As daybreak emerges along the West Oklahoma Avenue.
- Pedro: We start working at six o'clock in the morning.
- Angela: It's time for these bakers to get busy.
- Pedro: Tres leches cake.
This one is one of the most popular
desserts or cakes that we make here.
- Angela: For Pedro Garcia and his partner, JesÃºs Ramirez,
this all started with just one cake.
- It was funny because when I did my first cake,
it was for JesÃºs's birthday.
[speaking in Spanish] Y de ahÃ­ empezamos a seguir haciendo pasteles.
- Angela: Pedro and JesÃºs went from making one cake
to opening a bakery.
- Dame mocha - El mocha? Okay.
- Angela: In Spanish, "Todo Postres" means "all desserts."
- Pedro: Some of the recipes are family recipes.
- Angela: Pedro comes from a family of bakers.
- Pedro: My grandma was an artisan baker,
and I have my oldest sister,
which is a cake designer and baker, also.
- Angela: But that didn't guarantee success.
- La parte mÃ¡s-- mÃ¡s asustaba
si tal vez no tuviÃ©ramos Ã©xito
- It was scary to start,
thinking about what could work or what couldn't work.
- Angela: And for the most part,
both are self-taught bakers and businessmen.
- Pedro: There's a lot of things that you can't forget
when you're baking or doing sweet stuff.
The base is a sponge cake made out of egg whites,
flour, powders, vanilla extract.
This one is ready.
- Pedro y a mÃ­ nos apasiona lo que hacemos
decorar los pasteles
crear diseÃ±os de pasteles nuevos
para bodas, para quinceaÃ±eras,
fiestas de cumpleaÃ±os.
Entonces, yo creo que eso es lo que me entusiasma
y lo que me apasiona hacer
y es lo que hago.
Mi trabajo anteriormente
era totalmente diferente
a lo de lo que es la pastelerÃ­a.
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- Angela: JesÃºs and Pedro went from welding
to wedding cakes,
where they found a recipe for success.
- Mi familia y mis amigos se sorprendieron.
- The change was huge.
[chuckles]
In the oven.
- Angela: They built a name for themselves,
making delicious desserts and cakes,
very large extravagant cakes.
Creo que los pasteles de quinceaÃ±era, los de boda
cuando llevan flores naturales y rosas
son mis favoritos para decorar.
- Angela: Word about this bakery got out,
and an invitation to provide a cake for Pride Month
soon followed.
- Para llevar un pastel
en el mes de lo que es el orgullo gay.
Un pastel al capitolio lo significÃ³ mucho
nos pusimos muy contentos
estÃ¡bamos muy, muy contentos.
No nos lo creÃ­amos
que hayan llamado a todos postres para hacerlo.
- Pedro: They choose us to bring the cake for that special day.
It was...
The feeling was great, yeah.
- Angela: Filled with pride,
Pedro and JesÃºs want to help the next generation
of entrepreneurs.
- Pedro: We belong to both Latin community, LGBTQ community.
It's very important for us to be in touch with them.
[laughter]
- iÂ¡Buenos tardes, amigos de Todo Postres!
- Angela: One way these two are giving back
is through social media,
as influencers within their two communities.
- Muy importante ayudar a los pequeÃ±os negocios.
- Angela: Each week, they take time
out of their busy baking schedules
to spread the word, give back, and move forward.
- Si.
- Hicimos este espacio
para invitar a los negocios latinos
aquÃ­ alrededor en el Ã¡rea de milwaukee
y nuestro propÃ³sito es para que mÃ¡s gente se entere
de los negocios latinas
que estÃ¡n alrededor.
- Angela: From a half-baked idea to a dream come true.
And now a brand-new bakery is just icing on the cake.
- Creo que no es muy comÃºn que dos hombres latinos
a lo hagamos ahora
y en estar en este paÃ­s
es muy bonito, muy importante
estar saliendo adelante.
- I love what I do,
and I think JesÃºs loves what he does.
It's really nice to see the people feel happy for us.
I knew I was gonna be doing this.
If you have a dream,
you have to make it come true, yeah.