My Cake Cravings 2.95

by Garry and Lourdes Orozco. It is all about co-celebrating life's special events by creating remarkable cakes with delightful tastes reflective of customers' preferences and tastes at a fair price.

About My Cake Cravings:
We are a husband and wife tandem who both grew-up literally with flour, sugar and eggs around us.

Garry’s parents still operate a bakery until now. They bake different kinds of bread and deliver them to wholesalers and small burger shops. So, he too, understands the world of baking.

My parents had a bakery beside our house since I was three years old, we used to sell loaves and buns of bread to the neighborhood and also deliver to small stores and groceries. They closed it when I was fifteen, citing that they were so exhausted because bakery’s operation is almost 24 hours!

I had good memories of playing bread dough, I would make different animals and other shapes out of it and experiment how they will turn out after our bakers’ bake them in the big oven. Play dough is not existent for me and my siblings because we have more than enough bread dough to play with.

Growing up, I experimented on baking ingredients on what will happen if I put more baking soda, less yeast, bake longer time at lower heat, etc. Those days at the bakery stopped at the time when I started my HR career, when I got too busy climbing up the corporate ladder. But at the time that I got the position I was aiming for, I found the time again to bake. The saying is true for me, first love never dies. I was baking like crazy again! It was stopped again when I started having my own family. It is next to impossible to bake with a baby on one hand! Then, babies became toddlers and it was time for school bake sales, so I was back to baking until last year when the kids had their birthday party and buying cakes that we want is unattainable. I phoned two home bakers but they refused to make complicated cake designs. So to make the story short, we ended up buying cakes form a local cake shop with edible printed designs of Frozen and Spiderman. We thought that with printed designs, Anna’s face and Spider man face would not look distorted like we usually see here, so why not buy them! Those cakes didn’t appear special; there was no ‘wow’ among our kids’ faces. Our kids’ didn’t feel special with the store-bought cakes they had.

For us, cakes should be appealing to make the birthday party memorable. In other words, ‘A party without a cake is not a party at all’.

While we were singing the birthday song, on the back of my head, I swore to myself that never again will my kids have birthday cakes like those! On the other hand, Garry’s thought was the same. Might as well do not throw a party if our kids’ will not feel that they are special on their birthday.

So that was the turning point, my passion for baking needed to have an additional skill- cake decorating. So, I went to Tavola and enrolled to the famous Wilton Cake Decorating Classes. It was a crush course only, which was what I need. I learned the basics, but I expected a lot more. I was only taught how to make different flowers from Course 1 to Course 4- that was it. So, the start of my cake decorating adventure needs a direction of how I can make a Spider man mask. I invested more on studying, training and buying all the tools and equipments I need. I learned how to do animal and people toppers, learned different techniques using different mediums, collected all petal dusts and gel food colors which are mostly not available here in the Kingdom.

Now, I am sharing the techniques I have learned in the cakes that we do. Having known the awful feeling of having ‘just to have a cake’ on my kids’ last birthday party, we know how to treat each cake that we make extra special. We work together with clients all the way how to best interpret the design they want. We are hoping that in every cake that we do- the client and us both have the feeling of accomplishment for a cake well done.

I do the baking and cake decoration while Garry helps me in the intricate designs. Being an engineer, he sees the spatial planning, design and lettering clearer than I do. He does the photography, makes customized cake boxes according to the cake size and merchandiser of all our cake supplies.

This is our story and we don’t want you to have the same (we mean having ordinary cakes we had for our kids). Let us make your life event extra special with our cakes. It will not cost you so much more and will make you feel a lot happier! Let My Cake Cravings celebrate with your event for those delicious cakes with mouth-watering, distinctive fillings and exquisite, memorable cake designs!