"An Unexpected Brainchild"

The Asheville Cake Company is the unexpected brainchild of Bridgette Cannon, which she holds close, strokes often, and loves dearly.

The only micro-bakery for custom cakes and cupcakes EXPLODED onto the Asheville cake scene as the result of one woman's "creative deficit" and subsequent obsession with cake art.

Local graphic designer & professional iTunes Playlist Editor, Bridgette Cannon, spent most of her days shackled to a computer designing ads in a stifling smog of blinding mediocrity... until one day, when she wasn't looking and was totally unprepared, someone handed her a really horrible tasting cupcake. The horrible cupcake led to the now famous, yet fruitless, Quest for an Equal & Opposite YUMMY Cupcake. Several weeks later, coming up empty handed, she dove into her computer and turned it into a cake-research-beast-machine. At the controls of the machine, she found hundreds of recipes claiming to be "the best", which led to the Test Kitchen.

"Test Kitchens and the Joy of Experimenting on Friends"

Hundreds of recipes found online led to hundreds of cakes and lots of friends who got really, really tired of cake. At one point, some close friends joined forces AGAINST Bridgette to hold a cake intervention. They thought they had made progress, but to their dismay, Bridgette made cake during the meeting. And when they tried to make her to go to rehab, she said, "No, no, no."

With mixed results from her initial cupcakes, Bridgette called her mother, sobbing incoherently about cake, knowledge, truth, justice, beauty, and the validity of life. After politely suggesting she stop "carrying on" and to “get it together”, her Mom sent over some sure-fire, dang-ole family recipes that had been hidden along with the silver and other valuables during Sherman’s March. Tried and tested under gunfire, these recipes turned out to be Golden, and the very same friends who had tried to send her to cake rehab moaned audibly when tied down and forced to taste the new recipe. The real victory came when, without their restraints, they ate the cake of their own free will! And then... magic... someone uttered the words, "I would buy this." Bad feelings gone, mediocrity defeated, business started.

"GOAL!!!!!"

Once the recipes were nailed down, she set out to create the coolest cakes in the land. Back at the helm of the cake-research-beast-machine (the machine formerly known as laptop), Bridgette then learned some of the secrets of cake decorating and creation. Professional classes and mentoring from three separate Cake Ninjas helped perfect her methods and led directly to the creation of the 36th Chamber of Confection. Her degree in fine art and enormously successful track record in graphic design combined with expertise of old and new technologies, contributed to the development of entirely new methods, improved traditional processes, and produced the most awesomest cakes ever.

So what does this all mean? If someone tells you that you can't do something, it only means you should try harder. Any cake is possible, no matter how whack.

Anyway, we promise we're not losers. Please order a cake.