Sweet Stuff

Food Network show Dallas Cakes spotlights local bakers baking big cakes

That's a mighty big cake you've got there.

Photo by Chris Sauter

A new Food Network show called Dallas Cakes is spotlighting bakers in Dallas. According to a release, the series debuts on April 30 at 9:30 pm, and will follow six Dallas-area bakers who bake big cakes.

In each of the 10 half-hour episodes, three bakers conceive, create, and deliver edible works of art using cake, frosting, incredible imagination, and skill.

From an impressive Game of Thrones wedding cake featuring an intricate cake topper of a dragon wrapped around the iron throne, to a Back to the Future DeLorean car cake with working headlights, and to a gigantic oil derrick cake that spews chocolate.

Food Network senior VP Courtney White says that the show will join a sweet-themed Monday night schedule.

"Viewers devour our baking-themed Monday night line-up, and Dallas Cakes is the cherry on top of our dessert-filled programming," White says in a release. "Audiences will be captivated by the expert baking techniques and decorating skills used in every detail of these unique, jaw-dropping cakes — each one living up to Dallas' larger-than-life reputation."

Episode 1, called "Dragons and Belt Buckles, Oh My!" includes a segment on a groom's cake with a Game of Thrones theme, with a sculpted ice dragon and an intricately carved Iron Throne.

Another segment covers a Chinese New Year block party featuring "a cake so over the top, it literally smokes."

The third cake commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Fort Worth Stockyards Championship Rodeo, with 24 layers of cowboy coffee cake turned into the world's largest belt buckle. The episode has some suspense on whether it will hold up to being delivered right to the arena floor.

Participating bakers include:

Bronwen Weber of Frosted Art Bakery
Roshi Muns of Society Bakery
Jamie Holder of Crème de La Crème
Elizabeth Rowe of The London Baker
Dylan Humphrey of Kool Kakes by Dylan
Heidi Allison of Sugar Bee Sweets

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Doughnut News

Shipley Do-Nuts to open in McKinney with unheard-of promotion

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The doughnuts are rolling in to McKinney with the opening of Shipley Do-Nuts, the Houston-based chain known for its doughnuts and kolaches, coming to 3801 Virginia Pkwy., in the Shoppes at Virginia on Saturday, March 1.

Shipley was founded in Houston in 1936, and currently has more than 370 company-owned and franchised restaurants across 13 states. Since 2021, they've been on a bit of a growing spurt that included a new location in North Dallas in 2021.

They offers more than 60 doughnut varieties, including their signature plain glazed, cut in the iconic Shipley hexagon shape with a lighter, fluffier texture; plus filled, iced, and cake donuts, bear claws, and coffee. They're also known for kolaches in varieties that include Bacon, Egg & Cheese, Ham & Cheese and Sausage, Jalapeno & Cheese.

They're also known, though maybe not as well, for their truncated spelling of the word doughnuts — a heinous offense on its own but also for the unspoken permission it has given to others to use the word "donut" as well — and thereby lowering the standard of literacy everywhere.

More recently, they've introduced new items such as their limited-edition warm mini beignets fried and dusted with powdered sugar.

The McKinney location is from PS Do-Nuts, a franchise company led by Skeet Smith, who plans to open 10 to 15 more locations starting with two opening soon in Prosper and Aubrey.

For the McKinney debut, they're doing something new: giving away free doughnuts.

Every vehicle that drives through the drive-thru on Saturday, March 1, and Sunday, March 2, from 7 am-2 pm will get a free box of six pre-selected Shipley donuts – no purchase required.

“We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate the opening of our new Shipley Do-Nuts location than by giving away a half-dozen doughnuts to every vehicle that drives through our drive-thru," Smith says. "It will be the biggest doughnut giveaway this town has ever seen."

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