Melie’s Bakery

Melie’s Bakery is run by fulltime home-baker, Melieza Silva from her home in Mahabage. Having studied at hotel school and trained at Cinnamon Lakeside, Melieza started Melie’s Bakery just last year. Her Christmas menu features the more traditional rich cake, gingerbread houses, sugar cookies as well as Christmas themed cupcakes, and chocolate chip cookies in the festive colours of red and green.

Her formal training comes out especially in her detailed and beautifully decorated sugar cookies. The cookies which come in the shape of snowflakes, Christmas trees and angels, are topped with royal icing and fondant. Tasting very much like soft buttery danish cookies, they are sweet without being achingly so. If you are ordering her cupcakes, we do recommend going for those decorated with chocolate ganache, though the buttercream and fondant decor is more visually appealing. The red and green chocolate chip cookies which on first glance remind us of Dr. Seuss’ ‘green eggs and ham’, deliver the same chewy sweetness you’d expect from a cookie.

However her specialty is her rich cake. Improving on her family recipe, Melieza takes a delicate and traditional approach to it. By opting out of machine cut ingredients and adding ingredients like cherries after the stewing process, it’s resulted in her rich cake being more colourful, as Contact no *Instagram *Facebook Advance : : : : well as improving its texture. “It comes in nice chunks , so you can see and taste the individual ingredients,” she explains. Each piece also comes with a homemade marzipan coating. We highly recommend her rich cake, which we found to be delicious and wonderfully textured. Melie’s Bakery takes only preorders and requires a five day advance for most items. They offer both a pick up option from Mahabage/ Kandana , as well as a taxied delivery option.