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KERMAN, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - From a tiny San Joaquin trailer successful cardinal California to a beauteous caller location conscionable 20 minutes away, Andre Contreras used his humble beginnings, and a state-of-the-art room to navigator up success.
"So my 2 siblings and my parents we grew up successful a tiny trailer home, it was a one-bedroom successful San Joaquin California,” said Andre. “I consciousness similar increasing up determination truly keeps america humble to this time due to the fact that we came from thing and present having a location is specified an astonishing feeling.”
Andre's begetter was calved successful Michoacán, Mexico, portion his ma grew up successful confederate California, some of them teaching Andre the worth of hard enactment and perseverance.
For Contreras baking is simply a passion, increasing up helium would assistance his ma and abuelita cook cakes for household parties.
One time helium saw Buddy Valastro on TV and helium believed that his dreams of becoming a nonrecreational baker could go a reality.
“I was scrolling connected my YouTube 1 time and I got different inspiration from the TV amusement called Cake Boss so I was similar ohio he's a feline and he's baking, and you wouldn't spot guys baking successful the municipality I was successful truthful I was similar if helium tin bash it, I tin bash it, and I'll spot wherever it takes me,” said Contreras.
He past launched his ain business Andre’s Delights selling extravagant cakes, and accepted Mexican desserts with his household lending a helping hand.
“Don't worry, we volition assistance you. We started buying him things, we bought him his archetypal mixer and helium was precise blessed saying 'Oh my deity my archetypal mixer!'” said Carina Contreras, Andre’s mother. “We privation you to succeed, immoderate you guys want, that's what we are going to assistance you with.”
At conscionable 16 years aged Andre started selling decorator cakes posting the desserts online for the satellite to see. Then helium started a YouTube transmission and a TikTok page. At first, helium would not amusement his face, lone his creations.
But past Andre mustered up the courageousness and stepped successful beforehand of the camera, a determination that changed Andre's Delights forever.
“We would spot him astatine nighttime talking and doing his videos, I'd accidental what are you doing talking astatine night, who are you talking to? And he’d accidental ma I'm conscionable doing a video of myself, and I'd accidental ohio good but I ne'er thought he'd flooded to bash videos due to the fact that helium was very, precise shy,” said Carina.
It was a video successful April of 2023 of Andre baking a Monsters Inc. day barroom that enactment him connected the map.
“Within 30 minutes it had implicit 2 cardinal views,” said Andre. “By the clip I got home, I don't retrieve however galore views it got but I was similar wow! And past I saw each the designation I was getting, truthful I said I’m going to support doing it. I’ll support posting.”
The video went viral with now, much than 5 cardinal views— but with the increasing success, things became overwhelming.
The accent of schoolhouse and societal media, Andre astir gave up.
“At the opening of this twelvemonth I was astir to spell enactment astatine a 9 to 5 occupation astatine a accelerated nutrient place," said Andre. “This concern wasn't truly doing overmuch for maine due to the fact that I wasn't making a profit.”
A travel to Mexico convinced him to springiness it different shot.
He raised his prices to marque a profit, and with the powerfulness of societal media contiguous concern is booming.
”This is my churro cheesecake, usually topped and drizzled with cocoa syrup, lechera, and strawberries. This is 1 of my astir viral cookware dulces that you tin get astatine your section panadería. It's called “cortadillo” oregon Mexican pinkish cake… and this is my tres leches barroom which we are besides going to frost close now. It's 1 of my champion sellers and it's besides what brought Andre's Delights to life.”
Andre adjacent showed maine the baking and decorating tips that assistance to marque his desserts truthful special.
As for what’s next, Andre would similar to collaborate with celebrities and with brands like Kitchen Aid and Betty Crocker.
His eventual extremity is to unfastened a café with his sister who is besides an entrepreneur specializing successful beverage shakes and smoothies.
But for close present helium is conscionable blessed utilizing his level to animate different Latinos to amusement they tin bash and beryllium anything.
And hopes his visibility empowers young men, conscionable similar the younger mentation of himself to beryllium arrogant of baking.
“Helping guys cook is thing I'm arrogant of due to the fact that I'm ever getting DM’s and comments similar ohio you helped maine bake, you motivated maine to cook arsenic a feline and I'm everlastingly grateful for that,” said Andre.
