Amanda Nguyen: The Baker Behind the Quarantine Cakes

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Meet Amanda Nguyen, the owner and baker behind Butter&, the San Francisco bakery that’s become famous for its Quarantine Cakes. Amanda came up with the idea for these mini cakes decorated with a PSA out of necessity. Her custom cake business relied on weddings, birthdays, and other celebrations, and all of her orders were canceled almost overnight due to the COVID-19 crisis. Tune in to hear how Amanda went from Facebook data analyst to bakery owner and why ethical employment has been such a big issue for her, even pre-coronavirus.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, welcome to
0:07.0	Hey, everyone, welcome to Radio Cherrybaum, the podcast about women, food, and a whole lot more. I'm your host, Carrie Diamond. On today's show, I'm talking with Amanda Nguyen, the founder and baker behind Butter End in San Francisco. I found out about Amanda and her bakery when her quarantine cakes started popping up on Instagram.
0:40.0	You heard that right, quarantine cakes.
0:43.8	She came up with the idea for these mini cakes decorated with a PSA when all of her wedding and celebration cake business disappeared overnight.
0:48.1	It not only saved her bakery, it started a movement across the country.
0:52.3	Before we get to our conversation, let's do a little
0:54.7	housekeeping. Today's sponsor is the Wines of Rioja. Thank you for supporting today's show. You
1:00.4	folks are the bomb, and thank you for sending me a few bottles of Rioja wine. That was very
1:04.9	kind of you, and I think I'm going to open the Grand Reserva 2009 this weekend. And do you know about the Cherry Bomb cookbook?
1:12.9	We have a great cookbook, if I say so myself.
1:15.8	It features more than 100 recipes from some of the most interesting and creative women
1:20.1	in the world of food, including Vivian Howard, Kristen Kish, Joy the Baker, and Mashama Bailey.
1:26.6	The most popular recipe in the book is definitely
1:28.9	the pink spaghetti from Electro-Wedaman. The spaghetti is tossed in a mixture of red beets and ricotta
1:34.0	that literally stains the spaghetti bright pink. Then it's topped with Parmigiano Reggiano,
1:39.6	chopped basil, toasted walnuts, and some lemon zest. It's fun to make and delicious to eat.
1:45.5	You can get the Cherry Bomb Cookbook online or from your favorite local bookstore. And to all of you
1:50.3	tagging us on Instagram when you cook from the book, thank you. Now here's my conversation with
1:55.4	Amanda Nguyen of Butter End in San Francisco. When did you start baking?
2:02.6	So I started baking when I was like, I don't know, still in elementary school.
2:07.6	I was the girl that brought the brownies to all of the class parties.
2:11.6	That like triple chocolate, Giradelli box mix was my signature. Yeah, my love for baking started young.
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