Beignet Day!
I've been promising my little one that I would teach him to make beignets for quite a while now. But now that he is currently obsessed with "The Princess and the Frog," a Disney movie set in New...
View ArticleSpringtime!
Herewith: Various up-and-coming goings-on in Asheville and environs. AND: A Synopsis of the most beautiful nuptials of beloved friends C. Michael Frey and Timothy Campbell. 1) Cupcakes for Cures!Short...
View ArticleOld School Cake School Take 1
This past weekend, I had the great pleasure of teaching our very first "Old School Cake School" Baking Class at Short Street Cakes. The idea of Cake School is for students to bake a cake from our menu,...
View ArticleRites of Spring!
On Sunday, May 1st, at the French Broad Food Coop in downtown Asheville, from 4 to 10 pm, Bountiful Cities, Asheville’s urban agriculture and sustainability organization, and French Broad Food Coop,...
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Some of our first wedding cakes of the season:Vegan Raspberry Almond Cake for 100Cake wonderland at Brahma RidgeSpring wedding season is here! We are busier than ever, and we are so excited to bust out...
View ArticleGarden Update: Happy Mothers Day!
I am happy to report that, as per my vow in my previous post, my garden is planted!I owe this to the help of my family, who, after making me Mother's Day breakfast on Sunday, proceeded to spend 5 hours...
View ArticleSpeaking of Receiving...
I was honored today to receive the Mountain Bizworks Entrepreneur of the Year Award! Here's the footage of my acceptance speech, tears and all: Thanks to Duncan for filming!And afterwards, we all went...
View ArticlePetit Fours, for Fun and Profit!
Or: Southern Petit Fours: An Illustrated Sort-of Recipe (with instructional video) In Europe and elsewhere, all manner of small, elegant desserts are known as "Petit Fours." In the South, the term...
View ArticleI love you, My Drunk Kitchen.
I love you, My Drunk Kitchen, and I thank you, Oso Wallman, for the introduction.
View ArticleThe Big Crafty! this Sunday, July 10, Noon-6
We will be there, and we will have CUPCAKES.And... we'll be sharing our booth with none other than Hannah Dansie of Sugar Two Shoes and Two of Hearts fame. There will be literally hundreds of awesome,...
View ArticleThree Newsletters of Note.
Hey Friends, I would like to spread the word about three newsletters this week I find to be interesting: 1)Short Street Cakes- our sort-of monthly email newsletter, including info on Summer Old School...
View ArticlePretty Pictures!
Lucky for us, you can't swing a cat in Asheville without hitting a photographer. Even luckier for us, they really like to photograph cake. Here's some recent work of our work that some artists have...
View ArticleThis Weekend in Cake: Paris of the South, Old School Cake School, and, of...
I love summer. I especially love this lush, deep part of the summer, when the Crape Myrtle is in bloom, the cicadas are loud and obnoxious, and the storms are fast and furious in the afternoon. I love...
View ArticleHow To Make Blueberry Fig Tarts in 16 Easy Steps.
(Or: On Baking with Two Five-Year-Olds and a Puppy)Step 1: Steal figs from your neighbor's yard:Step 2: Go try to buy a lemon from Tod's Tasties, because you can't bear to get in the car on your day...
View ArticleAn Invitation.
For the last few months, I've been really excited to be working with some folks in the community towards forming a food policy council for our city and county. This is the continuation of work that...
View ArticleToday, In Cake.
First, let me say, Happy Birthday to Jasper! I am so incredibly lucky to be the mom of such a thoughtful, loving, curious, and fun creature as my son Jasper. We had a great birthday party yesterday...
View ArticleWelcome to the World, Cake Ladies!
I am grateful and happy to announce that my book, Cake Ladies: Celebrating a Southern Tradition, will be on the shelves in two short weeks! I will tell you more at the end of this dispatch about events...
View ArticleCake Ladies Book Release Party, Sunday October 16!
Please join us for a cake-filled, kid-friendly, cocktail-licious celebration of the publication of Cake Ladies. This will be my home-town send-off before a few months of travel promoting the book, and...
View ArticleFall 2011 Book Tour: Pig Pickin' in Cedar Grove, NC
My friend Keri and the community of Cedar Grove, NC, home to one of the Cake Ladies from the book, Betty Compton, have put together the following event down east in Cedar Grove, NC to celebrate Cake...
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