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Stall owner, Courtney Gwatkin, at her Courtney s Cakes stand.
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Watching her grandad make choux pastry as a little girl sparked Courtney Gwatkin’s fascination with pastry making, and at 30 years old she is fulfilling her dreams in Romford Market.
Thanks to Romford Business Improvement District’s (BID) Pitch for a Pitch competition, which Courtney entered and won – she was given a stall for six months.
Named Courtney’s Cakes, the stall opened on April 17. Before this, Courtney made cakes in her own home for delivery and postal orders, and over Christmas she sold just under 1,000 “chocolate bombs”.