Cakesgiving!

Beginning on Sunday at Noon through Thanksgiving Day, Short Street Cakes will be offering four of our best-loved flavors of cake for pick up without an advance order! Seemingly Millions of Medium-Sized (2-layer 8″) Mexican Chocolate, Italian Cream Cake, Georgia...

Sugar Skulls!

Hello Friends!The preparations for Dia de los Muertos are almost complete! We’ve made dozens of sugar skulls:And whipped up some royal icing, dyed with natural pigments like turmeric and beet powder:And we’ve prepared a station for decorating skulls with...

Late Summer Cake!

We made these cakes today in the shop- there’s a Raspberry Lemonade Cake by the slice, and Fresh, Local Fig Spice Cake Bundt Cake and Cupcakes! The fresh figs came from my neighbor Sharon’s backyard on Short Street in Montford- my son helped her pick them....

Rites Of Spring

As in: spring-related things happening in Asheville, not as in the DC Hardcore band of the same name. Mother’s Day!As the internet tells it, Mother’s Day (this weekend, y’all, don’t forget!) finds it’s origins in the ancient Greek rites...