- May 23, 2025
FPC entrepreneurship teacher Alex Giorgianni with Gabby Jones in front of the entrepreneurship room. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Gabby Jones displays her treats at an event. Courtesy photo
Pops for pop. Gabby Jones decorated cake pops for Father's Day. Courtesy photo
Gabby Jones bakes and decorates custom cakes. Courtesy photo
Gabby Jones shows off her cake pops at an event. Courtesy photo
Senior Gabby Jones is a star in Flagler Palm Coast’s entrepreneurship program. She has been baking since she was 8 years old, and in the past year her hobby has become a business — Cake’d By Gabby.
Her cake pops are one of the most popular items at the entrepreneurship room’s “Dog Treats” snack stand. They are only available every other week, Tuesday through Friday, teacher Alex Giorgianni said.
“We don't do them every week. I just I didn't want to make her have to commit to that, because I know life is busy sometimes, and there’s other big events that she does,” Giorgianni said.
Jones estimates that she’s sold about 3,000 cake pops in the past year at $3 a pop, including 610 through the snack stand alone. She also brings her foldaway table to events and also bakes custom cakes and mini cakes.
After each event her reputation grows as people enjoy her whimsical decorations and variety of cake flavors including chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, lemon, red velvet, cookies and cream, cookie dough and the very popular fun fetti, which has confetti sprinkles inside and out.
“I’ve always been baking,” she said. “I baked my sister's fifth birthday cake, her seventh birthday cake. Baking is my outlet. I like just coming home and frosting a cake or decorating.”
She’s inspired others in the program to start their own businesses, Giorgianni said.
“She was really the first student that I had that took it to the next level and took it really seriously,” he said. “People have seen the success she’s had as something that they can model themselves after. One kid has a YouTube channel for fishing. (Another) does his own handyman type business.”
Jones said she decided to go into business after baking a cake for her best friend Christina Borgmann’s 17th birthday last year.
“I was selling cake pops on the low at school,” she said, “And the dean told me that I had to stop selling, and then I sold again, and I got pulled into the dean's office again, and they were, like, we're going to suspend you if you do it again. So, (Giorgianni) said if you make it a legitimate business, I'll buy the cake pops from you, and we'll sell them in a snack stand, so that's what we ended up doing. My grandma did all the paperwork. She filled out a LLC (application), got me insurance. She really did the brunt of the actual business stuff. I'm very grateful to her. I just bake and bring in the money.”
Last month she made money for a good cause. The FPC entrepreneurship program did a fundraiser for Live Like Cameron, a local nonprofit that provides financial assistance to families with children battling cancer. The program raised $1,600 for the organization. Jones donated 50 cake pops.
“So that’s $150 we were able to donate because of her,” Giorgianni said. “And that’s pretty cool.”
Jones also has two jobs, working at two different pizza restaurants, and she recently bought her first car. She also is in the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Explorer program.
Jones was a wrestler until partially tearing the ulnar collateral ligament in her elbow last year. She said she misses the adrenaline rush she got from wrestling. That and her experience with the Explorers are two reasons why after graduation she plans to apply to the Law Enforcement Academy at Daytona State College. She eventually wants to become a School Resource Deputy and return to FPC.
“My goal is in 10 years or less to be back here reaching out to the kids and helping them,” she said.
She doesn’t see herself making a career out of Cake’d by Gabby, but baking will continue to be her outlet.
“She doesn't like to relax. She's just a very busy person,” Giorgianni said. “If she's not busy, she gets bored really, really fast. She likes to be productive.”
To see more cakes, a menu and how to order, go to CAKED By Gabby on Facebook, https://linktr.ee/cakedbygabby, _caked,by-gabby on Instagram or email [email protected]
