Hi, I'm Lutha.

Cheryl's Cakes started the way most great things in Dar do — with someone saying, "Can you make a cake for Saturday?" and me already mentally rearranging my entire week.

I didn't set out to become "the cake lady." I set out to make one really good birthday cake for someone I love. Then that person told two people. Those two people had events. Suddenly I'm measuring flour at 6 AM, negotiating with fondant, and explaining to a five-year-old why we can't put an actual Spider-Man on top of the cake (we can put him on — just the edible version).

Every cake I make is custom. No copy-paste designs, no "pick from the shelf." Your celebration is yours — the flavor, the colours, the sticker theme your child saw once and never stopped talking about. I listen, I sketch (sometimes on napkins), and I bake until it feels right.

I'm based in Dar es Salaam, and most of my cakes travel across the city — Kinondoni to Masaki, Tabata to Oyster Bay. If you've received one of my cakes, you've probably also received a WhatsApp message from me saying: "Handle with care, it's a little piece of my heart." I'm only half joking.

“A cake is not just dessert. It's the thing people gather around when they say the important words — happy birthday, congratulations, I do, thank you for being born.”