Lorraine Pascal runs cake shop Ella's Bakehouse.
Kitty Buck, who with her husband, Otto, ran Cake Masters Bakery, an institution on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that made cakes for Liberace, President Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor -- and for less famous families' celebrations -- for more than half a century, died on Jan . 9in Oceanside, N.Y.
Since 2005, Lanlard has been running Cake Boy, a patisserie and cooking school in Wandsworth, south-west London and is best known for his Baking Mad cookery show on Channel 4. But he still speaks with authority on the everyday treat he enjoyed as a child.
It's a strategy game where you run a cake shop, developing your own recipes to satisfy customers, while building up your business and entering contests.
The two women, it turns out, are best friends who run a cake stall in a market and get suckered into making a deal with Jonathan Slinger's exquisitely evil loan shark.
Nonetheless, she remains busy, acting, fronting charities, running the cake business.
Another daughter, Katie, runs a cake decorating business from the same buildings.
The associations run free: cakes, classical arenas, spit-and-sawdust pubs, glossy spiders' webs connecting the ruins of some enchanted wood, baroque, rococo, Carl Andre, Richard Serra (she's always nudging at art history).
Jennie Langridge, who runs a cake delivery business in Bournemouth, said: "I'm just really angry.
In my mind's eye, I like to think she'd probably be wearing big-bowed pink and white dresses, running a cake shop outside Harpenden, happy as can be, doling out lots of little marzipan squares from beneath the ivory awnings of Back To White.
