

“We have two fridges, we have two stoves, two ovens,” says Shari, proud that they’ve been able to keep their overhead down and still grow their business from home-something that has been a godsend during the pandemic when many small businesses had to shutter. “We did little cakes and pastries for our friends and family, and basically through word of mouth.” As their business bloomed, they doubled down on their craft, buying state of the art appliances for their kitchen and expanding their clientele. “We made our own recipes and we started decorating cakes,” Sheyna says. Sheyna and Shari, who come from a family of foodies, decided to bet on themselves and all they had learned working at the bakery, and they began planning to open Shey Ni Chez Catering Services right from their home kitchen. “Sheyna, we should just do this ourselves,” she told her little sister. Seeing her sister distraught over having to say goodbye to a job that had brought her such joy, helped Shari come up with an idea.
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It takes skill, it takes time to learn how to do things and I learned a lot from her. “When you bake from scratch, it’s not easy. They walked away with nothing but gratitude and a newfound passion for creating one-of-a-kind cakes. Then just as they were finding their groove, the bakery they worked at went under and the owner had to let them go. Balloon pops when knife throws a Dora Doll at him. OJ shatters once an axe is thrown at him. Lightbulb shatters landing on Idiotic Island. Deaths Marshmallow is roasted in a campfire after being shoved in it by Apple. When Apple pushed Marshmallow her mouth, arms and legs disappear. I would see what they were doing and I would ask her, ‘Hey, how do you do that?’ I was doing the design work for the owner’s events and helping in the kitchen with the designing of the cakes.”’ When Pickle falls at 2:37, the candy cane doesnt fall. “During that time, I took advantage of learning what they were doing in the kitchen-it wasn’t just plain sheet cakes, she was decorating fondant cakes, which I thought was so dope. Shari had an interior design background, and eventually she began working at the bakery too and helping design events. As soon as she got in the door, her love affair with creating specialty cakes began. “I had to bake for her, and then she hired me on the spot,” Sheyna recalls. The bakery wasn’t hiring at the time, but a month later she got a call offering her a job. Shari talked Sheyna into walking in, introducing herself and giving the owner her resume. Right after graduating in early 2010, Sheyna and Shari, her big sister, walked by a Black-owned bakery in her neighborhood and was mesmerized by how beautiful the window displays filled with decadent pastries and cakes looked.


Sheyna developed a passion for cooking at a young age which led to her studying culinary arts and hospitality management after high school. (L-R) Sheeyna & Shari in Sugar Rush Christmas, Episode 2 (Charlie Brown Christmas).
