“Creativity has no limits,” Prachi Dhabal Deb is a living testimony to this statement. Pune-based cake artist, Prachi, makes unbelievably beautiful and creative vegan cakes that are majestic in appearance and delicious in taste. Taking her cake artistry to the world level, Prachi has won many international awards and holds two world records to her name – “Biggest Vegan Royal Icing Structure” and for creating the “Most Number Of Vegan Royal Icing Structures”.
Let us hear the exciting story of Prachi in her own words.
Give Us A Glimpse Of Yourself And Your Journey As A Cake Artist.
I grew up in Dehradun and there we used to have a lot of bakeries with great varieties of tasty & fascinating cakes. I was quite fond of the elegant and beautiful-looking cakes, particularly. I remember once asking my mother, why we cannot have a castle-themed cake or princess cake at home. I always had that perception that we could also make something like that also. I did have an interest in baking and crafts, I had baked a cake once when I was about 10 years, never realizing at that time that this would be what I would eventually be venturing into in future.
I started my professional journey as a cake artist in 2012. Becoming a cake artist was not a planned career for me. In fact, I used to be a Financial Analyst at a multinational company with a promising career ahead of me there. It was quite by chance that I had to take a break from my work for a short while, and I happened to explore the cake industry out of interest and hobby. With one thing leading to the other, I was eventually hooked into this world where I just felt that this was where I wanted to be. In a few years’ time, I was fortunate enough to be mentored by Sir Eddie Spence, MBE, who got me into the Royal Icing Artwork. He is a legendary cake artist who made special occasion cakes for Princess Diana and the Royal Family.