From generation to generation, baking is one the most common habits that is passed down in families.  Most of the time people don’t know what they want to do when they grow up until after high school, but since the young age of 6, Ella Quinney (12) always knew she wanted to be a baker.  

Quinney’s mom had her own home baking company that she ran through Facebook Marketplace. Eight-year-old Quinney was introduced to baking when her mom showed her how to make snickerdoodle cookies. Quinney got her first easy bake oven at 9 years old, and focused on making cheesecakes, macaroons, and baked goods. Still to this day, she has been baking her cheesecakes and baked goods. After high school, Quinney doesn’t know where she wants to go, whether that’s culinary school, or a university for a business degree, to hopefully start her own bakery, called “Purple Butterfly Cafe.”

Since kindergarten when she first wrote she wanted to be a baker on the white board in her kindergarten room, she has pursued baking her entire life, because it has been her dream. 

“Don’t give up on your dreams, it can be impossible sometimes, but if you put time and effort into it, it’ll pay off,” Quinney said. “If you really want it, you have to keep working for it.”