When senior Angela Taylor leaves school every day, she has a few things on her mind. Maybe her homework, maybe her sports, but one thing she has on her mind is baking. During the day she always tries to spend some amount of time collecting orders and selling her product, but when she goes home it is straight back to work. Some days it is the first thing she does when she goes home, “baking is like therapy for me,” Taylor said. She said that she treats baking as a form of relaxing, and a break for her because “it just makes me happy and gives me the freedom to express myself however I want.”
Taylor is 17-years-old and runs her own baking business from within this building. Baking is her happiness. Baking “is like therapy,” the senior said. Taylor purchases all of her own ingredients at high quality through the sale of cookies and cupcakes she bakes. This means that she puts her money back into serving the community before profit and these are just parts of the reason that her high quality baked goods have risen popularity due to the fact that “no one would want to buy something garbage” said Assistant Principal Matt Kraft.
Taylor is said to have great service and this can only be due to her positive attitude and drive to complete the task at hand.“Once I reached out on a late afternoon and asked if she could make cupcakes for a meeting the next morning. I never really expected her to have enough time to complete it but by the next morning they were ready,”said Kraft who is a common customer of Taylors. Kraft and many other teachers and students have nothing but positives to relay about her.
baking is like therapy for me
— Angela Taylor
Inside the school Taylor reaches every class she has and yet she still makes time to go and make some money. She sells her cookies and cupcakes based on what she brings “If you order something ahead of time she will bring it to you.” Kraft said and after spending a day with Taylors it can accurately be said that this is truly a long and tiring experience that produces such a flavorful result.
One day she was “watching a movie about Selena” and she was “inspired to make some cupcakes” this one day of gave birth to a casual hobby of hers where she makes cupcakes for free and this hobby became her business when on a day of testing she offered some to her father and he said dad she should “sell these because they are really good” and from that day on angiecakes._ came to life.
Taylor wishes to continue to follow this career she has created for herself by going to college in Boston. She plans to earn a degree in marketing and advertising and minor in finance or journalism and cannot wait for the future of her company and education.
