After years of scouring the bookshelves for books relevant to African American brides, this owner of NY’s only dessert delivery company decided to write her own. The result is “Taking the Cake” the Ultimate Wedding Cake Guide for the Ethnic Bride.
Although the wedding industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, very little of it is geared towards women of color. The popular wedding magazines never feature a black bride, and only occasionally feature one as a bridesmaid. The expensive wedding books written by Martha Stewart and others contain fabulous weddings featuring Caucasian couples, and never address issues that might be found within the black community.
Regina McRae began Grandma’s Secrets 15 years ago with $10 and $9 pies at the urging of others who tasted her desserts and urged her to go into business.
As the business grew, she diversified from pies and traditional cakes into custom cakes, and eventually wedding cakes. While helping the brides design their cakes, she constantly encountered the same lack of information and dearth of available designs. “Even the beautiful cakes in the magazines featured flavors that we do not traditionally eat, such as wasabi infused ganache, and walnut genoise with key lime filling” she laments. Even when able to find resource guides for ethnic weddings, she found that they devoted no more than a few chapters to the cake…
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