Cream Grass' lifelong goal was to become one of the best chefs in Equestria.
Unfortunately, she didn't expect the members of Canterlot's best culinary academy to be so unaccepting of a simple earth pony.
Disowned by her farmer mother after escaping the torture of culinary school, Cream searches for a new calling, and one Mr. Cake offers her the opportunity she might have been looking for, at Sugarcube Corner. She's offered a paycheck and even housing, in return for assisting in the creation of the shop's treats.

However, she didn't know that she'd be working for somepony other than the Cakes...