Supporters have also helped the owner of Hive Bakery in Flower Mound make big profits in recent weeks, serving up a side success with controversy.
FLOWER MOUND, Texas — At Hive Bakery, owner Haley Popp is no stranger to crafting elaborate cakes for customers in North Texas, around the nation and across the globe. She’s even been featured on the Food Network.
Popp is also unafraid to let people know her liberal-leaning thoughts online and in her store. She’s no fan of President Donald Trump and has ruffled feathers with some in the community, she said, ever since selling LGBTQIA+ pride cookies in her first year of ownership.
“Donald Trump is vile. I did not vote for him. I wouldn’t do that in a million years,” Popp said.
“We’ve received all kinds of backlash. It was atrocious. That first year was when we really found our community because when you …