Beloved Cheesecakes belongs to God.
I am my Beloved and He is mine.
He is the one that wanted Beloved Cheesecakes.
My name is Jen.
I came out of a domestic violence marriage in 2014 with three boys in tow.
In the winter of 2015, I was on a food share program.
I received a flat of blackberries.
I didn’t know what to do with so many berries so I decided to make a blackberry cheesecake for my son’s teachers for Christmas.
Little did I know from that gesture that would launch me on a journey of making cheesecakes as a side hustle for income to provide for my sons and myself being a single mom.
It became something much more than I ever anticipated.
Friends, family, my kids, teachers, everyone raved about them.
They all kept telling me to open my own business.
I wanted nothing to do with that.
My desire was to be a social worker.
I graduated Portland State University Magna Cum Laude in 2018 with my bachelors in Social Work.
My internship was in criminal justice.
I tried to get into the field after I graduated but doors did not open.
Doors started opening for Beloved Cheesecakes.
People started requesting custom cheesecakes.
People who I never thought were requesting them…dentists, businesses, schools.
By word of mouth I became the cheesecake lady.
Then the idea of opening a brick and mortar shop started to become a reality.
On a whim I found a space downtown Silverton and inquired about it.
Shortly, a Kickstarter was started for me.
Everyone in the community got behind me and supported me and fundraised.
I had friends and friends of friends across the nation get behind me and supported me.
The appliances and everything that I needed for the shop started to fall in my lap.