We All Start Somewhere

Hey everyone!

As this is my first blog post I thought I'd do a little introduction and then get straight into business. I'm Bryony, a 26 year old mother of two who lives in Lincoln, UK. I'm a self taught baker (if you count watching countless YouTube videos as being self taught) and I've been running Bakes By Bryony for a couple of months now. 

I absolutely love creating cakes for every occasion but I can assure you, I didn't start off too great at cake decorating. I first found my love for baking just before Christmas 2019 and I would occasionally bring in cakes and baked goods into work for the ladies I work with, these were mainly greeted with compliments but a lot of the time I used boxed cake mixes and tubs of premade frosting so there wasn't really anything I could do wrong. I decided to branch out and try to make cakes from scratch and a new level of love for baking was reached. Now, when I tell you that I didn't start off great a cake decorating, I mean it (and I will even attach photos as proof) but through watching various YouTube videos I picked up quite a few different skills which has helped me massively. I particularly like the YouTube channel Cupcake Jemma, she has basically taught me everything I know so if you're wanting to learn the basics I would strongly recommend giving her a little watch and subscribe to her. I recommend Jane's Patisserie on Instagram as well as she posts some amazing recipes also!

Started from the bottom...

Now we're here!

As you can see there is a very drastic difference between these two cakes but would you believe they were made 3 months apart? If I can learn how to bake a cake from scratch and fully decorate it using buttercream that I have made and a ganache drip (I'd never even heard of ganache before I started this hobby!) then I'm positive you can too! Keep checking back here for recipes and recommendations of products that I just can't bake without.

Much love,

Bryony