Vanilla cakes, chocolate cakes, red velvet cakes and carrot cakes. These are only some of the mouth-watering cakes that you can expect to find when you visit Khuli's Cakes & Biscuits, a mini bakery situated in Dzimauli Luheni Mapuloni village.
The owner of this convenient little bakery is an ambitious, self-driven young woman, 26-year-old Khuliso Lorraine Siaga.
Siaga first realised her love of baking while she was in high school, back in 2011. Unfortunately, and for many reasons, she could not go to college to study this field. "I used to get envious whenever I saw someone bake scones and biscuits for their own consumption. At that time, there was no one to bake for us, and I wanted to be the one to bake for my family so badly."
She said the situation motivated her to learn how to bake. "I decided to try baking scones. They came out nicely, but not perfectly, and I had to practise until I made them the way I wanted them to be."
She said that was a lesson to her never to undermine herself. "When I went shopping, I used to stand in the bakery section for a long time, wondering who had baked those cakes. I found the time to learn more about baking cakes during the lockdown, watching YouTube videos and experimenting with different recipes, and today I have mastered the skill of baking beautiful and delicious cakes," she said laughing.
To buy backing equipment, she saved her stipend from the internship she was doing at the time. Now she bakes cakes for all occasions, from birthdays to weddings and any other celebration that requires cakes.
To learn more about Siaga's bakery, visit her Facebook page (Khuli's Cakes & Biscuits).