Hardworking Small Business Owners Bring Variety to Chevy Chase Restaurant Scene
Restaurants and bakeshops work together to offer residents more options for eating out.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
Hardworking Small Business Owners Bring Variety to Chevy Chase Restaurant Scene
Restaurants and bakeshops work together to offer residents more options for eating out.
Step out of the Friendship Heights Metro station in Chevy Chase and you will find a variety of familiar restaurants such as The Cheesecake Factory, Maggiano’s Little Italy and P.F. Chang’s. But, beyond these national chain restaurants, there are also small and local establishments that bring variety and distinction to the Chevy Chase food scene. These establishments include Frosting, A Cupcakery (1 Wisconsin Circle), which sells 6- and 8-inch cakes and Illy coffee and espresso along with the bakeshop's signature cupcakes. Husband-and-wife team Michelle Snow Bracken and Todd Bracken, along with Michelle Snow Bracken’s mother Ann Snow, opened the store in 2010. Michelle Snow Bracken had the desire to turn her baking hobby into a business, …
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Election Cupcakes Sweeten Debate Season
The election takes a sweet turn at Friendship Heights' cupcake shop, Frosting.
Is the election season getting too tense? Are friendships across party lines starting to sour as Nov. 6 draws near? Fittingly, a Friendship Heights cupcake shop comes to the rescue, sweetening the otherwise tense season for the Washington, DC, area with special presidential cupcakes. Patch reader favorite Frosting, A Cupcakery (1 Wisconsin Circle, Chevy Chase, MD) designed special cupcake toppers for the election: red elephant seals and blue donkey seals. The presidential cupcakes are available via special order through Nov. 7, and the toppers can be added to any cupcake/frosting combination, co-owner Todd Bracken told Patch. There is no extra cost for the presidential cupcake toppers. Call (301-656-0809) or email the shop 24 hours in …
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Cupcakes Bring out the Love—And the Funds
A one-day fundraiser at Frosting raised more than $500 to help a little girl fight leukemia.
A Friday fundraiser at Friendship Heights' popular cupcake shop, Frosting Bakeshop and Coffee Bar, raised $537.08 to help a little girl fight leukemia, according to Frosting's Facebook page. And that included a $50 phone-in donation from a Frosting fan who was on vacation on the day of the fundraiser, Frosting reported on Facebook. Special "Ruby Red Velvet" cupcakes were designed and handcrafted—right down to the special ladybug toppers—by Frosting owners Todd Bracken and Michelle Snow Bracken, and sold for $3 each on Friday, Aug. 10. Because of the limited quantity of the handmade cakes, the fundraiser lasted only nine hours, raising an average of nearly $60 an hour. That's a lot of cake, frosting and love for little Ruby, a two-and-a-…
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Frosting's Feel-Good Cupcakes
This Friday, enjoy a unique treat and help a child fight leukemia.
On Friday, eat cake and feel good about it (for a change). Friendship Heights' popular cupcakery, Frosting Bakeshop and Coffee Bar (1 Wisconsin Circle, Chevy Chase), is pulling out all the stops to create one-of-a-kind Ruby Red Velvet cupcakes—with special, handmade ladybug toppers—to sell to help support young Ruby Kahoun's fight against acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The cupcakes will only be available on Friday, Aug. 10, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Ruby is a two-and-a-half year-old "blondie with bright big eyes and a light-up-the-room personality that is just contagious. Ruby has the most loving family and support system around her that have been chanting, 'Just Win, Ruby! Fight Like A Girl!' for the past nine months" since her diagnosis. "…
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Sweet Treats for a Good Cause at Frosting, Rosa Mexicano
This month, treat yourself—and others—through sweet treats at two Friendship Heights businesses.
