Cupcake creator doesn’t bake much at home
Tyler Long fills the display case at Frosted Cupcakery a few minutes before the store opens. Photo by Ed Pilolla. Tyler Long frosts 192 cupcakes to start the day. Using a butter knife, she applies cream cheese frosting atop red velvet cupcakes. She smears strawberry cream cheese frosting on strawberry cupcakes. After she frosts a chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting, she gently rolls the top of the treat in white chocolate sprinkles. After topping the chocolate peanut butter cupcakes in peanut butter butter-cream, she rolls the frosting in Butterfinger crumble. This is a dream job, and she knows it. But it’s still a job. She has been baking since she was small, but not nearly as much at home anymore since she bakes for a living. She’s not complaining. She likes her work very much. She needed three months practicing everyday to perfect the frosting swirl. That was four years ago when she was working at the original Long Beach Frosted Cupcakery. Now she’s the manager of the Hermosa Cupcakery on Hermosa Avenue that opened over the summer. “It’s super fun when people come in and say, ‘I’m having a terrible day,’ and they are having a cupcake and you know it will make them feel…
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