Featered Creator: Rachel Yaure- Assistant Baker

Meet Rachel Yaure

Rachel recently started here at The Cake Boutique as a baking assistant. Prior to working here at the bakery, Rachel was a Baking and Pastry Major and began her first job as a pastry assistant at a catering company in Philadelphia. Rachel has had lot of experience making petite desserts, however, her favorite dessert to make is strawberry shortcake (when strawberries are in season of course!). When making her strawberry shortcake she says, " I prefer to use angel food cake because it's light and the strawberries compliment it well." She would also prefer to use a vanilla mousse just to fill between the layers rather than fill and coat the entire thing (naked cake).  Although, she loves strawberry shortcake for the most part Rachel is a plain jane type of gal! Her favorite cake combination is vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream.

Being as she is still fairly new, and hasn't made an overabundance of cakes just yet her favorite that she has made here was one of her most recent the little mermaid cake. Working with glitter and various techniques came it a theatrical and whimsical look! Rachel says that she believes the biggest misconception about the baking industry is that, "Many people think it is a walk in the park, but it's not. There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes. Within days and the weeks theres a lot of ideas and composing taking place. Not to mention long hours spent on your feet and constant use of your hands."

When I asked her to leave a tip with our blog readers she stated, "Don't be afraid to step outside the box with ideas for cakes, but also keep in ind the price. It's okay to be creative and have fun with the ideas or to allow your decorator's to do the work for you. Pick a price range and throw out ideas. It's always better to set your price range a bit higher that you anticipate, so you're not disappointment if the cake price is too high, but you can feel excited if it's lower than you expect!"