Short Street Cakes announces 6th annual Dias de los Muertos Fundraiser for immigrant rights

PRESS RELEASE from Short Street Cakes

Asheville, NC, October 15, 2014:  Short Street Cakes, Asheville’s from-scratch, all-natural, Southern-style Cake Shop, celebrates the Mexican holiday of Los Dias de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) by creating authentic Mexican Sugar Skulls for the Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 holidays. Starting on Tuesday, Oct. 14 and continuing through Sunday, Nov. 2, Short Street Cakes in West Asheville will make and sell blank and decorated sugar skulls for sale every day, and will provide a decoration station stocked with icings, sequins, foil, and glitter for individuals and families to decorate skulls as gifts to their friends and families or in remembrance of their loved ones.

Sugar skulls will be priced at $5, with half of the proceeds going to benefit COLA, (Coalicion de Organizaciones de Latino-Americanos), an organization advocating for immigrant’s rights in Western North Carolina.  (for more information go to www.colawnc.org) Short Street Cakes will again offer a discount to school groups such as Hall Fletcher Elementary student groups who visit the Cake Shop to learn about the cultural tradition of honoring loved ones and ancestors through the ancient art of altar decoration and decorating skulls. 

In addition, Short Street Cakes is offering cupcakes decorated in a variety of Halloween-themed styles, including vampire bites, bats, cats, ghosts, mummies, spiderwebs, pumpkins and frankenstein. Only 48 hours required for orders of any size, and a selection is available without an order daily.

Short Street Cakes, located at 225 Haywood Road in East-West Asheville, just up the hill from the River Arts District, is open Tuesday through Saturday, 8am to 6pm, Sundays 10am-6pm, and is closed on Mondays.  The mission of Short Street Cakes is to add meaning to life’s celebrations by providing beautiful, delicious, all-natural, scratch-made cakes, and in so doing, generate a sustainable livelihood for our employees, educate the community about traditional foodways, and support the local food and agriculture economy.

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