Adventures in kakeland podcast: Cake business, Trends & Founder stories

In this weeks episode l am speaking with Doyin who is the owner of Dee-vine cakes and pastries and also is in partnership launching a new business called Be love. We discuss imposter syndrome and over coming it, lack of representation within the cake community, the effect the pandemic had on her business which was in fact a positive experience. She has a real passion for her business and constantly looking to challenge herself.
You can find Doyin on:
 Instagram
Instagram: Dee-vine cakes & pastries
Instagram: Belove
Website: Belove  https://be-love.co.uk/

If you have a question or feedback about this episode you can message me here.

Thank you for listening

You can connect with me via:
Instagram: Adventures in Kakeland
Adventures in kakeland studio: Creative projects, custom GPTs, books and resources

Published books for hobbyist and cake business owners.

• A food management system: for small home based food businesses 
• Bake -cover-finish -deliver: undated Weekly baking planner
• Cake business order form book
• Cake business Social media planner
• Dated weekly cake business planner (2026)

My Business social media channels
Instagram: Kake and Cupkakery
Facebook: Kake and Cupkakery
Website:...

In this episode l go through my weekly routine for working on orders within the business and how l fit this in alongside a full time job.

I talk about fitting in me time for my health and wellbeing, my shopping routine for ingredients, having boundaries and why that's important to me. Limiting my weekly orders, and also how i wanted to save my customers and me time with the ordering process so introduced a couple methods to keep the process quick and smooth. I also speak about the mistakes I've made and changes I've made so they do not happen 

If you have a question or feedback about this episode you can message me here.

Thank you for listening

You can connect with me via:
Instagram: Adventures in Kakeland
Adventures in kakeland studio: Creative projects, custom GPTs, books and resources

Published books for hobbyist and cake business owners.

• A food management system: for small home based food businesses 
• Bake -cover-finish -deliver: undated Weekly baking planner
• Cake business order form book
• Cake business Social media planner
• Dated weekly cake business planner (2026)

My Business social media channels
Instagram: Kake and Cupkakery
Facebook: Kake and Cupkakery
Website:...

In this episode l had the pleasure of talking to Natasha Orumbie from N.O cakes R better.
 I came across Natasha via Instagram and instantly loved her energy. She is a cake coach, mentor, with her group called the the baker squad, cake business owner and innovator with a new app she has created called the bake-ulator, Its an app that has been created  to help bakers with the issue of pricing cakes to make a profit.
We discuss her journey to where she is today and why she wanted to create an app.

You can connect and find Natasha across various social media channels

Instagram: The baker squad https://www.instagram.com/the_bakersquad/
Instagram:  N.O cakes R better https://www.instagram.com/nocakesrbetteruk/
Website: N.O cakes R better https://nocakesrbetter.com/
App: https://thebake-ulator.co.uk
You tube: https://www.youtube.com/@NocakesrbetterOnline

If you have a question or feedback about this episode you can message me here.

Thank you for listening

You can connect with me via:
Instagram: Adventures in Kakeland
Adventures in kakeland studio: Creative projects, custom GPTs, books and resources

Published books for hobbyist and cake business owners.

• A food management system: for small home based food businesses 
• Bake -cover-finish -deliver: undated Weekly baking planner
• Cake business order form book
• Cake business Social media planner
• Dated weekly cake business planner (2026)

My Business social media channels
Instagram: Kake and Cupkakery
Facebook: Kake and Cupkakery
Website:...

My first ever guest on the adventures in kakeland podcast is Lauren Smy. I know Lauren through a couple of facebook groups that we were in and she has now created her own free facebook and memberships groups.
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Lauren runs two businesses, The honey bee cake company (wedding cakes) and Lauren grace consulting.
Her aim is to help cake business owners make the transition into the lucrative wedding cake market as well as help to "boost their business potential" with running a cake business.

In conversation we discussed all things wedding, the pandemic, pricing confidence and self care amongst other topics.

You can find Lauren across various social media channels
Instagram: @laurengracecakecoach
Facebook: Lauren grace cake coach
Facebook: Honey bee cake hive group
Website: Laurengraceconsulting.co.uk

If you have a question or feedback about this episode you can message me here.

Thank you for listening

You can connect with me via:
Instagram: Adventures in Kakeland
Adventures in kakeland studio: Creative projects, custom GPTs, books and resources

Published books for hobbyist and cake business owners.

• A food management system: for small home based food businesses 
• Bake -cover-finish -deliver: undated Weekly baking planner
• Cake business order form book
• Cake business Social media planner
• Dated weekly cake business planner (2026)

My Business social media channels
Instagram: Kake and Cupkakery
Facebook: Kake and Cupkakery
Website:...

Welcome to the first episode of the adventures in kakeland podcast.

In this months episode I introduce myself and my cake business and what i hope you (the listener) will get from this podcast.
The Uk is predicted to be heading into a recession in QTR 4 2022 so how are we going to navigate our business through this ? I briefly discuss the lipstick effect in this episode. as well as discussing how l have used this strategy after the last recession in 2008 to introduce affordable treats into my business for my customers. 

If you would like to connect with me you will find me on  on instagram @adventures_in_kakeland/instagram.com

If you have a question or feedback about this episode you can message me here.

Thank you for listening

You can connect with me via:
Instagram: Adventures in Kakeland
Adventures in kakeland studio: Creative projects, custom GPTs, books and resources

Published books for hobbyist and cake business owners.

• A food management system: for small home based food businesses 
• Bake -cover-finish -deliver: undated Weekly baking planner
• Cake business order form book
• Cake business Social media planner
• Dated weekly cake business planner (2026)

My Business social media channels
Instagram: Kake and Cupkakery
Facebook: Kake and Cupkakery
Website:...