Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network August 2018 Cake! Magazine | Page 52

Paul Bradford
interview with
Paul Bradford: from Gran’s kitchen to CakeFlix
Written by Kellie Rudland
One of the industry’s most esteemed
male cake decorators, Paul Bradford,
has gone from strength to strength in
training the next generation of bakers.
We chatted with Paul about his
success, his next project, and what
goes in to creating his vast library of
cake tutorials.
How did you develop an interest in
cake decorating?
From a very young age I would
spend most Saturdays with my gran
which is where the cake baking, then
decorating started.
Did you complete any formal training
before opening your own business?
I spent two years at Telford College in
Edinburgh doing an HNC in Baking,
then a couple of years at the local
bakery, but I always knew it was the
cake decorating I was interested in.
At the age of 11 we all had to stand
up in school and tell the class what
we wanted to do when we grew up. All
my friends wanted to be astronauts,
footballers or engineers, but I stated
that I wanted to be a cake decorator,
much to everyone’s amusement!