The Gula Cake Shop on Clinton Street has built a large following with its fabulous wedding and special occasion cakes, each one a work of baking and culinary art by shop owners Roberto Dos Santos and Lana Garcia.

Now thanks to a $5,000 loan from the Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream philanthropic program, the Gula Cake Shop proprietors are expanding on their American dream and hoping to add to the cake shop's growing list of customers.

Dos Santos and Garcia, who are married and have two children, have used the Samuel Adams loan to purchase new machinery that will speed up their cake production.

Garcia's family in Brazil used to own a successful food business that was named Gula Gula. They decided to use the name Gula for the cake business that they started ten years ago and opened in Everett in 2008.

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