<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=29PUWv_1FDUkhAJ00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=29PUWv_1FDUkhAJ00" width="900" height="600" ></figure>Cake pops: controversy starting sweet treats, and the subject of many pop up carts. Many Omaha residents have stumbled into the cake pop craze, with some tuned into the public “Cake Pop Gate” debacle, and others who started their own cake pop carts.Ashley Burch, the owner of Sweet Treats by Ashley, has been at the center of attention since she was accused of stealing a recipe from TikTok baker “Cake by Kaity.” This controversy was then coined “Cake Pop Gate.”This incident was over a Fruity Pebble cake pop recipe that Burch found online, which gave ratios of the ingredients to use so that viewers could make it at home. Burch used these ratios to make the pops, which she posted to her TikTok.“It got like 77,000 views, and for a small creator like myself who just started, that was big for me,” Burch said.Burch was then tagged multiple times in a video from “Cake by Kaity,” which she saw on her way out of Walmart after buying ingredients for the next batch of cake pops she was going to bake.“I just saw that she tagged me in a whole bunch of stuff in her story,” Burch said. “And she was just going off about how you know I stole her recipe, and she was getting all her followers to come report my account.”Her account was flooded with hate comments, and Burch said she was starting to panic about the business she just put her money into. She started her cart on June 15 and this video was posted on the last days of that month. She didn’t know what to do so she called her dad to ask his advice. “The best thing you can do is make a video explaining the situation, so when they come to your page to leave terrible comments on your stuff, at least they can see your side,” Burch said.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4S7Kgp_1FDUkhAJ00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4S7Kgp_1FDUkhAJ00" width="960" height="1200" ></figure>After this Burch took time for herself to focus on her mental health. This controversy not only put her in the limelight, but inspired many other carts to open. Craft and Bake owner Megan Odson started her cart after she saw Sweet Treats by Ashley and the “Cake Pop Gate” controversy. “I saw that, and I was like, ‘Well, let me Amazon a cake pop cart, some ice packs, some containers to put in there’,” Odson said.Odson first started making cake pops with recipes she learned from TikTok. Odson made cake pops originally for just her and her husband, but then she wanted to share her pops.“So I bake,” Odson said. “I have a couple, and then I give [cake pops] to everybody else.” Every week Odson restocks her cart with the three feature flavors. The work begins on Mondays, when she makes her home kitchen sterile, and ready for baking.“I make the cakes, and I do the dough, and then I wait about four hours or so, and then I start making them in the evening after I’m done with my job,” Odson said.This baking process is very similar to Burch’s, and owner of Caked Up Omaha Maryellen Hartwell’s. They all make the necessary dough, and batter for the upcoming week’s sales. Burch, Hartwell, and Odson make batches to produce from 100-400 cake pops per week.Hartwell uses her background in food science to help her with the baking process. Her knowledge of food and ratios of ingredients is a great help in the kitchen.“So sometimes if you try cake pops, a lot of people say they’re too sweet, but that just comes from people not like understanding how to balance a flavor,” Hartwell said.Hartwell makes the cake pops, but it is up to her kids to run the cart. Hartwell has entrusted the job of checking the cart, and money box to her children.“So like I’m really trying to teach these guys that the only limit to what they want is how hard they’re willing to work,” Hartwell said. All of the carts have had a problem of stealing, even with them all having Ring cameras. Some carts have had a few cake pops stolen here and there, but one had almost had everything stolen.“Somebody tried to steal my whole cart,” Hartwell said. “But my neighbor came out and she was like, ‘What is going on out here?’ And he drove off with the trunk open.”Odson said in an Instagram post that if the theft, and people littering in her yard didn’t get better she would close her cart. In another post she said that she would be doing more online orders, and keeping the cart near her camera. This threat of stealing doesn’t stop the creators from making pops. Many of the cake pop cart owners chat with each other, after these experiences and give advice or tips.“We’re all really supportive of each other,” Hartwell said. “Like every weekend we go to a couple of carts.”Odson said she hopes more people will start new carts with new ideas. Even though this brings new competition for her business.“I know there’s going to be competition, and that I think that’s what makes it fun,” Odson said.</div></body>

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Cake pops: controversy starting sweet treats, and the subject of many pop up carts. Many Omaha residents have stumbled into the cake pop craze, with some tuned into the public “Cake Pop Gate” debacle, and others who started their own cake pop carts. Ashley Burch, the owner of...

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