sticky fingers

What do you do?

I’m in the business of cake. I’m in my ninth year of Sticky Fingers Bakery and have made well over 1,000 cakes: wedding cakes, birthdays, fashion launches, divorce cakes—I think I’ve done every type of occasion.

I like to do things a little bit different and create new cake-eating experiences. Because I don’t have a physical shop address (yet), I hold pop-up dessert events in unconventional spaces (a comic store, a cinema, a music venue with a band). Two stand-outs for me were an all-you-can-eat tropical dessert buffet to celebrate the classic punk ballad ‘Whole Wide World’ by Wreckless Eric, and a mini movie festival called Hungry Eyes that had Candy Bar Packs so you could eat what you saw on screen.

Most recently I released a cookbook, Sticky Fingers, Green Thumb. It teaches you how to grow and bake with unconventional cake ingredients like vegetables, herbs and edible flowers. I contribute recipes and food-culture articles to magazines both locally and abroad; and most importantly, I’m mum to my two-and-a-half-year-old son, Ray-Lou.

What’s the first thing you remember cooking?

Fudge, closely followed by chocolate rum balls and marzipan fruits. My mum has never baked