It’s funny how ideas can come into your head. For Liz, the idea of a community for cake makers came to her while feeding her twins when they were 9 months old at 2 am. That was 13 years ago. Liz and her team run the Australian Cake Decorating Network. A diverse community of members who go on cake crawls, cake camps, have annual award ceremonies, and generally support each other through thick and thin. It’s amazing. Liz was a baker herself but also a trained occupational therapist. She’s had to j...
Dec 04, 2023•59 min•Season 4Ep. 9
As a female growing up in India, Hena Mahajan never followed the normal path. A creative at heart who found herself entering the world of jewellery design at a fairly young age, she ran her own business creating and selling her own designs. Funky batter however was formed as a continuation of her ability to want to create even if it wasn’t in the industry she originally she started working in. Funky batter is the ability for anyone to download and follow her core recipes to create whatever you w...
Nov 27, 2023•53 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Sandro Framhouse, here’s a guy with some serious drive and motivation. Coming to England a long time ago with nothing, he grew up against many factors working against his chance to succeed but yet found a way through it all. Sandro, has baked for a while now, but his determination comes from watching how hard it was for his mother when they first moved to England. It’s a consistent theme with Sandro. Overcoming challenges, getting to his vision. He puts a picture in his head of what he wants to ...
Nov 20, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Yolanda Gampp. A mega-star in the world of novelty cakes. But her rise to this level was a genuine rollercoaster to get to this point. There are so many highs, and yet various lows, even to this very day. What she, and her business partners Connie and Jocelyn have built is an incredible brand. But it only came after being told no, no., no, and no! They started their YouTube channel “How to Cake it” was back in 2015! And then the real work began. It’s barely stopped since and this baking journey ...
Nov 13, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Jodie Heaven - which in Spanish is “Cielo” - is the founder of this cute little Brighton bakery called Cielo. A single mother who realised very early on that after the birth of her daughter, she wanted to make sure should create the best life for her. Jodie herself wanted to be a pop singer when she was a child, but that didn’t quite work out. Thankfully baking did! From making the cupcakes for her baby shower, to building a business out of that, it quickly become a shop, and then a second one. ...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 5
This former accountant who baked to simply relieve a bit of stress of the madness of her corporate life, finds herself one day doing Facebook lives for the Food Network. How does that happen? Innocent bakes that she brought in for her coworkers were secretly building the next career she didn’t know she would end up quitting her day job for. She creates content, but it’s not about the social media so much as it is more about her blog. Yes blog, remember those?? Her recipes, and the millions of pe...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Emily Friend is an adventurer. She may have received a degree in law, but that wasn't enough to satisfy her. Having lived in various places around the world, she decided to move to Costa Rica. It wasn't long after arriving that she realised she had a simple craving for the desserts she loved didn’t exist, so she had to go make it herself. The innocence of doing something like this turns her down a path of baking, running a cupcake shop in Costa Rica, selling this business, and eventually settlin...
Oct 23, 2023•55 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Janelle Copeland. She helped launch The Cake Mamas way back - when a rather unusual partnership was formed between two talented women. You’re going to hear about things falling into place, taking big bets, knowing when you’re not ready for something big, and pushing forward in spite of all odds. You're going to hear about losing it all and having to build yourself back up. Imagine having to turn your life around from declaring bankruptcy - hitting rock bottom - and starting all over. This is exa...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Miranda is a serious serial entrepreneur. Starting from the age of 16, she has always built her own businesses, but this fashion designer made the switch to baking by accident really. When a child comes a long and forces you to change your career, it’s amazing what rabbit holes you’re searching will take you. There’s a sense of just going for it in this episode, when absolutely everyone is telling you you’re just mad. Miranda just goes with her gut and knows she needs to continue building someth...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 1
We’re doing something completely different today as we’re speaking with FOUR amazing bakers who collectively have over 40 years experience behind them - the Cake Makers Collective. Sally, Jess, Charlotte, and Danielle all met late last year through a cake school and instantly become huge friends through their own whatsapp group. They all have their own cake business and they all have their own specialities. Danielle actually runs her own cafe in Kent. The girls are placed around the UK so this W...
