The women of Brooklyn’s IM Pastry are all phenomenal go-getters, eschewing their home kitchen and shared kitchen rental fees to open a custom cake boutique and cafe in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of Prospect Lefferts Gardens.  Founded in 2009, IM Pastry was born after an Instagram image of a gorgeous set of pink quilted Chanel-inspired cupcakes were posted. An immediate social networking following emerged, along with a deluge of custom cake orders from dessert enthusiasts, including celebrities like Carmelo Anthony and Chef Roble. And after a successful Kickstarter campaign, the women celebrated the soft opening of their cafe this Valentine’s Day 2015 weekend. I was fortunate enough to chat with Senior Pastry Designer Tiffany Washington about embracing Crocs, motherhood, and the art of caking it until you make it. Follow #TeamIMBK on Twitter, @IMPastryStudio on Instagram, and be sure to check out IleneMiriam.com

Click on link below to find out more about this cake artist’s most prized fashion items after the jump.

Jacqueline Colette Prosper, @yummicoco

Sweatpants 

I like to bake in sweatpants. It’s more of a comfort thing, because the bigger the business gets, the more we have to do. I can spend hours on end either in the kitchen or making deliveries. When I wear sweatpants, I prefer cute, fitted sweats from H&M. Maybe I subconsciously do it so I don’t expand my waistline, but I’ve been baking for so long that I don’t even indulge in cakes anymore—I indulge in sleep!

Crocs

Before I had my daughter I would like wear heels every day. No matter what, rain, sleet, snow, I had on heels. I even had a bad habit of baking in heels for a long time. But I’m getting older now, so I prefer comfortable shoes. My new thing is Crocs. I love them! They keep my feet so comfortable in the kitchen since I have to stand up for hours on end.  About two years ago, my back started to hurt, which is when I had to make a change.

MCM Tote

The third thing would be my tote bag because my life is in there: My iPad, my daughter’s iPad, books of ideas, receipts, everything! Like, my life is literally in my bag! It even comes with another case inside of it, and I put my iPad inside of that, It’s the perfect bag! I feel like it was, like, made for me…

It’s an MCM tote from Bloomingdale’s. I also have pins on my bag: A Team IMBK pin, and one from my friend’s business. I purchased the tote around the time that we did the Kickstarter campaign, and those were the pins that we gave out at our first Kickstarter party. They have some sentimental value so they are a part of my everyday life now, reminding me of how far we’ve come. It just makes me happy that we were able to accomplish everything that we wanted to.

Jacqueline Colette Prosper, @yummicoco