When Yuei Costello baked her first cake, it was out of necessity. It was 2020 and she was living in Chanthaburi, Thailand. Her cousin was getting married and because of the pandemic, there were no businesses available to make her wedding cake. With only a week of practice, she made a tiered cake for more than 150 people. She says baking became a hobby after that.
“I helped my aunt with management for a resort and at that time, during the pandemic, there was nothing to do,” Costello says. “So, I just found something to do and it was fun… but I didn’t think it was going to be a business at all.”
In August of 2021, Costello moved to Kansas City from her native Thailand. She married her husband, Patrick, whom she met 14 years earlier while working as an au pair in the U.S., that October. Costello baked the goods for their wedding, too.
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