Each cake is bespoke, made specially for each client. She decorates every creation with the same skill of a sculptor realizing his sculptures.
Making cakes is very natural for Mela, as she used to bake with her grandmother when she was a child, and after she grew up she accumulated twenty years work experience in restaurants.
Each cake project begins with a consultation with the costumer concerning his favorite flavors, colors, shape, but also hobbies, themes, occasions, personality etc. Thousand of different possibilities to create personalized cakes depend on what each client wants to express.
Her atelier is wide, with minimal furniture, very simple and clean: a long table in middle of the space, basic tools such as cutter, drawing pins, and little shapes of mock up of decorations. Mostly made by hand. All the ingredients are carefully selected from food suppliers in London.
Mela explains that “the most difficult part of making cakes is handling the sugar paste”. Making one cake takes few hours. Mela laughs thinking to this, as it took few days at beginning.
On the day of the interview, Mela was making a rabbit-shape cake for a client’s child’s first birthday. Mela, smiling, said “I feel like a child playing with a modeling clay”.