E making to a different level

started teaching at Apex Academy (she actually started teaching when she was just fifteen and three-quarter years old). Having always wanted to have an iced cake for her birthday she bought one, which she shared with the staff there. All of this time she lived with her parents in Georgetown. She later married and moved to La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara. Their union produced three children: two boys and a girl. While her older son was attending La Jalousie Nursery School five years ago, she heard that someone was going to the school to teach cake decorating. It was an art she had always wanted to learn so she seized the opportunity and went. The course only lasted five days, but she took what she got there and picked up more techniques from YouTube. With constant practice, she excelled and then opened BRIMZ, her business, the name being drawn from the first letters of the names of her husband, herself and her children: Benjamin, Rabina, Isaiah, Mariah and Zechariah. Cake, she said, is something that is almost always in her home and is usually eaten at snack times though they do get tired of it sometimes. Asked whether this is a skill she hopes to pass on to her daughter, who is now five years old, she said that while it would be good if her daughter someday learns to bake and decorate cakes, she is more focused on her children’s education right now. Since BRIMZ opened Rabina said work has been pouring in and this means she would have a few cakes to do every week. The highest orders are for birthday cakes, although there are a few anniversaries and a wedding so far. This is the time of the year too, when her workload increases, as parents have additional money to get their children a cake for their birthdays as school is out. There have hardly been any negative comments, said Rabina; most persons have commended her work. She excels at sponge, fruit and black cakes, but is yet to master cheesecake; she hopes to tackle this soon. Last week, Rabina started teaching cake decorating courses at Windsor Forest Primary. To place orders Rabina can be found at Facebook page BRIMZ Cupcakes&Cakes.