About Me

“Nothing says home like the smell of baking.”

Hi, I’m Saranya. I work in digital marketing, but baking has slowly become one of the biggest parts of my life.

I’m originally from India and now live in Stockholm. Back home, ovens were never really a standard part of the kitchen. If anything, they felt like a luxury. But that never stopped me from being curious about baking. Long before I owned an oven, I tried baking in a pressure cooker. That was how it started for me — with curiosity, trial and error, and a lot of learning along the way. My first vanilla cake was a complete disaster, but we still finished it anyway.

For a while I left baking alone, and then somewhere along the way, the interest came back. I started trying cakes, cookies, and breads again, still without a proper oven at first. Later, during lockdown, that interest became much stronger. I wanted to do it properly. I still remember ordering my first small oven and waiting for it like a child waits for something exciting — constantly refreshing the tracking page and checking when it would arrive. The day it came home, I was honestly thrilled.

What pulled me in wasn’t just the cakes themselves. It was the whole feeling of baking at home.

The smell had a lot to do with it. In India, good bakeries are easy to find, so buying cakes was always normal. But homemade baking felt different. When a cake is in the oven and the whole house starts smelling of butter, vanilla, chocolate, or fresh bread, it changes the mood of the place. You don’t just eat the bake — you live with it from the moment it starts. That is still one of my favorite parts of baking.

Over time, baking became part of our home life. I started baking for birthdays, for friends, and for small gatherings. At home, birthday cakes became a bit of a tradition. I usually make them around whatever my kids are currently obsessed with, so each one ends up having its own little story. They may not always look perfectly polished, but that has never been the point. I love seeing the excitement on their faces when they recognize the theme.

I also enjoy the quieter side of baking. To me, baking has always felt calming. There is something about measuring, mixing, folding, waiting, checking, and simply letting things take the time they need. You can’t force dough to rise, and you can’t hurry a cake without ruining it. Maybe that is one reason I’m drawn to it — it makes you slow down.

That’s also how I bake now.

I like my bakes to be mildly sweet, simple, and made with real ingredients. I’m not drawn to heavy artificial colours or cakes that look good but feel too sugary to actually enjoy. I prefer bakes that people genuinely want to keep eating — the kind you cut “just one more small piece” of. Since my boys are always ready to taste whatever comes out of the kitchen, sweetness is something I naturally keep in check. If a batch disappears quickly, I know it has passed the test.

I made this website because I wanted one place to keep all of this — the cakes, the experiments, the little wins, the themed birthday bakes, and the things that came out better than I expected.

So if you found this page because you like home baking, because you enjoy a good fika, or because you’re in Stockholm looking for homemade cakes and treats, you’re very welcome here.

This is simply my baking space.

You won’t find factory-perfect cakes here. Just homemade bakes, made with care, and plenty of stories behind them.