BAKE IT EASY

Tasting the cakes that I’d just bought from a wholesaler, I frowned.

‘They’re so hard and bland,’ I said to my husband Kenny, 50, and daughter Stephanie, 28.

In 2011, I’d been made redundant and I’d used the compensation to buy a snack van.

But I was disappointed with the food on offer.

‘I’m going to make my own!’ I declared.

Unable to afford baking classes, I decided to teach myself how to bake from scratch at home.

I’d never baked before, apart from a scones attempt in my twenties – and