History of The Cake Store
The Cake Store began its journey from a humble bakery shop in Brockley, South East London, way back in the early 1900’s. Slatter’s Bakery was a very popular and traditional bakers, started by Tom Slatter and continued by his son Ken Slatter. Un-tampered ingredients, baked in a coal fired oven made bread of unforgettable quality and taste. A forgotten skill that was taken from the nation by supermarkets and irresponsibly turned into, the very cheap, mass produced and over manufactured product we are generally offered today . Ken Slatter, 69 years old, says “ My father was an excellent craftsman; He had no formal training and therefore was determined to send me to the National Bakery School. I was a student there from 1955 to 1957 and after completing the National Bakery Diploma and the final City and Guilds courses. I continued evening specialty courses in continental confectionary, hand made chocolates and exhibition cake decorating. After completing the formal and practical studies, I then taught evening students, exhibition cake decorating and final City and Guilds for some years at the National Bakery School." |  |  | | When Ken was 18, in 1955, he won his first gold medal at the British Bakery annual competition at Caxton Hall. Throughout his career he has won 34 gold and silver medals as well as numerous trophies. Some of them were International at Olympia. He is the only National Bakery student to have twice won a gold medal in The National Student Competition Founders Cup. |  | | After leaving the Bakery school, he joined his Father and began expanding the business from one small shop to a chain of high street baker’s shops as well as a large wholesale business in the South East, employing over seventy staff. | |  |
He has, over the years, appeared at least ten times on television demonstrating confectionery for the Generation Game, as well as other TV programs. Slatter's Bakery also supplied confectionary to Buckingham Palace garden parties and to Wimbledon tennis for over 30 years.
Ken has been a member of the British Confectioners Association since 1976 and recently had the honour of creating a sculpture in royal icing to commemorate the centenary of the association. A picture of the sculpture was subsequently used on the front and back cover of the centenary book published to mark the event.
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