Cake designer Krishanthi Armitt shares her small business journey. Starting in investment banking, she’d always loved baking. When she started a family, she decided to attend a Sugar Flowers & Piped Royal Icing Decoration course. Now she specialises in luxury wedding cakes adorned with exquisite hand-crafted sugar flowers.
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You'll Learn
- Krishanthi shares her small business journey
- How moving to Germany after her A levels led to her meeting her husband and studying a degree in Sociology & Politics
- On returning to the UK, she started working in investment banking
- Having always been interested in baking, when she started a family she attended a part-time Sugar Flowers & Piped Royal Icing Decoration course
- How in 2010, she set up her business, Cakes by Krishanthi and decided to specialise in wedding cakes
- The strategies she uses to market her business and how she differentiates herself in the industry
- Her passion for flowers and creating hand-crafted sugar flowers, together with the types of courses she runs
- The impact of the pandemic on her business and how she used the time for reflection
- How she's now diversifying into creating cold porcelain flowers and her plans for offering flower therapy
