As whisks stir and cakes bake in the oven, Kamryn Hamilton composes her lesson plans for the next day. Many Texas High students and administrators consider Hamilton a hard-working, aspiring health science teacher; however, they might be unaware of her new cake business.
“I just recently started baking specialty pound cakes out of my house,” Hamilton said. “I’ve been baking these cakes for a couple of years but haven’t tried to sell them until now.”
Hamilton’s family and their baking abilities influenced her to start this business to honor the custom.
“I learned how to bake pound cakes from my grandmother,” Hamilton said. “I wanted to learn how to make her cake because I wanted to be able to carry on that tradition.”
To help her business grow and work faster, Hamilton allows her family to assist her with the many hardships that come with baking without a lot of time.
“I rely heavily on my family to help me get my ingredients,” Hamilton said. “I will use my mom or anybody close and teach them how to do the things that I do.”
Because of Hamilton’s full-time teaching job here at Texas High, she struggles to find enough time to bake her cakes; however, she overcame this obstacle by using her fast-paced abilities and working through her time.
“It’s really hard juggling teaching and running a business,” Hamilton said. “[As I’ve gotten better at baking,]I’ve kind of come up with a mechanism to do it.”
This business started off with Hamilton’s family critiquing her first few practice cakes, then developed into her journey of exploring new styles and recipes, which helped her business become an ongoing success.
“I made her cake a couple of times, and my grandma said it was good,” Hamilton said. “Then I started finding different recipes and trying different things, and it became relaxing and rewarding to see the fruits of [my] labor pay off.”
