Senior Brisa Dimas has found her friends to be one of her biggest supporters in life, in ways she says she would never have imagined. Last school year, she was looking for a way to show appreciation for her friends when she began making her famous cake pops.
“I just wanted something to give to my friends, and I was just looking around to see what I could get. I came across cake pops, and they seemed cool,” Dimas said. “It took me a while to actually learn how to make them but when I did, I really liked them.”
At first her cake pops were only sold to her friends. Soon enough, despite her uncertainty they became much more.
“From the beginning, I was very supportive of her, I thought that her work was good, and it definitely should be getting money,” junior Scar Mulka said.
“And if I was willing to buy them, because I thought they were very good, others would be too.”
At first Dimas wasn’t convinced, but around mid December she began to grow her reach and test how far she could go.
“I didn’t know if people would like them at first, so I would make smaller batches,” Dimas said.
Now, Dimas has created a routine, baking for almost five hours on Monday and Wednesday nights to have her cake pops ready to sell the next morning.
“First I bake the cake, I crumble it up and then, mush it together, after that, I form them and let them chill for a while, then I finally start chocolate coating them,” Dimas said.
Dimas’ cake pop’s popularity has significantly grown since December, students around FHN now look forward to trying different flavors every week.
“I heard about her cake pops at first through her bringing them, and also everyone was raving about these cake pops,” senior Kailyn Curtis said. “I haven’t had very many yet, but I like the lemon one, and I had the chocolate one, which is also very good.”
Dimas will often times try her best to make flavors that she hasn’t the week before, or in a couple weeks, or even through a customer’s request.
“I have a variety of flavors, I make vanilla, confetti, chocolate, Oreo, red velvet, lemon, carrots, strawberry…” Dimas said, “My favorite one to make would probably be confetti, because I like all the colors in them and I just love mixing in the sprinkles.”
Despite something that began as appreciation for her close friends, Dimas became known by many students, with her now even having two dollars handed to her without question.
“I think it’s very impressive how she’s managed to keep this ongoing throughout multiple semesters, just because I think a lot of people start stuff and don’t keep them going,” Mulka said. “I just think it’s very cool that she’s had this going on for such a long time, and that she’s managed to make it as successful as she has.”
Even though not all weeks are perfect with Dimas trying to manage school work, whenever she has the time she can be found with a pan in her hands.
“I think it makes her different only because she’s really the only one who does something like that, and she stands out in such a good way,” Curtis said.
