July 2005


Turning Bundts Into Hits
By Deborah Lynn Blumberg

REBECCA CASTELLANOS, A 33-YEAR-OLD from Austin, Texas, wakes up every day at 6 a.m., wipes the sleep from her eyes and bakes 20 or 30 bundt cakes.
Sometimes, she puts shiny bows in the middle.
Castellanos launched madCakes, a specialty bundt-cake operation, earlier this year. She expects to break even soon, and, eventually, expand.

May 2005


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Our first published article in the Austin American Statesman

Mad Cakes creations have a familiar ring
Mad Cakes, a new bakery in Northwest Austin, bakes from-scratch Bundt cakes, frosting them in bold stripes of cream cheese-buttercream icing. Then for celebratory occasions, it will add optional over-the-top toppers of ribbons and stuff with various themes - baby shower, spring, Texas, Aggie, "girls just want to have fun." The best sellers so far are double chocolate chip, cinnamon swirl and zesty lemon, our favorite. Cakes come in four sizes from mini ($4.50), which will feed one or two people, to large ($23.75), which feeds 16-22. Also sold by the slice (under $2). Add roughly $10 for the ribboned toppers. The shop (795-9285), at 3808 Spicewood Springs Road, Suite 102, is owned by Rebecca Castellanos and her parents. Castellanos studied at pastry schools and baked at Rather Sweet Bakery, Central Market catering and Barton Creek Country Club prior to going "mad" with cakes.

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