4 reasons why you must attend The Amari Open Day & Bakers Fair

We’re very excited to be holding our first event for bakers in Nairobi and our first open day for Amari. The Amari Open Day and Bakers Fair will be held this Saturday on December 17th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Friends Church Grounds off Ngong Rd (Prestige area). We are so gratefulContinueContinue reading “4 reasons why you must attend The Amari Open Day & Bakers Fair”

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Birthday Cake Tutorial

This is a popular themed cake for birthday cakes – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! So when I got a request to do this cake, about a week ago, for a small boy; I was definitely up to the challenge. I have decided to share the step by step method in which I used to decorateContinueContinue reading “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Birthday Cake Tutorial”

Three Main Reasons Why Most Home-bakers Struggle With Increasing Their Sales

If you’re a baker or bakerette that loves creating amazing baked goodies and you have decided to start using that skill to generate an income – you can relate to this issue. Most small baking businesses start at home and later grow into a bakery shop outlet. The secret to having your cake business growContinueContinue reading “Three Main Reasons Why Most Home-bakers Struggle With Increasing Their Sales”

Soccer Ball Cake Picture Tutorial with Buttercream Frosting

Back with another theme cake tutorial using butter cream ^_^ The soccer ball cake is another popular cake theme, especially for parents with boys. I was privileged to make one some weekends ago for a lady whose son was turning 11 years old. Of course I knew that was an opportunity for me to shareContinueContinue reading “Soccer Ball Cake Picture Tutorial with Buttercream Frosting”

4 Important points on setting up systems in your small baking business

We held a bakery business master-class this past Saturday and it was phenomenal. We had very amazing bakers in attendance who were eager to learn and share from their experiences as well. This month’s master-class was about the types of systems you need to set up in your small baking business in order to achieveContinueContinue reading “4 Important points on setting up systems in your small baking business”

3 Reasons why your small bakery business won’t last one year

At Amari we offer baking classes to individuals and have been doing so for the last eight years. We love hearing back from our former students of their successes, as well as their challenges. This helps us come up with effective training lesson plans and additional business training workshops as well. One major challenge bakersContinueContinue reading “3 Reasons why your small bakery business won’t last one year”

Do you want to know 4 simple, yet powerful steps to grow your bakery business?

We get quite a number of visitors on our blog and we’re always so grateful. One thing we like to do is get feedback on the type of information home-bakers, small bakery business owners and any of our blog visitors would like to know. A recurring question I’ve noted is ‘How to work towards havingContinueContinue reading “Do you want to know 4 simple, yet powerful steps to grow your bakery business?”

Superman-themed Buttercream Cake Tutorial

Hope all you bakers and bakerettes are doing well and are busy baking ^_^ I was recently baking a birthday for a very adorable 5 year old boy and I decided to do a Superman-themed cake. Since fondant really isn’t a favorite with his family – I was left with Buttercream frosting as my medium.ContinueContinue reading “Superman-themed Buttercream Cake Tutorial”

Easy Sponge Cake Recipe

This time I want to share a sponge cake recipe with you today. I’m currently doing a lot of recipe testing with sponge cakes and I’m loving it! I recently tried this spicy version and I just had to share it. Try it out and share what your results are please ^_^ Please note thatContinueContinue reading “Easy Sponge Cake Recipe”

Celebrating Amari Bakers & Bakerettes

This has been an amazing year for Amari so far and a large part of that is because of our baking class students as well as our workshop attendees. That’s why I will share what we’ve been up to with some of our students and share their amazing baking work after they learned how toContinueContinue reading “Celebrating Amari Bakers & Bakerettes”