ELLINGTON, CT (WFSB) – Mackenzie Helbig baked up a terrific thought: MH Bakes!
She makes customized muffins and cupcakes and he or she’s going into her senior yr of highschool.
“It began form of with my grandma, we might simply bake within the kitchen, and it grew to become increasingly of an aspiration for me as quickly as I bought to highschool so taking all of the baking lessons and all that,” mentioned Mackenzie.
She’s principally self-taught and seeking to additional her abilities when she goes off to school subsequent yr.
Her plate may be very full within the meantime.
“I bake them off on Wednesday, I freeze them, which is my secret to all the pieces I really feel that freezing makes all the pieces style higher, so I freeze it, I de-thaw it, I make the frosting, I spend just about a complete day frosting the cake, after which I set everybody a sure time that both we meet half method, choose up from me, or I drop off to them.”
Helbig juggles one other job, soccer, and college, however she spends loads of time ensuring cake orders are good for patrons.
“No matter you need, I’ll attempt to obtain,” she mentioned.
Every little thing is constituted of scratch.
“My favourite factor to do might be like enjoyable muffins like for birthdays, individuals like humorous little issues to do, that’s most likely my favourite half. Or I’ll like simplistic muffins, I really like just like the bare cake look with all just like the fruits and stuff,” Mackenzie mentioned.
She’s already wanting towards the longer term, hoping to in the future open a bakery in her hometown of Ellington, the place it began.
“Actually enjoyable, I wouldn’t commerce it for the world. I’m having an superior time baking muffins. It makes me really feel good inside when somebody texts me asking for a cake or one thing as a result of they put their belief in me to make their little one’s birthday cake or no matter it is likely to be.”
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