S1 • E3 Feb 17, 2021 41m
Shana opened Bluegrass and Buttercream three years ago in Danville, KY, it a bakery specializing in cupcakes and custom cakes. She gives back to the community by providing two free cupcakes to every county and city middle school child on their birthday. But sales are starting to fall, her customers telling her that there is just too much buttercream making the entire cupcake too sweet. Steve concurs that everything he tastes is sweet on sweet on sweet, regardless of the cupcake flavor or if it's another food offering, such as the brownies. He learns of one culprit right off, that being that Shana solely uses American buttercream, one of if not the sweetest of the standard frostings, but the easiest to make. He doesn't discover the second more offensive culprit until he heads into the kitchen: that the all too familiar taste of all her cake items is because she uses exclusively boxed cake mixes, which are notoriously sweet. The reasons behind that approach is they are what she and everyone she knows in the region were brought up on, and she herself doesn't really like sweets, she having gotten into the business in enjoying the creative decorating side. Steve has to teach her not only standard recipes to make things from scratch, but expand that skill set by teaching her breakfast items which she does not know how to make at all. He also has to get Shana to taste her food and thus train her palate. In the process, he also has to get Shana over her fear that whatever he shows her to make will not be foreign to the palates of her customers. In the front of house, Tiffany has to warm up the space and make it more inviting for people to want to stay for coffee and a bite.
