Badminton Coach Sells Nostalgic Retro Buttercream Cakes Baked With 30-Year-Old Recipe
The home-based baker, who’s also a freelance badminton coach, makes these cute old-school cakes with her baking instructor godmother.
Like many millennials who run home-based baking businesses, 34-year-old freelance badminton coach Joy Lim used to sell typical sweets like cupcakes. But these days, she specialises in less common old-fashioned Chinese bakery-style buttercream cakes. The humble, cheerful sheet cakes were especially popular in the late ’70s and ’80s. They came in simple flavours like strawberry, chocolate and were sliced into rectangles, then piped with riotously colourful buttercream frosting. The retro sponges found in mom-and-pop HDB bakeries were often baked with no-frills ingredients and were thus affordable. They were a popular comforting treat.
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