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Buddy Valastro talks to Violet's Bake Shop family, featured

Cake Stars

in the Dec. 2 episode of Bakery Boss. Credit: TLC

Who knew that baking and decorating cakes could be so inspi-

thrilled to be in the family home where she learned to bake, the

rational, and so perfect for national television? Cable television

house is falling apart, with sections deemed uninhabitable by

producers continue to release new movies and TV series that put

inspectors after storm and ﬂood damage. Plus, the car just de-

the spotlight on the bakery business, and more speciﬁcally cakes.

cided not to start, and the boys all still need shoes, books and
food. She has always made due until now, when her lender calls

Production continued in late De-

in the mortgage loan and puts her into foreclosure. Angela has

cember outside of Toronto, Cana-

10 days to come up with $4,000 or she loses her home.

da, on the UP original movie Apple
Mortgage Cake, the inspiring true

This is the true story of a woman who decides to bake 100

story of Angela Logan who when

apple cakes and sell them at $40 each in order to save her

faced with foreclosure, set a goal

home, and how this idea completely changes her and her fam-

to bake 100 cakes in 10 days to

ily. As word of her "bake sale" ripples out through neighbors,

save her home. Starring four-time

friends, her church and even old ﬂames, the story soon spreads

NAACP Image award winner Kim-

to the news, locally, nationally and internationally. Orders ﬂy in

berly Elise (Diary of a Mad Black

from all over the world. Angela is taken off guard by the over-

Woman) and produced by Enter-

whelming support. But soon, this ﬁercely independent woman

tainment One, Apple Mortgage

learns to depend on the kindness and love of others that comes

Cake will make its world television

her way, particularly when the community and local businesses

premiere on UP in 2014. 

rally around Angela to help her ﬁnish and ship the initial stacks
of orders.

A 5-year-old Angela Logan (Millie Davis) is in her grandmother
Nellie's kitchen in New Jersey, learning how to make apple cake

The real-life inspiration for the ﬁlm can be found at www.mac-

and discovering the joys of baking. Nellie tells Angela: "Cake

cakes.com. "Apple Mortgage Cake is the inspirational, real-life

makes people happy. One bowl, one mixer, and the right com-

story about how one good idea, and a ton of apples, sugar, ﬂour

pany, and you're set free for life."

and butter, can change a family's future for the better," says
Barbara Fisher, senior vice president of original programming for

Thirty-ﬁve years later, Angela (Kimberly Elise) is a single, work-

UP. "We are thrilled to introduce viewers to Angela Logan and

ing mom with three teenage boys. She juggles various jobs and

her family, who went from foreclosure to overnight success and

helps with employment counseling at the local mission. While

her own prosperous apple cake bakery."

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