Hi there! My name is Christiana and I am an avid lover of all things sweet. I discovered my love of baking when I was sixteen and have fostered my passion of creating beautiful {and delicious} desserts ever since! I used to think that I was the least creative person on this planet, until I was given my first Wilton frosting bag and a dozen cupcakes as my blank canvas. It was then that I learned that I can be creative and began to understand the significance of having a “creative outlet.” In the beginning, my family members were happy to indulge in the many practice cakes I made (and by many I mean 1-2 cakes a week my junior year of high school); however, after a few dozen cakes and cupcakes and a few pounds gained, my family encouraged me to take my baked goods elsewhere. I began taking them to school and encouraging feedback from my peers and teachers. As I perfected the cake texture and taste, I began to work on decorating. I catered my first wedding at age eighteen which included 300 cupcakes, mini and traditional, and 150 candied branches with leaves that I made in the midst of midterms my freshman year of college. Since then, I have catered three more weddings {two with cakes and one with cupcakes and a cutting cake}, several bridal showers, a few birthdays including a first birthday with a smash cake, and more. I had to take a break from baking for events due to graduating and moving to a new city, but a few years later and I am finally ready to get back at it!

I had a hard time coming up with a name for my baking *business* and spent many hours {months} contemplating different names and their meanings. I have a mission, a long term goal for this business and I wanted the name to reflect that. While names with actual Webster dictionary approved words came to mind, none of them seemed right. I continuously came back to ASYCW even though I knew it presented a ? for pronunciation as it is an acronym rather than a word found in the dictionary. Finally, I decided that I would rather have a name with an important meaning that required an explanation than settling for something else.