RileyCakes Brings Vintage-Styled Bakery to Cleveland in November
Published by: Cleveland Magazine
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Riley Moodry stands in front of a brick storefront, a bright vintage-style cake in one hand and her phone in the other, filming another entry in the running video diary of opening her own bakery.
Moodry is the 21-year-old owner of RileyCakes. For the past five years, she has been making custom cakes, cupcakes, cookies, brownies and pastries, then posting the results to more than 20,000 Instagram followers.
She baked as a kid, but her real start came at Young Chefs Academy, where an instructor asked the 14-year-old whether she wanted to be a chef.
“I love to bring people together through food, and I love to be able to be part of people's special moments through something as small as a cupcake or as big as a 10-tier wedding cake,” Moodry says.
At 16, Moodry began selling to friends and family members. She then attended the International Culinary Arts & Sciences Institute, where she helped chefs run public cooking classes. “I fell in love with the teaching part, because sometimes we would get to assist the actual students as well,” Moodry says.
RileyCakes now offers classes where Moodry guides groups through decorating a 6-inch cake.
“I'm just so excited to teach people how to decorate in different themes, and I want to do other classes that are about baking basics because I think it's something that everybody should know,” Moodry says.
The orders outgrew the renovated garage she'd been working out of.
“I didn't need my name on a building to feel accomplished and be proud of myself,” Moodry says. “But now it's just grown so much to the point where I need extra hands, and a big thing I'm doing is cake classes, so I need the space for that.”
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