Press

Press

We are pleased to be featured in the following publications!
For press inquiries, please contact Jessi.

We recently appeared on the NBC's Mommy Mondays, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Fox Business News, CNBC's The Big Idea, and Fox 5's Good Day Street Talk.

 

NBC: Mommy Mondays
NBC: Mommy Mondays
Host Wendy Fentress of Mommy Mondays joins Cupcake Kids and our budding chefs as we make Sweetheart Cookies for Valentine's Day.. Website
Rodale: Easy Recipes for Kids
Rodale: Easy Recipes for Kids
Whether there's a birthday coming up or you're looking for ways to occupy your kids and their friends when winter weather keeps them cooped up, a party full of easy recipes for kids is a great idea. And it's an opportunity to share some thoughts about healthy eating and where food comes from (besides the supermarket). For expert tips, we turned to Jessi Walter of Cupcake Kids!.. Website
Tme Out New York Kids
Tme Out New York Kids
You may already be familiar with Cupcake Kids!, Jessi Walter's popular kiddie cooking classes, which started in 2007 and soon ballooned into a culinary phenomenon... Website
Daily Candy
Daily Candy
Build up your party-throwing confidence with a bash by Cupcake Kids. Financier-turned-baker Jessi Walter creates customized edible extravaganzas based on a theme of your choosing or you can opt for one shes mastered before... Website
Hamptons: Picks of the Week
Hamptons: Picks of the Week
Good, Clean Fun. The Summer's most wholesome yet fabulous findings. NYC's favorite kid cookery, Cupcake Kids!, is packing it's sprinkels and heading for the Hamptons... View
Gotham: Petite Luxe
Gotham: Petite Luxe
Expand you little one's culinary talent and palate. Move over Magnolia: Tots in this cupcake course learn the weights and measures of baking and decorating from scratch.
Fox's Ameican Diary: Financier Turns Foodie
Fox's Ameican Diary: Financier Turns Foodie
Former Wall Streeter turns passion for cooking, party planning into a new career... Website
Fox Business News: Turning a Cooking Hobby into a Profit
Fox Business News: Turning a Cooking Hobby into a Profit
Cupcake Kids! founder Jessi Walter shares her small business story of teaching cooking classes to children... Website
Urban Baby: Kiss the Cook
Urban Baby: Kiss the Cook
A personal chef is out of the question, but what if you could cull her secrets? Get little ones to eat wholesome, well-balanced meals is no small feat. Cupcake Kids! is teaming up with Rosaberry in a hands-on Cooking for Baby workshop... Website
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
Starting over as an entrepreneur. Jessi Walter was a Wall Street wunderkind. At 21, with a degree in economics from Harvard, she was hired by Bear Stearns Cos., and eventually rose to the position of vice president in credit strategy... Website
New York Magazine: Best Kids Cooking Class
New York Magazine: Best Kids Cooking Class.. View | Website
Urban Baby: Pie in the Sky
Urban Baby: Pie in the Sky
Whether it's a group class or a birthday party (events held at P*ONG restaurant, or your pad), little ones can learn how to measure, mix and make a treat from scratch (using math and reading skills). Ah, sweet satisfaction... Website
CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News
Cupcake Kids! and Founder, Jessi Walter, were recently featured in a segment on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric! Watch the clip.. Website
Fox 5 NY
Fox 5 NY
Cupcake Kids! was recently featured in a segment about entrepreneurs on "Good Day Street Talk". Thanks to Eliza and Lea, two budding chefs, who joined us for the filming. Stay tuned...we hope to have the clip up soon... Website
Crain's New York Business
Crain's New York Business
Some Wall Streeters are now pursuing passions in a way that the demands of their old jobs didn't allow. Since April 1007, Jessi Walter made a hobby of teaching kids to cook. Now she works on Cupcake Kids! for 70 hours a week or more. Much of her time is spent teaching tots to make everything from cupcakes to pizzas... Website
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
Walter decided "it was the perfect opportunity" to turn her longtime hobby of teaching kids to cook into a small business... Website
The Big Idea on CBNC
The Big Idea on CBNC
Jessi Walter, founder of Cupcake Kids!, was recently featured on Donny Deutsch's "The Big Idea" on CNBC. Check out the clip.. Website
The New York Times
The New York Times
Jessi Walter, once in credit strategy research for Bear Stearns, left finance to found Cupcake Kids!, a business that offers cooking classes to children... Website
NY Post
NY Post
Cupcake Kids! held its grand opening event at its new location in the West Village last Tuesday. 'I would have never in my wildest dreams have expected to be doing this right now,' says Walter... Website
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
From Wall Street to Cupcakes: "I want to teach kids to cook," says Walter, who founded Cupcake Kids! in New York to provide birthday parties and classes for kids.. Website
NY Daily News
NY Daily News
"I've always loved kids and food, and so I put two of my passions together," said Jessi Walter, founder of Cupcake Kids!.. Website
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