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<\/p>\nSCRANTON\u2014 What started as a challenge from one of her friends to recreate something she saw on TikTok has changed Genesis Vega\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
The owner of 3 Tiers Bakery in downtown Scranton has recently become popular for selling the viral TikTok fruit mousse cakes. <\/p>\n
Vega grew up in Mayag\u00fcez, Puerto Rico, where she studied nursing in high school but soon changed to culinary after graduating. She received three culinary arts degrees, one in cooking and two in baking. <\/p>\n
She moved to the United States in 2017 and to the Scranton area in 2020. She started her business out of her home, but soon moved to a storefront in Carbondale in 2022. Last year, she moved to her current location in downtown Scranton.<\/p>\n
Despite being in business for multiple years, this year has been her busiest, partially thanks to her newest item. <\/p>\n
The viral TikTok fruit mousse cakes have a hard outer shell with a light, fluffy mousse and fruit filling inside. The hyperrealistic mousse cakes often look like the fruits they’re flavored after.\u00a0Vega sells them at $10 each.<\/p>\n
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Vega made her first post sharing her fruit mousse on Jan. 24, announcing the green apple flavor would be available at her shop that day for a sneak peek and revealing the full menu for the Feb. 3 debut. Her post went viral, and she sold out the same day. <\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody was calling me asking me for the mousse. I thought this is something big.\u201d<\/p>\n
She initially planned to have the full menu available on the first Tuesday of every month, but with its popularity, she chose to offer the full menu every Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaily, I receive over 80, 90 customers, new customers who travel from Hazleton, from Harrisburg. So, they travel from really far away from here just to come here and get the mousse.\u201d<\/p>\n
3 Tiers Bakery has a line out the door every Tuesday with customers waiting to try the mousse. On Valentine\u2019s Day, she had customers lining up at 6 a.m. for a chance to try the mousse. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeople were waiting since 6 a.m. and I open at 10:30. It was freezing outside.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vega chose Tuesdays because they used to be the slowest day of the week, now it\u2019s her busiest day. She said she also picked Tuesday because it\u2019s a three- to four-day process to make her full menu. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really hard for me to have the whole collection every day. That\u2019s why I just (decided) Tuesday, because we (are) closed Sunday and Monday, I start working with the fruit Friday night, so I can have them ready for Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are select flavors, usually two, available on the other days of the week. Recently, Vega stopped offering the mousse on Saturdays and preorders.<\/p>\n
\u201cSaturday for us is really busy on custom orders, like cakes, birthday cake, wedding cake and other kinds of pre-orders, not specific for mousse cakes. So that\u2019s why I have to stop accepting pre-orders for the mousse cakes and I also have to stop making mousse cakes on Saturdays.\u201d<\/p>\n
In May, Vega is switching to offer the full menu on Saturdays instead of Tuesdays, as it\u2019s more convenient for customers. <\/p>\n
\u201cI decided to switch that because I know school is almost over, summer is coming, and they\u2019re off during the weekend. \u2026 So that\u2019s why I decided to do a Saturday \u2026 so families who have kids don\u2019t have to worry about \u2018Oh no, I have to pick up the kids\u2019 or \u2018I have to bring my kid to school so they can\u2019t.\u2019 They can just say \u2018OK, let’s go get the mousse.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
Vega has plans for new mousse flavors, including seasonal and monthly flavors. She plans on bringing back the margarita flavor for Cinco de Mayo and plans to make a coconut passion fruit flavor in the shape of a bunny for April. <\/p>\n
Vega incorporates her culture into her bakery. The bestselling flavor of the mousse cakes is mango, which is inspired by her hometown, which is often referred to the \u201ctown of mangoes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vega often works seven days a week on her creations, but doesn’t mind. She says that’s what she signed up for when she started her business. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been in this business since 2020, and this is the first year I feel that I\u2019m seeing with my eyes the successful business. \u2026 But I feel this is the first year I can say, I feel proud of myself, because I\u2019ve been doing all this just by myself, being a single mom without any support from any of my family members because I have no family here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON\u2014 What started as a challenge from one of her friends to recreate something she saw on TikTok…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-168162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}