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For Goodness Cakes serves up special made birthday, graduation, and other cakes for young people who may not have ever had one.
For Goodness Cakes serves up special made birthday, graduation, and other cakes for young people who may not have ever had one. Austin got a little sweeter in 2021 when For Goodness Cakes, an organization that delivers birthday, graduation, and other special event cakes and cupcakes to agencies who work with children, opened an Austin chapter. Under the leadership of co-leaders Ashley Presson and Alicia Gacharna the Austin Chapter spends over 600 hours a year baking, decorating, and delivering that special feeling that only a specially made cake can. A standout moment for the organization took place in December of 2023 when one of the local CARY (Council on At-Risk Youth) programs requested cookies for kids of the program to decorate. Many of the children in the program had never been offered an opportunity to decorate holiday cookies before, so the volunteers of For Goodness Cakes started whipping up batches