Hello,

First of all, thank you very much for your interest in my blog. I hope you enjoy it, and please don't hesitate to contact me should you have any query concerning my cakes...

Something about me...

I never thought I would become a cake baker and decorator although I have a passion for design and cooking. My first university degree was in law, but before long I completed a second degree in fashion design, where I could create and work with colours, hand crafts and lots of pretty things!!

After meeting and becoming friends with a special person and a wonderful cake designer from Brazil, Beth Gomes, I became inspired. Beth encouraged me and gave me first tips on how to work with sugar paste.

I completed further cake design courses in Brazil and in the UK with Debbie Brown. I continued practising sugar craft, attended conferences and studied the work of various professionals from Europe and America.

Today, I hope you enjoy the cakes I create as much as I enjoy making them!


Samples (click for more)

Portions Guide

Numbers of portions should be used as a guide only, as what some consider a good-sized portion of cake others consider either too large or too small.

Round Cakes:

Size / Portions
8"(20cm) 18-23
9"(23cm) 25-30
10"(25cm) 35-40
12"(30cm) 45-55

Square Cakes:

Size / Portions
8"(20cm) 25-30
9"(23cm) 32-38
10"(25cm) 40-45
12"(30cm) 50-60

Member of the British Sugarcraft Guild

Member of the British Sugarcraft Guild

Food Hygiene and Safety Certificate (no:12055)

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Clients space

I decided to publish some feedback that my sweet clients sent to me...thank so much for those kind and special words!!
Hi Layla, I really wanted to write, though, to say how absolutely thrilled I was by your cake. It's a real work of art, and the way you managed to get such an amazing likeness of our boat was just incredible.
It really did feel like a crime slicing into such a pretty thing. If I had had my way I would have sprayed it with varnish and preserved it for all eternity!
With many thanks once again ,
JB.
Hi Layla,
We had a lovely party, Hannah was thrilled with the cake.
All the guests thought the cake was delicious. Roger and I without doubt thought it was the best we had ever tasted.
Thank you for creating such a special cake.
Kind Regards
J T


Hello Layla,

We are safely back in Seattle now and had a perfect wedding. THe cake was perfect also, just what we wanted and delicious. It is amazing to me how we managed to communicate across the miles of ocean. You are a star, thank you so very very much. I hope to meet you, maybe next time we are home. Auntie Jen says you live just around the corner.

Thank you again.

Sarah & Dan

Dear Layla
I still can't get over my cake. Thank you a million times over. I am completely overwhelmed by the cake, your talent and the enormous effort you made. The whole world should know about your cakes and I am going to start telling them !

N
xxx
Hi Layla, I have attached a picture of us cutting the wedding cake. It looked absolutely beautiful and everyone commented on it. Thank you so much for all your hard work and effort. It tasted lovely too.
J&L


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Hi Layla
Hope you are ok?
Here is my feedback...it was lovely, really nice ...
Steve son was so happy, he did like the idea of the candles, that did not melt in the cake.. so much that he ate some of it!
Steve also like it! He told me that the icing was perfect and the flavour of the cake also was so good.
He brought some of the cake after the party, unlucky me was not half!
Really nice, you are so good!
Will be in touch with you!
Believe me......
U.

Delicious recipe from Lenotre School

Meringues "Chocolat et Noisettes"

Ingredients:
-100g of white egg
-100g granulated sugar
-100g icing sugar
-50g chopped toasted hazelnuts
-20g cocoa

How to prepare:
Beat the white eggs with the granulated sugar (add one spoon at a time) until stiff peaks
Mix the icing sugar with the cocoa, add to the white egg mixture and the hazelnuts.
Using a tablespoon, spoon meringue onto 2 baking sheets lined with parchment paper.

Bake at 100 C for 1h-1h15 minutes or until meringues are firm.


24 February 2013

Baking and Cake Decorating Classes


Since last year I have been exploring a new area in the cake world! 