Aug 07, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 9
This week we’re in Luxembourg to speak with Winnie. Fashion designer-turned baker and content creator with some pretty amazing bakes. For example her cake rolls which are extremely unique. This creative type fell into baking but it was never really part of the plan. Giving up a career and figuring out what to do in life was a struggle. However, baking has gone from being just something fun to keep the brain busy to now baking all sorts of creative content. For someone with almost 700 thousand fo...
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Imagine you started baking at 11, and by 12 your mum was already selling your goods on Facebook. That was 10 years ago for our guest today. Yes, that makes her 21 which makes today’s episode just a fascinating listen. I certainly was no where near a “career” at 21 let alone my teens. But Aubree certainly tapped her creativity passed down to her and leveraged that from a very early age. Based in Southern California, he career has already led to some interesting bakes. You have to keep listening t...
Jul 24, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 7
We are in Dublin, Ireland to chat with Jenny and Jay of Cupcakes and Counting. Today, it’s a cute and quirky cafe that sell gorgeous treats and delicious coffee. But the journey to this point is so so different! They’re both trained as nurses. Left the Philippines years ago to build their careers and a better life. But all it took was one event back home that forced them to do something that would set the path for the next 10 years on a journey in baking. One thing has expanded to another not by...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Huntsville, Alabama. I doubt many of you have been there. I think I’ve driven through it at some point in my life. But that’s where we are today speaking with Ally, or “Sugar Pusher” as she’s known online. Ally is a content creator. But she’s been baking for a long time. Her previous career while still creative was just hard work. She’s spent a long time in the music industry. We actually spend a good bit of time talking to her about this part of her life because it’s important to understand the...
Jul 10, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Georgia was one of the first people I approached about OLBAA boxes when we first launched. It’s amazing to think 3 years later she’s on our podcast! Georgia has done so much in baking in such little time. The home cake business, moving to a commercial kitchen, supplying cakes to brands like Harrods, training, classes, moving the business to Israel, setting up a in person cake school, and building a successful YouTube channel…. It’s hard to know where to start but we certainly did enjoy this chat...
Jul 03, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Melbourne, Australia. When I lived there I didn’t know it for its cakes, I knew it for its coffee. But things have changed a lot! One of the largest content creators around lives here and joins us for this episode - I’m referring to Tigga Mac and her bestie Katie. They’ve gone from slaving away in their tiny kitchen just keeping on top of cake orders to be internationally recognised for their antics on social media. I learned so much talking to them about mastering social media - and particularl...
Jun 26, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 3
St. Albans. Just north of London is where you’ll find this little village with lush green rolling hills, and where you’ll find Amy’s Bakehouse.. Amy is a 24 year old baker who runs her own cake business. She started in 2020 and has already moved into a commercial kitchen! When we found out about Amy we just had to get her on the show as the pace of growth that she’s gone through is just inspiring. She was not a baker. She started doing this right after finishing her degree. She hasn’t even start...
Jun 19, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Australia, England, Australia, England… Kendra Groves has been bouncing back and forth with her husband between these two distant countries navigating her way through life and baking her way through a lot of it. She’s in Manchester now in case you’re wondering. She’s originally trained in musical theatre and opera, but trying and trying to get somewhere in that industry just proved too difficult against many odds. The abusive agents, the challenge of being tall, not looking the way you need to b...
Jun 11, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Toowomba Australia, which is in Queensland in case you were curious - is not a place we ever thought we’d end up but in this little place is home to a brand that’s known world wide - Cas Cakery. Cassie, or “Cas” speaks with us today about her journey and what is so interesting here is that in such a short space of time she has rocketed her business from nothing to something incredible in just 5 short years. What I love about Cassie is she reminds us about being honest about ourselves, reminding ...
Apr 23, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 9
We are back in England and just outside of London today in Woking, Surrey. We’re speaking with Victoria of Vic’s Kitchen. If you’ve ever wondered about running your own cake school, better ways to run you run your cake business, and even some quick ways to make some money, you’ve got to listen to this episode. Vic has been running a cake school now for almost a decade and through this she has amassed hundreds of students learning not just about baking of course, but various other - and just as i...
