Baked with Love: Meet the Leading Home Bakers of Singapore

Personalised, home-baked and with quality ingredients - just some of the many reasons you should choose home bakers in Singapore to make your next customised cakes, dessert table or baked goodies. From birthday cakes, tarts, brownies and chiffon cakes to freshly baked bread, fondant carving and stunning cupcakes, here are Vanilla Luxury's top recommendations for home bakers in Singapore.

Home Baker - Monice Bakes

This hobbyist turned professional baker started getting orders from friends when she used Instagram to record her pretty ‘#monicebakes’ creations. Animal cakes, unicorn cupcakes, cartoon cookies; you name it, she’ll bake it! Monice ensures that no artificial flavours or preservatives are used in her bakes and that they aren't too sweet either. Popular cake flavours include Vanilla, Chocolate, and Earl Grey while Monice offers customisable options for fillings that suit your choice and budget. Her signature cupcake flavours are Chocolate Coffee Duo and Black Sesame Matcha.

Home Baker - Tartnutellalala

Yati Mustapha is a mother of four and a passionate home baker in Singapore. Baking used to be something she did once a year during Hari Raya but ever since she stopped working, she has turned to baking full time from home. Yati takes pre-orders for her home-baked goodies for major festivals in Singapore such as Hari Raya Deepavali, Christmas and Chinese New Year. So, get ready to make your orders!

Yati’s speciality in baked goodies are tarts in various flavours such as Nutella, Nutella-Milo, Nutella-Oreo, Cadbury, Butterscotch and Pineapple. She will also be baking Nutella and Speculoos cookie pods and Cheese Tartlets for household consumption as well as for door gifts and goodie bags. You can get mixed platters as well as tartlets and cookie pods individually. Not to mention, they are Halal!

To order, contact Yati directly through Instagram @tartnutellalala or via WhatsApp at (+65) 8133 2314.

Home Baker - Invantion

Looking for a customised cake? The self-taught home baker in Singapore behind Invantion bakes cakes based on your personal reference from a picture or a theme or just up to her own creativity. Thus, no two cakes are the same at Invantion! With the idea of less is more, she will add her own finishing style to make your buttercream-based cakes look aesthetically pleasing and flavourful.

Besides cakes, at Invantion, you can also get customised desserts such as cupcakes, marshmallow pops, macarons and fruit tarts for dessert tables and gift boxes. The home baker also provides cakes for dogs, using dog-friendly ingredients, customised to fit the dog’s dietary restrictions.

You can place your order, minimum 2 weeks prior, through Instagram @invantion.sg or email her at [email protected].

Home Baker - Bakabee

A qualified teacher and a musician back in Hong Kong, Wendy Tang moved to Singapore with her husband a few years ago. Following her dream to establish her own baking business, Wendy founded Bakabee Pte Ltd and has since then learnt a great deal about building a successful home baking business by establishing a strong social media presence.

Bakabee offers a wide range of creations including bespoke customised cakes, cupcakes and cookies; speciality gluten-free and low sugar selections; as well as catering for special events such as weddings and baby showers. Running Bakabee keeps Wendy very busy but satisfied as she loves baking and decorating beautiful creations for her happy customers.

To place an order, email Wendy at [email protected], send her a message via Facebook or Instagram @bakabeecom, or WhatsApp at (+65) 9728 0018.

Home Baker - Therese Pastry

Therese Ho is the owner and cake designer of Therese Pastry, a home bakery. As an award-winning cake designer from Hong Kong, she can create bespoke cakes catered to meet your story or needs. She loves to create customised cakes or pastries for any occasion including kids’ birthday parties, weddings, and even cakes or treats for dogs!

If you have a special event and require a specific set up, Therese offers her services for dessert table creations as well. In addition, she is also a baking coach and can design baking class for individuals, groups or corporates.

For cake purchases, visit her website. To place a custom cake order and enquire about her baking classes, contact Therese at (+65) 9858 8183 or via Instagram @therese_pastry or Facebook.

Home Baker - Bakes, by ve

Having spent so much time at home during the recent circuit breaker period, Vera Tan dabbled into making bread as a weekend project. Little did she expect herself to venture into setting up a home-based baking business - making small batches at a time. Thus bakes, by ve was born.

As a weekend baker, Vera enjoys exploring and creating new artisanal flavours and venturing into other baked goodies. While she specialises in bread loaves, Vera has recently also started making brownies. Her star product is the subtly sweet Longan & Walnut Bread Loaf with dried longan pieces that add a little chewy texture to the soft fluffy loaf. Another highlight is the Chocolate & Sea Salt Loaf with delightful melted chocolate bits!

Preorders open weekly via a link that will be shared on Instagram @bakesbyve and Facebook.

Home Baker - Bakes by Heni

Project Cookoh is a project to kick start home businesses in Singapore for stay-home women based in rental communities, primarily in the neighbourhood of Jalan Kukoh. It was started during Circuit Breaker to help these women, some of whom are single mothers, earn their own income with their talents in home cooking and home baking. These women are part of ReadAble, a literacy non-profit.

Heni is an experienced home baker, selling a plethora of delightful homebaked goods that is Muslim-owed and Halal. The most popular item on her menu is brownies. Crackly on the outside, yet fudgy and rich on the inside – that’s how the perfect brownies are supposed to be. They taste of the honest goodness of real butter and real chocolate.

Just the right consistency of dense yet fairly moist, these brownies have just the right sweetness and are best served warm. Imagine them with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, drizzled with hot chocolate sauce, that would be phenomenal!

These generous crowd-pleasers also keep well and continue to taste great after a few days. On top of regular classic brownies, they also come in Almond and Cheesecake flavours. 

All orders can be placed via this Google Form.

Home Baker - Sinsations by Radhika

Gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free or nut-free. If there’s someone in Singapore who wants to eat delicious cake, Radhika will ensure they do! This home baker who is known for her specialist cakes as well as the painstakingly carved decorative ones, started baking as early as the age of 12! A Montessori teacher by profession, she now teaches and bakes cakes from home. Prefer a healthier cake or dessert? Radhika is always experimenting with new flavours and ingredients, with no compromise on taste. Ask the question and we are sure she will have a delectable answer for you!

Home Baker - Glazed Desserts

A love for social media got this mum to talk about her home baking journey - which like most stay-at-home mothers was all about tea time and playdates. Fast forward to innumerable requests on recipes, baking tips and classes - Glazed became a full-fledged business catering to home baking orders. A perfectionist to the finest detail, Munira has now been making customized cakes for over 3 years and is known to take her time with each order that comes in. She loves a good challenge too! So, if there’s something unusual, pushing the boundaries of oh-so-normal, get in touch today. Want to be a home baker? Munira also does live tutorials on her page, demonstrating techniques and answering questions as a way of giving back and staying in tune with her home baking community.

Home Baker - The Spatula and the Pen 

A ‘Baker of Stories’ Ng Li Tying started The Spatula and the Pen to unleash her baking ideas in accordance with the personality of her friends and family (who she initially baked for). When stories and photos of her bakes gained traction on social media, she realised there was a gap in the market for personalisation of baked goods. In a quest to make special occasions all that more exceptional, she started making celebratory cakes and desserts and since then has gathered a bevvy of fans. One look at her Instagram page and we promise you will be craving desserts, cakes and everything sugary. And those brownies - don’t even get us started!