Lilian Chavira’s home-based bakery, Gellocake, is taking off in a major way. She’s already developed an industrial kitchen, had write-ups in two different area publications and gotten a jump start on a sweet treat Web site.
“If I see that people really like it and I get enough customers I will get a store,” she says. “That is my dream.”
Officially, Chavira has been opened since June. Unofficially, she’s been baking for friends and families for years. She offers a menu of gourmet gelatins, tortes, fruit tart pies and flans. She also offers low-calorie, sugar-free and organic sweets for those with special diets.
“Gellocake is not just a desert, it’s a concept,” she says. “They (customers) not only taste it, they see it and they enjoy it.”
Chavira has always loved to bake, but this is her first business.
“Now I’m doing it as a business nobody taught me how to do,” she says.
Chavira and her family moved to Michigan from Texas four years ago as a result of her husband’s job transfer.
Chavira can be contacted here.
Source: Lilian Chavira, Gellocake
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
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