Local first
Nigerian fruit, cocoa, honey and flour wherever the quality is there.
Our story
It started with a teapot and a borrowed oven.
Porcelain began in 2019 in a flat in Sangotedo, baking birthday cakes for friends. Today it is a team of nine, a kitchen, a tea room and a van that leaves at 6am.
The founder
Ifeoma’s collection of teacups.
Ifeoma Nwachukwu (an example founder) spent ten years in banking on the Island and collected teacups from every market she passed. When she left, the cups needed a home and so did her weekend baking.
The first Porcelain cake was a zobo velvet tier for her sister’s naming ceremony. Forty orders followed that month. The tea room opened in 2022, so people had somewhere to sit while they collected.
Six years
How we got here.
- 2019
The flat in Sangotedo
One oven, one mixer, birthday cakes for friends and colleagues.
- 2020
The zobo velvet year
Lockdown birthdays at home meant cake orders tripled. The zobo velvet sponge was born.
- 2022
Hibiscus Close
A proper kitchen, the tea room with eighteen seats and a team of five.
- 2024
The chilled van
Our own refrigerated van, so cakes reach Ikoyi and the Mainland cold and upright.
- 2026
Classes and the designer
A teaching kitchen and an online cake designer, so more people can plan with us.
The team
Nine people, one kitchen.
Names and roles are examples for this demo.
Ifeoma
Founder and tea buyer
Kemi
Head of cakes
Dapo
Pastry bench
Halima
Tea room lead
What we care about
Four promises.
Honest pricing
The price in the designer is the price. No surprise fees on the day.
Calm rooms
A tea room that stays quiet, with seats that are never squeezed in.
Less waste
Day old slices go to a shelter in Badore, and boxes are recyclable card.
Kind words
From example guests.
★★★★★
Ifeoma remembered my order from two years before.
★★★★★
The calmest room in Ajah.
★★★★★
Honest about what would work in the heat, and right.
Come and say hello
Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 8pm.