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we're starting today in a local bakery
but but this is more than a bakery this
is like an artist workshop because the
ladies here create something that is
those wait beyond regular cakes or
anything that you would see they're very
original the cakes they create here
everything they do here is super
original and it's amazing and we just
feel like it should be they should be
more famous for this so first of all we
want to show you guys this video because
we appreciate how hard they work some
people really dedicate their lives and
sacrifice a lot for others to be able to
enjoy things that they make so very
often they start working here at crazy
hours like literally 3 a.m. to make
everything ready for the morning and for
the whole day and before holidays in the
very heated season they work non-stop
sometimes not sleeping for like 2 or 3
nights
they're gonna tell all these stories
themselves I just wanted to introduce
the idea for this film and stay tuned
because what you're about to see in the
end is really really work of art and
it's so delicious and it looks so
amazing that we just absolutely had to
film it
you ready to rock yeah I guess uh yeah
well yeah well I'm making stack cakes
right now because we only have 15 to do
for today that's all is 15 a lot yes it
is so when you say only you're being
sarcastic correct absolutely
yeah but we're kind of rockin and rollin
we've been prepping this is kind of day
for the reef and yeah cuz we had orders
throughout the weekend and of course
stuff to keep up with the shop but yeah
it's movin and groovin it's our third
official Christmas he's he isn't our
third or fourth Christmas technically
it's a third one right yes
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we just had a lunch break so we're kind
of now going on the second half of the
day well thank you started to me well I
was the late bloomer because of my baby
but I got in a teen I had to run some
errands for the shop first
but Casey's been here probably since
2:30 a.m.
yes 30 a.m. yes because yeast Oh takes a
while to rise and especially depending
on the temperatures inside the building
and outside playa factors so so yeah
she's rocking and rolling and so she's
just gonna be finishing up the orders
for today and then we'll just start
fulfilling everything for Department how
many orders are there like 30 right yeah
you say 30 you mean just like 30 you
know someone could order a single cake
and or some people are like oh I want
yeah I was there one two cakes I want
cinnamon rolls i watch she's ball kind
of thing so there we go
very so are most of your clients and
northeast and Elkin or where not
necessary ya know we get people from all
over I think of that a lot of these are
probably local people mm-hmm but but no
we have people from Pennsylvania you
know we have people you know all over
the place
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okay so the three cakes that we're
offering is our winter wonderland which
is a chocolate cake with a peppermint
cream filling and buttercream and it has
like all kinds of fun dollops and white
chocolate snowflakes and and all that
stuff and then we have a vintage
Christmas which is a gingerbread cake
and then the stack cake that we're
working on right now is the sugar plum
stack cake so it's a like a buttermilk
spiced cake it has a plum jam filling
which we add a little buttercream to it
so it's a little fluffier and then it
has you know like the white chocolate
chips in like the sugar fruit and all
that stuff because we've tried to play
on all the classic elements of Christmas
this year where it's like the Sugar Plum
fairies and you know vintage Christmas
stuff and then everyone you know
especially in our area you hope for a
winter wonderland with like snow and all
that stuff granted it was like sixty
degrees the other day but who knows so
we'll go with it we'll see what's
happening
have you always been a morning person
not at all not at all I enjoy sleep a
great but great amount but now yeah I
can't 4:45 is when my husband's alarm
goes off Mondays and Tuesdays are my day
off and check the
have to get up till 6:30 because that's
when you know I've got my kids up and
get them to school but Shawn for him
goes off the court eat before 45 and I'm
up like before he is you know he hit
snooze three or four times and I'm like
okay great
I'm up that's it the set so I lay there
and try to go back to sleep and you know
he's getting up and getting ready and
stuff and he goes out the door and it's
like okay how about here it is the
Christmas menu came out it's like on
Thanksgiving Day we had it out there
when he people were picking up big will
today for Thanksgiving when they were
picking up their Thanksgiving orders
that was out there so it kind of almost
starts then because we're figuring out
yeah like fate well first of all I'm
starting to make stuff so we can take
pictures of it and put it on it up on
