YL9: Turning Hobbies Into Cash

They go to school, get good grades, and hang out with their friends. (a)   , they are typical teenagers.

But what makes these teens (a)   their peers is that they have learned how to make money from their hobbies.

Ryan Wilson, 15, learned to bake by watching (a)   .

He enjoys baking cupcakes and bread, but what he really loves creating are large, colorful cakes. He usually bakes one cake (a)   .

Each cake takes about eight hours to make, and that doesn't include the time needed to 10 upload videos to his (a)   pages-some of which receive more than 200,000 views.

After uploading the video, he shares the cake with friends and family. Ryan (a)   on several TV baking shows, and someday hopes to have his own show.

The self-taught baker also makes money-money that will one day be (a)   college. And that's the real icing on the cake!

Jasmine Shao was 13 years old when she asked her mother for (a)   to post her videos online

At first her mother wasn't sure it was a good idea, but, after seeing how hard her daughter worked to (a)   the videos.

she eventually agreed. 20 Now 17, Jasmine is a social (a)   -someone who others follow, get ideas from, and even copy.