About...

My name is Casey. I am a California girl, born and raised. I realized back in high school that all i really wanted to do was bake. I started collecting cookbooks [old and new], magazines, random recipes, and I was glued to Food Network. So I found one of the best culinary schools in the country and packed my bags because that meant.... NEW YORK. All my life I had been madly in love with NYC and its grandeur. Well, once I started school there [although- to clarify, CIA is about a 2 hr train ride north of the city] New York's allure quickly vanished. The CIA program works like this: 1st year of school - 6 month internship - 2nd year of school. I ended up landing an internship in Las Vegas, working in the pastry shop at one of the resorts on the strip. During my internship, I was transferred from the pastry shop into the chocolate room: that's when chocolate and I became intimate friends. I learned so much and loved every second of it. When I got back to CIA for my second year, I got even closer to chocolate, getting to take an entire class dedicated to it. A few months after that class ended, a scholarship application was released: Godiva Chocolatier Scholarship. I was so excited that there was a scholarship from a chocolate company I didn't even read how much it was for. I submitted my original recipe [along with essays and forms] and I won. To this day, and probably until i get married or have children, it is and will be still the most amazing experience of my life. After the scholarship, all I wanted to do was keep working on chocolate recipes - and thats just what I did.  I graduated with my Baking and Pastry Arts A.O.S in October 2011 from the Culinary Institute of America, and then moved in with one of my best friends in NYC. That's when I started this blog, posting all of the recipes I had developed, and then some. While in NY I worked two jobs and just enjoyed the city for my short [2 month] stint. It was fun, but I am glad to be out of that crazy city.
I have moved back to Las Vegas: my new home. I am working in pastry still, and trying to get my hands on everything I can while I'm here [which will be a while I am hoping] But on my weekends, I work on recipes to share with the world. My dream is to open my very own chocolate shop, eventually. But between now and then, who knows what will happen or where I will go. All I know is that there will always be chocolate.