Historic(ake) St. Charles

Take Two.

This was our second visit to Historic St. Charles to find cakes. During our first visit the cakes weren’t out yet or had wrong addresses listed. Since Colin is on spring break and it was such a nice day, we thought it was a good opportunity to go back and find the cakes. We did find the cakes however, they weren’t as accessible as the other cakes we have found. We did not know that the places were either closed on Mondays or opened around noon (we got there at 10am).

The first cake we found was at the St. Charles County Historic Courthouse. The Courthouse is under renovations and the cake was actually blocked off with caution tape. We weren’t sure why it was, but we let the kids run down there for a quick photo. We didn’t want to stay too long by the cake so we didn’t really get a good look at it.
The St. Charles County Historic Courthouse was once the courthouse for St. Charles County. Today it is home to the county executive’s office, the office of public information, the county counselor’s office, the county council and the merit system commission.

The next cake we found was at the St. Charles First Missouri State Capitol. St. Charles was Missouri’s first state capitol from 1821 to 1826 while the capitol was being developed in Jefferson City, which is Missouri’s state capitol today.
This cake was actually hiding behind a fence and since the building didn’t open until noon, we couldn’t go in to take a good look. I was able to snap a picture between the fence posts though. /span> We did find one store that was open on Main Street, Grandma’s Cookies. We could smell them a block away. Yum!

Ten and eleven down 239 to go.

I would like to thank my guest blogger, Diane, my daughter and Colin and Andrew's mom, for writing about these cakes.

Cake artist
Zack Farmer and  Erica Kaiser
Lindsay Harmon