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Crumb is very please to announce a new experiment with our friends at Escazu Artisan Chocolates. Starting on Thursday, Crumb will be offering slices of cake for sale at Escazu, made with Escazu’s amazing chocolate (by far the best chocolate in North Carolina and probably on the eastern seaboard).

Cake will be available at noon on Thursday and when it’s gone, it’s gone for another week.  This week’s cake is for our friends Chris, Brooks, and Sean in honor of the opening of Fullsteam. Hogwash hickory smoked porter chocolate cake, cherries, and chocolate buttercream. We’ll probably figure out a way to work some ghost chilis into the mix too.

Escazu Artisan Chocolates is located at 936 N. Blount St. Raleigh, NC 27604. There is a map here. Follow Escazu on Twitter and Facebook.

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Crumb is very pleased to be making cakes for the pre-opening party at Fullsteam on Friday August 13. In case you haven’t had a chance to try Fullsteam yet, it is some banging beer, unique and tasty! We are making two awesome cakes for the party using beer from Fullsteam:

1] Hogwash hickory smoked porter chocolate cake with cherries and ghost chile ganache

2] Summer Basil farmhouse ale pound cake with tomato curd made from tomatoes from Coon Rock Farm, the source of the basil used in this incredibly refreshing beer.

The party starts at 4pm. Details are here. The tavern will be open to the public at 6:14pm, but there probably isn’t going to be any cake left by then.

Follow Fullsteam on Twitter. Fullsteam is located at 726 Rigsbee Avenue in Durham, NC 27701 (google maps). More about the inmates who run Fullsteam here.

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It is ridiculously hot here in the Triangle. The only thing to do is to stay inside and eat cake in the cool air conditioning.

All ten inch cakes ordered between July 26 and July 31 are 10% off! The sale is only for cakes ordered for pick up by August 5.

Email info@justCrumb.com or call (919) 413-8134

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The Cross Currents Chamber Music Arts Festival is coming to Raleigh from July 2 -11 featuring performances from the Brussels Chamber Orchestra, the Pierre Anckaert Quintet, Will Scruggs, the Mallarme Chamber Players, Gavriel Lipkind, and members of the North Carolina Symphony. The Festival has master classes, concerts, events for children and much more! The full schedule of events is here.

Crumb will be baking for the July 5 Gala at the Captrust building, the July 7 event at Marbles, and the final concert on July 11.  Our friends from Joe Van Gogh will be joining us with locally roasted coffee on some of those dates.  Come out and show your support for great musicians. Some events are free and some require tickets which can be purchased here.

Follow Cross Currents on Twitter and Facebook.

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Crumb will be at the Big Boss brewery tour on Saturday June 12 selling slices of cake.

-Pound cake (made with Hell’s Belle) with lemon curd, blackberries, and raspberries

-The Big Operator: alternating layers of chocolate and yellow cake (made with Big Operator) with a chocolate espresso buttercream

Each cake $5 a slice.

Big Boss just won The Independent’s best brewery in the Triangle. Come out, learn about the brewing process, drink some beers, and buy some cake!

The brewery is located at 1249 Wicker Drive Raleigh, NC. The tour is 2-3pm. Crumb will be there till 4pm or until we sell out. Then you’ll be able to find us drinking at the bar.

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Sunday June 13 we’ll be at RebusFest! Come out for the music, food, and art. Festivites don’t begin till noon so you have plenty of time to sleep off that hangover! This is a great opportunity to check out the excellent art by Luke Buchanan.

We will be serving:

-Brownies! (remember those from the Handmade market??)

-big chocolate chip cookies!

-Devitos (mini chocolate cups of cake) topped with the very special GHOST CHILE GANACHE!

All items $2.

We will also be selling our new tshirts designed by David Eichenberger and printed by Adam Peele.

RebusFest takes place at RebusWorks (301-2 Kinsey St.) from 12-6pm.

Cash only at both events.

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Crumb will be taking part in this year’s annual hipster paradise known as Rebus Fest. Taking place at Rebus Works (301-2 Kinsey St, Raleigh, NC), Rebus Fest is a full day of music, food, and art taking place on Sunday June 13 from 12-6pm. Along with Crumb, food will be provided by Fired Flour (great pizza), Only Burger (best burger truck in the Triangle), Carolina Brewing Company (beer!) and Locopops.

Did we mention we’ll have the new Crumb shirts designed by David Eichenberger for sale?

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Crumb will be at the Big Boss Brewery tour this Saturday June 12 from 2pm-4pm. Come out, take the tour, buy some cake, have a few pints. It’s a great way to spend the afternoon. Tour information can be found here.

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Crumb is very pleased to be taking part in this year’s Farm to Fork celebration of local foods and local farms.  For those going, this is what you are getting from us. For those not going, this is what you are missing out on.

We are doing three different types of cake:

1] An untitled cake featuring chocolate from Escazu Artisan Chocolate (Raleigh, NC), beer from Big Boss (Raleigh, NC), and goat cheese and yogurt from Celebrity Dairy (Siler City, NC)

2] Strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream featuring strawberries from Barefoot Farms (Meadow, NC)

3] Sweet Potato cake with brown sugar/bourbon buttercream featuring Beauregard Sweet Potatoes from L & G Farms (Meadow, NC)

All cakes use flour from Lindley Mills (Graham, NC), cream and buttermilk from Maple View Farm (Hillsborough, NC), and eggs from Latta’s Egg Ranch (Hillsborough, NC)

Thanks to Escazu, Big Boss, and Celebrity Dairy for donating ingredients.

As a side note, this is the last weekend to buy strawberries from Barefoot farms at the Raleigh Farmer’s Market. Go and get some, they are the perfect strawberry: red to the core, tart, and sweet without being sugary.

Pictures will be posted on Monday.

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We decided that we needed tshirts to brand ourselves for this weekend at Farm to Fork.  Local screen printing legend Adam Peele did a short run for us with the Crumb logo. CRUMBshirts are available in limited supply in women’s small and men’s large in orange, brown, and blue for $15 each plus tax. Email us at info(at)justCrumb.com to tell us what size and color you want (provide alternate color choice due to limited supplies) and we will hold a CRUMBshirt for you.

CRUMBshirt blue

CRUMBshirt brown

CRUMBshirt orange

In the future, we will all be wearing CRUMBshirts.

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We had a great response to the #NameThatCake contest. Thanks to everyone that took part.

In the end, we decided to combine our two favorite suggestions into one. The madness that is the coconut milk cake, red curry caramel, and mango buttercream will henceforth be known as Phuket Bill.  Mad thanks to the winners, Katie Knight (@knightlibrarian) and Brad from Big Boss (@BigBossbeer). You can both claim your prize, your very own Phuket Bill, tonight at Rebus Works.

The Phuket Bill will be available tonight in a beta release at Rebus Works along with an awesome Strawberry cake (gluten free) filled with Strawberries and topped with a strawberry buttercream. Sale starts at 6pm and runs until 10, or until we sell out.

As always, all of Crumbs tasty treats are baked using as many locally sourced ingredients as possible including fresh NC strawberries, flour, dairy, and eggs.

Rebus Works is located at 301-2 Kinsey Street Raleigh, NC  27603

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