Kasavanahalli · Since 2013
One oven, one stubborn idea
That everything worth eating should be made properly, from scratch, by someone who cares how it turns out. More than a decade on, that hasn't changed. There are just a lot more ovens.
How it started
It began with cupcakes, mostly for friends, mostly on weekends. Word got around. Ten thousand-odd custom cakes and a good number of office parties later, we're still doing it the same way: every recipe from scratch, no preservatives, nothing out of a packet.
The best part isn't the baking. It's the phone call afterwards, telling us the cake was exactly right — or that someone at the table who can't eat gluten got the same cake as everyone else for once.
“A smile is a gentle curve that sets many things straight.”
That's Rubina's line, and it's pretty much the whole business plan.
- 10,000+
- custom cakes, and counting
- 2013
- baking on Sarjapur Road
- Scratch
- no premixes, no shortcuts
- Zero
- preservatives, ever
What you can count on
Five things we won't budge on
Not a mission statement — just how the kitchen actually runs, every day, including the busy ones.
Baked the day you get it
Nothing is made in advance and held back. You order, we bake, it reaches you. That's also why we ask for a little notice.
No premixes, no preservatives
Real butter, real cream, flour we chose on purpose. It takes longer and costs more, and we'd rather do that.
Everyone gets the same cake
Gluten-free, eggless, atta, jaggery, sugar-free. Swapped into the same bake, not a sad separate version.
Straight answers on price
We'll tell you what a thing costs and why, including when a design is going to push the number up.
We taste everything
Freshness, balance, finish — checked before it leaves. If it isn't right, it doesn't go out.
The person behind it
Rubina — Founder & Head Baker
Rubina is an electronics engineer who ended up running a bakery. It started in 2013 in her home kitchen with one oven and a belief that every smile deserves something handmade.
For years she did both: the job by day, the baking at night. Then she picked one. What began as WhatsApp orders from neighbours is now a bakehouse, a café, and a standing order for a good number of offices nearby.
“Every dessert has a story. Ours begins with yours.”
Come and eat something
A croissant on the way to work, a birthday cake, three hundred cupcakes for an office party. All equally welcome.
Bloomingdale's Layout, 29, Kasavanahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560035