Walmart Introduces Two New Patti LaBelle Cakes
The "Patti Cakes" will be sold in select Walmart stores year-round.
— -- Patti LaBelle is bringing out new sweet treats to rock your taste buds.
LaBelle announced on Twitter Monday that two new cakes will be sold at Walmart under her name in addition to the wildly successful Patti LaBelle Sweet Potato Pie.
"Who’s ready for #PattiCake," LaBelle tweeted. "My new vanilla pound cake is making its way to stores!"
Walmart spokesman Scott Markley told ABC News that because of the unprecedented success of the Patti LaBelle Sweet Potato Pies, or "Patti Pies" as he calls them, preparation for the new cakes went into overdrive to make sure that Walmart was able to produce enough cakes to meet the high demand.
"We needed 50,000 pounds of vanilla icing for our first orders of the vanilla pound cakes and 54,000 pounds of batter for the caramel cakes," Markley said.
Walmart will start selling a Patti LaBelle Vanilla Pound Cake with vanilla icing and a Patti LaBelle Premium Caramel Cake year-round in select stores around the country. The vanilla pound cakes can be bought in stores today, and the caramel cake will be released in stores on Jan. 18.
The new "Patti Cakes" are slightly more expensive than LaBelle's Sweet Potato Pie. The vanilla pound cake with vanilla icing is priced at $6.44 and the premium caramel cake will cost $13.44 in comparison to the sweet potato pie's $3.98 price tag.
