Hi,

Boys and girls are all fired up.

Oh, world's chicken, breaking,baum, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond,

coming to you from Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center in the heart of New York City.

I'm the founder and editor of Cherrybaum Magazine. Each week, I talk to the coolest culinary

personalities around, the folks shaping and shaking up the food scene. For today's show, we are revisiting our number one

episode of 2022. It's my interview with Claire Safitz, YouTube star, best-selling author, and one of

the most beloved bakers around. Claire's first cookbook, dessert person, was published in 2020 and

became an instant classic. She followed it up the late last year with what's for dessert, simple recipes for dessert people. Claire is funny and humble and incredibly talented, but as you're about to learn, it took her a little while to figure out her path in life. I think you'll be very inspired by Claire's story, so stay tuned.

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January 12th, and we would love to see you there. Let's check in with today's guest. Claire Safetz, welcome back to Radio Cherry Bomb. Thank you for having me. Thank you. It's so good to see you. You too. I feel like I see you a lot. I mean, you're on the cover of the magazine right now, so I feel like I see you on a daily basis, but it's very nice to see you in person. You too. Thank you for having me. And I've not

been in the studio, which is so cool. Oh, good. Well, welcome to Rock Center. We love recording here

in our lobby just reopened. So one Rock Center. If any of you are walking through one Rockefeller,

look for Newsstand Studios. We're right in there. Okay, let's jump right into this you are working on your second

cookbook and you are almost done i'm so close i'm so close i am like right in this stage where

the like mental breakdown is imminent i can feel it i so i recently turned in the recipe manuscript

so like all of the recipes, table of contents,

edited, in order, chapter openers, all of that, which felt monumental and took me, everything

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