Hey everyone, Kevin Denny, Grand Island Police Chief.

We're here at Beverly Cake Shop for another edition of the Business Beat.

Let's go inside and meet Andres and his family.

Hey Andreas and Herrera family, thanks for inviting me to Beverly Cake Shop.

I'm really excited about what we're gonna do today.

So I don't know what we have in store, but whatever it is, it's gonna be exciting, and I hope you guys already forgive me for making a mess of things.

What are we gonna do today?

Oh we're gonna be making some cakes, but first put this on.

Alright, so tell me a little bit about uh how you came to this shop, the history of um of how you came to Grand Island, as a matter of fact.

We talked about it earlier off camera, but uh tell me that again on on your parents, uh how they worked in California to get here and where you are now.

So this is the the dream of two hardworking people of my parents and they my mom started learning how to make cakes when she was like 19 years old.

Um she learned from a lady that was teaching at a university in Guatemala, and she learned all the recipes and so after that she started making them on her own.

Um she would sell them to like different businesses so that way they could have desserts and she did that to support herself.

Um then later on she moved to California, met my dad, and they had kids.

Okay, and so she made cakes on and off to support themselves, but they always wanted to do something on their own.

Right.

And they didn't have a shop in California.

No.

How do they how did they do the business?

So it started off first with um selling it out of their cars.

Um so they had different uh mini vents and they would fix the back end so that way they could put different cakes.

So and so my when I grew up that's what I remember seeing them do, right?

We they would wake up early, bake the cakes, take us to school, come back, finish baking them, decorate them, and then pick us up from school, or sometimes they would already be selling out in the streets.

And so um that's what they did to support all of us.

And how many kids were there?

It was four kids.

Four kids.

And they sold uh pastries and and cakes out of their out of their motor van.

Yep.

So all of our cakes they have a filling, so we cut it in half, and you just kind of place your hand on it and then take the knife, turn the cake, and then once you've met back with your cut, then you just go through the middle.

Then you flip it, yeah, perfectly cut cake.

Then you take your three fleeters milk, our secret concoction.

Just a little bit, not a lot.

We can't disclose the ingredients.

No, we cannot.

All right.

Is this something that mom and dad came up with?

Okay, well we don't want that.

And uh is this something that's this something that mom and dad came up with?

Yes.

Yes, okay.

Yeah, so they came up with all of even the recipe for the cake.

Um, they came up with it as well.

And so it's a very spongy cake that absorbs that milk and it allows it to hold.

And then you take a scoop.

Strawberry, a sweet peach.

Just like that.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy for Kiana.

Not for me necessarily.

All right, so once you've covered it, that's what you should be left with.

All right, that's beautiful.

Smooth cake.

That is beautiful.

And now you're gonna get a chance to see how it's not done.

Somebody tells me this is not gonna be a fair race.

Okay, your shoelaces are untied.

That makes it easy.

What?

Hey, hold on a minute, you're already doing that stuff.