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In today’s dessert trends, everything old is sweet again. The vintage piping style—once a staple of nostalgic birthday parties and grandmother’s kitchen—has made a full-circle comeback. From frilly borders to scalloped edges and pearl details, these intricately piped cakes are not only delicious but undeniably photo-worthy.

But what’s stealing the show? The heart-shaped cake.

❤️ Why the Heart Cake Is Stealing Hearts (and Likes)

The heart cake is more than just a cute design—it’s a symbol of celebration, love, and personality. Whether for birthdays, anniversaries, or just a treat-yourself moment, our heart cakes offer:

• Custom color palettes (pastel pinks, deep reds, bold neons)

• Personalized messages

• Intricate vintage piping techniques (shells, ruffles, scrolls)

Our most popular? The Simple Heart Cake—a 6" or 8" buttercream dream available in rich flavors like Wedding Cake, Lemon, Strawberry Milkshake, and Cookies N’ Cream.

🍰 Flavor Meets Style

It’s not just about looks—our small cakes taste as amazing as they look. Here are some fan-favorite flavor combos:

• Wedding Cake (Vanilla) + Vanilla Buttercream
  A classic pairing with romantic vibes.

• Strawberry Cake + Strawberry Icing
  Great for girls' nights, baby showers, and TikTok reveals.

• Red Velvet + Cream Cheese Buttercream
  A Southern classic with dramatic flair—ideal for heart cakes with gold piping.

• Lemon Cake + Lavender Buttercream
  Bright, citrusy, and perfect for spring or floral-themed designs.

💡 Why Vintage Cakes Are Changing the Bakery Atmosphere

The rise of personalized, small-format cakes means bakeries are now crafting art pieces—not just desserts. These cakes are:

• Faster to create, easier to customize

• Perfect for social media marketing and viral trends

• Encouraging clients to express personality through flavor and design

With customers craving individuality, smaller vintage cakes allow us to focus more on the details: intricate piping, custom colors, meaningful messages, and flavors that reflect mood or memory.

🛍️ Order Your Own Vintage Heart Cake

Ready to join the trend? At That’s The Cake, we offer nationwide inspiration and local fulfillment across the Dallas–Fort Worth area. Our cakes are:

✅ Customizable
✅ Available in gluten-free, vegan, and eggless formats
✅ Perfect for 1–8 guests

📍 Pickup in Arlington, TX
🚚 Local delivery available up to 40 miles

🔗 Order Your Heart Cake Now →

💌 Questions? Contact us for custom vintage styles or flavor swaps!

Join us at That's The Cake Bakery in Arlington, TX for National PI Day! This coming Friday March 14, 2025 or 3.14 for assorted flavors of PI(E)! Up to 10 flavors of pie by the slice.

Pie slices will be $3.14 each. There is no limit on purchases. We encourage you bring the fmaily and grab other delicious treats while in store!

That's The Cake Bakery
2800 Forestwood Drive
Suite 118
Arlington, TX 76006

www.thatsthecake.com

817-617-2599

We had a memory come across our timeline the other day, and we couldn't help but make a post about it!

This is all about Baby Zayns cake!

We offered the 3 tiered cake iced in our classic and signature vanilla buttercream. We ended up tinting it with Royal Blue to enhance the color for the cake to go along with the theme. Our client had then wanted iced sugar cookies -- these were small crowns. They were so CUTE!

Then we made some of our favorite little treats *CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRIES* -- OMG these are literally the best things ever! So sweet and the chocolate always does wonders for us.

Then finally make these little cake-pops with gold sticks. They were royal blue and gold, going along with the theme of Little Prince.

I really don't know what'd we do without our cameras and photographs to reminisce on the good times!

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All About Cake, in one form or another, has been around for centuries. From its humble beginnings as a flattened, hardened bread, the concept of ‘cake’ has changed significantly to become an essential part of British culinary identity.

Twelve facts about cake:

1.  In Roman times, eggs and butter were often added to basic bread to give a consistency that we would recognize as cake-like, and honey was used as a sweetener. The distinction between Roman concepts of cake and bread was therefore very blurred.

2.  The ‘cakewalk’ dance originated in African American communities in the Southern United States and was originally a competition in graceful walking, with cake awarded as a prize.

3.  According to The Diner’s Dictionary, the proverb ‘you can’t have your cake and eat it’ first appears as early as the 16th century, however, the proverb ‘a piece of cake’ was not coined until the 20th century and is possibly related to the cakewalk competition.

4.  The word ‘cake’ comes from Middle English kake, and is probably a borrowing from Old Norse (compare the modern Norwegian kake, as well as Icelandic and Swedish kaka). It is also related to the German word for cake, Kuchen. Interestingly, the French, Spanish, and Italian words for ‘cake’ do not share a common root; they are gâteau, pastel, and torta respectively. They are, however, related to the English words ‘gateau’, ‘pastry’, and ‘tart’.

5.  The meaning of ‘cake’ has changed over time, and the first cake was:

‘A comparatively small flattened sort of bread, round, oval, or otherwise regularly shaped, and usually baked hard on both sides by being turned during the process.’

6.  A ‘soul cake’, in various parts of England, is made on All Souls’ Day and kept for good luck, while a ‘burial cake’ was kept close to the head of a dead person, and one had to have a piece of the cake in one’s mouth when looking at the body.

7.  The French word for cake – gateau – entered the English language in the 19th century and was often used to refer to a savoury dish that included meat.

8.  The famous saying, ‘let them eat cake’, was attributed to Marie Antoinette upon learning that her people had no bread, but the saying was probably much older. In his Confessions, Rousseau refers to a similar remark being a well-known saying, and another version ‘why don’t they eat pastry?’ is attributed to Marie Thérèse, who was born more than a century before Marie Antoinette.

9.  The original cup-cakes were so called because they were cakes made from ingredients measured by the cupful, and a citation in the OED from 1887 reads, ‘Mis’Steele made some cup-cake to-day. . . She put a cup of butter and two whole cups of sugar in it.’

10.  In Scotland, and parts of Wales and northern England, cake took on the specific meaning of ‘a thick, hard biscuit made from oatmeal’. From the 17th to 19th centuries, Scotland was humorously known as the ‘Land of Cakes’ and until comparatively recently, according to The Diner’s Dictionary, Hogmanay was also known as ‘Cake Day’ from the custom of calling on people’s houses at New Year and having cake.

11.  The French language has borrowed the word ‘cake’ to refer to various sorts of rich fruit cake.

12.  Birthdays used to be celebrated quite differently, as the first birthday cake was originally a cake given as an offering on a person’s birthday. The first citation of ‘birthday cake’ in the OED, from 1785, reads ‘His birth-day cakes crowd on him in such store, The house abounds.