Hannah a top-notch baker
The baking bug bit Hannah Mudge at the age of six.Today, this 12-year-old has her own business, Hannah's Sweets & Treats.
"I used to help my mom while she was baking pancakes and really liked it. So, I started baking my own pancakes. After that I began baking muffins and then cakes. My real passion is baking and decorating cakes," she said.
She enrolled for cooking classes at The Purple Fig Cooking School in 2020.
"But it's more cooking and cooking. Last year my friend Lee-Zanne Vermeulen and I won first place in the Young Chef group division at the Namibian University of Science and Technology (NUST)."
They prepared a three-course meal and had to use certain ingredients, such as beans and Oshikandela in their dishes.
"We made fish and vegetables for starters, stuffed chicken with beans and carrots for main course, and lava pudding with Oshikandela ice cream for dessert.
"We were ecstatic when we won. I cook at home in the evenings, but I will not sell food. Cooking is kind of my hobby, where baking is my business."
Cakes
Hannah went looking for cake recipes on the internet, but she taught herself how to decorate cakes. She has also developed her own cake recipe and is currently working on an ice cream recipe.
"My father said in 2020 that I could start baking cakes as a business. I came up with a name, had stickers and business cards printed, and in 2021 the first orders were placed and sold under my business. I can't bake as often as I'd like because I still have to go to school."
Her best seller is her carrot cake. She also makes vanilla and red velvet cakes, but her favorite to bake and eat remains chocolate cake. Hannah also makes donuts, cupcakes, mousse and macaroons.
"My mother buys the ingredients and then the people pay my mother. She pays the profit into my bank account. I've already saved quite a bit of money for my phone."
Hannah has also baked a two-layer wedding cake.
"It was an ordinary cake with buttercream and real wildflowers as decoration. I don't really like fondant or working with it. This is why I don't like to bake children's cakes either. I like classic cakes.”
Hannah paid her sister, Kari, half of her profits so she could help her make the fondant creations for the children's birthday cake she did bake, according to her mother.
"I would like to become a lawyer one day, but I also want to have a shop that sells my cakes. I will bake for the shop in the evenings."
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