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Beth Murdock and partner Sommer Meade opened The Pink Cupcake three and a half years ago. Both Beth and Sommer learned the baking trade by working for years for large grocery stores as bakers and cake decorators. But when the two met at a gingerbread house auction shortly after they both had moved to Mount Vernon, they realized the town didn't have a bakery. They admired each other's houses and became friends. The women, who were both baking/decorating at home and selling their goods to the public and local businesses, started chatting on the phone about sugar. One day, Sommer called Beth and told her to meet her so they could look at their bakery.

"She had mentioned opening a bakery, and I said "whatever," Beth recalls. "Sommer has a 'We can do anything' attitude. She never thought we wouldn't open a bakery."

So they made the plunge, and after six months of renting a commercial kitchen,and the help of another silent partner. The ladies opened their bakery on Mount Vernon's Main Street.

The partnership couldn't have worked out better.

"We have complementary strengths," Beth says. "One of which being, she is a morning person, I am a night owl."

Because of that, Sommer opens the bakery each morning at 4 a.m. and does the lion's share of the baking, while Beth does more of the business end, deals with customers and closes up the shop each night.

The bakery features a case of yummy treats like muffins, cinnamon rolls, cupcakes, danish and more. However, the major part of the bakery's business comes from creating wedding, birthday and other special occasion cakes. Beth says the work of decorating a cake to meet a customer's vision is incredibly rewarding.

"Every cake is an expression of art for us," Beth says. "It brings us joy to meet our customers' vision of what their cakes should be. These are little pieces of someone's life that we've turned into an edible creation. We just get to play the whole day."

" To me this is the best job in the world," Beth says. "We provide happy things. No one is ever sad to see a cake."