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Bakery That Copied Obama's Inauguration Cake For Trump Donating Profits To Gay Rights Org [View all]
This isn't news. The story about the donation has been making the rounds for a few days. The article about the donation did not appear in DCist until this morning, though.
Bakery That Copied Obama's Inauguration Cake For Trump Donating Profits To Gay Rights Org
by Rachel Kurzius in Food on Jan 23, 2017 10:12 am
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One of the moments at Friday's A Salute To Our Armed Services Inaugural Ball at the National Building Museum featured Vice President Mike Pence cutting into a tall cake with a sword after a long applause.
Charm City Cakes' Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes, found a striking similarity between that cake and his baked creation for the Obama inauguration in 2013, and tweeted as much.
It's no coincidence. ... Buttercream Bakery owner Tiffany MacIsaac, whose shop made the cake, told The Washington Post that the client had a photo of the Obama cake and asked for an exact replica. She asked if they instead wanted the photo to serve as "inspiration" for a new creation. ... “They said, ‘Nope, they want this exact cake. It’s perfect.’ And we said, ‘Great,’" MacIsaac said.
She declined to name the client, who asked for a cake that couldn't be eaten. She told the Post that "It’s just a Stryofoam cake. It’s not for eating," with the exception of one three-inch slice at the bottom. ... Buttercream Bakery has pledged the profits from its creation to Human Rights Campaign. It said on Instagram that it decided on HRC because "basic human rights are something every man, woman and child~ straight, gay or the rainbow in between~ deserve!"
by Rachel Kurzius in Food on Jan 23, 2017 10:12 am
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One of the moments at Friday's A Salute To Our Armed Services Inaugural Ball at the National Building Museum featured Vice President Mike Pence cutting into a tall cake with a sword after a long applause.
Charm City Cakes' Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes, found a striking similarity between that cake and his baked creation for the Obama inauguration in 2013, and tweeted as much.
It's no coincidence. ... Buttercream Bakery owner Tiffany MacIsaac, whose shop made the cake, told The Washington Post that the client had a photo of the Obama cake and asked for an exact replica. She asked if they instead wanted the photo to serve as "inspiration" for a new creation. ... “They said, ‘Nope, they want this exact cake. It’s perfect.’ And we said, ‘Great,’" MacIsaac said.
She declined to name the client, who asked for a cake that couldn't be eaten. She told the Post that "It’s just a Stryofoam cake. It’s not for eating," with the exception of one three-inch slice at the bottom. ... Buttercream Bakery has pledged the profits from its creation to Human Rights Campaign. It said on Instagram that it decided on HRC because "basic human rights are something every man, woman and child~ straight, gay or the rainbow in between~ deserve!"
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