Baker Takes The Cake When It Comes To Edible Hedonism

The Chronicle:

At the age of four, Janice Paulino was poking her fingers into her mom’s homemade desserts — cakes, pies, cookies — you name it, her mother baked it — usually under the watchful eye of hungry neighbourhood kids. In fact, little Janice was lucky if she could get more than a fingerful of batter.

But it all worked out in the end; the adage, like mother like daughter is definitely the case here.

“I actually have a fully equipped baking studio made to measure for my desserts. It has a high table so I don’t have to bend down to work. My dad made it. He insists on getting his fingers into everything,” joked this mom, whose two sons are in their twenties. They are her biggest fans, and like those days of yore, their friends come over to sample her cakes.

What gets tongues wagging about them are each cake’s irresistibly light texture and fantastic flavour. What’s more, Janice is a cake-batter artist; you can’t find one better than her. Drawing inspiration from fabrics, nature, even the leaves of NDG’s trees,

This cake master creates pictorial scenes that really belong on a canvas rather than on a plate. Her images are both humorous and seductive. They include: trains, electric guitars, Chanel and Hermes purses. lipstick and Burberry scarves, Ferrari Grand Prix red caps, Jimmy Choo sandals, calla lilies, roses, multi-tiered castles and villas, Of course, her wedding cakes are stand-outs.