Dessert isn't always about treating yourself. This month, two Friendship Heights businesses—Rosa Mexicano and Frosting Bakeshop and Coffee Bar—offer sweet treats for a good cause. *** Throughout August, Rosa Mexicano (5225 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC) offers a special dessert to raise money for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. The "Gelatina de Limonada" (i.e., lemonade Jell-O) combines horchata lemonade "Jell-O" and Meyer lemon-basil marmalade with raspberry-rose granita for "a sweet and refreshing flan-like treat" that "tastes like a creamy raspberry lemonade,” according to the restaurant. Pastry Chef Jai Kendall emailed Patch about the inspiration behind the dessert: I love lemons. There’s nothing better on a hot summer's day than…
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Friday, March 16, 2012
Readers' Choice for St. Pat's Day: Frosting, A Cupcakery
Patch readers chose the Friendship Heights cupcake shop as their favorite place to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
Bars and beers aren't the only way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the area. One can have a beer anytime, but a shamrock-topped, spring-green-frosted cupcake? Only in March, at Frosting, A Cupcakery. The Friendship Heights cupcake and coffee shop received 37 percent of the vote in the Readers' Choice poll for favorite places to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Potomac and North Potomac-Darnestown area, while Ri Ra Irish Pub in Bethesda came in second, with 22 percent of the vote. Flanagans Harp and Fiddle, also in Bethesda, and the Irish Inn at Glen Echo each received 14 percent of the vote. Frosting, which is only two years old, has quickly become a coffee-and-baked-goods staple in Friendship Heights. "Best. …
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Kick-start Exercise Goals with Frosting FIT
Frosting, A Cupcakery—Friendship Heights' very own cupcake and sweet shop—is starting up a Saturday morning running club, the Frosting Friends In Training.
Looking for some running buddies to help you stick to your resolution to exercise more this year? If so, you're in luck. Friendship Heights' cupcake shop, Frosting: A Cupcakery, has just the thing for you: a Frosting FIT (Friends In Training) running club! On Saturday, Jan. 7, Frosting FIT will hold its inaugural weekly Saturday morning run, starting at the Metro-accessible cupcakery (at 1 Wisconsin Circle) at 9 a.m. Todd Bracken and Michelle Snow Bracken—who, with Michelle Snow Bracken's mother, Ann Snow, established Frosting two years ago this spring, and who will lead the weekly runs—are passionate about not only cupcakes but also running. "We are extremely passionate about running and good health and although we run a sweetshop, it's …
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Meet The Cupcake Maker: Michelle Snow Bracken
Michelle Snow Bracken, co-owner of and baker at Frosting, A Cupcakery, gives us a sneak peek at the bakery's upcoming breakfast menu items.
At 8 a.m., Frosting, A Cupcakery, opens its doors to customers in line for delicious cups of hot Illy coffee to start the day. Little do they know, things in Chevy Chase are about to get a lot sweeter. The husband-and-wife team of Frosting, A Cupcakery, at 1 Wisconsin Circle in Chevy Chase, is giving commuters, locals and sweet-tooth enthusiasts one more reason to wake up early. “Breakfast is my love,” says co-owner Michelle Snow Bracken, who opened the bakeshop with her husband Todd Bracken in April 2010. Frosting, A Cupcakery, which has been rated by Chevy Chase Patch readers as the No. 1 one coffee shop in the area, is expanding its breakfast menu, which already boasts Streusel Muffins, Coffee Cake Crumble Squares, Doughnut Rounds and …
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
'Rivals' Results Are In!
Which coffee shop in Chevy Chase got the most reviews from readers in Chevy Chase Patch's first "Rivals" contest?
The results are in! Chevy Chase Patch's first "Rivals" contest featured six coffee shops in Chevy Chase, and asked readers to write reviews of their favorite ones. The coffee shop with the most reviews was Frosting, A Cupcakery, which received three reviews and a cumulative rating of 4.67 stars. "Best. Cupcakes. EVER! If we ever need cupcakes for a special occasion, we go to Frosting!" Lesley Olson wrote about Frosting, A Cupcakery. "Simply the best cupcakes in the DC area. For real!" a Patch reader who goes by "Josh" added. "Frosting is by far the best coffee shop in Chevy Chase!," "Lisa S." wrote. "The Illy coffee is so rich ... . The sunny round table and outdoor seating are the perfect places to relax and watch the world go by." And, "…
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