Official Businees Owners Hurray!

I went down to the city today and did all the paper work for us to finally be an official business, all we need now it to get our kitchen space inspected and our health cards. It is getting easier thank GOD!
It feels good to finally get this all done, and be able to work for myself something I always wanted. It's allot of hard work and restless hours, coming up with the best recipes, and having a 5 month old Princess(she loves to watch me bake and cook) but it will all be worth it in the end : )
When you are this passionate about something you get it done! I wanted a great husband check, a Yorkie check, a house check, and a beautiful daughter I waited 6 years for, and now I'm well on my way to owning a wonderful fun business with Kisha we have been working really hard, late hours Thru the night nonstop, and guess what is paid off, we have orders rolling in, and they will just keep on coming. I come from a family of hard worker's it would be a shame if I didn't follow their path, so here I am well on my way, I can’t Wait!

Now I'm working on a gingersnap Carmel cheesecake cake pop MMMMMM! I'll post pix when there done.

Discouraged...

I don't understand my need to always be first and perfect.  Yesterday I googled the word "cake pops".  I was looking for any companies that sold cake pops locally and online.  I thought it would help me feel better about what we were doing, but instead it made me feel discouraged.  I got worried that we couldn't cut it and that there was already people somewhere in the world doing what we want to do so what was the point.  Well all of that reflected in my baking last night. 

I went home after 10 hours at work, tired and starving and started to bake.  I thought about all the flavors that are offered by other bakeries and thought "what if there was another bakery in Vegas who had the same idea that we have".  My dad came over for dinner and added to my pity party by saying that somewhere in Las Vegas there were two girls rolling up some cake pops hoping to be the first cake pop shop.  As if he could hear what I was obsessing about.  But I kept baking, even thought the kids were screaming and some financial issues presented themselves, even through my dad telling me that Bacon was a terrible idea for a cake pop...I kept baking.  I was frustrated and it came out in the food.  The cakes pops were terrible.  They looked and tasted as terrible as I felt.  I went to bed angry at my dad, my job, my husband, and my cake pops. When I woke up, I was still mad.  I thought about telling my husband that I was going to quit, and keep my office job.  That I was going to trade in my dream of having a bakery for peaceful nights after work and the financial "security" of a regular paycheck.  I went to work and right as I was about to text him a tiny voice way in the back of my head told me to stop.  It told me that I would regret it for the rest of my life like all the other times I followed the pack and didn't think outside the box.  I had a bad night, why should I give up because of that?  Then I remembered a quote that I have been repeating for the past month.." you haven't failed until you give up".  So I decided not to fail.  I choose to do what it takes to get this thing going for myself, for my family and for Jenn.   This will work, we will have a successful bakery and our cake pops and cookie pops will be tasted all across America!

Love Kisha

On Our Way To Living The American Dream

Yay we got our Domain Name. I am so super excited for Kisha and Me, I can’t Wait until we are up and running!
Tomorrow will be a fun filled day, I will register our name and go get our business license, can't wait : )
As I told my friends and family, I have to live the American dream, If I don't It would feel like I had unfinished business in my life, so here we go we are well on our way.


"life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. All things are possible with a little bit of hard work."

Love Jen

Whoohooo

We purchased our domain name last night.  I am sooooo excited.  Now on the Internet we own "the Little Treat Boutique" I am so happy.  I can't express enough how excited I am to embark on this journey with Jennifer.  I know it will be hard and scary.  There will be late nights and money lost but I have never been so committed and excited about anything in my life.  Since I was a kid I imagined having a bakery or an ice cream shop.  I used to draw pictures of what it would look like and imagine how good it would feel to see the smiles on peoples faces when they tasted one of the unique flavors that I came up with.  I love to feed people and I have a monster sweet tooth so this incorporates two things that I love.  Now that is one thing  to check off our list of a million things to do! Whooohooo

Love Kisha

Some of our flavors

Mint

Orange

Strawberry

Oreo cupcake bites

Strawberry Sundae cupcake bites

Yummy!!!

