The business named after her oldest son, Felicia opened Mecairo's Cake Co. in Etobicoke in suburban Toronto, ON, the shop the offshoot of what started as her home based custom cake business. A visual artist by trade, she is most attracted ...See moreThe business named after her oldest son, Felicia opened Mecairo's Cake Co. in Etobicoke in suburban Toronto, ON, the shop the offshoot of what started as her home based custom cake business. A visual artist by trade, she is most attracted to the artistic side of the business, the more her custom cakes don't look like cakes, the better in her mind. Whatever baking she knows she learned from watching baking shows, which was part of her much needed recovery process from Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. While Felicia believes her items taste good, she can't get people through the doors to try them, and as such the business is failing. It's a Catch-22 in that she doesn't stock her pastry cases with no customers and not wanting to create waste which she would throw out, those empty cases which make the business look empty and uninviting. In tasting her wares, Steve finds more misses than hits, and suspects that she spends most of her effort on the decoration of her custom cakes and not much effort into making her pastries either look or taste good. Steve has to help her transform from being a home baker to being a professional baker, which includes knowing how to recycle items that haven't sold at the end of the day, and bring her artistic skills to the pastry case in the entire process. Tiffany has to contend with some inherent problems, such as the large windows and the heat and light coming through affecting what Felicia can display in the front cases, as well as maintaining a space for her children who she often needs to care for while at work, all the while trying to work toward Felicia's vision of the space looking like an edible art gallery. Written by
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