Last updated: 4 Feb 06
At this time I was working part-time hosting Ann Summers lingerie parties.
A lady at one of the parties asked me if I knew where she could have a
"certain kind of cake" made. I offered to make it for her. The cake went
down a storm! I started offering this kind of cake at more parties; they
proved very popular. I took a photograph of each cake and presented my
"portfolio" at parties. I was asked to make other designs and it took off
from there.
My friends asked me to make their children's birthday cakes and the word spread. Soon I became well known in the small village where I live. I take a photograph of every cake I make; now I have 4 albums and a full order book.
I've
always been artistic, which helps with making the novelty cakes. I plan
in my head what tin to use, how to cut and shape, and how the cake will
look when I'm finished. This way, it doesn't take so long to make and always
comes out how I planned. Looking at a finished cake real gives me a buzz.
When my friends collect their cakes and say, "it's too good to cut"; this
really spurs me on.
When I belonged to the Leamington Spa Sugar Craft Guild, I was asked to make a Hansel & Gretel Gingerbread House as part of the display in Birmingham. The theme was Fairy Tales. My cake was one of a variety of sugar craft styles. We won a gold medal.
One
of my favourite cakes was "The Magic Roundabout". It was ordered for a
22 year old man; who refused to cut the cake. I was humming the tune for
days. The furthest any of my cakes have travelled is to Krefeld, Germany,
for my brother's 40th birthday. The "English Breakfast" cake I made at
home and took on the plane. The "Saucy Chef" cake I made in my brother's
restaurant kitchen. "Das ist kunst!" (that is art) as the Germans said;
which it is.
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