SwissMiss Cakes & Bakes

SwissMiss officially entered the Cake Business at the beginning of 2015. Keen to create individual cakes I always endeavor to have an in depth discussion with the customer to ensure the result is what has been ordered. This has brought me some great reviews and made me even more determent to create some rather unusual cakes. So my kitchen does sometimes look a bit like a science lab topped with tools you would not expect in a kitchen. But this is what I believe a good cake designer makes. Transferring your ideas (which always pop up in the strangest places) onto a cake. Working your way through all the hurdles until the result matches the one in your mind.
I love to bring a cake to life. With lights, movements or just with the decoration itself. But I do also love the traditional site of baking and offer various forgotten goodies like lardy bread. I find it very exciting to go through old Victorian recipes to re-discover baked jewels which will bring some childhood memories back.
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I started baking in my early childhood by spending a lot of time with my mum in the kitchen. I remember my first own Swiss apple cake which I made for my mum as a surprise. I guess it was the best apple cake I've ever made and it is still one of my favorite cakes to make.
Of course the reality of life did not stop for me and I had to start a "proper" job as in those days cake decorating was not really a "job". But all the way during my working life I always loved making cakes for my friends and family and being a host.
In 2005 I moved from Switzerland to England and started soon a carrier in Environmental Waste Management and Health & Safety. But still, I never could stop baking.
Finally, in the spring of 2015, after endless pushes from friends and family I decided to do the "big step" and open my own cake business. And I have not regretted it at all since then.
In March 2016 I was brave enough to enter the Cake Competition at the Cake International in London in the class "Decorative Exhibit" and "Cupcakes". Entering 2 classes on your first exhibition was crazy and I run out of time due lack of timing and experience. But when I found out I won a Certificate of Merit for my Decorative Exhibit I guess that was what made me more then ever determent to become a name in the world of the cake decorators.
I decided to do the PME Master Certification in May 2016 and constantly join some little training courses to improve my skills.
In November 2016 I entered the Cake Competition again but this time at the Cake International in the NEC in Birmingham, the biggest cake show in the world. My design was inspired by the american sculpture artist Jim McKenzie who kindly gave me permission to use his sculpture "The Gatekeeper". I'm so pleased to say that I won Bronze in my class "Decorative Exhibit" with more than 200 participant in my class of over 1400 entrys in the whole competition.
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