Four and a half years into her specialty baking business, confectioner extraordinaire Carol Wieberg is ready for the icing on top of her cake-centric career.
Wieberg's Frosted Art Studio in Jefferson City, revered for its custom cakes, cookies and specialty desserts, closed at the end of 2016 to make way for her other creative interests on the rise.
The Impatient Baker, her up-and-coming online shop, is all about the creativity behind the cakes.
"All the time people are asking me to do cakes, and sometimes you don't have the right tools or the right things to do that with, so you have to make it up," Wieberg said. "I love to sculpt. That's my thing right now. So it's just an excuse to sculpt, mostly, and an excuse to mesh the two things that I love most - sculpting and cakes."
The online shop, which she will operate from her Argyle farm, will offer cookie cutters and cake molds designed by Wieberg herself.
Letting go of the 202 E. High St. building that housed Frosted Art Studio since summer 2015 was no easy decision, as Wieberg dedicated six months to renovating and refurbishing it when she moved the bakery from its original Jefferson Street home.
"I had to decide which one I liked to do best, and the creative side was more toward my passions, I supposed," she said.
The building already has drawn interest from potential new tenants or owners, she added.
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