SWEETEST THING BAKERY


ABOUT THE CHEF: Jenny Tremblay

My first recipe!

Recently I found the first recipe that I ever copied onto paper. 

I had been under the impression that my desire to be a pastry chef and baker came to me in my late teens or early twenties.  When I was 24, I returned to my motherland of Canada, leaving Virginia (my home since I was 10), to attend pastry school at Dubrulle Culinary Arts. I learned a lot about baking in Vancouver, but also about myself and what I wanted out of life: to own a shop where I could make edible works of art. Thus Sweetest Thing Bakery eventually came into being. 

But apparently, when I was eight years old my complete obsession with sweets had already manifested. In colored pen, I had copied the title of the cook book (The little witches black magic cookbook) followed by the recipe for buttercream icing! Needless to say, I was amused and happy to find myself living out what has been a life-long dream: to make sweets! So here I am baking away in Richmond, Virginia. It finally feels like I am living my passion and being able to share that passion with my customers is the best part about it.

Wedding Cake! Yum!