Once upon a carrot cake

Best friends for life and business Helen Read (right) and Abby Leong show off their famous carrot cake at the launch of their first cookbook.

Cooking has kept two best friends buzzing, fresh-faced, and quick to break out in megawatt smiles.

I DIDN’T need another recipe for carrot cake but went anyway to the cookbook launch of two women who are famous on the home front for their entrepreneurship and cooking savvy. Helen Read is the founder of Ms Read, a fashion label for the fuller figure woman and Abby Leong, her best friend heads the recipe development (R&D) for The Big Group of restaurants and grocer business run by Helen’s son, Benjamin Yong.