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Delectable Cakes

Delectable Cakes

Date: 2018-02-16

Elena Ostrovski is the person behind the Russian Lady's Cakes and she has been making cakes for over twenty years. From Bar One chocolate cake to red velvet, Lena, as she likes to call herself, is your answer to beautiful celebration piece fit for a king.

Elena came to South Africa almost thirty years ago from Odessa, former Soviet Union, with her engineer husband in search for a better life. The early years in South Africa were challenging and to substitute their income, Elena, who always loved to bake and is self taught baker, decided to give it a try.

Her first customer was Circus-Circus in Musgrave Centre. At first she was making her traditional Russian cakes. "We soon realise that South African public were not overly impressed with my bakes," Elena told me, "That's when the Circus-Circus owner Selvin asked me if I could make him a rich chocolate cake."

"I did not know what he means, my English was very bad then," she told The Bugle. Elena walked away that day trying to translate what Selvin meant when he said 'rich'.

"Rich What does he mean by rich So I went away and I made a beautiful 'rich' chocolate cake and I put so much vodka in that cake. The next day I went back to Selvin and he tried the cake and loved it. It was that 'rich' chocolate cake that made me famous." Elena spoke excitedly of that memory.

Elena uses only high quality, fresh ingredients, lots of butter and self preserved cherries and jams in her cakes. Baking is her passion and since then she has learned to make all the favourite South African cakes, her cake list includes more than 200 recipes; Bar One chocolate cake (trade mark), Royal Carrot Cake, Chocolate Orange Cake, Baked Strawberry Meringue Cheese Cake, Coconut Peanut Butter Cake and that's only a few of her selection.

You can still taste Elena's Cakes at Circus-Circus in Musgrave and Gateway or you can call her to get her product list. Her cakes are truly very well priced and are perfect for a restaurant, lodges as well as private homes and functions.

For more information; call 031 - 209 9458 or 073 2586358 and you can have your cake and eat it.