TEANECK — A decade ago, Angela Logan was on the brink of losing her township home to foreclosure. She found an unusual way to make her mortgage — the actress and comic began selling apple cakes.

On Wednesday, Logan will celebrate 10 years since she baked her way out of a financial crisis and began a new life for herself as an entrepreneur with a party at Teaneck Cinemas.

“I want to honor those people who made the whole thing happen — the saving of my home and creating this new beginning,” she said. “The hardest part of the thing was to admit that I was losing my home. But I told people and they were so willing to help.”

Logan will host a dinner at 6 p.m. at Teaneck Cinemas on Cedar Lane for those who helped her during that trying time, before honoring them with a ceremony and holding a free screening of "Apple Mortgage Cake," a 2014 made-for-TV movie of her story. The ceremony and screening at 6:30 are open to the public.

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Among those being recognized Wednesday is Jay Levin, the former obituary writer for The Record who wrote the first story of Logan’s impromptu bake sale. The story went viral, and from the first 42 "mortgage apple cakes," which she sold to friends and neighbors at $40 each to make her initial payment of $2,559.94, orders began pouring in from places as far flung as Hong Kong, Africa and London.

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Members of Teaneck’s arts community, including comedian Micki Shilan and singer Lauren Hooker, who spread the word of Logan’s predicament, and the neighbor who tipped Levin off to the story will also be honored.

Logan also plans to thank her husband and three sons, who did everything from chopping apples, to answering phones and taking down orders, to delivering cakes during those frantic first days.

“We had 150 pounds of apples to cut and it was my dear Nicholas who was with me to cut them all at 15 years old,” Logan said of her son, who went on to culinary school and now cooks at Gitano restaurants in New York City.

In 2009, Logan found herself in a situation many struggling homeowners were facing. She received a foreclosure intention notice after the agency that represented her went under and a partially finished home renovation project left her thousands of dollars in the hole.

When Logan first began baking out of desperation in her Teaneck kitchen, using four cake pans and a recipe fashioned from her grandmother’s apple cake recipe and another she discovered during a trip to Kansas, she said she never imagined she would be running a cake baking business 10 years later.

She was making ends meet braiding hair in a salon and studying nursing at Bergen Community College and simply hoped to raise enough to stay in her Ramapo Road home.

After years of taking online orders and selling her cakes at area farmers’ markets, Logan opened the Mortgage Apple Cakes Bakery and Cafe on Chestnut Avenue in 2016.

“It truly takes a village. When you’re part of a community, you never walk alone,” she said. “These people were with me on a journey to reclaim my life at a most difficult time.”

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