Story Of A Home-Baker Who Believes Practice Is The Key To Success

“You have to give your clients the best that you can. So just practice, practice and practice!” — Dolly Gulwani

For any artist, hard work, determination and focus are extremely vital factors for long-term sustenance. It is no different for the brilliant home-baker Dolly Gulwani, founder of Dessert Box by Dolly. This bakehouse specializes in customized cakes and varied desserts which are a must try.

Dolly is a home-maker and started baking a few years ago. One day, she came across a recipe for a simple Chocolate Cake and decided to try it out. The cake turned out really well and this motivated her to start baking for friends and family and eventually for clients. Since she was getting such good feedback, she decided to enhance her skills and enrolled for a fondant course in Pune itself. One commendable fact about Dolly is that she still keeps attending workshops and demos on baking to keep her skill-set updated.

She remembers her first commercial order, “It was for a friend’s daughter, who had a party for 30–40 people. I had never done something this big so I was very nervous. At first I refused to do it but on their insistence, I eventually did. Even though I was short of experience and resources at that time, I managed to pull it off. It was a major achievement for me!”.

Dolly loves baking whipped cream cakes the most and swears by the Tiramisu. Sharing her most challenging project till now, she says, “It was a Ferrari Car Cake. A crazy amount of work went behind it — getting the shape and all the detailing right, the tyres — everything was crazy. So I spent many hours doing that. Making a customized sports car cake is not an easy task, it requires a template, a lot of measurements and other stuff. But the cake turned out to be really good in the end.”

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