Class of 1999

For attorney NORRINDA BROWN, moonlighting is a piece of cake.

Brown might be the sweetest litigator in all of Philadelphia—not necessarily for what she does all day, but for how she spends just about every minute that she's not working for Booth & Tucker LLP. In December 2004 Brown and her mother teamed up to open Brown Betty Dessert Boutique, a bakery named after Brown's maternal grandmother, Elizabeth "Betty" Hinton, who, at 83, still works there on Mondays, peeling apples for the apple brown betty. While her mother and four bakers produce cakes and cupcakes based on family recipes, Brown runs the business side, handling marketing, accounting and PR at night. She works the counter on weekends. Located in an artsy, developing neighborhood, the store has deep-red walls, vintage furniture and black-and-white photographs of the women in her family, who lend their names to such desserts as the triple-chocolate Hattie Don't Play and sweet potato cheesecake To Miss Mary. Brown's new favorite is a yet-to-be-named almond pound cake—there's literally a pound of butter in each cake—with caramel buttercream frosting. Philadelphia Magazine recently named Brown Betty "best cupcake" in its annual Best of Philly list. But even as the baking business gathers momentum, Brown doesn't plan to leave her day job anytime soon. "Each job speaks to a different side of my personality," she says.