Press release from event organizers:
Short Street Cakes, together with CIMA- Compañeros Inmigrantes de las Montañas en Acción- celebrates the Mexican holiday of El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) by offering authentic Mexican Sugar Skulls for the November 1st and 2nd holiday.
From Tuesday, October 24th, through Wednesday, November 2nd, Short Street Cakes will make and sell blank and decorated sugar skulls. Short Street Cakes 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.
Blank sugar skulls will be priced at $5, with $1 of each sugar skull going to benefit CIMA- an organization advocating for immigrant’s rights in Western North Carolina (for more information go to www.cimawnc.org). Decorated skulls will be $10, with $2 going to CIMA.Short Street Cakes, located at 225 Haywood Road in East-West Asheville, is open Tuesday through Saturday, 8am to 6pm, Sundays 10am-6pm, and is closed on Mondays (however the Cake Shop will be open on Monday, October 31st for Halloween festivities!) 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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