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Speaker 1: dot com. There's Jean McDonald, my next Yest. I already
Speaker 1: told her she cain't come in my studio without food
Speaker 1: and gives what she wrote some food. When ardent from
Speaker 1: next my next nest company, a Little Slice of Heaven,
Speaker 1: you can expect to get custom made to autobate goods
Speaker 1: which I'm eating right now. Is that with you in mind?
Speaker 1: From birthdays to showers, graduation parties to weddings, A Little
Speaker 1: Slice of Heaven, which is the name of her business,
Speaker 1: would create a custom centerpiece that we enjoyed by all.
Speaker 1: If you go on my website, if you're going on
Speaker 1: my social media, she made me for my birthday. It
Speaker 1: is beautiful, local design, cake of money making conversation. Nobody
Speaker 1: ever did that for me in my life. It was
Speaker 1: like a total surprise and she's back in studio because
Speaker 1: we believe you should taste as good as it looks, really,
Speaker 1: you know, and that not only was the logo good looking,
Speaker 1: but the food was better all gates, all guests. I
Speaker 1: believe that when you raping by food, it should be
Speaker 1: the experience and then the I would like to sell
Speaker 1: the desserts that have made it a little A little
Speaker 1: slice of heaven is truly an experience. Please work with
Speaker 1: the money making conversation, Melanie wide money. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here
Speaker 1: again with you today. Bearing treats again, of course based
Speaker 1: on the tell everybody about sweet that I'm eating. It's
Speaker 1: gonna give me time to tall eat a little bit snap.
Speaker 1: So I brought for Rushan today our best selling flavor,
Speaker 1: which is many lemon pound cakes, and we ship these
Speaker 1: all across the nation and a two count, six count
Speaker 1: or a twelve count um. So we've shipped over thirty
Speaker 1: states across the US, and we will definitely left to
Speaker 1: ship to your doorstep fresh from our ovens. But that
Speaker 1: is what you're eating now. My mother developed that recipe
Speaker 1: leon right, lemon, that's right, it's not overly lemon it's
Speaker 1: more in the middle. It's like that this mini buntcake, right,
Speaker 1: that's right, But I do them in full size as well.
Speaker 1: Just work for me, right because you know, I don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about slicing anything. The mini buntcake, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just like you know, just putting your hand, pick
Speaker 1: that plastic off of and just just snack on it.
Speaker 1: That's right. And then while you're driving, make sure you
Speaker 1: keep the plastic right, so the chron phone falling driving.
Speaker 1: So I got a technique. So I'm gonna have a
Speaker 1: fight with my wife now. I'm gonna tell you right now,
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna sneak him in the house keeping in
Speaker 1: the outside refrigeration it. I won't bring him. I parked
Speaker 1: my car. They're gonna stay out there. Maybe she won't
Speaker 1: notice why I'm standing in the garage. So long to
Speaker 1: wiping my lips. Baby, everything good. You shows out there
Speaker 1: a lot, don't worry about it. It's cold like them.
Speaker 1: So how all this baking begin? So I grew up
Speaker 1: in the household of people who love to bake and
Speaker 1: make food from scratch, and so that's how my love
Speaker 1: began of baking. My mother was a scratch baker, and
Speaker 1: I used to help her in the kitchen, and I
Speaker 1: used to love to hand her the ingredients and of
Speaker 1: course after she got finished beating all the ingredients stuff,
Speaker 1: I would get to lick the bowls. Who doesn't love that?
Speaker 1: So that's how I began just loving all things about
Speaker 1: cake and and that's when I developed that love and passion.
Speaker 1: What type of product does your baker Real offer? So,
Speaker 1: which is, by the way, a little slice of him,
Speaker 1: that's right, look at up on social media, a little
Speaker 1: slice they have and bakery. So we offer all types
Speaker 1: of different cakes like you just had the pound cake.
