New York City Adventures

A few weeks ago I received an email for an offer to do a live TV segment for Telemundo near New York City, I quickly jumped to the opportunity, 2 days in the Big Apple talking about my favorite thing: Cupcakes! How cool is that?!

The segment was sponsored by Post Cereal after I created the oh-so-delicious Fruity Pebbles cupcakes.

Post Cereal is running a super fun promotional: Team Pebbles (check it out!) and they asked to create another recipe, this time using their Cocoa Pebbles Cereal.

As the we got closer to the date I was informed that 2 other stations: Univision and NY1 Noticias wanted to have me as well, YAY!!! this was an once in a life time opportunity to represent an amazing brand such as Post Cereals AND to share my recipes!

The day before shooting the segments we drove to New Jersey just a few blocks from the Telemundo studios and we settled into our fancy hotel room, and since I was doing 3 TV segments I brought with me every piece of pink of clothing I own, branding is key! ha!

We made great time driving there and it was still early evening so we decided that since we were 10 minutes away from New York City it would've been a shame not to spend some time in the city.

I called my BFF Chef Huascar Aquino, owner of  H Bake shop and fellow Cupcake Wars Winner, and after we met up at his shop we visited this incredible Korean fried chicken restaurant called Hell's Chicken.

Listen: If you haven't had Korean fried chicken, you never had fried chicken, wow! incredible super crunchy juicy fried chicken paired with a variety of hot, mild, sour, gingery and sweet sauces! yum! and I also discovered the most incredible beer, this Schofferhofer Graperfuit Weizen Mix, I don't know much about beer but I love this one! I could drink it like water, but I didn't! it's so light and refreshing! perfect for a hot summer date...with fried chicken! muahahaha!

After our amazing dinner we drove back to the hotel for a few hours of sleep and at the crack of dawn we packed up all our ingredients, cupcakes, tools and utensils and headed to the Telemundo studios.

YAYAY!!! this. is. happening!

 Everybody on set was so incredibly nice and helpful, they DO want you to look and feel great and it was such a fun experience.

The host Odalys Molina was so amazing, she was so sweet and gracious, and carried on the segment like a pro.  It DOES takes a special person to do TV, she has IT!

After a small breakfast break we continued our route chauffeured around (fancy!) by Mr. Gurmeet, such a great help especially when you are packing and unpacking several incredibly heavy boxes. Thank you Mr. G! you rock!!!

Our second stop was the Univision Studios, a couple of miles away, here I met the host Brenda Kessler.
She's gorgeous, talented, fun and TALL.  She not wearing shoes here! ha!

Our final stop was NY1 Noticias, located at the Chelsea Market in downtown Manhattan! Ohhh the big city! I love!

Here I had the pleasure to meet the host Adhelmar Montagne, super cool and friendly! awesome fun!

Finally and before leaving the Big Apple another visit to friend's Huascar's shop to pick up some incredible delicious cupcakes!

This was an exhausting 24hr day: running around, driving through crazy traffic, packing and unpacking, up and down elevators but such an incredibly FUN and rewarding experience.

I'm so happy and thankful I was given this opportunity.

And finally, HERE is a link for the Univision segment (in Spanish, of course), hope you like it!

Much love,
Ady