For the LOVE of baking

I am a huge fan of sweets, when I say huge I mean huge! I am a baker at heart it's what I Love besides being a great mom, and wife. I am super excited that I get to share this adventure with my Sister-in-law Kisha, she is my sister. We have more in common than most biological sisters. And yes like most sister's we shared our up's and down's, more up's than down's that for sure, but no matter how big the hill we had to climb to get where we are, we are family and always will be! We had so much fun this past weekend making and practicing our new cake pop recipes. She mentioned to me we are going to get fat eating all these yummy pop's it's like Pringles once you pop you can’t stop : ) So I said to her it's ok we will just have to work out harder, we just laughed and kept eating LOL!!!! Kish and I are super ready to be a part of the baking world and we know you will love what we have to offer, we are 2 mom's that want to be with their kids as much as possible and watch them grow up, because we all know they grow up to fast. My family is the reason I want to be a success so my daughter can say thanks mom and dad for giving me the best life possible. I am all about family!

I remember as a young girl I loved to watch my mom cook and bake I loved being in the kitchen. My brother and I learned most of our skills we share today thanks to our AMAZING MOM! We would watch her cook and bake she made all of our birthday cakes, they were pretty awsome : ) She passed down her awsome cake pans to me(wooohoo-score)!!!! She even made all the yummy food. My husband love's when my mom come's over because me and her get down in the kitchen together and the food just tastes better She has her old school cooking tricks and I mix in a little of my new school tricks and whala we get an amazing meal. 

One of the main reason's I love baking and cooking is the expressions on peoples faces when they take that first bite that bite tells me everything, I am all about taste and presentation, if I dont like it I dont serve it. Here we go Kish we are well on our way to SUCCESS... We are both so excited and we know you will be to : ) 

Love Jen

My BEAUTIFUL Princess trying to dive into a packaged cake pop, to her it tasted yummy LOL... Love you

What we did over the weekend...

This past weekend we had a ton of fun experimenting with new flavors.  Friday night we made a strawberry flavored pop. Then sunday we made Mint Chocolate, and an Orange Sugar Cookie pops.  They all taste amazing. I can't wait until we can share these with everyone.  So far my friends and family who have tried them love the flavors we have come out with and we have recieved our first order.  Ok, so it is from my mother in law but it is our first order none the less.  We are super excited and planning on creating a cute floral bouquet for her.  Also on the agenda this week is to test out at least two more flavors.  Our mission is to get the menu created, and what a menu it will be!  Another, not so fun item on our to do list is to register our name, purchase a domain and figure out how to create a website.  If anyone has a clue how to accomplish this, we could really use the help. I know how to do simple things like create a blog or a facebook profile, but when it comes to websites I am clueless.  We might have to get some proffesional help with this one.  Wish us luck!


Love Kisha



An ah ha moment

Three weeks ago my mom and I were talking about cake.  I told her that if I had more time I would love to bake more and that I really enjoyed making cakes and working with fondant. I mentioned that some day, in the future I wanted to open a bakery, it had been a goal of mine since I was a kid.  That's when she told me that my sister in law Jenn was starting a "home based" bakery.  Then she said something so simple, I can't believe I didn't think of it myself.  She said, "why don't the two of you start a business together".  DUH! We both like to bake, we are driven, we have been talking about starting business' for years and we hang out weekly.  What a great idea...or was it.  After my mom left Jenn and I talked and decided that we have similar goals and close to the same skill level (Jenn is more skilled than I am at baking...so far ;) So the last three weeks we have been working hard to figure out how to start this thing up.  There are licences and health inspections, we need to register a name and decide what will be on our menu.  So many things to think about.

Last week we drove all over town tasting cupcakes from our competition so far my favorite is still Gigi's cupcakes..I am a huge fan of the frosting.  I had the worse stomach ache that night from tasting 15 different cupcakes from around town including  our own.  Today was even more fun, we got together and made cake balls, Jenn made an incredible ball out of cookies, I cant say much more because it was seriously amazing and you will just have to wait until we roll it out to the public.  Cake balls are harder than I thought they were, and they take a long time, first you have to bake the cake then after it cools and you form the balls they have to set in the fridge then comes the tricky part, I think that I destroyed 5 or 6 of them attempting to dip them in the chocolate...don't worry they didn't go to waist! Even destroyed they tasted amazing.  Tomorrow I am going to make some cake pops and experiment with some different flavors...wish me luck!


Love Kisha