, which was refreshing.  But we all agreed that there was a clear winner, which certainly made this an easy decision to make.  It was the only actual bakery we tried.  Everyone else ran there business out of their home.  But we liked the owner of the bakery, we liked the examples of their work, the bakery was super busy (which I take to be a good sign), and we could see actual cakes in the store waiting for delivery as well as photographs.  Lotus Dude liked that all the people working on the cakes seemed happy.  It was like Columbus’ version of Ace of Cakes   Even better, he was the most reasonably priced out of all the options we looked at.

So our cake will come from Short North Piece of Cake.  It will look sort of like this, with color changes:

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