Tioga High School: A Taste of Cake

You can’t have a birthday party without a cake. And for Tuolumne County’s 175th Anniversary, not just any old supermarket cake would do. So we went to the Timberwolves for help. Within the time it takes to crack an egg, Leadership Program and Culinary Program instructors Alexa MacGregor and Julie Dustin were all in.

We’d love to run a photo of the culinary students baking and decorating the cake, but Julie wanted the cake as fresh as fresh can be so they won’t even bake it until Friday afternoon. Meanwhile, this newest batch of culinary kids has been learning how to calculate portion sizes and ingredients needed to produce cakes that will serve 250 people within the budget allocated. 

While the culinary students calculate, crack, mix, bake, and frost, students in the Leadership program are in charge of their Taste of Tuolumne booth at the Festival. Piece of cake? Not necessarily. This team has been reading up on the County’s health & hygiene regulations for temporary food service, creating a checklist of serving needs (gloves, cutting and serving utensils, napkins, more gloves…) and preparing signage to attract festival-goers to eat cake.

The icing on the cake will be during tomorrow’s Opening Ceremony (10:00 am, Main Stage) when the Timberwolves present Tuolumne County’s 175th Anniversary cake to the Cassaretto Family to cut the first slice. 

Two flavors of cake are being created: a simple but elegant white cake with buttercream frosting and a decadent chocolate ganache cake. For just $1 a Taste, get one of each!  Here’s the sweetest part: 100% of the proceeds from the 175th Anniversary cakes will help fund the Senior Class of 2026’s Spring Trip. Go Timberwolves!