Friday, January 30, 2009
Frances Kuyper’s Mini Cake Museum ~ Boyle Heights
If you love baking and decorating cakes, than you should make a point of visiting Frances Kuyper’s Mini Cake Museum at the Hollenbeck Home, where you can not only meet Frances, but also learn some cake decorating history.
Known as the Cake Lady, Frances started off in 1950 simply as a self-taught cake decorator and from there evolved into a writer, demonstrator, instructor and consultant for many years in the retail baking industry. She’s even appeared in commercials and was even a regular on the Howie Mandal show for a time.
In 1994, she opened up the first Cake Museum in the US as a way to share her knowledge about cake decorating and pass that info to up and coming bakers. The first rendition of this cake museum originally was in a second home that she and her husband purchased to showcase the various cakes that illustrated the many and varied techniques used in cake decoration.
When her husband passed away, she moved to Hollenbeck Home and with Hollenbeck’s approval, was able to move the majority of her collection into one of the rooms. That room now holds over 150 cakes from Frances’ original collection.
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