Less sugar · Unforgettable taste · Handmade in Basingstoke
Little Ovenby Nilam · Basingstoke
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Made by hand · Basingstoke

Less sugar.
Unforgettable taste.

I’m Nilam — an NHS nurse and a self‑taught baker. I make celebration cakes from my home kitchen in Basingstoke. Refined buttercream, never sickly, finished by hand for birthdays, christenings and small wonderful occasions.

  • Collection in Eversley
  • Local hand‑delivery
  • Buttercream by post · UK
01 / Hero
hero · vintage lambeth in blush
rosette cupcakes
chocolate drip · ferrero
“Genuinely the best cake I’ve eaten in this country.”
Aanya · via Instagram
01 · The promise

Less sweet, more flavour

A homemade buttercream tuned for the English palate. The opposite of cloying.

02 · The craft

Self‑taught, by hand

No production line. Every rosette, drip and flower is piped by me, slowly.

03 · The reason

For your celebration

Birthdays, anniversaries, christenings — the cakes you remember years later.

The Catalogue

The cakes people keep coming back for.

All cakes
All cakes
Portrait
portrait · nilam at her kitchen bench
Nilam’s story

A nurse who bakes the way her mother taught her.

I’m an NHS nurse — caring for people is my profession. Baking is the craft I do for love. I grew up in Nepal; my family settled in Hampshire because my father served in the British Army. Everything I bake carries that quiet pride.

· British Army roots · Nepali kitchen · NHS by day

Read Nilam’s story
As loved on Instagram · @littleoven_nilam

From the kitchen, this week.

@littleoven_nilam · 25 May
@littleoven_nilam · 22 May
@littleoven_nilam · 19 May
@littleoven_nilam · 15 May
@littleoven_nilam · 11 May
@littleoven_nilam · 7 May
Nilam baked our daughter’s christening cake and I genuinely cried. Less sweet, never dry — and stupidly pretty.
Sarah W.
Returning · 5 orders
Four years running for the kids’ birthdays now. The flavours she comes up with — pistachio rose, Earl Grey — keep us coming back.
The Patel‑Williams family
Basingstoke · since 2022
I posted one story and my followers wouldn’t stop asking. The vintage piping is something else.
Aanya R.
Via Instagram

Got an occasion coming up?

48 hours’ notice for most cakes. Postal cakes dispatched Mon–Wed for next‑day delivery.