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From Home Kitchen to National Brand: The Bunny Cakes Story

Sean A. Russell talks with Mariana, founder of Bunny Cakes, about growing a vegan bakery from a home kitchen into a nationally shipped brand.

Vegans Explore Podcast

Episode 40 · Dec 10, 2025 · 10 min

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Building a Ready-to-Bake Business

Bunny Cakes started as a small, from-scratch vegan bakery and has since expanded into ready-to-bake cupcake kits, available through bunnycakes.com and readytobakecupcakes.com, that let customers anywhere in the country bake the same treats at home.

Scaling Without Losing the Craft

Mariana talks through the challenges of scaling a food product nationally while keeping quality and flavor consistent, a challenge familiar to many small vegan CPG brands trying to grow beyond local farmers markets and pop-ups.

For Vegans Explore, Bunny Cakes is another example of the kind of small vegan business the platform wants to keep spotlighting: founder-led, product-focused, and proof that plant-based treats can compete well beyond a niche audience.