About us

Hello, just wanted to tell you more about us, and Tasty Bakehouse and Tasty Cakes N Things.

My name is Kerry Yacoumis and I own with my Husband Nick a small bakery business called Tasty Bakehouse in Adelaide seaside’s suburb, West Beach. Nick and I brought the Bakery have been supplying bakery goods to our community since 2003.

About Tasty Bakehouse

We make a huge range of products from a selection of bread and rolls, sweet yeast, cookies, sweet and savory pastries. As well as have a range of different cake products including cakes for special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, and weddings. As well as having a shop front, we have a wholesale side of our business making products for businesses in the surrounding area. This is to sporting clubs in winter: footy, soccer, rugby clubs and in summer: sailing, baseball, cricket club. And cafes, deli’s, pubs, hotels, coffee shops, golf clubs, chicken & chips takeaway shops, fish & chips takeaway shops.

The bakery has won a few awards. We had entered some products into the Royal Adelaide Show. We came first in 2005 /2008 for the best sponge, white bread, and second for a vanilla chocolate chip muffin, knot rolls. We have also won the bronze medal for meat pie, traditional pasties, Fruit finger buns, vanilla slice chocolate lamington, decorated gateau, decorated novelty cake.

About Tasty Cakes N Things

Tasty Cakes N Things was created when I was concentrating on advertising in the wedding industry to save customers looking through bread and pastry products and had a direct business just for cakes. Whether it was for engagements, weddings, birthdays, and other special occasions it was all in one spot! There are lots of photos when it comes to cakes.

About our new adventure

In the past, I had been a lecturer at the local TAFE (Baking school at an Adult education center), it was only for a short period of time (few years part-time) but due to my business commitments, I had to pull back from teaching there. This is where I found my love for teaching!

When I hired new employees and trained them, there have been many comments about how the business runs and how organised it is with the training. And I had so many people have asked me to teach them how to decorate cakes so they can make special occasion cakes for their family and friends.

Mind you I am not a fan of public speaking though, but to teach someone about any aspect of baking whether it is a technique to problem-solving. Making a range of bakery products from bread to cakes and decorating a product. Even the science aspect of baking, Yes baking is an art of science! If you don’t know how your ingredients work or work together/react with another ingredient you won’t understand why your product is coming out of the oven the way it is. I find it fascinating!

So this is why we have created Tasty Baking Academy.

We are planning on creating some templates, and digital files, and online courses to share our knowledge and to teach you about baking, cake decorating, and running a small business of your own whether it is a bakery business or a completely different type of industry. Some of the topics that we hope to cover are:

How to make bakery products

• Bread
• Cakes
• Sponges
• Biscuits
• Sweet yeast
• Gluten-free products
• Pastry products

How to decorate cakes

• With straight edges
• Smooth and flat tops
• A range of different piping techniques.
• Using different icing mediums buttercream, fresh cream, imitation cream, royal icing just to name a few.
• Fondant cakes
• Buttercream cakes

The ins and outs of running a small business

• Production flow
• Admin processes
• Costing out the products correctly to ensure you are making money
• Hiring employees and onboarding requirements
• HR issues that come with employees