Hey - if you’re on Groupon then check out the CakeLove special that got extended for an additional 24hours! Definitely check it out for some of the best bargains at CakeLove!

I was lucky enough to be a speaker at TED x Potomac yesterday. I enjoyed it and had great fun, but I was blown away by one of the speakers. Josh Sunquist.  http://www.joshsundquist.com/ You just have to check out his site and his story.

What he shared made just about everyone want to cry, laugh, and feel alive again. Please go see what he has to say about doing one more thing, one more time!

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For waaayyy to long we’ve had Buzz Balls and Crunchy Feet off the menu. Well, we’re bringing “em back and it’s been a lot of fun visiting with old friends. Already I’m hooked again on the chocolate buzz balls!

What’s a Buzz Ball - cream puff filled with chocolate or lemon custard. I’ll tell ya, when I eat ‘em, I’ve got a routine. I bring ‘em home and toss them in the oven for 5 min at 300F. (same goes for the eclairs, too) Everything turns into a wet, gooey mess and it’s great.

What are Crunchy Feet - cakes baked in brioche pans, topped with buttercream. We’re even doing the Red Velvets as Crunchy Feet!

Glad to have the old faves back in the line up. Get ‘em fast, they’re in limited quantities and do go fast!

-WB

I wanted to take a moment and recognize the grief and pain that many families are feeling in the wake of yesterday’s tragedy at Fort Hood. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families. With sincere gratitude and respect for their service and sacrifice,

-CakeLove

Thanks to everyone who voted CakeLove in the Wash Post Express readers poll. We were kindly nominated by YOU for Best Bakery and Best Cupcake. Thanks for voting—we’re patiently waiting for the results which will be announced Nov 6th!

Thank you!

Lots of questions and requests for low to no sugar items. I hear ya and just wanna say I hear ya.

There are a lot of synthetic sugar subsititutes out there which taste great but don’t sit well on the stomach. They lead to lots of gas. Lots of it. So we’re having a look at agave syrup again and stevia and a few other new(er) substances that might work well or well enough to make a cake taste good and feel like a cake. So often the battle isn’t just for taste, it’s to achieve the same texture that comes with using real sugar.

People close to me have diabetes II and/or are hypoglycemic so I have motive to come up with the recipes. Since this is a business though it has to be viable and meet a demand. When we launched low sugar a few years back most customers just skipped it and went straight for the real thing. Maybe times are different???? We’ll see in a few weeks to months when we re-introduce a sugar alternative cake and/or frosting. I’ll post up info before that happens…

Thanks!

Due to rising demand of the gluten free cakes and cupcakes and the vegan cakes and cupcakes we’re going to make them available for order via the online store very soon. We strive to have both types in stock in each bakery but it seems like the requests are well ahead of the supply. I think we got kind of tunnel vision or skewed vision since when the product lines launched they started off really slowly (in 2006 well before the mass media talked about vegan or gluten free).

Anyway, online ordering will require what seems like a long lead time for CakeLove of 4 days, but it’s necessary b/c there are a lot of adjustments and special ingredients we have to source for each product line. We’ll route all ordering of GF and Vegan orders to the online store by the fall, except for walk-in cupcakes which, like now, could suffer from selling out perhaps before the shop closes for the day.

Thank you!  

Dogs Days - the annual sidewalk sale in Mid City - took place this past weekend. It was a lot of fun. The city didn’t offer the sales tax discount, but that didn’t stop the people from strolling around. We offered a buy 3 get one free special. Let me tell you it’s like people only saw 3 types of cupcakes

Red Velvet

Salty Caramel

Mud Cream

Blueberry

I’m like, doesn’t anyone know that we make other flavors? Anyway, it was fun and we’ll continue to have these flavors, and more.

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Thanks everyone for your passionate views and opinions about parking and driving and cars along U St. I approved/posted about all of the comments except those in Russian that I’m guessing are just porn spam.

A whole bunch of people insist that more cars are bad for DC. Pollution, congestion, stripping the neighborhood of personality. More are convinced that more parking isn’t what the neighborhood needs, either. And a few suggest widening the sidewalks to make more walkways, even closing the street for everyone to walk east-west at night.

I understand and really like the density argument: more people walking will bring success for street level retail shops, these are my core customers, and traffic robs a neighborhood of potential. A lot of the customers that shop in Mid-city are walkers, but not everyone, and this city doesn’t have the density of Manhattan everywhere. Do we really need 1,500 new parking spots, probably not, but couldn’t the Mid-city merchants use more? I appreciate the feedback, but I invite people to ask other businesses if they could drop their driving customers as quickly as the mood suggests in the comments submitted. Drivers matter, too, for a urban environment to thrive.

Road construction is coming soon, too. I think it’s in 2011 that dDot will carve up U St block by block and redesign it with wider sidewalks, narrowed lanes, bike lanes… all the bells and whistles that are being asked for. I think it’s great, for the walkers, for the bikers, and everyone. I hope it doesn’t put merchants out of business like it did with the Metro construction on U St or like down on P St in Dupont West End during their road renovations. dDot is assuring that lessons learned over there will be applied in this project. Maybe anything else learned in the Adams Morgan redevelopment will be applied, too.

A couple of people think that using metro is more time efficient than driving–that I just have to respectfully disagree with. Metro is good at some things, but in the few times I’ve taken bus or metro since the last post just because it was easier, it’s just a lot slower. Time isn’t the most important thing in the world and public transport obviously is a fantastic institution that we need more of, but it doesn’t work the same for everyone and sometimes it’s not the best choice.

Thanks for your comments,

WB

Happy to say that I was kinda close to the concert stage yesterday. I went with my wife Pam and some friends of hers via metro (not a bad ride) and then we walked from GW university to 17th and Connstitution. We didn’t get in, like about 500,000 others, which wasn’t so bad, but the crowd was so massive it was pretty easy to have a panic attack if you don’t like crowds! It was a lot of fun being part of history and supporting our incoming president. Hail to the Chief!