
To the many home bakers who set up cake-making side hustles at home and now dream of turning buttercream into their full-time money-spinner, Kathryn Bricken is a hero.
The American-born entrepreneur started her career as a legislative assistant on Washington’s Capitol Hill before pivoting to food product development, inventing a flavoured pasta collection for a Canadian food giant (“think lemon pepper fettuccini and sundried tomato linguine,” she explains).