Duff Goldman's Blog

Howdy, friends! It's been such an exciting couple of weeks for us here in Charm City. Our Summer 2012 Collection was unveiled at an exclusive VIP reception at our studio on March 22nd and the party was a huge success!

First and foremost, we must thank the lovely and talented Astrid of Astrid Photography for all the amazing party photos! Her work is gorgeous and if you're looking for an event photographer that can make your guests and event shine, she is it. Unless noted, all...

Happy Tuesday, my friends! It's been a madcap couple of weeks here on Remington Avenue. Last week we unveiled our Summer 2012 Collection of cake designs with a super fantastic VIP reception here at the shop. It could not have gone better and everyone is all a-buzz about our collection! We'll be posting tons of party photos here in the coming days, but here's a sneak peek:


Photo courtesy Graham Coreil-Allen

In the meantime, we'll be at a couple of big events coming...

Attention Baltimore Brides!



Sunday, March 25th

11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Tabrizi's ~ 500 Harborview Drive | Baltimore MD 21230

We are thrilled to be the presenting sponsor of Baltimore Magazine's Aisle Style Event. This is the premiere event for Baltimore Brides! Join Charm City Cakes and other elite vendors at this exquisite and elegant wedding showcase. Plan your dream wedding while sipping mimosas, sampling cake, and winning fa...

Happy Wednesday, friends. Here's what's happening!


This Weekend : Two Bridal Shows
Planning a wedding in the Maryland area? We will be among the vendors at two shows this weekend. Come sample cake and get all the info you need for the wedding of your dreams!

The Castle at Maryvale Bridal Open House
Saturday, January 21 | 12:00 - 4:00 PM
11300 Falls Road, Brooklandville Maryland

Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center Bridal Open House
Sunday, January 22 | 11AM - 2...

Happy Purple Friday, one and all! Many things to tell you about, let's not waste any time with idle chit chat.

Get Fancy!
Duff and some of the CCC West contingent will be appearing at the Gartner Booth,
#5418, #5420 of the Gateway Ballroom at the Winter Fancy Foods Show in San Francisco this weekend and next week. Come say hi and check out the newest additions to the Duff line of cake decorating supplies! The event is at the Moscone Convention Center. Here's the schedule:...

Happy New Year everyone!

We wanted to share a couple of awesome pictures from an event Duff did a few weeks back.

We were asked to create a cake to announce the partnership of DS Waters and Athena Brand Water.

From the Athena Website:
Athena® bottled water was created by cancer survivor Trish May to raise funds for women's cancer research, awareness and education. Since its beginning in 2003, a portion of the proceeds of every bottle of Athena® sold has been contribu...

And now for something completely different!

Pal to Charm City Cakes and utterly fabulous Nadia G, of Cooking Channel's Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen gathered a star-studded crew of the food world's finest - including our fearless leader Duff, and recorded a hilarious holiday music video for charity! A Bitchin' Christmas is set to premiere during Nadia G's 'Bitchin' Holiday Special' TONIGHT - Wednesday, December 7th at 10pm EST on Cooking Channel.

But...

As we (in the US) are all preparing our birds and packing our cars and stocking our bars for the grand tradition of Thanksgiving Dinner tomorrow, let us not forget the OTHER reason why we have off on the 3rd Thursday of November : FOOTBALL!

As you are probably aware, the CCC staff are (for the most part, with a few odd exceptions) die hard BALTIMORE RAVENS FANS. None so much as Ms. Mary Smith. Which is why it was so fantastic when a client asked Mary to recreate Ray Lewis' epic Old Sp...

Greetings friends!

Now available at the CCC Store: Autographed copies of CAKE BOY by Eric Lanlard

Celebrated London pastry chef Eric Lanlard is a master patissier and twice winner of the prestigious Continental Patissier of the Year at the British Baking Awards.

He is also one of the nicest people on the planet.

The Charm City Cakes crew has been so lucky to know him - twice now he has offered up his shop for us to use while we were in London. This guy is beyond galactical...

Happy Friday to all our friends near and far! Celebrate Our Heroes Next Friday, November 11th is Veteran's Day. We wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all our men and women who have served and are serving our country so that we all may live safely and peacefully. If you have a hero you'd like to celebrate next weekend, a reminder that we now have Military themed Cakes for Two . Each of the five designs celebrates a branch of our armed services and...