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Let Them Eat Cake!

September 21, 2012 By Talya Tate Boerner

 
I’m in charge of the Munger Place Days Cakewalk. Because I thought we needed one. That’s how those things work, right? Open your mouth, make a suggestion, and bingo – it’s your project!

No respectable festival should be without one.

A cakewalk is the perfect throwback to yesterday’s childhood Halloween carnivals, when cake had no calories and dessert came with no consequence, no hips.

I downloaded perfect cakewalk music and made large, colorful numbers, one through twelve, to adhere to the pavement. The lucky number wins a homemade cake or pie or brownies or cookies for dinner. 

What’s not to love about a cakewalk?!

I think next year we need a Kissing Booth!  xoxoxo
Last year this man kept trying to sneak into the cakewalk…

talya

Grace Grits and Gardening
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Musical Pairings:

The Entertainer, Scott Joplin

Click here for my prior cakewalk blog post….

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Dallas, Munger Place

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Comments

  1. Colene says

    September 21, 2012 at 6:50 am

    Loved the previous blog just as much this time as the last time!

  2. TimH says

    September 21, 2012 at 11:09 am

    Let the ‘Munger’ Games begin! You’re making me hungry!=)

  3. Anonymous says

    September 21, 2012 at 4:29 pm

    I love cake walks, and I love, love, love that picture of Tate. Nana

  4. porkchoptuesday says

    September 16, 2013 at 6:31 am

    Fun stuff! Usually it’s MY kid who brings home 3 cakes!


Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

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