Usha Seetharam bakes cakes. And she has managed to think up a sweet name for her home baking enterprise. Ushbakeistan.
She and her husband were pondering over a name.
Many names came to them. Nothing touched their hearts. As with anything brilliant, this name came along when they stopped thinking about a name.
“This name struck me while I was baking. It was perfect. It would bring a smile to anybody’s face,” says Usha, a resident of Cenotaph Road.
Usha is a full-time employee of a law firm, a mother of a nine-month-old baby and a passionate baker of many years.
Only a year ago, she decided to sell the products coming out of her oven.
“I would watch my mother bake in the good old round oven that had no temperature setting or other fancy settings,” says Usha, on how she got hooked on the art and science of baking cakes.
She got an oven for herself and got started. Despite the oven being ill-suited for baking cakes, she enjoyed the experience.
“Of course, now I have a proper baking oven,” says Usha, who has been earning regulars from the time she started this enterprise.
“I make both eggless and regular dark chocolate cakes. I also make fondant cakes,” she says.
Usha uses baking to de-stress.
“It is very difficult to manage a child and have a full-time job. Baking is me-time for me. Even if I don’t have an order, I experiment in the kitchen. My mother-in-law takes care of the baby when I’m at work and the child is trained to sleep at 7.30 p.m. After that, I’m committed to my kitchen,” she says. Check out her Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/ushbakeistan. You can place orders at 99401 96209.
