08/18/2026
Well, I am super excited to announce that Prep Cakes is officially becoming an internship site for Bossier Parish Community College, helping train up-and-coming chefs in the culinary and baking world!
This one is especially exciting for me because I think somewhere along the way I forgot how much I love developing people. For 20 years in the Air Force I trained thousands of chefs and helped create culinary programs throughout the world that were recognized and named number one programs. There is just something about getting a human at the beginning, teaching them what you know, watching them learn, watching the confidence come in and then eventually watching them become something great.
Prep Cakes was started before I ever retired from the Air Force, and even after retirement I continued working in the culinary world while building this business. I spent four years as the Culinary Director for Southern University while running Prep Cakes, helped build their incubator kitchen and also sat on the board and helped orchestrate the Cohab incubator kitchen.
At that time I think my brain had shifted more toward developing businesses because that was where I was in my own life. I was building a business, so naturally I wanted to help other people figure out how to build theirs too. How do you take something from your home into a commercial kitchen? How do you get it into stores? How do you actually make money doing this? How do you grow it?
And I absolutely love that part of what I do, but I think what I didn’t realize I was missing was the culinary foundation that comes before any of that.
Before we can teach somebody how to build a food business, somebody has to teach them how to be a chef. Somebody has to teach the basics, the discipline, the techniques, the standards and all the things you only learn by actually being in a kitchen and doing it over and over again.
So in a really weird way, after spending all these years helping people grow businesses, this is propelling me right back to the basics and back to something I spent most of my adult life doing…training people.
I am really excited that Prep Cakes will now get to be one of those stops for BPCC culinary students and I am especially excited to work with Chef Joe on this and whatever else we come up with along the way.
Funny how sometimes you spend years building forward just to realize God is bringing something from the beginning right back around. ❤️
Picture: Our very own family and baker (before college) graduated this very year from the same program!! Kennedy Kerrigan
