All Things BLACK,  DC,  Food

A New Cupcake Concept Comes to DC

When Tiffany Lightfoot showed up to a party with a lemon bundt cake from her grandmother’s recipe, she never imagined that her family recipe would inspire her to open her own bakery.

With encouragement from family and friends Tiffany decided to leave her day job and devote all of her time to My Cake Theory. After the third day of baking full time, Tiffany was booked out for the entire month. This let her know she had made the right decision.

Going into business for herself, there was a learning curve. Tiffany, like many new entrepreneurs, did not know how to price her edible artwork. In fact, even though she had regular customers, Tiffany did not realize her true value until about three years after starting her business. 

Tiffany Lightfoot, Courtesy of My Cake Theory

After months of working on My Cake Theory full time, Tiffany felt she needed more space to bake. On a quest for a space Tiffany tried several locations, but once she stepped into the Capitol Hill location, she knew she had found the right place. Shortly after viewing the space, the pandemic hit the DC area. Fortunately, Tiffany was able to negotiate with her lessor to come to reasonable accommodations which would allow her to secure the location for her business. Despite city services having been delayed, My Cake Theory will be opening this fall.

Tiffany has many loyal customers in the DC area that rave about her custom designed cakes. So much so that the word about Tiffany’s cakes has even reached celebrities. Tiffany has been commissioned to create cakes for local, as well as nationally known, celebrities.

Courtesy of My Cake Theory

Tiffany’s bakery, My Cake Theory, will offer a create your own cupcake concept. You’ll have the opportunity to select your base cake flavor, frosting, and a countless variety of toppings. This “flavors to frills” concept gives everyone the freedom to create a unique treat. For all of My Cake Theory’s long time customers, you will be able to order your custom cakes in store, or grab a prepared cake on the go.

My Cake Theory is a Black Woman-owned business. The bakery will open on Capitol Hill at Eastern Market’s Main Street located at 325 7th St. SE in February 2021.


Discover more from Flights and Foods

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

4,446 Comments

  • Viking Biologics Warrior Stack

    When I initially commented I clicked the “Notify me when new comments are added” checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get three e-mails with the same comment. Is there any way you can remove me from that service? Thank you!

  • mv168

    I have read so many articles about the blogger lovers but this piece of writing is genuinely a fastidious piece of writing, keep it up.|

  • bandar slot

    3 stars
    I think everything said was very logical. But, think about
    this, what if you were to write a killer title? I mean, I don’t wish to tell you how to run your
    website, but suppose you added a post title that grabbed
    people’s attention? I mean A New Cupcake Concept Comes to DC – Flights and Foods
    is a little vanilla. You ought to glance at Yahoo’s front page and note how
    they create news headlines to get viewers to click.
    You might add a video or a related picture or two to grab people interested
    about everything’ve written. In my opinion, it could make your blog a little livelier.

  • toto macau

    Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you relied on the video to make your point. You definitely know what youre talking about, why waste your intelligence on just posting videos to your weblog when you could be giving us something informative to read?

  • bandar slot

    2 stars
    Hello! I’ve been following your website for a while now and finally got the courage to go ahead and give you a shout out from Huffman Tx!
    Just wanted to say keep up the fantastic job!

  • portais de notícias

    Excellent goods from you, man. I’ve understand your stuff previous to and you are just too magnificent. I really like what you’ve acquired here, certainly like what you’re saying and the way in which you say it. You make it entertaining and you still care for to keep it smart. I can’t wait to read much more from you. This is really a great website.

  • slot online terpercaya

    You actually make it appear really easy along with your presentation but I in finding this matter to be actually one thing that I feel I’d never understand. It seems too complex and very vast for me. I am having a look ahead to your subsequent put up, I will try to get the hang of it!

  • slotjanda

    Heya i am for the primary time here. I came across this board and I find It truly helpful & it helped me out a lot. I hope to provide one thing again and aid others such as you helped me.

error: Content is protected !!