Background information
This project is for school specifically for my English class. The teacher is giving me one day a week to plan my idea and practice it. And I decided to cook my most famous and popular apple roses, which are kind off a cupcake that looks like a flower and the petals are the apples sliced very thin. I choose to do cooking because I have previous experience in baking because I took cooking classes after school as a club. I am then going to sell them to a local bakery near my house with the help of my dad. I am going to film me and my friend Gaby doing the cupcakes and upload them to my new youtube channel "Cooking With Paula". On this page I will be posting all my youtube videos I create of the cooking process and possibly vlogs of me delivering my cupcakes to the bakery and of their costumers enjoying my cupcakes. You can follow my progress and subscribe to my youtube channel here:
This is what my apple roses look like:
You can visit "La Bakery" website here: They are a local dessert shop here in Ecuador located in Cumbaya very near my house. They also have a shop in Quito. Unfortunately their website is in Spanish.
January 15, 2017: Video Update
Jan, 27, 2017: Vlog Update
Feb, 2, 2017: Blog Update
I've sold twice to La Bakery which is located in Quito: Av. Coruña N30-123 y Whymper, and in Cumbayá: Fco. Orellana S1-29 y Eloy Alfaro, the last 3 weeks. I am going to sell for the third time this week. My first video has 55 views and 3 likes. My vlog has 44 views and 2 likes. My whole YouTube channel has 7 subscribers.
Feb 3, 2017: Vlog Update
Feb, 17, 2017: Blog Update
Today I am selling again my apple roses. I do this after my pilates class, but today I can't so my mom will do it for me just today. So far I have $22 because each apple rose I sell for $10.50 and I've sold 5 times. I haven't been filming the cooking process but I still cook at home every Thursday after school. I hope that I will continue this for the rest of my life (or until I graduate) not only for this class.
March 1, 2017: Video Update- Elevator Pitch
March 3, 2017: Blog update
I am hoping to produce other products to sell other then apple roses. I tried to make a different kind of cupcake with the base made of chocolate but the chocolate wouldn't spread properly only with a certain brand. But the store were you could find that brand closed down. I am going to try with another brand. If not, I will do other products.
Dear Paula,
I want to congratulate your incredible work and passion that makes your Apple roses so special. Our clients love them. You learned how important it is to win - win a business relationship, How to negotiate, and take care of your clients.
We are sure that you will have much success.
Cheers!
Eduardo Dousdebés
March 17, 2017: Blog Update
This week I have sold for the sixth time since the project started. I have made so far $55.6 in total. I plan to continue making apple roses and hopefully make new products. The chocolate base cupcake was successful in the making, that maybe a product I sell in the upcoming days. My elevator pitch video has 2 likes and 15 views. My whole channel has 8 subscribers.
This is what the chocolate cups look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJtyiGByQzA
We might try stiffed apples as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUiptEFLf_c
This is what the chocolate cups look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJtyiGByQzA
We might try stiffed apples as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUiptEFLf_c
March 23, 2017: Blog update
I just got an order for 10 apple roses to be delivered on Friday. I really want to propose to Eduardo the Chocolate cups because I figured out how to do it properly. I also want to try and propose him to sell the stuffed apples. I think it will be a good idea for him to sell stuffed apples and chocolate cups because he doesn't have anything like that and he is really nice and he will accept anything I make. I have really liked selling to him and La Bakery because the person that receives me is really nice and always has a smile in his face.
March 31, 2017: Blog Update
I've sold so far a total of 66 apple roses in 6 weeks. Yesterday I made 10 apple roses and my mom is going to deliver them to La Bakery today. Even though the 20 time project is going to be over soon, I hope to continue to do this until I graduate and hopefully sell either the chocolate cups or the stuffed apples but no more apple roses. I plan to propose him this in a few weeks and show him some sample products for him to sell just like I did at the start of this project with my apple roses.
April 19, 2017: Blog update
Today I sold 12 apple roses because during spring break, Eduardo asked for 15 roses but I was away, and he told me to ask Amelia whenever she wanted apple roses to sell. And she has been asking me to make 12 instead of 10 for some reason. I spent some time talking to Amelia to figure out how much she wanted.
April 26, 2017: Blog Update
Today I sold 12 apple roses again like I do every Friday. And I bake every Thursday with my mom after I get home from school. I deliver them after my pilates class.
May 12, 2017: Blog update
Today I got the biggest order ever. I had to make 16 apple roses, I also made some for my family and some samples for my final presentation. This is my last official day for 20 time, but I will continue to sell my apple roses until summer break. Hopefully I would like to continue to do this next year and sell more products. Throughout this project I have sold 106 apple roses to La Bakery.