Sunday and closed Monday.Home > Cake Blog > behind the scenes > mmmm…yummy cupcakes! mmmm…yummy cupcakes! Peace, Love, and Cupcakes is located at 1428 Burnet Ave in Syracuse and set to celebrate their Grand Opening on Sunday, Sept. I would have never had the confidence or the guts to go for this if I didn’t have so many people believe in me.” “I love to stress my appreciation for the support behind me,” she said. Rebecca is working on perfecting the classic Liberty Bakery custard to pay homage to the original bakery as a nod to her historic new home. Old pictures of the original owners and a Liberty bakery calendar dated 1946 adorn the walls. She cherishes the 100-year-old prep table, and the marble table from Woolworth’s closing. The old Liberty Bakery is once again filled with delicious smells, and Rebecca is doing her part to keep the historic atmosphere. 14, Rebecca Riley opened the doors to her own bakery at 1428 Burnet Ave., Syracuse. This, friends, is where Rebecca’s luck turned. With a much-needed nudge from her husband, Rebecca reluctantly reached out. The old Liberty Bakery was looking for a renter. But this time, someone had a great piece of information. I couldn’t even talk,” Rebecca said.Īgain, she reached out to her following and explained her heartache and struggle. Once again, however, it was just not meant to be. With new confidence, the Rileys found another store to rent, a café this time. She opened the page back up and like a shot, they were back in business again. As wonderful as that was, she missed doing her stuff. She got her DBA and began baking through the Syracuse Co-Op. Rebecca shut down their page, and in that, her business.īut she didn’t give up baking. The Rileys pulled out and, feeling deflated and defeated, gave up for a time. They were hours from keys in hand when Rebecca received a terrible bit of business advice. She decided she really did want a bakery of her own. Her business was growing and her kitchen was shrinking. She was pulling all nighters trying to juggle her dream but also continue working and drawing income for her family of five. Riley was baking out of her home kitchen for friends and family and taking online custom orders. “I must have made 1,000 little blobs before I got a rose!” “I’d sit there on my couch with a piping bag and a flower nail, trying to make butter cream roses and just getting these little blobs every time,” she said. There has been no other formal training for Riley who is otherwise self-taught. Rebecca worked at several other bakeries, including Corso’s Cookies, WalMart, Modern Malt and the Half Moon Bakery. Her first big order came a few months later in 2012: 200 cupcakes for a wedding reception. So, being the wise woman she is, Rebecca did just that, forming Peace, Love and Cupcakes. You don’t even have to make a profit yet just get your money back. Create a Facebook page, invite all of your friends and family, start your prices really low. Make up a name - something cute that represents you. “Go home tonight and print 500 business cards from Vista Print. “I’ll give you an extra $10 on top of your tip,” she told Rebecca. The next came from a woman who simply said “Just do it!” in regards to starting her own business. He surprised her one day with a trunk full of cake pans, a Wilton decorating kit, piping bags, frosting tips, and other various baking tools. The first came from a regular customer who heard all about Rebecca’s joy of baking. The next few gigantic pushes came in 2011 from two separate customers while Rebecca was working at Denny’s. Rebecca would spend her downtime baking at home and practicing for fun. It didn’t take long for her to realize how much she enjoyed this seemingly minor trade. It was a skill she may not have even known she possessed. Rebecca and her husband both began working for Insomnia Cookies, where she really got her first taste of baking and decorating. Rebecca’s story does not disappoint - in the end, we all get a touch of Peace, Love, and Cupcakes. Here we have a series of very specific and defining points which made this story possible. This may ring true all too well for self-taught baker Rebecca Riley. They fight and fight and fight until they want to give up! And then? They come out on top. What’s a protagonist without some fantastic battle of sorts? Your favorite character is situated in front of the ultimate of circumstances. None of the great stories out there have been written without conflict or struggle.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |