Last Missouri cakes

Cake round up: Missouri

These are the last of the Missouri cakes that we cold get.

First Baptist Church

The First Baptist Church, 3100 Bell Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, traces its history to the First African Baptist Church, organized in 1817. This was the first Protestant congregation established for African Americans in St. Louis.

Cake artist - Jennifer Weigel

Griot Museum of Black History

The Griot Museum of Black History first opened as The Black World History Wax Museum. The Griot is a person who collects, preserves and shares the stories of the traditions of the community.
The Griot Museum uses life-size wax figures, art, artifacts, and memorabilia to interpret the stories of African Americans with a regional connection who have contributed to our country’s development. One of the programs include a slave cabin, originally built on the Wright–Smith Plantation in Jonesburg, Missouri.

Cake artist - Keith Cotton

Old St. Louis

Old North St. Louis is a neighborhood just north of downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Old North St. Louis was established as the independent village of North St. Louis in 1816 and was annexed by the City of St. Louis in 1841.

Among the neighborhood's landmark structures are many churches, Crown Kitchen Candy and the Mullanphy Emigrant Home. This home provided temporary shelter and services to the thousands of immigrants who settled in St. Louis during the years following the Civil War. In the late 1800s part of Old North St. Louis was predominantly Irish in population; that section was known as "Kerry Patch".

Today the neighborhood is known for it's historic brick homes, and iaward-winning community gardens.

Cake artist - Jack Bowe

Venice Café

The Venice Cafe is opened Monday - Saturday, 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. They have a very full schedule of different acts. Inside the walls, from top to bottom, are covered with all sorts of kick  knacks such as dolls, tile mosaics and art work. Outside the patio has faux Roman columns and a garden filled with lush greenery. I kept hearing that old Ricky Nelson song from 1970s, Went to a Garden Party...

Cake artist - Screwed Artist Collective

Head's General Store

Head's General Store is located in St. Albans Missouri. It was built in 1892 by a dozen or so landowners of St. Albans who thought they needed a general store in their community. The "St. Alban's General Store" had been born. The owners would then rent the store to various proprietors until 1915 when it was then purchased by John Pfeiffer. He operated the store and raised his family on the property. John Pfeiffer's daughter, Mae Pfeiffer Head, bought the property in 1941. She changed the name of the store to Head's General Store and continued to operate the store for the next 61 years until her death in 2002.
 
Cake artist -  Con Christeson

Photographer - Rob

Imo's Pizza

The square beyond compare cake

At first the Imo's Pizza cake was at the original location. Then it was removed for reapirs and placed at another location. I had Colin and Andrew with me and they did not want to eat here. They don't like the thin crusted St. Louis style pizza that is topped with provel cheese and a zesty tomato sauce and then cut in to squares. "It's the provel cheese we don't like" they say.

They sure do know where there roots are..on the east coast.

Cake artist - Theresa Hopkins

Illinois Country Cakes

Stl250 wanted to include all 15 counties in the St. Louis region. So out to the Illinois country side we went. It was just Vicki, she took the photos, and me. I had a planned route and because the drive was a long haul, it didn't matter to me if we got them all or not.

Aerie's Riverview Winery
Cake with a view

We knew there was going to be some view at the top of this mountain to the Aerie's Riverview Winery. We drove on the road that felt like it was 90 degrees up to the top. At the very top is a zip line with nine lines totaling nearly two miles long. As we drove back down looking for the cake, there were these cute little cottages and villas on both sides of the road.

Finally we approached the winery and there was the cake. It was just a little too late in the season to view beautiful fall colors, but still the view of the Mississippi and the Great River Road was almost breath taking. I could imagine summer and early fall time visitors sitting on the outside deck sipping the local wine and taking in the view.

Cake artist - Rich Brooks



Calhoun County Community Foundation
Preservation cake

The Calhoun County Community Foundation works on projects to help preserves the county. While trying to find what types of projects they have done, I fould that in November 2015 there will be A Calhoun Community Foundation’s 2016 Calendar Exhibit which features a collection of photographs of scenic Calhoun County. I gues the proceeds go tothe foundation for their projects.

Cake artist - Lindsay Harmon

Jersey County Courthouse 

 The Jersey County Courthouse was built in 1894. It stands so tall Vicki had to go across the street to take its picture. The 124 foot tower  is topped by an octagonal cupola, terminal towers at the front corners, and a raised front porch. The building's limestone exterior used stone quarried at the nearby city of Grafton.

