What Ashley Holt Has Been Doing Since She Quit Cake Boss

Publish date: 2024-04-30

Holt's daughter, Chloe, turned two in May 2020. On Instagram, Holt describes her pregnancy as "a total surprise" that "completely took [her] life for a right turn." Pregnancy was no cakewalk. "I was sick basically the entire time," writes Holt, "this brand I built for myself ... I now all of a sudden had no interest. It was soul-crushing." 

As Holt reflected afterward, "life will throw you curve balls and you just have to ... roll with it and figure it out." She knocked it out of the park. While Holt took as step back from the management of Sugar Monster Sweets, she and her best friend and business partner, Marisol Morley (Morley owns a bakery that shares a physical space with Sugar Monster Bakery in Brooklyn), opened Tiny Monster Academy in 2019. It's a place where people, young and old, can take classes, run by Holt, Morley, and "bosses bakers, makers and industry shakers." What can you learn at Tiny Monster Academy? Upcoming classes include an "Elements of Hip Hop" Cookie Class and an "Ever After" Cookie Class (Wedding-themed cookies, anyone?). "There was always so much magic happening under that roof it was a shame to not bring people in on it," Holt wrote about the Tiny Monster Academy opening (via Instagram). 

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