Hello
Welcome to Kristy Treats! My name is Kristina Guerrero, and this is my official website. I am a small business owner baking from my home, specializing in cupcakes, cookies, and other sweet treats for all occasions including graduations, parties, weddings, baby showers, and holidays.
I graduated from Valencia College in Downtown Orlando in 2021 with a Baking and Pastry certificate and in 2024, I decided to pursue my dream of becoming a full-time entrepreneur. During my college years, I discovered my passion for cake decorating in one of my courses, sparking my desire to become a cake decorator. Self-taught in this art, I've always had an artistic flair for creating delicious treats.
I am dedicated to pouring all my passion into my small business and sharing my delectable treats with everyone.
My Story
My name is Kristy. My whole life, I always wanted to be a pastry chef and studied at Valencia College in 2018 in the pastry and baking program. It was an accelerated program despite seeking out supports, I struggled because I was an undiagnosed autistic. Despite studying in the field I wanted to be in, I was unable to find the love and passion that I first had beginning my freshman year. Then the pandemic hit in 2020, where I discovered my passion for cakes and cake decorating. I had taken a course before everything went into lockdown. I discovered my passion for cake decorating. I was always an artist growing up and loved to paint flowers and nature, and always struggled trying to integrate my love for art into my pastries.​
In the fall of 2020, I posted a photo of one of the entremets I had done for class on Facebook, and my pastor from my church contacted me to bring my treats over for the gathering we have every Monday. At first, I didn’t know what to bring, until my mom had the amazing idea to make cupcakes. Cupcakes were quick and easy, and I found my passion in baking and decorating them. In 2021, I decided I needed to find a “real” job and put my passion aside, but after getting rejected, let go, and fired, it had taken a toll on my mental health, and this is where I hit rock bottom.
In 2022, I discovered I was diagnosed with autism, and the realization had both healed and hurt me. I struggled to find a job and maintain one, and no matter how hard I tried to keep up with the demands of working in a large-scale bakery chain and be the perfect employee, I was unable to, and in 2023 I decided to take a long sabbatical from working.
In 2024, after almost a year of unemployment, I decided to return to baking. My mom was looking for programs and resources for me and came across a wonderful person, Arlene Rhodenbeck. The founder of Home of Bright Choices. Is a Parent Driven Organization that helps people with developmental and cognitive disabilities should have rights as everyone else, and we should be able to live independently and integrate with a society of people with disabilities and people without disabilities.
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Home of Bright Choices offers different kinds of activities from zoom cooking classes, art and painting and my favorite one was the Valencia cooking classes where I revisited my favorite chefs and some not.
Arlene helped sponsor my baking business and introduced me to the web designers; Parker and Ericka Glick for helping me with the opportunity of advancing my baking business!
Trivia
When I’m not in the kitchen baking, I enjoy exercising and working on my art or writing stories. I love to travel, and my ultimate dream is to be a food blogger and explore the world. My favorite color is periwinkle, and my favorite food is fettuccine alfredo!