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, Jesús Ramirez,
this all started with just one cake.
- It was funny because when I did my first cake,
it was for Jesús's birthday.
[speaking in Spanish] Y de ahí empezamos a seguir haciendo pasteles.
- Angela: Pedro and Jesús 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 más-- más asustaba
si tal vez no tuviéramos éxito
- 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 mí nos apasiona lo que hacemos
decorar los pasteles
crear diseños de pasteles nuevos
para bodas, para quinceañeras,
fiestas de cumpleaños.
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 pastelería.
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- Angela: Jesús 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 quinceañera, 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 significó mucho
nos pusimos muy contentos
estábamos muy, muy contentos.
No nos lo creíamos
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 Jesús 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]
- ¡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 pequeños 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
aquí alrededor en el área de milwaukee
y nuestro propósito es para que más gente se entere
de los negocios latinas
que están 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 común que dos hombres latinos
a lo hagamos ahora
y en estar en este país
es muy bonito, muy importante
estar saliendo adelante.
- I love what I do,
and I think Jesús 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.