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Flavors to Frills: Eat the Experience at My Cake Theory by Liz O’Gorek
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Tiff any Lightf oot created a cupcake experience from fl avors to frills at My Cake Theory (325 Seventh St. SE). Courtesy: My Cake Theory
FLAVORS TO FRILLS
Eat the Experience at My Cake Theory
by Liz O’Gorek
You can customize your coffee and your pizza, and in April, Ti any Lightfoot brought endless options to cupcakes as well when she opened her new shop, My Cake Theory (325 Seventh St. SE). The DC Native and Food Network champion (she won 2020’s Holiday Wars before competing on Candy Land) calls her concept “ avors to frills.”
Customers can select from up to six di erent types of cupcakes, including chocolate, lemon, red velvet, vanilla, and strawberry with additional avors rotating monthly. They can then choose one of six llings to be injected right into the sweet heart of the cupcake; a frosting to crown it, a drizzle or syrup and then up to two of a variety of toppings, including fruit, crumbled Oreo and gummy bears –to name just a few. Cupcakes run $3.75 each; extra toppings are only a quarter.
The many options allow for end-
less avor combinations in one delicious cupcake. But it is not just something to eat; it is something to do. Lightfoot is a self-taught pastry chef who not only developed the cupcake experience, but she has also developed a reputation as well. She is known for her beautiful, ornate custom cake creations that astound the eye as well as the palate and take hours to complete.
“People eat with their eyes rst,” she said. “I like people to visually be pleased when they see my cakes so their stomach will say, “yes, feed me.”
My Cake Theory lets the customer enjoy the creative process as well. “This way I get to turn the tables on them and let them go as wild as they like,” Lightfoot said.
The avor to frills process is intended as an experience from entry to exit. Your rst sight is the colorful bubbles that are a variety of cupcake avors behind glass, followed by a rainbow of treat toppings on the countertop in candy jars, like a scene from Willy Wonka. At the end, Lightfoot carefully places the cupcake in a transparent box, and then into a string bag. It is a sweet gift you create yourself.
Grab-and-go cakes are also available in 4- and 6-inch sizes, decorated to Lightfoot’s speci cations. “That is usually a little over the top,” she laughs. You can also pick up prepared cupcakes if you want the avors and don’t have time for the experience. Or take advantage of Lightfoot’s creativity by pre-ordering a custom cake at the shop, starting at $200.
My Cake Theory is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday, and closed Mondays and Tuesdays. A website is in the works at mycaketheory.com; call the shop at 202544-8000 or follow them on Instagram @mycaketheory or Twitter @ MyCakeTheory1 ◆
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