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All the United States Washington Seattle Deep Sea Sugar & Salt
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Deep Sea Sugar & Salt

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

Seattle, Washington

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Maple Bourbon Cream, Hazelnut Nutella Crunch, Ginger Molasses Stout, Pumpkin Brown Butter, among others.   @deepseasugar used with permission
The exterior of the cake shop.   @deepseasugar used with permission
Ricotta Olive Oil Cake with Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice Soak, Sweet Mascarpone Cream, Grapefruit Curd, and Cream Cheese Frosting   @deepseasugar used with permission
Pink Champagne Cake with Raspberry Jam, Vanilla Bean Mascarpone Cream, and Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Frosting   @deaseasugar used with permission
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In Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, there's an emerald green building bearing a historic plaque. First designed as an inn in 1904, the location became the Carleton Avenue Grocery seven years later. There, the shop functioned for over a century, eventually claiming the title of Seattle’s oldest grocery store.

When Carleton Avenue Grocery shuttered in October of 2017, Charlie Dunmire acquired the space with the help of a Kickstarter campaign, transforming it into a bakery known for its elaborate layer cakes. Dunmire got her start in cake world dreamland when she launched Deep Sea Sugar & Salt in an Airstream in the Georgetown Trailer Park Mall.

Since she set up permanent digs here, the shop has been packed with a series of wildly inventive whole cakes, cupcakes, and—most notably—individual slices of dramatically striated layer cakes in flavors like London Fog, which comes soaked in honey-and-Earl Grey syrup and topped with bergamot mascarpone cream, and Carrot Pineapple, with a browned butter cream cheese frosting. 

Deep Sea Sugar & Salt has since moved to a new location outside of the Georgetown neighborhood, where they continue to churn out creative and delicious baked goods.

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Deep Sea Sugar & Salt
6235 Airport Way South
Seattle, Washington, 98108
United States
47.547711, -122.314665
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