Diversity Manifested in Deliciousness: Pride Cake at 3 Brothers Bakery

If you're 1) colorblind 2) live in a dark cave 3) both, you may not have noticed Houston is awash with rainbows this week for Pride Week (June 18-25) as well as Pride Month. As an ardent ally of the LGBT community, I am proud to live in a city that not only recognizes (most of the time, we're getting better) the rights of its diverse residents but also proudly celebrates its different communities. Kudos to 3 Brothers Bakery for joining in on the fun this year by offering rainbow petit fours, cake balls, and the pièce de résistance, a massive cake in which a thick layer of vanilla buttercream frosting encloses seven strata in colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and lavender.  

The pride treats are available throughout the month of June and the cake is available whole and by the slice ($9.95). “Our rainbow cake is a bright, fun way for Houstonians to show their LGBT pride,” said Bobby Jucker, bakery co-owner and fifth generation baker. “This is the first year the bakery is featuring rainbow goods and products during the month of June. It’s a tradition we’re excited and proud to start." Hear, hear, Bobby!

You can take a slice to go or saddle up to a table at one of 3 Brothers three locations.

In the name of research, I had to sample the pride cake, for unfortunately it has been my experience that food once perceived as innocuously colorful in the eye of the beholder turns garish when the taste fails to match up to the visual expectations. Not so at all with this cake, whose layers retained a lovely mild vanilla flavor despite the use of kosher vegetable dye. Furthermore, the buttery icing was judiciously distributed as to create the perfect proportional contrast of smooth sugary cream and moist cake. Such balance would easily facilitate consuming the whole wedge in one sitting. Not that I would know, of course.