Who's Your Cake Lady?

One of our girlz celebrated the big 3-5 this weekend. I won't say which one -- don't we all look fabulous and perhaps not a day over 33?
We packed up and headed out on a rainy day to River Winds Spa in Cook Forest, Pa. A little pampering time was in store! We loaded up the teacups and fruit, the mimosas and wine, books and magazines, makeup bags and changes of clothes, and stowed them in garbage bags so they wouldn't get wet in the bed of the pick-up.

((I know, it got a little "ghetto" there didn't it?))

Well I am proud to say, that "refined" as we think we are, we rocked that pickup in style, especially during the last rocky climb up the washed-out road to the woodland spa. Besides, we had a designated driver, and when is that NOT en vogue??
So to the point of my story. I am so wrapped up in these cupcake television programs! Cupcake Wars and DC Cupcakes, not to mention Cake Boss and Ace of Cakes. I wonder if this phenomena is sweeping the nation? Ladies & Gentlemen: We are obsessed with cake.
I particularly like the DC Cupcakes show; two sisters run the bakery. They are so human and full of errors and rivalry and disasters and botched cupcakes and spills and arguments. Things fall apart there at DC Cupcakes that you would NEVER see happen at Carlo's Bake Shop in NYC. But their masterpieces always have a way of coming together -- usually after the sisters unite and pull an all-nighter. YOU GO, YOU DC GIRLS! I'm looking you up the next time I'm in Georgetown.
I ordered 2 dozen "spa" cupcakes from our dear friend, Casey. Casey bakes "on the side." You can text your order, and if you know where she works during the day, you can steer through the drive-thru to pick up your mini masterpieces. These little yellow cakes had raspberry filling, and half of them featured hand-painted white chocolate candies in theme with our day.
Suffice it to say, many of the healthy snacks in the giant 4-person spa food Bento (shown below) remained at the end of our day, while we made a respectable dent in the cupcakes. What can be better on a rainy day but 4 girlfriends at the spa, skinny girl margaritas, a birthday, and our own personal girly, pink, white chocolate-topped, made-just-for-us, cupcake? Or two or three?
As we talked that day, it turns out, that we all have our own "Casey." Leanne has her cake go-to listed in her cell phone, simply as "Cake Lady." Denise has shared some fabulous chocolate confections from her "Lori" and Shelly stumbled upon her own cake lady in desperation at the baking supply store. We all remain loyal.