I’ve always baked but it wasn’t until mid way through last year (2011) that I went from the annual birthday cakes, to making some gorgeous cupcakes and 4 tier chocolate masterpieces. From the counter you’d have your choice of cupcakes in flavour as well as decoration. You would see chocolate birthday cakes with the option for them to be personalized. And it would go right up the scale in novelty a
nd bespoke cakes. I don’t see why my dream can’t be made into reality. All I need to do is some hard work and determination and anything is possible. Fiona Cairns started her business from her kitchen table, now you may be thinking who is she? She has been cake-making for 25 years, ever since she made mini-Christmas cakes as presents and her husband, Kishore Patel, suggested that she go into business. The company now has 75 employees and supplies more than 750,000 cakes (mostly fairy cakes) a year to shops including Fortnum & Mason, M&S and Waitrose – and personal customers, notably Sir Paul McCartney and Keith Richards. And more importantly she designed the 8 tier wedding cake for Prince William and Princess Catherine. My attitude is this – if Fiona can do it, so can I. For me – I want my products to do the talking. All the cakes are made from scratch (no packet mixtures in my house) and the decorations are crafted and sculpted by hand.
