Inspired by 'The Cake Boss,' Princeton Teen Launches Baking Business

Lizzie Frieder has always loved to bake and now she's turned her passion into a part-time profitable business.

  Lizzie Frieder, 17, has been making birthday and special occassion cakes for her family and friends for years.  In March 2011, during her sophomore year in high school, the Princeton Township teen entered her first baking contest, "Bake with the Cake Boss." Frieder won second prize, a mixer, and the approval of master baker Buddy Valastro of Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken and TLC's "The Cake Boss." Frieder's entry was a double layer chocolate cake with melted dark and white chocolate panels on the side of the cake. “He (Buddy) said it was good, that it was moist and chocolaty,” Frieder said. “I was thinking it’s just a hobby and I’ll see how it goes. Then I got second place and he’s my baking idol so when he said it was good, I decided to …

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