LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A sweet tooth’s paradise is taking shape across Louisville as bakeries and candy shops ramp up production for the Kentucky Derby, crafting thousands of desserts infused with a signature ingredient: bourbon.
At Adam Matthews Baking Company, employees are working at full speed to meet the seasonal demand. Inside the 50,000-square-foot kitchen, crews hustle to prepare cheesecakes, cherry pies and vats of caramel icing.
“Adam Burckle started it in 1983. It was mainly cheesecakes,” said Cathy Fleig, vice president of operations for the company. “We did a lot of variety of different cheesecakes. It was his mother’s recipe, and it just grew from there…