The Cake Girl shows off her sweet business

Oh this is a good one here. From custom cakes to cupcakes and dozens of flavors, a Tampa baker is giving customers plenty to choose from. And it all started with a little girl baking alongside her mom in Puerto Rico. In today's Made in Tampa Bay, we meet the woman behind the cake girl. My name is Christina LaValle and I am the owner of The Cake Girl here in Tampa, Florida. Yeah, there's a brand new one, this one right here. That one is a pumpkin churro cupcake. Here in our store, we serve 12 flavors weekly. We have over 85 flavors that we will take weekly. So every week you have 12 flavors that you'll get to pick depending on if there's a holiday. For example, we just started fall, so pumpkin's back. So you get to pick from 12 different flavors. Today, I'm gonna be making one of our house favorite cakes, smaller, two little layer, Funfetti Birthday Cake. So I was born and raised in Puerto Rico and I always wanted to bake with my mom. She used to do classes in Puerto Rico and I helped her in the kitchen, we did tres leches, we did my famous Puerto Rican cake, I helped her cook hors d'oeuvres. Then there was just me right there with my little chef hat and cooking alongside her, helping her with whatever she needed. It was amazing memories that we created together. So when I moved from Puerto Rico to Orlando, me and my husband Kirby, we decided to get married in 2013 so he had more stable job here in Tampa. So I decided okay well we'll just move to Tampa and just basically establish the cake shop right here. In 2016 basically we launched it. People should know where you come from, why you do the things you do, for me you know baking with love it's so important and you know everything I do you know I make with love even the flavors that we use in our bakery today like our Spanish flavors like guava, pineapple, coconut, everything that we do here. It's made with love and being Spanish or Latin, it's so important to me, you know, knowing where I come from, my roots. Cakes, I'm an honorary commander in MacDill. So we've done a 3D KC-135. It was an eight foot cake. We've done an eight foot tier cake. We do a lot of birthday cakes, a lot of wedding cakes. So we do a little bit of everything. You know, I never imagined that we would be able to do in our bakery, but when done, you're like, wow. We could really create almost anything in here and this icing here has sprinkles in it so that's why we call it funfetti but since we just literally finished icing it then this helps put all those sprinkles on this. All the icings that I use well for me to eat. I love cookie dough. I love salted caramel cake flavor. I love my Puerto Rican cake and I'm not trying to be biased, but I really love our Puerto Rican cake that we do here. If you have not tried a Puerto Rican cake, you have got to get that life changing. The Cake Girls located at 14851 Northdale Mabry Highway in Tampa. They're open Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.