NJ Woman Baking & Selling ‘Mortgage Apple Cakes’ to Stave Off Foreclosure
By: Diane Tuman, Zillow Content Manager | July 23, 2009
This is one of those odd foreclosure stories that will have a nice ending and possibly create a new career for Angela Logan, a Teaneck, NJ woman who is an actress and divorced mother of three. In a creative measure to save her house from foreclosure, Logan held a bake sale with her goal to bake and sell 100 homemade “mortgage apple cakes” at $40 each.
According to NorthJersey.com, she has received more than 500 orders, including one from Hong Kong.
After reading about Logan’s financial bind, the Hilton Hotel in Hasbrouck Heights invited her to bake in a corner of its kitchen. Logan spent 12 hours there Saturday, turning out more than 20 cakes using a commercial mixer and convection oven. The hotel is letting Logan use the kitchen at least through this weekend, when the first of three $2,559.94 payments to Bank of America — required as part of the modification of her mortgage — is due.
This is simply one of those feel-good stories about someone who was committed and driven enough to stave off foreclosure. Kudos to Hilton Hotel general manager Al Hamdi who was moved by her story and initially wanted to support her by buying her cakes. Instead, he allowed her to use the Hilton kitchen so she could bake her pies more quickly. Plus, she was not allowed to bake in her home for commercial use.
Angela’s Web site motto is: “Fighting Foreclosure One Cake at a Time.” Love it!
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Bill on July 26, 2009 10:48 am
Thank you, Ms. Logan and Mr. Hamdi, for being an example of what Americans can do when they look to themselves, rather than to government, for solutions to the foreclosure crisis.
Mike on July 27, 2009 8:34 am
Amen Bill!
ruth stroup on July 27, 2009 10:50 am
I love stories of creative problem solving and collaboration. As an insurance agent, I see first hand how foreclosure impacts people. Losing a home is a tragedy for the families that face this situation. Congrats to Angela Logan for finding a creative solution to her financial problems.
Ruth Stroup
Farmers Agent/Oakland, CA
Rob on July 27, 2009 11:02 am
I just read on-line that she is designing her own line of cakes with a major on-line retailer, and is on The Today Show tomorrow. Go figure!
http://www.northjersey.com/news/state/cake_baker_placeholder.html
loan modification on September 8, 2009 1:46 am
Wow! That is such a touching story. I remember when I used to hear stories about the depression and how people simply got creative to survive. Major kudos to this lady
100mortgage on October 24, 2009 5:35 am
That is such a brilliant story, good to see there is light at the end of the tunnel for some folk.