Some dreams start in a big studio with a team of twenty. Others start in a home kitchen, with one baker, one oven and a lot of stubborn belief. This one is the second kind. Rajnandani Shetiya, founder of Rajnandani’s Homemade Cakes, has been named an Official Nominee at the World Cake Artistry Awards (WCAA) 2027, which will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on 7–8 June 2027. For a self-taught home baker, that is a big moment, and it is worth explaining why. What Are the

By Rajnandani's Cakes Editorial Team · 5 min read Last updated: October 2026 What is a fruit cake? A fruit cake, in the sense most people in Pune mean it, is a soft sponge layered with cream and real fruit. The fruit adds natural tartness and moisture, which balances the sweetness of the cream and keeps the cake tasting lighter than a heavily frosted chocolate or butterscotch cake. That is why fruit cakes are a favourite for summer birthdays, anniversaries, and guests who pre

You've felt it before. You buy a cake from a big commercial bakery or a supermarket chiller. It looks perfect in the box: smooth fondant, bright colours, a print-quality photo topper. Then you cut into it. The sponge is dry at the edges. The cream tastes more like sugar than butter. Somewhere between the display counter and your table, the "fresh" got lost. That gap between how a cake looks and how it actually tastes is exactly why more people in Pune and PCMC are switching t

A cake looks cute in photos. The real test? The first bite. Is it soft? Is the cream fresh? Does it taste homemade? Or does it feel like it came from a refrigerated display counter? That’s the gap Rajnandani's Cakes set out to solve for cake buyers in PCMC. The home bakery focuses on 100% pure vegetarian, eggless, made-to-order cakes for birthdays, anniversaries, kids’ parties, bento surprises, office celebrations, and custom theme orders. If you’ve been searching for Buy fre

There are cakes you bake, and then there are cakes you live through. Gouri's Journey of Life was the second kind. When we sat down with Vinod Sir at Rajnandani's Cakes, we knew this order was going to be different. It wasn't a birthday cake. It wasn't a themed dessert picked off a catalog. It was a request to take someone's entire life, the places she'd been, the person she'd become, the love story she was part of, and shape it, quite literally, in fondant. That someone was G