Bid adieu to 2020 with funny cakes
Two area bakeries are flushing away 2020 in style.
Looking for a way to poke fun at the Year of the Pandemic, La Mangia in New Castle and Oakmont Bakery have cooked up some sweet treats.
Last year, the two bakeries caught their customers’ attention when they came up with creative sinkhole bus cupcakes and doughnuts respectively after a Port Authority bus plunged into a massive sinkhole Downtown during morning rush hour traffic.
This year, they’re continuing the gallows humor.
The bakers at La Mangia, which also is a deli and pizzeria, will create a 2020 Dumpster Fire cake and raffle it off for charity, manager Deanna Ayers said.
The chocolate cake, which serves 15, will be shaped like a Dumpster and lettered with 2020 in graffiti style. It will then be decorated to look like the whole thing is on fire.
Customers will be able to stop by the bakery Monday through Wednesday to buy $5 raffle tickets for the cake. There also will be a donation button posted on La Mangia’s Facebook page.
The winner’s name will be drawn on Dec. 31 and the person can pick up the cake in time for New Year’s Eve. All proceeds from the raffle will go to the Crisis Shelter of Lawrence County.
Oakmont Bakery is bidding farewell to the year with “Time to Flush 2020” cakes for New Year’s Eve.
The 6-inch, three-layer cake will be shaped like a toilet paper roll, evoking the toilet paper shortage in the early months of the pandemic. It will be surrounded by a half-dozen “poop emoji” cupcakes and will sell for $55.
Owner Marc Serrao said the bakery sold toilet paper cupcakes in spring as a joke, and so these Flush cakes will continue the running gag to close out the year.