As the founder of Mutlu Dükkan in 2011, Zeynep Yümlü has become a widely recognized award-winning cake designer specialized in creating beautiful, elegant and stylish celebration cakes, cupcakes and cookies.
In 2010 she had the opportunity to take a nine-day long course from Sandy Folsom – the Director of “The Wilton School USA”. As a result of her pursuit to perfection she was the first cake decorator in Turkey making sharp-edged cakes. Since that day all cakes at Mutlu Dükkan have only been designed and crafted with sharp edge perfection.
In 2011 she traveled to Sydney, Australia and took a one-month long intensive course program from the very famous “Planet Cake”. During this program she had the opportunity to work with well-known sugar artists such as Jessica Pedemont, Anna Maria Roche, Christopher Chavez and Luigi Stivaletta. Back from this long trip, she decided to set up her own studio in Istanbul, Turkey.
Zeynep had pleasure of being featured in “Cake Masters”, “Cake Design France”, “Cake Geek”, Marie Claire Maison, Elle magazines and numerous TV programs, newspapers, blogs and web-sites. In 2014 Zeynep received Elele x Avon’s “Best Woman Entrepreneur of the Year” award as a kind validation of the path she chose.
With more than 10 years of experience, Zeynep has reached the opportunity to teach and train more than 1.000 students in her own studio. Now, you have chance to start learning with Zeynep Yümlü and get valuable tips, tricks, shortcuts and trade secrets based on years of experience in cake decorating industry.
Zeynep Yumlu