PREMIUM From first baking flop to customer favourite This self-motivated teen meticulously balances her late-night weekend revision with dough-kneading to fund her ultimate dream of practising neurosurgery Education 23 min ago Listen

First, she carefully measures the flour, cinnamon, icing sugar, brown sugar, white sugar, eggs, baking powder, milk and vanilla essence before the dry and wet ingredients are mixed separately.

Her baking journey began when she was only six years old, inspired by her elder sister, who frequently baked delicious treats at home.“I mostly sell to church members on Sundays after service, since I am a weekly border and I am home on weekends which is when I do the baking,” says the Grade 9 learner at Lukenya Academy.