When I started taking this sweet stuff seriously, I got nervous enough designing and delivering cakes to my loved ones, despite knowing they would probably just be grateful for the mates' rates showstoppers I was testing on them. It's always a lovely moment when someone tells you they appreciate your work, and when it comes from a complete stranger? Well, you know they're not just saying it to be nice. So when the myBaker team told me I'd made the grade to become part of thei

Over the last decade, my day jobs have involved working behind the scenes to tell a story, being the personality behind a corporate social media channel and ghostwriting speeches and articles that no one will ever attribute to me. I am perfectly comfortable with that arrangement - the only place that I have ever been completely relaxed in the spotlight is on the dancefloor. You know, that place I used to frequent before my children stormed in and destroyed any last vestiges o

Each December, I try to stop and take stock of what the year has held. 2017 has been a busy and eventful one for our little clan. Mr Den travelling much more than expected with work, Little Man starting school, Little Lady learning to talk, me holding down a part time day job while I get Den ready to launch properly...that's right, all this has been a soft launch so far! We're all exhausted and crawling toward the finish line. I know you know the feeling. For Den, as for any

You might want to make some tea: this is a long 'un. Before I started baking for business, I really couldn't understand why anyone would pay more than twenty quid for a cake. My experience of cake making was essentially mixing eggs, flour, sugar, oil and some mashed banana in a bowl with a spoon, chucking it in a pan and waiting for a couple of hours while the oven did its thing. Then boom, there be cake. No big deal. But then, I used to feel that way about food in general: b