![]() ![]() Still, we’re getting so busy every day, and it’s all worth it. “We’re not just opening a bakery but also integrating the whole production of the hotel along with the bakery. “It wasn’t really ever on my radar to open a bakery, because I knew it was so much work,” she says. – which owns multiple buildings along Las Olas Boulevard - asked her to start a brand-new bakery. The best place to put your cake is on a flat surface, either in the boot of the passenger seat or on the floor behind the passenger or driver’s seats. We recommend that you leave the cake it’s cake board and put it back in its box for transportation. To tempt more hotel foot traffic, she started a side hustle selling dessert-of-the-month subscription boxes, where customers picked up to-go packages filled with surprise treats like Nutella brownies.Ĭourtemanche sold so many dessert boxes that Mike Weymouth, president of The Las Olas Co. All of our cakes are packaged in our custom Sugar Rush boxes. When hospitality businesses struggled during the pandemic, the hotel laid off every pastry chef save Courtemanche. The allure of sandy beaches and palm trees drove her and her husband to Fort Lauderdale in 2013 and, several months later, Riverside Hotel hired her in January 2014. Raised in the small town of Espanola, Ontario, Courtemanche honed her baking know-how for six years at a family-run Italian bakery, Regency, but eventually learned fancier desserts as a pastry chef at a touristy resort in Niagara-on-the-Lake, a border town next to Niagara Falls. Pastry chef Sabrina Courtemanche with a custom cake for a client at the New River Cafe & Bakery in Fort Lauderdale.Ĭourtemanche, of course, never imagined affording a bakery off Fort Lauderdale’s snazziest restaurant row. ![]() “My view now is a lot different than what it was inside the hotel,” Courtemanche tells the South Florida Sun Sentinel, sounding perhaps too modest for a chef whose bakery gazes out over Fort Lauderdale’s pristine New River. At her 2,200-square-foot bakery, the native of Ontario, Canada, crafts decadent desserts like gooey cinnamon buns glazed with bourbon-caramel cream cheese, along with snickers brownies, Nutella-stuffed cookies, and coconut passionfruit dessert jars. Now Courtemanche has parlayed the crazy highs of “Sugar Rush” into her first bakeshop, New River Cafe & Bakery, which soft-opened in mid-January a block south of Las Olas Boulevard. But what truly clinched her victory was a red-and-green velvet cake stuffed with cutout cake pop Christmas trees, and crowned with what judges called a “dreamy” coquito cream-cheese frosting. *All our cakes are created in a NUT FREE environment.As anyone who’s watched her conquer holiday cakes on Netflix baking show “Sugar Rush Christmas” can attest, Sabrina Courtemanche’s pastry prowess shouldn’t be taken lightly.Ĭourtemanche, the longtime head pastry chef at Fort Lauderdale’s Riverside Hotel, won $10,000 on the competition series for her spiced vanilla cupcakes spiked with cherry mulled wine. We have created countless unique edible works of art for clients ranging from the next door neighbor to Lady Gaga. Sugar Rush has been creating custom cakes for over 7 years. We are a Montreal based cakery motivated by constantly trying to outdo ourselves by making cakes that are beautiful, challenging, and as out-of-the-ordinary as possible! Our inspiration comes from everywhere: art, fabric, furniture, architecture, landscapes, science, music, anything!Most of all, our inspiration comes from you! Each cake is individually designed to match you, your personality, and the theme of the occasion you are celebrating.Don’t be fooled by wannabees and imitators. We love Birthdays and every other occasion where there is cake! A Sugar Rush Cake is a cake you will remember because someone that loves you took the time to contact us and help us create something unique to you. We take the birthday cake one step further and personalize it for each and every birthday boy or girl. A reason to get together and enjoy the company of friends and family. It’s a symbol of happiness and celebration. Sugar Rush is more than just Birthday cakes!Ī Birthday Cake is something everyone has received hopefully every year of their life.
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