Brooklyn Kyzar, Whipped Up

Today’s celebrity pastry chef owns her bakery called Whipped Up. The fact that its owner just turned 16 and has yet to get her driver’s license is just part of the story. Brooklyn Kyzar became interested in baking at a young age, watching her mother and grandmother baking goodies in the family kitchen. She began to tune in to the Food Network and pretended she had her own show complete with a chef’s hat.

At age 10, she started getting serious. Through her grandmother, she met Aidan Berry, winner of Season 3 Kids Baking Championship and the $25,000 grand prize. They became friends and Brooklyn learned what it takes to be selected for the show, which is based out of Las Angeles and has over a thousand applications from the United States and Canada each season. It’s a rigorous process to be selected for the 12 spots available for the competition.

Baking is a precise process that is both an art and science, so when Brooklyn decided to try out for Season 6 of the Kids Baking Championship, she was 12 years old and nervous. She had to submit videos of her baking at home, do interviews with the show’s producers, and demonstrate that she did know what she was doing. She was selected on her first try, and even though she didn’t win the title in Season 6, she did gain confidence and reach celebrity status among her family and friends.

In August 2018, after appearing in Kids Baking Championship, she founded Whipped Up. Brooklyn had her first speaking engagement in Birmingham for Itty Bitt Bakers at age 13 in front of 25 kids. She’s been a judge at the Christmas Cookie Bake-Off at church and has appeared on Talk of Alabama to discuss her baking skills and her business. She has also taught baking classes in Silverhill.

Brooklyn makes custom-ordered wedding cakes, birthday cakes, French macarons, sugar cookies, and cupcakes. She keeps a calendar and likes about a six-month advance notice for big projects like wedding cakes and such. For custom orders like these, she will review photos with her client to make sure the customer gets what they want.

She recently had a request from the mother and father of a bride in Mobile to create a six-tiered wedding cake for their daughter’s upcoming wedding.  This required a larger kitchen from which to bake. In steps Jimmy and Paige Dill, owners of Tailgate Cheese Straws in Fairhope, who lent their kitchen to Brooklyn in exchange for a cooking lesson. Brooklyn baked the cakes, made the icing, and transported all the pieces to the wedding venue in Mobile for assembly and decorating. It was a monumental task and she pulled it off without a hitch!

Her favorite wedding baking experience was a Cupcake themed offering with several individual cakes. She bakes seasonal cupcakes like Maple Pecan and Pumpkin Snickerdoodle. When asked what cake she has never made but would like to, she said a French cake called an Entremet cake.

Baking is not a full-time job for Brooklyn. She’s also busy with schoolwork; she’s dual-enrolled in high school and college and doesn’t think she will make a career as a baker. Maybe the medical field, she says. Although after working alongside the pastry chef at the Grand Hotel, a chef’s job is on the table if she wants it.

Avery is her twin brother and for their recent birthday, her parents, Pam and Kipp made a two-layered Strawberry cake for Brooklyn and a Chocolate Chip cake for Avery. Talk about pressure

You can find Whipped Up on Facebook and Instagram.

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