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April 29, 2007

Some things should never go away!

I was in St. Louis, my home town, last week for a certification class and exam. Happily, I am now a Certified IBM WebSphere Core Administrator - i.e., I passed the test.

I had planned to stop at Lake Forest Bakery in Clayton, Missouri, on my way back home. They have made the best Gooey Butter Cakes for many, many years - at least 60 years or more. Gooey Butter cakes are sinfully delicious coffee cakes. I planned to purchase 3 of them.

To my utter dismay, Lake Forest Bakery was closed. One of the last independent bakeries around - closed.

Across the street, though, there was a store called the Lake Forest Confectionery. I went in to ask what had happened to the famed bakery, and found that the owner of the Confectionery had hired one of the originals bakers and now baked Gooey Butter Cakes.

So I'm happy I was able to get my coffee cakes to bring home to freeze. But, Lake Forest Bakery is gone - it had changed hands, and the new owner apparently ran it into the ground.

Used to be - there would be at least 10 or 15 customers in the bakery at a time, all patiently waiting their turn, for the Grasshopper Ice Cream pies, the dinner rolls, the caramel nut rolls and all the different coffee cakes and birthday cakes and cookies were all well worth the wait.

You name it, Lake Forest baked it. It was heaven. They always had cookies to sample, and as a little girl, it was very exciting to go there with Mom to pick up special baked goods for Sunday morning breakfast - after Mass. The smell of breads and cakes and cookies baking was wondrous!

The building is still there. I hope someone will buy it and revive the best bakery evah!!

Posted by Beth at April 29, 2007 10:00 AM

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Posted by: Maggie at April 29, 2007 11:58 AM