Thank you for a wonderful year!

December 31, 2014

2014 was an amazing year for us. We opened our Washington Avenue location, celebrated our 65th anniversary, the Pumpecapple Piecake received national attention and it was another year serving our wonderful friends, family and customers in Houston and across the nation. Thank you to everyone who made this year so sweet! We will see you all in 2015!

We’re Turning 64 Today!

May 8, 2013

It’s our birthday! That’s right, we’re turning 64, and in our minds, we keep getting better with age. We have had the pleasure of baking all sorts of delicious cakes, breads and sweets for five generations, and we still love it. But most of all we love making memories with you! This has been a long journey and we have seen many sights and experienced quite a lot with you, […]

Tradition of the Birthday Cake

April 18, 2013

While our family has been baking cakes for almost two centuries, the tradition of the birthday cake has been around since Ancient Rome. During the Roman Era the cakes were usually simple flat, round cakes of flour baked with nuts, leavened with yeast and topped with honey. The first cakes were more like bread versus the cakes we know. Those came in the 15th century from Germany. The tradition of […]