Growing up with a serious sweet tooth and a love for baking, she’d long dreamed of creating something of her own. Back home in Napier, she noticed a gap – at the time there wasn’t a space purely dedicated to indulgent, handcrafted sweet treats. So, as a determined young woman in her early 20s, armed with a wild dream and a ‘now or never’ attitude, she decided to build it from scratch – right in the midst of a global pandemic.

Exploring the amazing Latin American food found in Havelock North's Mijita