Facebook so people can see because you
know you read about a cake it's one
thing you can't picture and then the
phone starts ringing yeah if you just
wrote winter wonderland cake if you're
right oh that's nice right didn't you
show that cake and that's like we had
three at four orders the day I put the
picture up I'm like four orders came in
that day so it kind of starts with that
and then it's kind of orders start
rolling in we have to deal with okay so
who is helping us with this so we're
really fortunate this year that we
actually have a pretty good fresh staff
for the first two years it was just me
and Lisa and then we find like we got
Tanisha which really helped and my mom
so he's been helpful but now we have
like four honest-to-god prep football so
we got yeah Miami girl here come here
you have to come over here this is Miami
girl she's at my daughter's best friend
she just pulled in by the way Frankie
did oh honey good girl you know what I
saw that and I thought oh she might have
a mold oh I'm not going to say any just
about you see you're good but you never
spoke about her I'm about you
miss meringue well with my blowtorch
maybe there goes
this is fun right
magic it's a little Christmas magic guys
I have this little guy for when we're
doing well obviously things like this
but also we do s'mores brownies
sometimes and I make the homemade
marshmallow for the top of that
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this bowl is a little bit loose on this
one so when the butter is hard or not as
room temperatures we would like it it's
the bowl shakes a little bit so hold
down the fort
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I don't know how you guys are starting
your Christmas Eve but ours begins in a
very sweet place I hope all of you have
just a wonderful day to day filled with
wrapping presents and being absolutely
not stressed because this is our goal no
stress oh really you didn't know we
started this morning very so these are
just fondant snowflakes I've got it with
one of our our vintage Christmas cakes
together because Tanisha is is working a
catered party later on this afternoon
and the lady asked if she could bring
one of our Christmas cakes so she's got
to get out the door to about ten minutes
so we're gonna turn that cake just put
into the refrigerator in the you know
some beautiful work of art very quickly
it is a little bit about knowing like
how to balance things and stuff like
that like I want to sound all like
condescending and pretentious thank you
have to write to some local real about
it you're the professor of cake making
at this point the professor at cake
making you making card like business
cards because they were gonna say
Pharaoh
I'll take professor escape made me yeah
we had a woman one time who had ordered
one of our unicorn cakes for her young
daughter what was she like eight or nine
I think right leads and as she was
taking the cake out put it in the car
she kind of like lost their handle on it
and the cake fell into her car and she
came back in and whit's like near tears
and she was like I'm sorry I don't know
what to do would really come back in
half an hour and I put it on my table
and I scraped the whole thing down and
put it back together and she came back
either there's very little that I can't
I can't fix so yeah and she was ecstatic
so she was you know anybody let me give
you money like you're a they bore it
here take it she's explaining this
because I asked what would happen if I
dropped my camera on this cake
wouldn't be very good don't show people
that I use the on camera without my ok
really
but this is why I do that for the people
watching that's a good explanation
really look at all these behind me these
are all ready to go and they look
absolutely amazing there's one two three
four five six fourteen of them wow
that's a lot of work to be a distraction
to their customers are they opening -
I'm sure they don't understand there's a
lady with the camera sitting in the
window it's just the Christmas tically
you're the Christmas elf yeah
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today was not so bad I I was here at
3:30 which is really not bad yes I am
which you know like last year we I just
didn't go home and like we wouldn't
leave I we didn't go home for how many
days like the night before kind of thing
like sometimes two nights before the
very good though or God the first year
we were like three days yeah literally
like we went home gently
yeah come on in yeah we have an
undulation shower and mouse buddy good
morning uh like right before we open yes
like it was like we ran home like okay
everything's done we have to kind of be
presentable now so I'm gonna run to my
house take a shower a rock well yeah you
ladies still love it right yes I do it
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but meet up one time at like three or
something and like we'll have a midnight
snack before bed and you can have
breakfast yeah absolutely