Speaker 1: We do them in meaning form as well as full
Speaker 1: size having right now, that's right, that's right. We also
Speaker 1: do dessert style cakes, which are your homestyle cakes like
Speaker 1: red velvet cake and UM chocolate cake and um premium
Speaker 1: flavors like strawberry and key lime and German chocolate. So
Speaker 1: we offer those. But we also offer, as you stated before,
Speaker 1: custom cakes, cakes that really take you to another level
Speaker 1: because they are designed with you the client in mind,
Speaker 1: and those are available locally for our local clients. And
Speaker 1: I do sculptic cakes, cakes with three D edible creations
Speaker 1: design whatever you have in mind. I can make it
Speaker 1: because a lot, you know, because I've have a head
Speaker 1: all about daughter. I did a like a fantasy king
Speaker 1: the type cake. She was so young, she didn't understand,
Speaker 1: you know, all that money. She don't even know what's
Speaker 1: going on. Really bothered from me. It was my fantasy.
Speaker 1: And so when I when I talk about what was it?
Speaker 1: What was the longest length of time from start to
Speaker 1: finish you've done on the cake? And what what cake
Speaker 1: was that? Wow? So I spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: on my custom creations, but the one that took me
Speaker 1: probably the longest, is thirty six hours total. It was
Speaker 1: one I made for my youngest son. It was a
Speaker 1: toy box cake, and so I made all the little
Speaker 1: toys and details, wood grain floor, I had the toy
Speaker 1: box elevated, I had it open and had a custom rug.
Speaker 1: It had a toy block spelling out his name, and
Speaker 1: it was absolutely wonderful. All of it was. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been over a year since the last saw you. That's right, okay,
Speaker 1: because that's my anniversary. So some things have been happening
Speaker 1: positive in your life. Business been doing well, but we
Speaker 1: may be seeing you on the small screen. That's right. Actually,
Speaker 1: the big screen because we are about to them be
Speaker 1: making our television debut on the Food Network. That was
Speaker 1: the highlight, definitely the highlights of my career. Being invited
Speaker 1: out to California to film for a new show called
Speaker 1: Winner Cake All. It's uh aired. It started airing on
Speaker 1: January seventh of this year. In our episode is February eleventh.
Speaker 1: It's a Monday at ten pm. So I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see me on the screen and see how it's
Speaker 1: been edited. But it was a wonderful, wonderful it spen.
Speaker 1: How were you selected for that? It's called Winner Cake
Speaker 1: All Winter Cake All. That's right. I was selected. I applied,
Speaker 1: I sent my portfolio. When they saw all the different
Speaker 1: creations that I've made, they were interested than my work.
Speaker 1: Then they called me. I did the telephone interview, like
Speaker 1: love my personality and they're like, we gotta have you.
Speaker 1: So what was the goal of Internet contest our internet
Speaker 1: television show? What? What? What was the purpose? The purpose
Speaker 1: was just to challenge myself personally. I know I'm capable
Speaker 1: with any type of design, but you know, when you're
Speaker 1: on a Food network type show is like competition base.
Speaker 1: So that was definitely something that I stepped out of
Speaker 1: my comfort zone for but I knew that I wanted
Speaker 1: a little slice of Head and Bakery to be a
Speaker 1: household name. And in order to be able to have
Speaker 1: that kind of exposure, you have to put yourself out.
Speaker 1: What is the format? How do how does it work? Okay?
Speaker 1: So the show is four teams up to compete, and
Speaker 1: there's two rounds. One is the top a round which
Speaker 1: you get one hour, and then one team is eliminated,
Speaker 1: and then it goes on to a second round, which
Speaker 1: is the cake round. You get five hours for that,
Speaker 1: and then whoever wins that is the winner, Winner, Cake All.
Speaker 1: So we can't tell us and I can't tell us.
Speaker 1: You're all gonna have to watch Favorite eleven at ten
Speaker 1: pm Eastern. Watch me watch you don't watch a loser?
Speaker 1: But what was what was the most difficult moment in
Speaker 1: the show for you? Winner Take All, Cake Alls call,
Speaker 1: which would be airing on The Food That Works on
Speaker 1: February eleven, which is a monthm What was it? Because
Speaker 1: you know you woke in there and I've been in
Speaker 1: these kitchens. You know the oven looks different, heats different,
Speaker 1: It's set up, everything set up supposed to be even
Speaker 1: what was the trippy part of the production for you.
