Tatyana Moeda, an Angolan entrepreneur turning a passion for baking into a successful cake business — Lionesses of Africa

What inspired you to start your company?

My family love catering. We are a family of ten, including eight sisters and two brothers and the girls love to cook. So, each one of us has a different way of doing things. My mom used to work in a bakery store, and on the weekend she would always try new things at home. We used to love watching her, and as the oldest one I always had the responsibility to help her until the day she decided not to work anymore. Well, for me and my sisters it was just a start. We started to compete against each other, doing challenges and creating different flavours for everything we would bake until we all got married and we stopped. One day I decided to invite all of them for an afternoon tea and I was not sure what I would give them to eat, so I thought maybe now that we all have our own homes, we could start a different competition. I thought, what about if we started baking for each other’s houses? But first I will try this new flavour and I will see what will they say. Well, one of my sisters came in the afternoon tea with a friend she tried the cake and never said anything, and the next day she was calling me to order it. I accepted, and then I was so surprised because I was getting orders for so many people for the weekend and it never stopped up until today, so I decided to formalize the activity by creating my company, Miss Cake.

Why should anyone use your service or product?

The flavour and the special chocolate sauce we create.

Tell us a little about your team

My team is the best I could ever have, and we work as a family for great results. They are very serious about what we do, they work very hard and are committed to the work.