I first met Pamela Braxton at the El Cerrito Community Center when my son Jacob and her son, Zachary, were enrolled in a pre-school T-ball class in 2004 – the same year she and her husband, Ron, launched their baked-goods small business, Braxtons' Boxes (510.708.7089). Our sons attended the same elementary school and through the years they donated cakes for our school auctions. For my daughter Isabella's tea parties for her fourth and fifth birthdays in 2006 and 2007, Braxtons' Boxes whipped up the prettiest and tastiest cupcakes and petit fours, which backed up the "killer Yelp reviews" that the bake-to-order company has racked up, and perfectly captured their tagline, "Better than Divine." It wasn't until I sat down with Pamela, now 46, for an interview last fall that I got to know the back story of how Braxtons' Boxes came to be.
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