I tried a fancy expensive cake from a big bakery to see the competition and I will be kind but honest: too much cream, no soul. A cake should taste like someone loved you while making it. That is my whole review and my whole business plan.

People ask if home baking really earns anything. Honestly the money is small and irregular, but this month I paid my daughter's exam fees from my own cake earnings and I cannot describe that feeling. It is not just income, children, it is dignity.

Christmas kuswar season in a Mangalorean home is not baking, it is warfare, and my kitchen becomes a factory of kidyo and rose cookies. My children pretend to help but mostly they eat. This is the smell of my whole childhood and now I make it for other families too.

Started my baking business at 39 when everyone said it was too late to start anything. Now I have regular orders and a WhatsApp full of blurry photos of my cakes at parties. To anyone starting a small thing late in life, do not wait for confidence, it comes after the first order, not before.

Just a Mangalore aunty who bakes

Hello children, I am Flora, 41, and I bake cakes from my little kitchen in Mangalore. My son said this app is for young people, so I told him old people also have feelings and free time. If you are hungry or sad, you have come to the right aunty.