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MAGAZINE
5 MINUTES WITH...
Tuba Geçkil
Early Beginnings
Q: When did your cake journey begin?
A: My cake journey started ten years ago
with my son's birthday. However, painting,
sculpture and kitchen relate to my
childhood. A long time ago, after opening
my own painting exhibition, my son was
born and his birthday cake was my start
in the cake world. I had decided to make
the same cake as his favourite toy. I am so
fond of sculpture and think of myself as a
person who likes to create different things
in cake. I remember saying ‘you should
only make cake’, then I started to do many
more realistic works passionately. In 2013,
I entered competitions with face replicas
and busts, an espresso coffee machine and
hand painted cakes.Lifetime Tools
Q: What tools can you not live without?
A: Pastry tool, silicone tool set, spatula
and coloured paints.Sculpted Cakes
Q: What made you specialise in sculpted
cakes?
A: I think my realistic detailed cakes.
Because my students want something, I
prepare it for them in class. Flower, fruit,
animal or human, etc. Everything we can
see and touch can turn into a cake. Some
of my works have earned gold medals in
life-sized cakes such as Merkel, Trump,
John Lennon, Bob Marley, Beauty and the
Beast, etc.Favourite Creation
Q: What has been your favourite creation
to date and why?
A: My favourite work is the life-sized
Harry Potter show cake which I prepared
for Cake international in Birmingham last
year and the bust cake of Princess Diana
which won Gold.Cake International
Q: Tell us about the Villanelle cake you are
making for Cake International 2019
A: I already can imagine her. I am so
excited to be able to make her pink dress
with the brightness of her innocent looks.
I hope everybody will like her at Cake
International and Jodie Comer too. I don't
know who would be the first to take aFind out more about Tuba and her work:
http://www.redrosecake.com
http://www.facebook.com/TubaGeckilphoto with Villanelle, I'm going to forget this
because of excitement. Also, I would like to thank
Melanie again for the magical Cake International
invitation.Worldwide Classes
Q: What have been your best moments touring
the world with your classes?
A: Yes, I've travelled around the world for years;
I've done dozens of classes with hundreds of
students. I think I'll forget to come home again
this year too. Different languages and different
religions make me excited to get to know people
in different cultures. The cakes are only a reason
for our meeting and what makes me the most
happy is when people who I don’t know love
me. I was judge in a competition at a festival in
Turkey and at the end of the final, while I was
sitting in the garden resting, a lady came to me
and held my hands and told me lovely words that
made me so emotional. I was so happy that time.
She came from a different country and found me
there to give me her present, which I can never
forget.Future Plans
Q: What plans do you have for 2019/2020?
A: 2019/2020 is very busy. I am currently
in Maryland and New York in the USA. I have
other dates in the UK, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia,
Azerbaijan, Brazil and Lebanon.