EDGEWATER — Their names are as colorful, intriguing, and exotic as the products themselves: “Blueberry Lemon, Carrot Crazy, Maple and Bacon, Margarita, Pina Colada, Ebony and Ivory, Strawberry Lemonade Banana Split, and Red Velvet Cheesecake.”
And these creative cupcakes with fabulous frostings are only part of the array offered in a brand-new business venture from Edgewater resident Terri Bruch.
Terri Bruch realized her longtime dream when she started her cupcake business, Terri’s Tasties. Utilizing ECC’s kitchen, she is able to craft elaborate designs, like those seen here. (Photo Provided)
“Terri’s Tasties — Unique Flavors of Cupcakes to Tickle Your Taste Buds” — is the brainchild of a creative woman with an outgoing personality who loves to make people happy. And she’s figured out a way to do exactly that with her cupcakes.
Bruch pointed out a fact of life learned early in her kitchen: “You always see a smile on someone’s face when you hand them a cupcake.”
Cupcakes are decorative, fun, and easy to handle. Because they don’t require the commitment of an entire cake, consumers can experience multiple flavors. It’s no wonder cupcakes are growing in popularity as treats and desserts.
Bruch traces her cupcake history back to when her daughter was five and she made these child-pleasing baked items for a birthday party. Now her small granddaughter is learning the joys of Bruch’s creations, which have grown more decorative and unique over the years due to unusual flavor combinations in both batters and frostings.
“Each one has a personal meaning to me,” Bruch said.
Bowling-themed cupcakes Bruch made for a birthday party. The pins are shaped out of white chocolate. (Photo Provided)
Bruch’s Red Velvet recipe is over 100 years old and has been passed down through generations. Her Neopolitan cupcake fondly recalls the ice cream Bruch’s grandmother served her and her brother as children.
Her Salted Caramel Chocolate Cupcake was inspired by a Starbucks near the Macy’s store at Woodfield, where Bruch once worked as a gourmet cookware specialist.
“I always wanted to have a catering and baking business when I grew up,” Terri said with a smile. (She figures that she grew up at age 60.)
To achieve her dream, Bruch took classes at Elgin Community College to obtain her Food Sanitation Certification, and she is licensed in both Elgin and the City of Chicago.
As a result of her ECC connection, Bruch bakes her cupcakes in the college’s professional “My Dream Kitchen,” which offers double convection ovens and is approved by the state.
Bruch uses decorative icing to create colorful cupcakes that look like blooming flowers, ladybugs, and more, and she decorates them to suit her customers.
Cupcakes featuring Bruch’s floral designs. (Photo Provided)
For a birthday party with a bowling theme, she shaped white chocolate into little bowling pins to attach to each cupcake.
Her inspiration comes continually from different things she sees and hears.
With nearly 30 varieties, Terri’s Tasties offers cupcakes for special events, such as showers and wedding sweet tables or for any occasion a customer wants to make special.
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I had the pleasure of tasting Terri’s salted carmel chocolate cupcakes and I must say, life will never be the same!!! Thanks for sharing another great interest story.
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