Cake Therapy: how baking changed my life

Cake Therapy: how baking changed my life.

JThursday food is thrilled to share that what started as an idea, a little planted seed has blossomed into a cookbook with a twist called Cake Therapy: how baking changed my life by virologist and famed baker Dr Altreisha Foster.

Foster appeared in Thursday food in 2021 when ABCIt is the bachelorette take a major step!

To commemorate the 200th episode of The single person spin-off created in 2003, Minnesota-based Jamaican pastry chef Dr. Altreisha Foster created a six-tier cake adorned with roses, each tier having a different flavor. The cake featured 200 red roses and a single stem rose in the center, depicting the franchise’s iconic Final Rose. American weekly magazines People And American weekly the two presented Foster’s cake as they recap the celebration.

It would be the start of a lasting relationship with Campion College, Howard University and the George Washington University alumni that would be celebrated during the 23rd annual Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards for her inspiring culinary story. A few months later and a few days before International Women’s Day, Foster published a kind of memoir, Therapy Cake: How baking changed my life.

“When I decided to write this story, I wanted to make sure that whatever the story was, it had to be accessible to the reader. This story of my life was written in prose; after all, I don’t see myself ( like) a poet. Other than that, I believe it is more accessible to the reader than any other form of writing. I have included dessert recipes because baking is my new calling which has helped me heal from my trauma,” she said.

Foster features recipes for her favorite desserts throughout the 190-page book.

Today we share a dessert dedicated to the advocacy of Dr. Marguerite Neita. “When I got into Howard University, it made paying my tuition easier. It gave me a roof over my head that summer in 2001, which solidified the way my today’s story and now has become. It’s her favorite dessert – Fruit Pie, “said Foster.

Dr. Foster was featured in the September 2, 2021 issue of Jamaica Observer’s Thursday Food.

Fruit pies.

In a photo released by ABC, TV personality and The Bachelorette season 18 star Michelle Young (left) poses next to the Sugarspoon Desserts cake alongside hosts Tayshia Adams (second from right) and Kaitlyn Bristowe. (Photo: ABC/Craig Sjodin)

Food Awards judge Dr Altreisha Foster, Professor Lloyd Waller, accepted the award for Inspirational Food Story of the Year at the 23rd Annual Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards held on Thursday, September 29 2022 at Devon House. (Photo: Joseph Wellington)