Editing Abby Jimenez (section)

==Nadia Cakes==

In 2007, Jimenez was working as a retail manager when she lost her job. Looking for a way to manage the financial shortfall and lift her spirits, she enrolled in a cake decorating course at a local Michaels craft store. What began as a temporary distraction became the foundation of a business: she began selling cupcakes from her home kitchen, naming the enterprise Nadia Cakes after her middle daughter. For two years she baked and sold from home while caring for her three young children, developing carpal tunnel in both hands severe enough to require surgery on her right hand.

In 2009 she opened the first brick-and-mortar Nadia Cakes location in Palmdale, California, to immediate demand. The success of the bakery led to television appearances — first on TLC's ''Fabulous Cakes'' and then on ''Food Network'''s competitive baking series ''Cupcake Wars,'' which Jimenez won in 2013 with a Rose Bowl–inspired cupcake display, earning $10,000. Her husband Carlos left his own career as a retail manager to join the business as CFO. Additional Nadia Cakes locations subsequently opened in Maple Grove and Woodbury, Minnesota, alongside the original Palmdale shop.

In 2018, a pink rock candy cake sold by the bakery went viral on social media owing to its unintentional resemblance to female genitalia, bringing Nadia Cakes a new wave of international attention.