Bespoke, Buttercream Cakes…
Today we have a chat with talented Cake Baker Emma, from Emma Page Buttercream Cakes. This lady knows how to create a show stopping cakes, all beautifully decorated with intricate details and down-right amazing flowers. No fondant here, folks! – Emma uses her own special recipe buttercream and ganache for all her creations. Yummy!
Emma from Emma Page Buttercream Cakes…
Tell us a bit about your business…
I design and make buttercream and ganache wedding and celebration cakes.
What made you start up the business…
I had been working as a business journalist for 20 years and making cakes for friends and family as a hobby when I discovered buttercream. At a big cake show a few years ago I met the amazing Valerie and Christina from Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes. They were creating the most beautiful floral cupcakes with piped buttercream and I was captivated. I signed up for all their courses there and then, bought the nozzles and set about covering my entire house in a fine layer of icing sugar…….I posted a few early, and pretty awful, creations on Facebook and started getting orders. Delivering my first wedding cake was pretty stressful: my cakes are tall and have to delivered entire, so I’m pretty stressy at roundabouts. There are over 50 potholes between my home in Kent …