Start a Cake Business Today

Here’s a sweet idea from the Wilton Forums for those of you who do baby shower cakes or are thinking of offering your services to this lucrative market:

This is a really simple idea with a great payoff. It looks really hard to do because it’s a custom shape but over at Frugal Ideas from the [...]

Here’s a recipe that we have been using in our business for years. This is a simple, classic white frosting that every baker has in their arsenal:
INGREDIENTS

3/4 cup shortening
1/4 cup water
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon clear imitation vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon powdered butter flavoring
4 cups confectioners’ sugar

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With your new business venture will come the costs of getting the venture off the ground. Besides equipment and ingredient/inventory costs, you will incur costs associated with getting the required license or permit and possible filing fees with the Secretary of State. These fees depend on the business type you choose to set [...]

Cupcakes:

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cocoa powder

1 1/2 cups vegetable oil

1 cup buttermilk, room temperature

2 large eggs, room temperature

2 tablespoons red food coloring

1 teaspoon white distilled [...]

The art and science of cake decorating, I believe is seeing unparalleled popularity and interest. With this popular awareness we have seen talented sugar artists command higher prices for their cakes. While I think it is awesome that cake decorators are making more money per slice I think it’s important in building a business to [...]

Liability Insurance is probably the most important area of business ownership that is almost always overlooked at the outset. Most people running an in house business think that their great homeowner’s insurance policy will cover them if anything should happen. I implore you to take a look at your homeowner’s policy because this [...]

How many of you watch Ace of Cakes? For those of you who don’t know, Ace of Cakes is a reality television show airing on the Food Network.
Now the question I keep hearing about Duff is: Do his cakes taste as good as they look? For most of us having our own television [...]

Deciding on business name is often one of the first things people think about when starting their business. It is not a simple decision to make, because your business name will establish potential clients’ first impressions of you. A Competitive Analysis is an often-neglected first step. That is, investigating the names of other successful bakeries. [...]

Here’s a great success story from Madison Wisconsin about a family that started a home bakery and have grown so much that they’ve opened a retail bakery and coffee shop in a former bank. Their baking operation was located in the basement of their home and used ovens found in most kitchens. You can download [...]