Our story

Est. 2018Made with love, every single time

Lerato laughing and holding her certificate of attendance for advanced baking and decorating lessons

Lerato smoothing white fondant over a tall cake

Meet the baker

Hi from Lerato the Baker

FreshlyBaked by Welmas began in 2018 in Ngwaritsi, Limpopo, with a simple idea: the cake at the centre of your celebration should taste as good as it looks, and it should be made by someone who cares.

What started with cakes for family and neighbours has grown into a full celebration kitchen: layered birthday cakes, tubs of melting moments and scones for big gatherings, burgers and milkshakes, platters, and complete kiddies and romantic setups.

Premium bakery. Made with love.

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Always learning

Advanced training, real craft

Lerato completed a three-day Advanced Baking & Decorating course at Thatokie Baking Studio, working on tiered structures, doweling, fondant, sugar ruffles, stencilling and gold-leaf finishes.

Those skills now go into every Welmas cake, from a 6" birthday cake to a multi-tier centrepiece.

Design your cake

Lerato applying gold detail to a four-tier cake with sugar ruffles

Lerato placing support dowels in a two-tier cake

Behind the scenes

From the kitchen

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Lerato presenting a finished four-tier wedding cake — Four tiers, finished in training

Hands arranging wafer-paper ruffles around a white cake — Wafer-paper ruffles

A sliced pink cake revealing red velvet and vanilla layers — Three flavours inside

Lerato crumb-coating a tall cake with buttercream — Buttercream, by hand

A painted blue cake with lilac butterflies and pearl spheres — Ocean butterfly

Lerato and her instructor holding the finished wedding cake — Graduation day

Bowls of golden scones — Scones by the tub

Lerato and her instructor holding the certificate of attendance — Certified & proud

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