A 21-year-old baking sensation has just opened her second Norfolk shop and it is the cherry on the top of another successful year in business.
Morgan Lewis, who lives in Attleborough, started Bakeaholics amid the pandemic in 2020 and she baked in a converted kitchen in her garage and delivered locally.
As this stacked up to hundreds of orders she held pop-ups at Morley Village Hall, which she again outgrew and a permanent Bakeaholics shop opened in Queen's Square in Attleborough in April 2021.
In September 2021, she moved production from the garage at her family home into an industrial unit.
Bakeaholics, which has 30,000 Instagram followers, now has a second permanent home in a purpose-built kiosk on the upper ground floor of Chantry Place in Norwich.
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Just like the Attleborough shop, it is pink and decorated with flowers and neon lights and it follows successful pop-ups in the city shopping centre.
On offer are brownies, cupcakes, cookies, rocky road, blondies and much more to takeaway, with giveaways this weekend to celebrate the opening.
Miss Lewis said: "My mum and dad worked away a lot when I was growing up and I had a French au pair who taught me to bake things like fruit tarts.
"I wasn't academic at school and if you asked me to do a test I couldn't, but I was always fine with making a cake.
"Schools don't teach you how to be self-employed, but now I love what I do and it doesn't feel like work."
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Miss Lewis, who now has a 14-strong team including her mum Sam who is the "backbone of the business", has big aspirations for Bakeaholics.
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She wants a café in Norwich and in January 2024 she is starting nationwide postal deliveries.
She added: "My dream is to have a Norwich café offering my cakes alongside sourdough, porridge, pancakes, waffles and more."
Bakeaholics in Chantry Place is open from Thursday to Sunday until October 8 and then Friday to Sunday after that, with the kiosk open all week during the October half-term.
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