Tracey Hughes, founder of The Rum Cake Fairy Dessert Company LLC, is winning devotees across the country one rum cake at a time.  Her rum cake is a “melt in your mouth” dessert made with the finest Caribbean rum, organic butter, whole eggs, and imported spices.  Ms. Hughes uses only the freshest ingredients to create a cake unparalleled with moistness and character.  Each cake is lovingly finished with a rum-laced gossamer glaze giving every bite a delicate rum-infused flavor.

A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Ms. Hughes is a marketing expert with 14 years of brand and ethnic marketing expertise.  She spent most of her career working for the Colgate Palmolive Company in Chicago and New York.  Rather than pursue another corporate job, Ms. Hughes took charge of her own destiny.  “I decided to heed my inner voice and take control of my life.  I wanted to follow my dream for a long time and the timing was finally right.”

A self-taught baker, Ms. Hughes has been baking rum cakes for 12 years but her love of baking reaches back to her childhood.  “My passion for baking comes from my Nana.” says Ms. Hughes, “As a child  I remember licking the beaters from my Nana’s homemade cakes.  And I tried to recapture that sprit in my rum cakes.”  Ms. Hughes secret rum cake recipe emerged from her kitchen experiment late night after work.  She regularly started taking her rum cakes to family affairs and corporate functions where they were wildly popular.  Soon coworkers started asking her to make cakes for special occasions.  In 2000 Ms. Hughes started selling her rum cakes  for the holidays and was soon filling as many as 40 cakes for the Christmas season, baking as many as 10 cakes per night in her Brooklyn apartment.   Ms. Hughes has wowed audiences across the United States with the inspiring story of how she turned her dream and passion into a thriving enterprise.

Ms. Hughes comes from a long line of entrepreneurs and hopes to use the experience she gained marketing leading consumer brands to put her rum cakes in restaurants, fine food grocers and neighborhood coffee and tea houses.  Her corporate rosters includes clients with Sodexho, Smith Barney, Citigroup, and Deustche Bank.  Rum Cake Fairy cakes are available phone 888-488-8rum or online at http://www.rumcakefairy.com.  Back To Speakers