A Colombian-born baker’s buns are selling like hot cakes in Hoylake.
Laura Alejandra opened Abba Cakes on Market Street on the day of the town’s Christmas lights switch-on last month – and sold out by 4.30pm.
Laura started baking cakes in her native Colombia around 12 years ago before moving to Gran Canaria in Spain to study business administration.
She established her business under the name Abba Cakes, gaining business via word of mouth and social media among the local Canarians.
The patisserie chef moved to the UK with her Bebington-born husband just before lockdown, the pair having met through a bilingual church in Las Palmas.
As the UK started to open up again, Laura put her skills and qualifications to use managing a cafe where she also baked the cakes, and also began supplying them to businesses.
Recently an opportunity arose for Laura to realise her dream of opening a cake shop.
Laura told West Kirby Today: “The shop is doing really well. People in Hoylake and the Wirral are extraordinarily kind and welcoming and since I moved to the UK three years ago I have only found supportive and caring people in this place.
“I’m very pleased and happy to see how my passion for food and design has been transformed into something tangible that people can enjoy and taste.
“It’s just so rewarding when you see smiles on people’s faces when they sample some of my cakes or they take it to treat themselves at home or to a loved one, it’s just a real pleasure for me.
“For me, Abba Cakes is the whole idea of bringing a little bit of sweetness, or hope as a Christian would say, to the times of celebration and those other times when we don’t feel so great.
“Life is a great and unique event that must be celebrated, and why not with a bit of cake?”
