Vinusha, who started her own baking business at nine years old, decided that she would make her mother a birthday cake. After using countless resources, videos, and friends to help her bake the cake, she was able to surprise her mother, all while realizing that baking was something she was good at and wanted to pursue. Four Seasons Pastry, sells exclusively cupcakes, and despite it being a new business, Vinusha has achieved significant success.

She landed an internship at a five-star hotel café, while also selling over 600 cupcakes since 2019, which she makes in her free time at home. Covid-19 did cause Vinusha’s business to struggle, but she felt lucky to have many supportive influences around her, like her parents and her three mentors. Suresh Chinnaswamy, Lakshmi Reddy, and Geethakrishnan Sir, her three mentors, have excelled in fields of baking, and made names for themselves in the world, much like Vinusha is doing.

Being a young entrepreneur is a difficult job on its own, but Vinusha takes it a step further by juggling her own business, her schooling, and baking lessons. She practices new Indian recipes with her mother in the free time that she does get, where she’ll practice making dishes such as Butter Chicken, Gobi Masala, and Paneer Butter Masala. Baking truly takes over Vinusha’s life, and she mentions that her entrepreneurial goals do sometimes clash into her academics. She will often finish her studies, then go straight to her kitchen to practice more baking.

Her dreams for Four Seasons Pastry are limitless, although she does also dream to pursue an education at a prestigious culinary school in either France or Switzerland. She hopes to develop a way to make her desserts healthier, and then develop a website to advertise and sell her cupcakes.