My cupcake journey began when my former classmate, "Jenkins," as I call him, introduced me to the most magnificent cupcakes I had ever tasted in all my life (until my own of course) from a cute little cupcakery. We would talk from time to time about starting our own lines of cupcakes to knock some of the competition out the water. Anyway, this cupcakery had a nice selection of unique flavors of cupcakes and a few of them had cream cheese icing. I like buttercream, but most often I find it to be too sweet so before anyone thinks I am anti buttercream, i'm not and even if I was.... sooo anytime I go into a bakery I look for cupcakes or cake with cream cheese icing. I bought two cupcakes, a chocolate raspberry almond and a red velvet.. I bit into that chocolate raspberry cupcake and WHOA was it amazing! The only thing was, there weren't enough cream cheese options. This is what lit the spark inside of me to finally create my own line! As my journey began, I turned back to my dear old friends, yep Betty and Duncan, but felt like box cake was cheating my potential future cunsumers. I took an intro to baking course while in culinary school and learned how to bake a cake from scratch, while the recipe was good for cakes in school, it wasn't so much for a delicious cupcake... way too dense so I had to begin my trial and error process of finding/developing a deliciously moist cake. And <--- totally know u shouldn't begin a sentence this way, but it's my blog so who cares! And so A STAR IS BORN!!! UNTIL... KISSES
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
First Thingz First...
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Valerie, but for all intents and purposes, let's just go with ChefVee! I am a certified chef, and self made cupcaker!!! I have wanted to be a chef for as long as I can remember and have my own cooking show... As a child, and even at times still today, I venture into my own fantasy filled world and host my own cooking special. I explain to my fantasy audience the proper classical techniques to preparing the totally awesome gourmet dish i'm working on. I guess i'm kinda quirky that way. I loved brownies as a child, so Duncan Hines and Betty Crocker were good friends of mine; and once I began baking on my own, they were my go to. I began taking those box brownies and exploring creative options like adding nuts and marshmallows and caramel to them to make them my own. My older sister, Dana, liked them and would take them to school. Her peers loved them so much that they started paying me $0.50 a piece for them; therefore a baker was born!!! Today, I am a high honor graduate of Le Cordon Bleu (Atlanta), I spent three months in Jamaica at the Sandals Resort in Montego Bay completing my externship, and I have created my own cupcake line.
My cupcake journey began when my former classmate, "Jenkins," as I call him, introduced me to the most magnificent cupcakes I had ever tasted in all my life (until my own of course) from a cute little cupcakery. We would talk from time to time about starting our own lines of cupcakes to knock some of the competition out the water. Anyway, this cupcakery had a nice selection of unique flavors of cupcakes and a few of them had cream cheese icing. I like buttercream, but most often I find it to be too sweet so before anyone thinks I am anti buttercream, i'm not and even if I was.... sooo anytime I go into a bakery I look for cupcakes or cake with cream cheese icing. I bought two cupcakes, a chocolate raspberry almond and a red velvet.. I bit into that chocolate raspberry cupcake and WHOA was it amazing! The only thing was, there weren't enough cream cheese options. This is what lit the spark inside of me to finally create my own line! As my journey began, I turned back to my dear old friends, yep Betty and Duncan, but felt like box cake was cheating my potential future cunsumers. I took an intro to baking course while in culinary school and learned how to bake a cake from scratch, while the recipe was good for cakes in school, it wasn't so much for a delicious cupcake... way too dense so I had to begin my trial and error process of finding/developing a deliciously moist cake. And <--- totally know u shouldn't begin a sentence this way, but it's my blog so who cares! And so A STAR IS BORN!!! UNTIL... KISSES
My cupcake journey began when my former classmate, "Jenkins," as I call him, introduced me to the most magnificent cupcakes I had ever tasted in all my life (until my own of course) from a cute little cupcakery. We would talk from time to time about starting our own lines of cupcakes to knock some of the competition out the water. Anyway, this cupcakery had a nice selection of unique flavors of cupcakes and a few of them had cream cheese icing. I like buttercream, but most often I find it to be too sweet so before anyone thinks I am anti buttercream, i'm not and even if I was.... sooo anytime I go into a bakery I look for cupcakes or cake with cream cheese icing. I bought two cupcakes, a chocolate raspberry almond and a red velvet.. I bit into that chocolate raspberry cupcake and WHOA was it amazing! The only thing was, there weren't enough cream cheese options. This is what lit the spark inside of me to finally create my own line! As my journey began, I turned back to my dear old friends, yep Betty and Duncan, but felt like box cake was cheating my potential future cunsumers. I took an intro to baking course while in culinary school and learned how to bake a cake from scratch, while the recipe was good for cakes in school, it wasn't so much for a delicious cupcake... way too dense so I had to begin my trial and error process of finding/developing a deliciously moist cake. And <--- totally know u shouldn't begin a sentence this way, but it's my blog so who cares! And so A STAR IS BORN!!! UNTIL... KISSES
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