'Doling out hugs': UK's 'Cake Lady' continues to cheer up wounded soldiers in hospitals

Kath Ryan, a retired nurse more popularly kwn as ‘Cake Ly’ has been credited to save lives of wounded soldiers in Britain by distributing cakes and uplifting ir mood. Started back in 2009 at bloody time in war in Afghanistan, in 11 years, UK Cake Ly who is 59 years old has me at least 1,260 visits to British hospitals and has bound with patients. As per Associated Press report, it is believed that Ryan has distributed nearly one million slices of cake.

Her typical weekly bake consists of six dozen Butterfly cakes that are cupcakes with frosting sculpted in shape of butterfly wings, along with 48 custard slices, Bakewell tarts, coconut cake, carrot cake, chocolate muffins, and many or deserts. Moreover, if a specific soldier has a favourite, Cake Ly even takes requests such as mince pies, fruit cake, Pavlova. re was a time when Estonian soldiers were mitted to war, retired nurse even went out of her way to look for a recipe of Estonian honey cake for large group of South Africans. 

However, as eventually, cost of supplies surged, Ryan has even set up a charity ‘Cakes 4 Casualties’ to invite helpers to pay for butter and flour required to make cakes. But, for both Ryan and soldiers, it was reportedly never about cakes. All soldiers have considered Cake Ly as ir extended family and she constantly receives invitations for ir weddings, baptisms, and anniversaries. As per reports, soldiers even crowd-funded so that Ryan can join m at sporting events for injured service people. Cake Ly, herself isn’t married and never h children. 

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‘Meant to be somewhere’ says Ryan

Kath Ryan herself says it was a sense of belonging to place that drove her into helping soldiers whom she h seen at ir worst. She also reportedly said that re are times in an individual’s life when y feel that y are “meant to be somewhere”. She h started in 2009, on seeing situation of soldiers, and has continued to come even 11 years later. 

“re are times in life you’re meant to be somewhere, aren’t you?” she said.

David Wiseman was mitted to Ward S-4 at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham when he first he about Kath Ryan, Cake Ly. On wondering what me soldiers in nearby beds chanting cheerfully that “Cake Ly is here”, Wiseman finally say Ryan in “strange dress” and pushing trolley while distributing cakes. Wiseman credited her for bringing “joy”.

“When all you’ve seen is doctors and nurses and odd relative, it was just a bit of an assault on senses,” Wiseman remembered. “And she was doling out hugs and, you kw, cakes…She just brought joy into that place.”

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