Cakes of Spring!
While I am most certainly NOT back in the bake sale game (I’ll leave that to the beautiful geniuses at Short Street Cakes), I have really enjoyed playing around with some new and old favorite recipes to celebrate recent rites of passage with beloved friends! As...
Sugar Skulls
Short Street Cakes and CIMA Co-Host 8th Annual Day of the Dead Fundraiser! (En Español Abajo) Short Street Cakes, together with CIMA- Compañeros Inmigrantes de las Montañas en Acción- celebrates the Mexican holiday of El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) by...
Aunt Tissy’s Italian Cream Cake
In 2006, when I started baking cakes out of my home in the Montford neighborhood of Asheville, I asked my Great-aunt Tissy (who was born, raised, and lived out her whole life in Cordele, Georgia) if I could use her Italian Cream Cake recipe, and she graciously...About Jodi Rhoden
Jodi Rhoden, LCSW, CAADC is a Philadelphia-based therapist, writer, and organizer. Jodi earned her Master of Social Work degree and Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor license in 2022 and her LCSW in 2025. Jodi works as a therapist specializing in attachment, addiction, and trauma healing. Jodi is the founder and former owner of Short Street Cakes in West Asheville, and the author of Cake Ladies: Celebrating a Southern Tradition (Lark Books, 2011).