Apr 16, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Today, we have an open an honest discussion about choosing your right path and making sure you’re happy doing it. We’re speaking today with Thao who is the brain behind the brand Don’t Tell Charles from Melbourne Australia. If you’ve ever created a concrete cake, you can thank Thao for that as she was the first one to make it. Thao has taught thousands through her cake school. But it all started way before that. Going against the grain of family expectations, she started a cafe and went through ...
Apr 09, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Hey everyone! So you all know by now, we started this podcast to help build something of a support network for bakers. A place where you can listen, learn, relate, be inspired, and most importantly, not feel alone in your own baking journey. So imagine, if you really are baking on your own, in a country where the style of baking you do is non-existent. Where the ingredients, accessories, and access to training all comes from overseas. Imagine, your favourite sprinkles, or palm spears coming from...
Apr 02, 2023•46 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Hey everyone, this week we are really excited to head to Winnipeg in Canada to speak with two very well-known twin sisters Jenna and Ashley of Jenna Rae Cakes. This is quite a story because what you see today of there amazing company has so much behind to get it to where It is. Jenna is the baker and Ashley is the designer. The beauty about this pairing meant that Ashley always had Jenna's back when it came to an outside mind to help style, present, and market Jenna’a creations. But it wasn’t ea...
Mar 26, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Hey everyone, this week it’s back to northern England to chat with Tracy of Cotton and Crumbs. Just 2 years into running her business she realised that not every aspect of running a cake business is exciting. For most of us, it’s the decorating or designing bit - the art - that we all really enjoy. So, she employed her husband to do all the boring bits. Baking the cakes, making the buttercream or ganache, cleaning! This then allowed Tracy to focus on what she did best and what she enjoys the mos...
Mar 20, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Hey everyone, we’re off to Brisbane Australia this week to sit down with Ekaterina, or Ekats as you may know her by. The timing of this conversation is fitting as you’re about to find out and we meet Ekats at a point in her career where although she’s done so much it still feels like she’s just getting started. She’s a highly creative person - I mean, just go look at her instagram feed where she can match a her incredible style of dress to a cake over and over - and she finds inspiration in so m...
Mar 13, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 3
This week we’re talking to one of our most requested bakers to interview for this podcast - Finch Bakery - Rachel and Lauren, twin sisters who started this journey just over 10 years ago have built a well-known UK bakery bakery in the North West of England. Throughout this journey, it's amazing to see how they have stayed humble, true to themselves, and so transparent during the whole process. If you want to know what it takes, and I mean what it TRULY takes in those first years of running a bus...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome back to season 2! Have you missed us? We are so excited to be back and really happy to have another line-up of amazing bakers for this season. Today, we’re in the North of England to speak with Amy of Amy’s Little Cakery. You may know her from some of her cartoon cakes she’s recently done, but this story goes back a little further. Holding down a busy day job while also baking on the weekends is not easy, but welcome to Amy’s life. Regardless of this Amy has been able to put out all kind...
Feb 27, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Hey everyone, listen the person you’re about to hear from in this episode is where Rachel really found the start of her cake inspiration. I’m talking about Jenne from Posh Little Cakes in Perth, Australia. For many of you bakers, your baking career is your second career. You’ve given up the corporate or day job for one of many reasons and moved into baking. Jenne did just that. This is a story about making that sacrifice of a life as a high flying executive at a large multi-national company. Kid...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Where do you go to find your inspiration? You could say looking online, you could say in books, you could say you're inspired by other people. For our guest this week, inspiration for her is everywhere. Here we have another one person business, run by a somebody who is obsessed with managing her time efficiently, and really does try to get the absolute most out of her work on a daily basis. She has created her own style by way of choosing what cakes she did NOT want to make. This has led to her ...
Nov 07, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This week we are off to Canada to sit down with Lindsay also known for her brand The Flour Girl. Lindsay is truly a high performer. She has 3 educational degrees (one in neurosceince). She still maintains a full time job. She has built her own brand and manufactures her own line of baking tools which in turn has allowed her to build a huge following on social media (more than 350K on IG) She has an academy to learn how to bake and on top of all that runs an e-commerce store with her partner! Are...
Oct 31, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 6