Speaker 1: The trippy part for me is I like to be
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. I like to just create, so I
Speaker 1: don't like being in front of camera. So that was
Speaker 1: kind of nerve wracking to have all those lights, all
Speaker 1: the camera it's just directly in your face while you're
Speaker 1: trying to work and them calling out you got five minutes,
Speaker 1: you've got two minutes, so you know, the time pressure,
Speaker 1: not knowing the surroundings of the kitchen because they gave
Speaker 1: us a tour like immediately and they said go, So
Speaker 1: you're trying to scramble to the fine things. So that
Speaker 1: was definitely a lot of pressure. Definitely a lot of stress,
Speaker 1: but the experience was just absolutely amazing. Well that's really good.
Speaker 1: That's really good there because you know, I look at
Speaker 1: individuals like you and know this is just one step,
Speaker 1: but it's a magical step. And I always always tell
Speaker 1: people the temper themselves, you know, don't don't look at
Speaker 1: this like the lottery. This is what you just you
Speaker 1: be on TV many more times. You know, you you'd
Speaker 1: be exposed many more time, and each time you get
Speaker 1: exposed to give you another level of opportunity. To be
Speaker 1: successful because next time you be on TV, you're gonna go, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember I did this, but I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I'm a handred like this, or I won't talk so fast,
Speaker 1: or my nerves. I know how to calm them down
Speaker 1: a better. I'll tell you something. You know. I'm teasing,
Speaker 1: you know because with my sister, so she talked to fast.
Speaker 1: I can understand it, but I don't think they understand anything.
Speaker 1: You're sati shot. I go. So I have my little
Speaker 1: critique team out there, you know, because I don't like
Speaker 1: watching myself on TV until way like a moth past
Speaker 1: I watched Oh yeah, because it's really difficult. Steve Harvey,
Speaker 1: he's never watched himself on TV because it's really hard
Speaker 1: to watch yourself, you know, unless you a method actor
Speaker 1: or you try to create a dramatic moment. If you're
Speaker 1: just a regular person. You're not just sitting at the
Speaker 1: home my show. Don't nobody does that, you know, because
Speaker 1: you gotta you want to move on and create multiple
Speaker 1: streams of income so you can be very successful in
Speaker 1: your craft. And that's what you're doing. So tell us
Speaker 1: one more time about Little Slice of Heaven and how
Speaker 1: we can orders some of baked goods online. That's right.
Speaker 1: So for those of you all who are not local
Speaker 1: to Atlanta, you can still benefit from our bake goods.
Speaker 1: You can visit us at w W dot a L
Speaker 1: s H Bakery dot com and you can order your
Speaker 1: mini pound cakes, your full size pound cakes and they'll
Speaker 1: be shipped directly to your doorstep. You know something, I
Speaker 1: first of all, as as an individual who started this
Speaker 1: brand to give exposure to young entrepreneurs, I can continue
Speaker 1: a young portunuere in this business trying to find avenues
Speaker 1: just to get the word out. And again, my commitment
Speaker 1: to you, as if I say the first time I
Speaker 1: met you was to help you be successful. I will
Speaker 1: definitely be posting um this on the social media. In fact,
Speaker 1: when on Monday when it airs, I'll be posting myself
Speaker 1: eating one of your delicious lemon mini bunk cakes and
Speaker 1: promoting that. You'll be on February level on Winner Cake
Speaker 1: all ten pm. That's a Monday on the Food Network.
Speaker 1: That's right. You're open to coming to my studio anytime,
Speaker 1: especially when you bring food. But Ms Wideman, you're wonderful,
Speaker 1: You're gifted again, don't make it be a year. It
Speaker 1: won't be a year, and I'm about to open the
Speaker 1: storefront actually, so be looking out for our social media
Speaker 1: so you can see when we will be having our
Speaker 1: grand opening when you can get some more sweetly, thank
Speaker 1: you appreciate it as Medley a widement. Now is the
Speaker 1: chance to use reliable energy to grow your money with
Speaker 1: the Dominion Energy Reliability Investment. Our new investment product offers
Speaker 1: competitive returns, no maintenance fees and flexible online access to
Speaker 1: your money. Make the reliable investment in reliable energy the
Speaker 1: Dominion Energy Reliability Investment. To find out more, go online
Speaker 1: to Reliability Investment dot com. That's Reliability Investment dot com.