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At 14, a San Francisco teenager is already a baking ace

Cooking is a bit like math (and the former "Literary" who writes these lines weighs her words). Either we have innate skills that make us succeed every time, or failure is always there despite all the good will in the world. Ryan Wilson is clearly part of the first category, in which he counts double or even triple when you know his very young. Indeed, the American from San Francisco is an ace pastry when he is only… 14 years old! And he's going to make all those of us green with envy who have trouble even keeping a fruit pie bought at the local bakery in good condition... The little prodigy shares his colorful creations and worthy of the most cutting-edge televised culinary competitions on his Instagram account where he has nearly 75,000 admirers.

A culinary career that opens up to him

There are thus tiered cakes and cupcakes dedicated to cultural festivals such as Halloween or Christmas, in the colors of the Mexican and American flags, in fluorescent colors or, on the contrary, decorated with pastel shades. In short, there is something for everyone! Our favorites go to the M&Ms cake which defies gravity and which took 6 hours to prepare, and to the zebra cake whose black and white stripes are completely fascinating. “When I was 8 years old, I was offered a low-power dinette oven. When it became too easy for me, I started using the kitchen oven. I learned pastry on the job, watching TV shows and cooking videos on Youtube. What I prefer is sharing my achievements with my friends and subscribers through tutorials that show the different steps, it's easier to do than you think “, explains the talented cook to the site Metro . The teenager, who is about to enter a cooking school (of course!), dreams of one day having his own culinary column on television. It's all the harm we wish him. Congratulations to this ambitious young man!