Mammi’s Cakes

Socorro, New Mexico

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Home bakery · nearly 80 · still baking

Cakes from Ms. Dee’s kitchen.

Dee Russell has been a familiar face from Lemitar to Socorro for nearly fifty years. From her own kitchen she bakes bundt cakes, pies, sweet breads, sticky buns, and custom cakes for the people around her.

Email deeruss47@gmail.com

She rests on Sundays. Email is the way to ask.

Heart-shaped strawberry upside-down bundt cake with glaze, cream, and fresh strawberries on a white plate.
Strawberry upside-down bundt Photo by Dee Russell

What she bakes

Bundts, pies, and cakes made for an occasion.

Those are bundt flavors she names from memory, and there are more. Custom cakes can take holiday shapes and themed designs. The photos here show a strawberry upside-down bundt, a key-lime pie, and a citrus bundt with icing.

Key-lime pie with a pale green filling, whipped cream, and fresh lime slices.
Key-lime pie with fresh limes Photo by Dee Russell
Citrus bundt cake topped with orange slices and white icing, on a blue patterned plate.
Citrus bundt with icing Photo by Dee Russell
Portrait of Dee Russell, an older woman with short white hair, smiling at the camera.
Dee Russell · Photo submitted by Dee Russell

Who she is

Socorro knows her as Ms. Dee.

She moved to the area at 29 and put in years of local work before she started Mammi’s Cakes at home. Her youngest son and daughter-in-law designed the name. New Mexico certified her to sell baked goods to individuals.

A lot of what she bakes is given away. She donates to neighbors, seniors, and local offices, and she still barters now and then. Baking is how she stays in the life of the town.

She keeps prices meant for local wages. A double-layer German chocolate cake was once $25, and groceries have pushed her up a little since. That is not today’s price. Ask her what a cake costs now.

Sundays she rests, a habit from her grandfather. This page does not list hours, and she is not open on Sunday. Write her if you need something, and she can say whether she can bake it.

How to ask

Tell her what you want by email.

Send the kind of cake or pie, the day you hope to have it, and how she should reply. There is no phone number and no street address on this page. She bakes from home in Socorro.

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