Everything started when I decided to share how fun and therapeuthic is to bake and decorate a cake! So I decided to teach! For me teaching is sharing the love and happiness of the cake and sweet world. Do you know the feeling when someone brings you a cupcake or a box of chocolate? It puts a smile straight on your face, isn't? For this reason I wanted to share my secrets to allow my students to experience the same. Would their intentions be for sharing  it with their family and friends or to take it more seriously to make it a business!

But I have learned that teaching goes beyond, it also means meeting wonderful people and making friends as they fall in love with baking and share their own experience. 

I have posted below lovely comments from some of my wonderful students have made about the class and how important was the experience for their lives! Priceless!

"That is really nice Layla! I am happy to see that you are giving people the opportunity to learn from you.
I had the opportunity to do the cupcake and the master cake class, it was an amazing experience for me! Layla is an excellent teacher, she is positive and doesn't hide anything, she gave us all the tips and I felt so confident about my experience that I was able to make the cupcakes on my own, from beginning to finish. Also made the cake twice, and used the dough recipe to create a bit. I would love to do it again, learn the biscuits perhaps or the flowers!!!! I need the time only, not easy now with my baby being so little. At first I thought about the price but after the class it was all worth it, would have paid even more, for the experience and for the great time I had. I have made quite a lot of courses in my life, a looot! and Layla is my top teacher ever! She is caring, patient and knows what she is doing. I have to say that Layla is a wonderful human being, kind and has work ethics, which is hard to see nowadays. xx"  Mireya G.S.


"Highly recommend!! I had the opportunity to do the Master Class and not regret. In my opinion it was a unique experience! The course gave me more confidence in making my own cake at home. It was a real challenge for me, but the way that Layla teaches her students is unique, we feel like we're in our own house. Also it was a therapy for me. It was well worth it!!! Thank you Layla!!!" Flavia A.


" Layla, after competing the cake and the cupcake classes I feel confident and ready to make my own. The ones I've done by myself were as pretty as the ones on the day, thanks for the technique. Please book me for the biscuit one in April!"
Luena H.

"A fun and very enjoyable day well spent!
I highly recommend the master cake decoration course; it is money well worth spending.
I was given a very warm welcome and the course host was ready to share her very extend knowledge with the group ensuring everyone was up to speed.
Everything was provided and the session was run at a good pace. As a beginner with no previous cake decorating experience I was worried that I wouldn't be able to keep up with some of the others who had some basic knowledge already but I was fine, it was a very relaxing and informative day and I was not rushed to finish at the end.
The setting is great, as I didn’t feel like I was in a classroom, which makes spending my day off to do it even more pleasurable.
I can't wait to go back for the cupcake decoration session." Eliandra SM.

"I had a fantastic time learning with one of the most talented teacher. I've done the cupcakes and the cake decorating classes that gave me the confidence to make to my son his first birthday cake myself. The course is well planed and Layla she is very organised and patient that makes you confidence grow. Thanks Layla!!!" Shirley S.

" I have always enjoyed eating cakes however what really attracted me was their beauty, their wonderful decoration, artistic shapes and vibrant colours. Then I met that baker extremely talented. I fell in love for her amazing cakes and took the first opportunity to enrol in the course she runs. 
I had a great expectation and was a bit anxious about what I would learn but teacher Layla surprised me with the excellence of the course contents, her outstanding didactic and the harmony that dominated the classroom. What seemed impossible had come true, I barely believed when I left the class holding my cake with a big smile in my face.
The cakes are beautiful…tasty…outstanding…moreover we also could feel how sweet Layla was and all her detailed and careful preparation ranging from preparing the sponge to the cake’s assembly and decoration.
Whenever an opportunity arises I put in practice the skills I have learnt!
Thanks Layla" Solange R.

If you are interest in learning sugar craft and want to experience some of this fun activity visit my Facebook page for more information and classes available. www.facebook.com/LaylaPegadoCakes

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