Lettuce Wrap 21: Cake Scraps and Hugs, with Kelly Zubal of Inticing Creations

About this Episode

Kelly Zubal of Inticing Creations made a custom guitar birthday cake for Journey guitarist Neal Schon, and appeared on TV next to Martha Stewart. Now she’s here with us to talk about how she got started in her sculpted edible cakes career, her experiences as a “reality tv star”, and why her husband “Home Boy” Pete is her third favorite kitchen tool.

Kelly also tells us

Why 4 years La Cocina was “the best bootcamp”
How she “stumbled on” edible art as a business
Why not eating her sculptures “breaks her heart”
The origins of “Inticing Creations” as a name
Why she “redefined what success meant” to her
Why she did TV food shows, and why she doesn’t do more
What is was like being on TV with Martha Stewart
About lighting the fireworks on Neal Schon’s custom guitar birthday cake
The food she’d take a bath in.

Links and Show Notes

Metal Radio on Apple Music
La Cocina —“a nonprofit working to solve problems of equity in business ownership for women, immigrants and people of color.”
Cakes To Dream On: A Master Class in Decorating, by Colette Peters
How to Make Fondant
Kelly’s episode of Duff Till Dawn: Monster Mayem—“Duff Goldman, master of cake mayhem, challenges Kelly Zubal, queen of clean cakes, and former punk rocker Wiley Saccheri to bring their ultimate monster cakes to life. Will Kelly's partnership with her husband trump Wiley's collaboration with his mother-in-law? Can they make their cakes before the sun comes up or will their dream monsters turn to into cake nightmares? Guest judges Haylie Duff and Geof Manthorne will help Duff crown the team that delivers the boldest cake of the night.”
Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart Weddings
Neal Schon, Journey
- News story about Neal Schon’s birthday, including photos of Kelly’s custom guitar cake
Watch a fondant sheeter in action
Bursitis
Craig’s List