"I worked part time in restaurants for extra money when I was a teenager, and that’s when I started tasting different kinds of food and discovered a love of working with it. I studied psychology at university, which I enjoyed, but I always knew that I wanted to work for myself.
"All through high school I tried a lot of creative business ventures to earn some extra money - either with music or events or working with clothes and fashion - and by doing those different things, I worked out where I could and couldn’t make a good return.
"We had bought my sister baking equipment for Christmas after she had baked a nice cake once, but she actually wanted new trainers and had no interest in doing any more baking. Rather than let the equipment go to waste, I started baking for fun, loved it, kept at it, and taught myself how to do all of it from books and online lessons while I was still at uni. I also realised quite quickly that I could make money from it.
