Rolling in the Cookie Dough with Pastry Chef David Benton

The BLK Directory Podcast With Diamond Young

Welcome back to episode #2 where I have the pleasure of interviewing Pastry Chef David Benton. Owner Pastry Chef David Benton started Sugarsweet Cookie + Cake Studio in 2009 baking in his duplex kitchen in East Oakland. Sugarsweet became a sought-after success making it one of the busiest online bakeries in the Bay Area.
In this episode, we discuss:

• Operating during the pandemic (3:30)
• How Chef Benton became a pastry chef (12:45)
• From laid-off to mastering the craft (16:55)
• The bakery search begins (25:45)
• Depression and hitting rock bottom enters the chat (42:40)
• Bouncing back through perseverance (50:00)
• Advice, words of encouragement, and what's next (56:50)

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