Patty and her son are the mother and brother to a good friend of mine, Mark Gomez. Mark had been bragging about how amazing his mom’s baked goods are for some time, so when he told me she was opening a bakery with his brother, I figured I’d better go check it out. I love to bake and get consistent compliments on my goodies, but I must say, the cake balls I got last weekend were the most amazing globes of decadent goodness!

I had been too busy to bake all I wanted for a big Memorial Day BBQ, so I rang up Patty’s Cakes and asked them to put together an assortment of a dozen cake balls. When I arrived about 30 minutes later, there was a line out the door – but it moved quickly and I had that little pink box cheerfully placed in my hot little hands within 4 minutes. The shop is tiny, but immaculate, cheerfully decorated, and super easy to find – even for a newbie to SoCal such as myself.

I arranged Patty’s pretty little cake balls on a nice platter alongside my semi-famous chewy and crisp toasted pecan, raisin oatmeal cookies….it was like viewing a contest between Miss Universe vs.: Bertha Butt….and my cookies got whacked in the appearance competition.

The assortment included the chocolate banana, S ‘Mores, and honestly, I don’t remember what else because once we started tasting and sharing them, it all became one big blurry blissful bite after another. I had asked them to go with an all chocolate theme, and boy did they deliver! They’re rich though, so we ended up cutting them into 4 pieces each and sharing, which was a great way to get to taste almost everything. The crowd went nuts for them….and when they were all gone, they finally ventured on to my ugly step-sister cookies – which tasted great, but were real plain Janes compared to Patty’s goodies. The only negative is the kids also went nuts for them too. I’ve never wanted to chase a little nose piker down and wrestle a cake ball away from them so bad in my life – but I thought the parents might frown upon that, so I refrained.

I ended up giving business cards to 4 parents there that day – and they all agreed; that the goods were so yummy, they’d happily drive in from Corona to get their special occasion cakes done by Patty’s Cakes.

Congrats on your new venture Patty & family! You are my official Go To Girl when I can’t get in the kitchen and whip something up – and coming from me, that’s a huge vote of confidence, because I’m super picky…now, if I could just get you to make your stuff look a little less perfect so I could try to pass it off as my own….