It couldn’t be a nicer day! I’ll be swinging by Fair Oaks around 1 and National Harbor around 4 today. Drop by and say hello!

And, I just got an advanced copy of United Cakes of America! it looks great and I’m really happy about it.  I can’t wait for it to hit the shelves!

There’s another Best of and cupcake competition being sponsored by TWO more of the area’s finest print and online media. We’d love your support with a vote, please click through today!

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/restaurants/bestbites/15158.html

Voting ends tomorrow!

AND

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/

click thru to the “Best Of” to vote for CakeLove: Best Bakery and Best Cupcake!

voting ends March 17th

Thank you!

My wife and I were blessed with the birth of our first baby, Poplar, just 5 weeks ago.  She’s already stolen our hearts and given us tons of joy!

At CakeLove, landed a spot outside the beltway for our fans way west of the city…this will save you from driving into the city for cupcakes. It’s a small, cozy shop, just the way we like it. Drop by and say hi, we’d love to see you.

And don’t forget to vote for us in the Washington City Paper’s Best of reader’s poll. We’d love your vote for Best Bakery and Best Cupcake. My favorite is the Cynthia’s Sin, but unfortunately we can’t vote by flavor

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

Thank you to everyone who voted for CakeLove as Best Bakery in the Washington Post Express readers’ poll! The results are announced today and I’m very happy and proud to say THANK YOU for voting for CakeLove!

We also took runner-up for Best Cupcake which we’re very happy and thankful to win as well!

As a token of our appreciation, please check out our ad in Express today! We’re celebrating with dollar cupcakes Friday and Saturday for walk-in customers! Get yellow or chocolate cupcakes dipped in ganache and topped with a swirl of vanilla buttercream! (limit 2 per customer).

And- even better- save 10% thru the online store when you enter the coupon EXPRESS at check out–good for purchases made this weekend only. Now’s the best time to buy for Thanksgiving!

Thanks again for supporting CakeLove, serving cake @ room temp, loving that Nothing is Fat Free, and embracing old school, all natural baking from scratch. We’re proud to be your bakery!

Cheers,

Warren

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!

Looking for a good time?

If so, then check out the first comedy festival sponsored by bightestyoungthings.com

http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/featured/bentzen-ball-opening-night-w-patton-oswalt/

it’s a full on comedy festival this weekend right here in DC on U Street!

I’m gonna check out the line-up at the Studio theater.  Here’s a link to the schedule.

http://www.bentzenball.com/saturday/

Have fun!

Hi everyone -

Please take a sec and vote for CL for best cupcake at

www.expressnightout.com

please VOTE before Oct 16th!

And while you’re there vote for Lebanese Taverna, too, for best restaurant/take away!

Thank you!

Got a couple of comments in person and on the blog about pursuing sugar free baking on why we’re doing it and is it true to our ideals. They’re fair questions and I understand the questions and the nature of them so let me share some thoughts…

Sugar free products are definitely something people have been asking for–for years really. I wrestled with the matter of whether or not to produce items that possibly use ingredients that aren’t in line with the core CakeLove mission- to bake with all natural ingredients. While I will never stray from that principle for our traditional products, everyone needs love and for CakeLove to ignore, disregard, or look away from this large sector of the population isn’t very genuine on our part and is a bit shortsighted for any business. We want people to enjoy desserts and believe that with enough information our customers can make an informed choice about what type of product they’ll purchase. It’s a change that we’re happy to embrace and look forward to greeting people who need to manage their blood sugar with treats that look and taste great!

We’re on the path for R & D and hope to have products available this fall. Thanks!

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!