TEANECK , New Jersey ( CNN ) -- Actress Angela Logan has played many roles off-stage to earn a living . She 's worked as a teacher , model and hairdresser and is studying to be a nurse . Angela Logan samples a bite of her Mortgage Apple Cake as Bake Me A Wish ! founder Josh Kaye looks on . But when she fell into foreclosure on her Teaneck , New Jersey , home , Logan turned to baking an apple cake her family had always loved . `` It was a flash of desperation , '' Logan said . `` I thought , 'Wow . We could sell these cakes , they 're so good . ' `` Logan named her delicacy Mortgage Apple Cake and resolved to sell 100 in 10 days at $ 40 each to meet a mortgage payment , pay off bills and qualify for a federal program that could lower her monthly payments . She advertised the cake to everyone she knew , including her classmates . `` The hardest part was saying , 'Can you buy my cakes , this is my problem , ' because admitting to your friends that you 're in foreclosure , and that you need their help , that 's a hard thing to say , '' Logan said . Two years ago , a contractor promised to renovate Logan 's brick-and-stucco home . But instead , Logan says he took the money and did only a portion of the work -- leaving the entire second floor bare to the beams and plastic wrap still covering much of the exterior . Logan 's financial squeeze tightened when one of the actress ' talent agencies shut down without paying her for commercial work . The 55-year-old divorced mother of three fell far behind on her mortgage and other debt payments , leading her to seek help from Consumer Credit Counseling of New Jersey . Counselor Pamela Glass brainstormed with Logan to envision potential extra sources of income . `` We put our heads together to make extra money , '' Glass said . `` I said , 'Take a look at what you can do . ' She said , ' I bake once in a while ' . I said , 'Well , maybe you can do some baking . ' `` When Logan asked , neighbors , fellow church congregants and classmates responded . Soon she was baking night and day , two cakes at a time . Al Hamdi , general manager of the Hilton in nearby Hasbrouck Heights , heard of Logan 's plan and offered the hotel 's four giant ovens , letting her accelerate production . `` She was going to do something out of the box to save her home and her family . That was the inspiring part for us , '' Hamdi said . Logan figures she 's baked about 200 cakes -- double her goal . And since qualifying for the federal Make Home Affordable program , her monthly mortgage payment is dropping by nearly 20 percent . Other Americans in a financial bind can also find creative answers to their cash crunch , Logan said . `` Find your talent . Find something you can do that will help , '' she said . Watch as Logan describes the circumstances that led her to bake the Mortgage Apple Cake » . Many hobbies have the potential to generate extra cash : teaching a skill like playing an instrument or speaking a foreign language ; home repairs for those who are handy ; even dog-walking or pet-sitting for animal lovers . `` Some people have extra skills they do n't use , '' Glass said . Internet retailer Bake Me A Wish ! got a whiff of the Mortgage Apple Cake and is preparing to mass-produce it and share the proceeds with Logan . The company says it already has 650 Mortgage Apple Cake orders . `` We 're going to be baking cakes together , develop a whole line of cakes , Angela Logan Cakes , '' said Josh Kaye , president of Bake Me A Wish ! Escaping foreclosure could propel Logan to a new career in baking . But she 's still studying nursing , knowing from experience never to depend upon just one role .
New Jersey actress turned to baking apple cakes to avoid foreclosure . The idea came from brainstorming with a consumer credit counselor . She resolved to sell 100 cakes in 10 days at $ 40 each to pay mortgage , debts . So far , she 's sold about 200 cakes , attracting the attention of an Internet retailer .