my first iced cake (aug 2012)

The orders were now rolling in. I am not 100percnt a perfect baker but i think i am good wit the oven. Wink. Here was the very first cake i iced afta baking and delivered to the owner. Hehehe. I frosted it with regular vanilla buttercrream. Decorated wit dessicated coconut, shaved chocolate and cherries on top. Hey, it wasnt bad at all for a first timer right?

                                                

i just wanna bake, not ice urrghhhhhh!

So it seems these days every baker must also be a cake designer or artist. I was real bad at icing or designing. I just wantd to bake diff kinds of cakes for people. Inshort let me just say i dint kno how to ice a cake. Inshort i cud not even make icing. And i stubbornly refused to learn to ice. I simply wasnt interested in that part. Instead i employed someone who would handle icings. This girl successfully chased away all my customers with her poor work hmmmm. Inshort i remembr one customer callin me and insulting my even my forefathers join sef, cos of the hopeless icing my madam did on her cake. After that insult and buckets of tears, i decided to forget about bakery xpress. I felt it wasnt just workin..i felt i was hopless at it. I felt i wil never be able to ice or design so no need sinc they must go along with baking. Well fastforward to 2012 after nysc, i decided to go back and be serious with the dream, bakery xpress was properly registrred, i ended up learnin the basics of icing and the rest is........

the Birth of Bakery Xpress nigeria enterprises

So i'm gonna share a really personal story here. 2011 after i graduated from uni, (i ended up studying accounting), just before i went for nysc.i guess i broke down,cos i fell into deep depression and panic disorder. I went through hell. Thats the toughest time i hav ever faced in my life. Drugs and drugs and hospitals and therapist offices and the general misery. Kai. Well i have always been looking for a way to express myself on this. Because i see a lot of young people evryday, going through what i went through, and i want to say be strong be prayerful be happy, u're not about to die, u'r not going mad, u'r just really vulnerable rite now. Spend time with lovd ones, also Do things that make you happy. I never hide the fact that this happened, why? Cos am proud to say i came out of it and realisd hw strong i am, became a better person I am a fighter, a strong woman, God's soldier,.. ok ok back to bakery Xpress. So during dis hellish period my therapist advised me to spend more time doin what i love, he askd wat do u luv doin, i said baking. He said well then bake urself silly! Then my aunt(may God bless her), gave me dis really huuuugeee giant book on baking, i was simply excitedly tryin out the recipes,dey were coming out good, and i put one on my blackberry dp, somone pinged and said hmmm yummy,for sale or wat? I said huhhhh yes. Nxt thing she was at my gate with money. Lol. I was like dis is nice, did anoda one. Sold it too. the nxt tin i composed a bc and gave my new biz a name. Barely two wks later i saw myself at the printing press, making a signboard. Hehehe. and dat was it..

how it actually started

It all started when i was 11. J.s.s2. Food and Nutrition class. After that i never got tired of spending hours in front of mums oven. Then to intensify matters, i stumbled upon dis huge recipe book in my school library, i'll never forget. Kept on spendin all my time in that library, nose buried in the pages, studying and cramming all those bake recipes. May God forgive me, i think i actually ended up stealing that book and taking it home, lol.    It got to a point my dad actually banned me from touching the oven. Cos i became obsessed. I couldnt do anything other than bake and bake. Cakes, breads, pizzas, pies, cookies and biscuits, rolls, u name it. I was barely 12.  Tho i must admit, for someone whos now a full time baker/cakeMaker/bakeShop owner, i actually always wanted to be a career girl all my life. Yeaaaa i was passionate bout the kitchen but i never thought i was even allowed to do this as a job. Let me explain: dad's an academician, disciplinarian, principled, a professor, medical aspect for that matter. He was always all about: go to school, acquire your degree,(a professional one: preferably medicine,lol), get a job, acquire more degreees, climb up ur carreer ladder some more, keep gettin more degrees evn till your old age till u grow really old and die. U kno the drift... so i always thought along those lines, well hw i found myself here now, dats a story for another day
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