Emmis Communications

Radio cake

Emmis Communications owns radio, city/regional magazine, online, and mobile operations throughout the United States. They sponsor the Moonlight Ramble, which takes place at midnight under a full moon in August.

It has four radio stations in St. Louis:

NOW 96.3 All the talk
KSHE-95
105.7 The Point Everything Alternative
FMNewsTalk 97.1

Cake artist - Joe Chesla

Eugene Field House

Toy cake

The Eugene Field House is the childhood home of the Children's poet, Eugene Field. His father, Roswell Martin Field, served as the attorney for the slaves Dred and Harriet Scott and their daughters, Eliza and Lizzy, when they brought action in federal court for their freedom.

While Eugene was a student at the University of Missouri, he was co-founder and literary editor of The Missourian, the campus newspaper. His first published children's poem, "Christmas Treasures" was written in St. Louis.

A plaque on the home was dedicated in 1902 with the help of author Mark Twain, who announced it as the birthplace of Eugene Field.

Cake artist - Corinne Didisheim

Ameren

 Two cakes are better than one!

Ameren was first known as the Union Electric Comapny. Providing steam heat for downtown it was and is the main source of electricity for the St. Louis region. Ameren Corporation was formed in 1997 by the merger of Missouri’s Union Electric Company with neighboring Central Illinois Public Service Company.  At first it was known as Ameren UE and now just Ameren.

In 1904 it powered The Palace of Electricity's electric lights at the 1904 World's Fair that was held in St. Louis.


Ameren was a sponsor for the STL250 organization, they wanted a cake for just their employees. It was decorated by the Ameren employees.


After an Ameren event for their employees, Ameren decided to let the second cake stay next to it's original cake.

Cake artist - Rudy Zaph

Fountain Park / Martin Luther King, Jr. Statute

Dream Cake

I went to Fountain Park to see the cake and the statue. I seen the fence around the statue and of course the first thought that went through my head was to keep people away from it, marking it up or stealing it.

After thinking about it and the state of the city, nation, world I came to the conclusion that it was not to keep people away, it was to keep the dream from getting out.

Cake artist -  Screwed Arts Collective

Nine Network

Nine Birthday Cakes

I remember watching Sesame Street with my kids and there would be a song about any number, we will use nine in this instance being that is the channel that KETC is on, and the song would start out NINE! NINE! NINE! Lets sing a song of NINE! How many is NINE? They someone would mention nine things like nine puppies or fish or cookies or crayons and everyone would count one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. This would be done a few times and on the last one a baker would stand at the top of the stairs and say in important voice NINE CHOCOLATE CAKES and fall down the stairs. And that's our song of NINE!

I watched a few other shows on the PBS network. I guess my favorite was Fawlty Towers. That show was so nuts! I would get all wound up watching that show, I would have to calm down after watching it. Basil and Manuel what a pair. I guess the most famous thing on channel nine is Donneybrook I still check it out but I miss Martin Duggan, I seen him one time at The Library LTD looking for something to read..

Cake artist - Richard “Indy” Bowers

Mathew Dickey Boy's and Girl's Club

Youth club cake

What started as an idea to keep children playing baseball instead of hanging out on the street has become a St Louis institution that inspires youths to lead productive and healthy lives and instills the desire to excel in life's tasks and become future leaders.


It is a resource center for trouble youths and offers them a positive alternative to the drug and gang culture by fostering literacy and education. Matthew Dickey's programs have helped the St. Louis area and is a positive force in the community, how can it not be a postive force with a picture of Lew Rawls on the side of there van and the Jack Buck Walk of Fame.


Cake artist - Dail Chambers

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Final Resting Cake

The Bellefontaine Cemetery is a picturesque St. Louis Landmark. Cemeteries are somber places and appear to be the last place you would expect to see a birthday cake. If you were to find a cake at a cemetery you might expect it to look like Miss Haversham's wedding cake

....The most prominent object was a long table with a tablecloth spread on it, as if a feast had been in preparation when the house and the clocks all stopped together, An epergne or center-piece of some kind was in the middle of this cloth; it was so heavily overhung with cobwebs that its form was quite indistinguishable... and, as I looked along the yellow expanse out of which I remember its seeming to grow, like a black fungus, I saw speckled-legged spiders with blotchy bodies running home to it, and running out from it, as if some circumstance of the greatest public importance has just transpired in the spider community. I heard the mice too, rattling behind the panels, as if the same occurrence were important to their interests. But the black beetles took no notice of the agitation, and groped about the hearth in a ponderous elderly way, as if they were short-sighted and hard of hearing, and not on terms with one another. 'What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where the cobwebs are?''I can't guess what it is, ma'am.' 'It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!' (Charles Dickens, Great Expectations).

Nothing like that on the cake here just green trees, blue sky, and pink flowers. No creepy crawlies on this cake just famous people from St Louis. Of course I was looking at the cake on a sunny morning, maybe if I was there in the dead of the night it might look different

Cake artist - Lindsey Sciaroni