Winnipeg baker blooming with excitement as baked creations land in Grammy Award swag bags

International recording stars attending the Grammy Awards in Los Angelesthis weekend will find a treat from a Winnipeg-based baker in their swag bags.

On Sunday, Rachel Nedelec's edibleflower-adorned "petal pops" will be in the gift bags going out to winners, performers and presenters at the 65th annual music awards show.

Nedelec,owner of Flour and Flower, says the thought of internationally known artists including Lizzo and Adele eating her pastries is incredible.

"Completely surreal,"Nedelectold CBCUp to Speedguest host Cory Funk on Friday."I don't think it's just really sunk right in yet."

Nedelecgot the big break by Googling the awards show to figure out how to get a spot in the swag bags. She pitched her products in anemailthinking notmuch would come of it.

The following day she got a response saying her product was perfect for the Grammys. They asked her to ship off a batch the following week.

"We worked pretty long days and got them shipped off as fast we could,"Nedelec said.

She and staff baked 525white chocolate petal pops, each with an edible flower in it.Each of the 175 goodie bagswill have a box containing three of her creations.

"How difficult was it emotionally speaking? It was not the best,"Nedelecsaid with a laugh.

Flour and Flower isn't the first Winnipeg-based business to end up with its products lighting up the loot bags at big award shows.

Coal and Canary Candle Company had its candles added to gift bags at the Academy Awards and Grammy Awards in 2015, justthree months after forming the company.

"It was zero to 100," said Amanda Buhse, the company's CEO.

"The amount of brand awareness, the customers that you're going to grow having these A-list celebrities that have your product that you handmade in their hands it's pretty special."

One of the stories that stuck withBuhsehappened a few months after the award shows in 2015. She got a call from an unknown number with a New York area code.

"It was Beyonc's hair dresser and he owns a salon in New York City and he was like, 'Hey, I would love to look at potentially wholesaling these, I saw them in her house and I love them,'"Buhserecalled.

"Even to this day, just saying that out loud is crazy."

Buhse says she is excited that her friendNedelecis going to experience a similar whirlwind opportunity.

She had a couple words of advice: "Savour it."

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