Scot Munn

'I tried to do that, but invariably forgot but liked the idea of it. So decided to create a section in Savvy Mum called "Keepsakes", which allows you to quickly type out a story on your phone, and then email it directly from your inbox. 'I could see that it would work in the UK, so I set up a Facebook page, outlined my plan and the response was instant - both from families of children in need and volunteer bakers prepared to supply cakes.' A toddler lunch ideas vegetarian is a child from age 1 to 3. But she has been well since then, and believes that Baking A Smile has been an essential part of her recovery. (It has certainly been a confidence boost - as well as her Women of the Year honour, she also recently received a Point of Light award from David Cameron for her achievements in the service of others.)  ‘I don't have time to volunteer, but I can bake cakes, so this is my way of giving back.' Saffron recently made a Beanie Boo cake for Freyja, who is now ten and well, although her health continues to be monitored. And because Freyja's sister Florence, seven, has been through so much upheaval, Saffron baked a Beanie Boo birthday cake for her, too. She even found time to make an extra cake for their brother, Stanley, aged one.  Once Millie was born in October 2010, the leg and hip pains Sophie had been experiencing disappeared. But in the summer of 2011, they returned with a vengeance. This time, both feet were numb and she had stabbing pains all over her body.  The idea was never for Sophie to bake the cakes herself permanently - ‘I knew that would be too much for me' - but she was determined to bake the launch offering for Baking A Smile, ‘because I wanted to experience what we were setting out to do for myself just one time'.  'I have always been that person who loves to book my holiday 12 months out in advance, so as to ensure I can get the flights that I want, have time to research where I would like to stay and the best places to eat, shop and do sightseeing.' When Freyja Lingard was diagnosed with Hodgkin's T-cell lymphoma - a type of blood cancer - five years ago, she was plunged into an intensive treatment regime that impacted not just on her life, but her whole family's.  ‘That was when I first admitted that something had to give - and that something was going to be my business, because my arms had become so weak I could no longer roll out the cake icing,' she says. ‘And the most important thing was preserving my stamina for Benji and Millie.' 'We didn't know anyone in Singapore, so did not have the first clue on schooling, the various neighbourhoods to live in, where to do groceries, finding your local medical practitioner and so on,' she explained. Tyler Abbott, ten, from St Austell, Cornwall, has epilepsy, dyspraxia and speech delay. His mother Lesley, 28, heard about Baking A Smile through a friend. Within days of requesting a cake for Tyler, she was put in touch with local baker Sammy Hawke, of Sammy's Cakes Serendipity, who agreed to make a Transformers Bumblebee cake.  'Someone else the next day said building an app was on the list of "things to do before you die" - and it got me thinking: "Why not turn what I needed to an app to benefit not just me but all mothers out there?".' 'I am sure my list is no different to all the working mothers out there, clearcreek.a2hosted.com but I was finding my one page to do list was spilling over to a good few pages and then looking very messy as lines were being crossed out,' she said.  ‘There is nothing more uplifting than the look of pure delight on someone's face when they set eyes on a cake made just for them,' said Sophie Ford who started cake-baking business Sophie's Delights four years ago ‘I don't feel sorry for Talia, because she knows no different, but Gabrielle has often had to miss out on treats and days out, so having a cake baked especially for her was our way of saying, "Thank you for being Talia's sister,"' she says.  'As I have never found a deodorant that is properly chemical free yet effective, I tried baking soda,' she said. My mother passed that tip on years ago but I never tried it out until I was pregnant - and she is absolutely right!' The consequence of Sophie's relentless activity was a relapse of the MS by October 2012 (85 per cent of cases of MS are of ‘relapsing remitting' type - patients have distinct attacks of symptoms, which then fade and return at a later date).  ‘For two years, our lives revolved around hospital stays and appointments,' says her mum Kate, 35, from Kenilworth, Warwickshire. ‘For any parent, there is little more awful than having a child with a life-threatening illness, but out of the awfulness do come incredible positives.' In February 2013, via the Facebook page, she linked up with the mother of a boy called Charlie, who suffered from Dravet syndrome - a rare form of epilepsy. Charlie was a fan of the TV series Jake and the Never Land Pirates, and had his fifth birthday coming up.