It’s now been seven years of Zuccherino and my style and menu has progressed a lot over the course of that time. Baking has always been a passion of mine, it started very young cooking with my Nonna, Nella whom I am named after. Over the years I developed my own rhythm for cooking, baking for family birthday parties, and baking for my tutoring students until mum banned me for tripling the gas bill (whoops). It then progressed into making cakes for family and friends. Birthdays, engagements, parties… any excuse for cake really. Zuccherino, is my cake dream and it makes me so happy to have so many beautiful customers who come back holiday after holiday, event after event.

My motivation to really start this business, was after eating one too many frozen and packet mix celebration cakes. Cakes will always be baked within two days of consumption, meaning they are super fresh. No cakes are frozen, which means any left over cakes (if for some reason it doesn’t all get demolished) can be frozen. My skill set has increased a lot over the last seven years, and I have learnt to work to my strengths and focus on my style. I only work with buttercream cakes, generally steering away from novelty cakes or anything involving too much fondant.