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Life is sweet for this lawyer turned baker

There's love and there's CakeLove, and Warren Brown has been lucky enough to find both. It would be oh-so-precious to say the lawyer turned baker, entrepreneur and Food Network host (Sugar Rush) will be baking the cake for his October wedding. Read More.

Warren on NBC's Today Show

Warren Brown shows TODAY’s Natalie Morales how to bake up some delicious cakes that are part of his new book. On the show they discuss the strawberry shortcake and the Mojito Cake. For featured recipes, click here. To Catch the show, click here.

Featured on WJZ-TV Baltimore

WJZ-TV visits the newly opened CakeLove Canton Location. Includes video of the news segment. See it here

Warren Brown

Sloane Brown writes this special interview for the Baltimore Sun. In the interview, Warren talks about his personal preferences in out of the kitchen. View segment here.

Warren Brown, once a lawyer, now whips up fame and lush cakes

Warren gets a full-page spread in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Inc TV features Warren

Check out this online video interview featuring Warren at the Inc 500 Conference.
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The Culinarian: From bar exams to cupcake bars

Many people talk about following your heart and doing what you love to do, but few actually do it. Warren Brown is one of those people who did.
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CakeLove's Warren Brown Talks Sex and (All-Natural) Sugar

At the recent Green Fest environmental expo, lawyer-turned-cakemaker-turned-Food Network celebrity Warren Brown spoke from the D.C. Convention Center's main stage not about cupcakes, but about sex. Read More

CNN's "Life After Work"

CakeLove was recently featured on CNN's Life After Work segment. If you missed it you can view the video on CNN's web site!

The Denver Docket

This publication ran by the Denver Bar Association asks seven questions about Warren's purpose and transition from lawyer to baker.
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Washington Business Journal Feature

Two independent D.C. foodies (CakeLove and Bus Boys) are bringing a little love and poetry from U Street to the Village at Shirlington.
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Warren Brown: Attorney Entrepreneur Turned Baker Restaurateur

Prosecuting civil cases in healthcare fraud for the government was not as fulfilling as he had anticipated; in less than one year, he was pursuing his part-time passion for baking cakes.
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Doing What You Love - The Washington Post

His passion for food dates back to early childhood, recalls Warren Brown, owner of the bakery Cakelove, which has locations in Washington and Silver Spring, Md. "I'd always liked food and the science of cooking," he says.
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From U St. To Food Network - The Washington Post

Warren Brown, the government lawyer-turned-baker and entrepreneur, will be very busy this fall. In addition to running Cakelove, his specialty cake and pastry business, and its offshoot, the Love Cafe, both on the western edge of the U Street corridor, Brown will host "Sugar Rush," a 13-episode series on the Food Network.
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What Should I
Do With My Life?

"You may think that real work is doing your job, but the real work is finding what you're supposed to do with your life!" — Oprah

The Courage to Follow a Dream - Once a lawyer, Warren started his own bakery. Meet some brave people who traded successful, safe career paths for the chance to find their true purposes in life. Learn More.

Warren Brown, host of Sugar Rush, is an entrepreneur with a spirited passion for enjoying life.

Warren left his career as a lawyer to become a baker in 2000. Armed with a credit card and a sense that people wanted something better than what was currently on the market, he founded CakeLove, a bakery. With luck and fortunate timing, both the public and media recognized his passion and delicious scratch-made cakes.
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How to Eat a Cupcake

Warren Brown: "I am and always have been a cupcake fan. I love them for the frosting, the cake and the paper. That's right, the paper. I was one of those kids who chewed -- and sometimes ate -- the cupcake paper." Read More.

Radical Sabbatical - Cake Baker

Attorney Warren Brown talks about how he left the government to pursue a fulltime cake-baking business. Learn More

Let Them Eat Cakes

Independent bakeries have found some sweet teeth. Bakeries, whether they serve cakes like your grandma made or vegan muffins, are enjoying a bit of a resurgence throughout the Washington area. Read more

GW alum finds recipe for success

GW Law School graduate Warren Errol Brown reached the likes of Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Tiger Woods last week as People magazine named him one of America’s top 50 bachelors in its July 2 issue. Read More

Love at First Bite

He's the man who's single-handedly giving New York City's Magnolia Bakery a run for its cupcake money. He's the owner of District dessert depots CakeLove and Love Café on U Street, steadily gaining converts to their brand of sugary survival. Read More

Cake Love shares toils of a new bakery

WARREN BROWN NEVER WENT TO CULINARY SCHOOL. He never took a baking class, never tried to make spun sugar or puff pastry or craft an intricate box out of chocolate. Instead, he graduated from Brown University and went to law school. He became a health educator, teaching young people about responsible sexuality. Read More

Sugar Rush with Warren Brown

No competition, no Reality TV? Are there such shows any more on television? How about Desserts? A little travel? That's what the Food Network is offering on Sugar Rush, a new show scheduled to start airing in October 2005. Read More