Cake artist - Theresa Hopkins












Southwestern High School
Home of the cake

Southwestern High School is representing Macoupin County. Macoupin County was formed out of Greene and Madison Counties and was named after Macoupin Creek. This region was inhabited by Illinoisan Indians when the first white settlers arrived.

Cake artist - Theresa Hopkins



Madison County Courthouse
Lake cake

Madison County was established in 1812 and named for President James Madison. The largest city in the county is Granite City.

Madison County sits along side of the Mississippi River and has one of the largest natural freshwater bodies in Illinois, Horseshoe Lake.

Cake artist - Nicole Cooper



Southern Illinois University @ Edwardsville
Top cake

Southern Illinois University @ Edwardsville as a foundation built on hands-on and life experiences that provide the students to thrive in the world.

U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges of 2015 lists SIUE among the best Regional Universities Midwest for the 11th consecutive year and among the top 15 public universities in that category. It also lists SIUE among the 2015 “Up and Coming” among Midwest regional
universities.

Cake artists - Autumn Huff, Heather Kniffel, & Carol Dappert

World's Largest Catsup Bottle
Roadside cake

The World's Largest Catsup Bottle, standing at 170 foot,  was built in 1949 for the G.S. Suppiger catsup bottling plant - bottlers of  Brooks Catsup and is a water tower. It was saved from demolition and restored to its original appearance.

The community holds a World's Largest Catsup Bottle Festival where some little tyke is named Little Princess Tomato.



Cake artist - Julie Krovicka

America's Center / Edward Jones Dome

Convention cake

The America’s Center Convention Complex is home to four distinct meeting facilities under one roof: Cervantes Convention Center, the Edward Jones Dome, the St. Louis Executive Conference Center and the Ferrara Theatre. In addition, the convention center features five exhibit halls, a ballroom and more than 80 meeting rooms.

Not only is it home of the St. Louis Rams football team, other yearly events are have been hosted here such as the boat show, wedding  show, car show and home improvement show.


Events cake

The Edward Jones Dome is a multi-purpose stadium and home of the St. Louis Rams. Besides football there are other sports played here. The Show Me Bowl championship games for the annual Missouri State High School Activities Association are played here each year. The Dome has hosted an NCAA Men's Basketball Regional four times. In 1999 Pope John Paul II held mass in the stadium with over 104,000 people in attendance for the service.

We attended the first game at the new stadium on November 12, 1995, against Carolina. It was just the construction of the stadium had delays forced the team to play at Busch Stadium for several games.

And in 1997 I saw two concerts here. One was front row seats, which I won the night
before,  to U2 and the Rolling Stones where the seats were at the very top.

Cake artists - Stacey Sandweg and Gary Lang (Both cakes)

Annie Malone

 Annie Malone

Once the  St. Louis Colored Orphan's Home back in 1888, Annie Malone Children and Family Center was named for philanthropist and business woman Annie T. Malone. She donated funds that allowed the home to build a permanent home at 2612 Malone Drive.


The home had 100 orphaned children housed and cared for by five matrons. The Tandy Park and Playground was located across the street.

Cake artist - Theresa Hopkins

Sumner High School

Sumner cake

 Sumner High School, also known as Charles H. Sumner High School, is a St. Louis public high school that was the first high school for African-American students west of the Mississippi River. It was established in 1875 only after extensive lobbying by some of St. Louis' African-American residents, Sumner has been at its current location since 1908.


Some notable alumni include:

• Arthur Ashe
• Chuck Berry
• Grace Bumbry
• Billy Davis, Jr.
• Dick Gregory
• Robert Guillaume
• Tina Turner

Cake artist - Theresa Hopkins

Columbia Bottoms

The Three R's Reading, wRiting, and River Cake

Columbia Bottoms is a wild life area on the Missouri side of the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. It is a vast and open space and is a great place to enjoy wild Missouri close to St Louis.

 

I enjoy it because most of the times that I go there the place is empty. The cake is at the front of the trail by the nature center. Take the ride to the end of the trail, there are many stops along the way to enjoy the natural beauty.

 

The day I went to look at the cake there was a school there exploring nature and eating lunch at the river lookout. What a great way to spend a day at school, I guess tomorrow they will crack the books. Pay attention kids there is a essay do by the end of the week. Compare and contrast the Big Muddy to the Father of Waters. 

 

Cake artist - Rich Brooks