Ginger & spice
REBECCA TIMKOE AND I ARE WHAT I LIKE TO CONSIDER CLASSIC ADULT FRIENDS.
We either don’t speak for months, or we talk on the phone for hours, occasionally interrupted by our lives, pets or things we forgot on the stove.
We first met in 2012 at a night market at The Granary in Gqeberha, where she had a stall selling peanut butter-swirled brownies, cupcakes and French macarons. Markets were just a burgeoning concept in the city at the time but Rebecca, who founded Ginger Pops in 2010, would outsell all the other vendors at the markets she frequented.
Surprisingly, she says she never really had a sweet tooth, but since childhood has understood the value of good cake – she’d turn up her freckled nose at the saccharine, dry offerings she encountered at birthday parties in favour of the lush versions baked by her mother, Liz Lilley. “I was eight when I made my first chiffon cake and
