Satisfy your sweet tooth with "Taylor's Cake Place"

Alright, welcome back into Good DDC. Get ready to satisfy your sweet tooth because Taylor's Cake Place is joining us in the studio with her creative Jumbo Cupcakes. And a big vision for growing a D.C. business. We're talking sweet treats and entrepreneurial dreams with Taylor, owner and founder of Taylor's Cake Place. Thanks so much for joining us. Welcome. Thank you. Let's start with where, I mean, we walked in and instantly we're like, it smells like fall and we're going to get into the seasonal flavors. But just where did this dream come from for you if we're talking about being an entrepreneur? newer? Honestly it came from I always wanted to be a pastry chef so in college I got laid off from my job and then I went home and had enough supplies to bake some cakes and mini bundt cakes so then I just sold out in a weekend and I said okay I could turn this into a business. I got this. Did anyone inspire your interest in pastries or? I think my grandmother like we would always bake when I was a little girl and just to do it now it's so cool and I just love I love that I always love baking with her. Yeah. I love that you took a misfortune in life and you turned it into an opportunity because so many people would be down on that. And you said, no, this is my opportunity to create something new. So tell us a little bit about these cupcakes and the seasonal flavors that we're going to get here today. Yes. And there's no large. The jumbo cups. If you're going to go, go big, McKay. Exactly. You have to. So today I have cinnamon bun, Oreo, apple cider, ginger snap pumpkin spice cookie um and then we're going to be decorating spooky marshmallow and then over here is my classic flavors it's very vanilla and cinnamon swirl oh my gosh wow so your menu it changes monthly yeah you were telling me so oh my gosh how do you come up with different flavors and concepts oh my gosh it could be difficult but when i'm out i'll just look around and i'll see things i'm like oh that snack look good maybe i can turn into a cupcake so definitely like even with um cinnamon bun oreo i was in the store and i just saw they had limited edition cinnamon bun Oreos and I'm like that would be a good cupcake. You kind of surprised me with that one because typically you think of fall you think there just might be like a pumpkin flavor maybe a cinnamon flavor or apples but you've really taken it to the next level with the creativity. How are we going to be decorating and what's in this cupcake? Yes so okay so this is um the spooky marshmallow and inside is a marshmallow fluff and then um we're going to have spooky sorry sprinkles and then we're going to put buttercream and then we're going to roll it in the spooky sprinkles and then top it with a marshmallow. Okay. Is there a trick too? Because you made them look so beautiful here. I know. Is there a trick to doing this? I guess just put pressure on it and then just lean in with it and swirl it. Do you start from the middle, Taylor? I do start. I think I start from the middle, yeah. Oh, this takes some muscle. It does. Wow. Oh my goodness. This is not easy. Hold on. look let me not mess up your cupcake no but you're doing good y'all i'm like thank you well you know i don't think it's as pretty as yours oh yours was so much better makia you know i tried you know i i love oh we got to roll it first yes will it fall off no it should be good you can pick it up oh nope yeah will it fall off okay because we have here i helped with the okay the marshmallow okay there we go okay Look how pretty that is. It is cute. It tastes good. It's going to taste good, but that's what we can say at the very least. Oh my gosh, I think you just gave some families some really good ideas how to make spooky treats. Exactly. Or just order from you. There you go. How can I do that? Yeah, so you can order on my website, taylorscakeplace.com and yeah, you just place your order on there and you pick what day you want to deliver or pick up. Okay. What's the most like crazy, the craziest flavor you've ever come up with that turned out really, really good? Where you saw something And you're like, let me turn that into a cupcake. And then it was just a hit. I think it would be maybe the apple cider over there. Okay. That was really like, how can I do this? How can I make an apple cider cupcake? But it came out good. Okay. Well, listen. I'm going to hold back. She's going to go on in. Thank you so much for joining us, letting McKee and I get a little creative. I don't think we're going to be in the kitchen with you doing any of this decorating. But McKee will dine in and eat. We'll be your taste testers. Okay, cool. All right, thank you for joining us in here. Steve, do you want us to bring you a cupcake? That's a good one. A whole plate of them. I appreciate the offer, ladies. It looks amazing. Rochelle, here's the deal. They can have their apple cider cupcake. We got our tequila drinks going on here, right? Yeah.