When it gets hot in London, it gets HOT. While you all are enjoying your Pimms in your vest tops and itty bitty shorts, spare a thought for us poor bakers getting poached in our own sweat in bakeries that turn into furnaces during the heatwave.

I'm okay working in this heat. I can cope with working in a sauna. My gripe is that with a body fat percentage similar to buttercream and still getting by one would've thought the same of our Swiss meringue buttercream cakes. They should ALSO cope. But alas, no. 

We had a cake-casualty last week where in the height of the heat wave one of our two tiered cakes collapsed on delivery. This isn't a surprise to me. I've had a fair few hot weather disasters. So much so that we actually have a Cake Casualty Manual. Our driver brought it back to us, we fixed it up as good as new, and it was delivered the following day in mint condition. And the customer was none the wiser of the number of years this disaster aged me in the process.

So this week, with another special personalised 2-tier birthday cake, with custom dog-themed decorations, on order, my stress was PEAKING. We checked the weather forecast 4 times a day just to mentally prepare myself for the horrors that await every cake maker in 30 degrees Celsius.

Alex is one of our regular customers who has been purchasing her family's cakes from us since 2016. That's almost a decade of baking for her family which, wow...that's quite something.

This year she had a very specific request for her daughter's custom birthday cake. Dogs. Her daughter is dog-obsessed. A retriever, a husky and...Evee from Pokemon. Is Evee even a dog? Or a wolf? Who knows, but we do it anyway.

Two tall tiers of our chocolate Hero Sponge - three layers of sponge in each tier. With an edible dog house, a retriever, a husky and Evee all sculpted out of sugarpaste. I love carving little nooks out of cake to house figurines - it helps the elements fit into each other rather than just being stuck on.

Edible cake fudge soil, sugarpaste dog treats and piped grass are the final touches that made this cake barking beautiful. It was over a metre tall and weighed a tonne. And worryingly...had a very very VERY high centre of gravity.

With the cake made and resting in the freezer overnight (calm down - the logic and SCIENCE behind this is that the cake thaws on the way to its destination), all that was left doing was tossing and turning and laying awake all night in my own nervous sweats worried about it being delivered ok.

So imagine my cortisol levels when I see the subject line from Alex in her email to us.

The RELIEF of opening the email and seeing her feedback!

The cake was delivered pawfectly. Defying the heat wave. Defying London traffic. No having to work late on a Friday night to do an emergency cake surgery. Life is sweet.

Thank you Alex for trusting us year after year for your bespoke birthday cakes. It's such a pleasure to bake for our regulars each time.

If you'd like to order a personalised birthday cake with delivery, just send us an email or whatsapp message with the following details and we'll make the magic happen. 

Date of delivery (kinda important)

Delivery post code (also important)

Number of portions (bit important)

Budget (most important)

Theme (as important as the above)

Love,

Reshmi xoxo