Our Story
Welcome to “Mutlu Dükkan Academy”
Mutlu Dükkan was established in 2011 by cake designer Zeynep Yümlü and has become a widely recognized award-winning cake company specialized in creating beautiful, elegant and stylish celebration cakes, cookies, cupcakes for weddings and birthdays. We pride ourselves on our finely detailed work, extraordinary diligence and personalized attention for each client individually. Rather than using standard and common cake styles we love to tailor a design to reflect our customers’ personality and event styling.
As the founder of Mutlu Dükkan, 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.
From a very young age Zeynep has always been passionate about art. After getting involved in various fields of art such as; oil and water color painting, glass flame work and ceramics, she finally found that baking and designing cakes is her passion in life.
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 travelled 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 and choose the Gayrettepe area which is located in the heart of this big city. In 2013 Zeynep’s husband joined the business and has become the Marketing Manager allowing the business to grow very quickly and to provide a professional service to its customers. In 2014 Zeynep received Elele x Avon’s “Best Woman Entrepreneur of the Year” award as a kind validation of the path she chose.
Our cake designs have been popular and influential over the years and now we teach classes on our online school platform “Mutlu Dükkan Academy”. On this platform we offer a wide range of online courses at different levels from beginner to advanced. This is our way to share our passion, expertise and knowledge with the cake designers all over the world.
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Mutlu Dükkan Team