Nat was born to bake. After her first butter cake at the tender age of seven, it was all she wanted to do. In 2011, Nat found a very small shop on a sunny corner in North Melbourne and named it Beatrix Bakes. The logo is two upright old-fashioned rotary beaters, which represent the call to arms baking has been for her and the homely bliss of small-batch baking.

The name is a play on the suffix trix, which was once used to form words like aviatrix (female aviator). Nat is a female beater and thus beat(e)rix. Beatrix, in Latin, means ‘bringer of joy’. And that is, simply, what cake should do and what she and her team endeavour to bring every day.

Follow her on Instagram @beatrixbakes.