Inspiration

Cake-Pops and Other Trends

cake pops

What’s happening? That’s the question you should periodically stop and ask yourself as a cake business owner. While you may have a great product, you should keep your eye on the trends that might impact your business. While you shouldn’t always be looking outward or second guessing your product-line, you don’t want to miss out [...]

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Using Fresh Flowers on a Wedding Cake

Using Fresh Flowers on a Wedding Cake Fresh flowers can be a beautiful addition to any cake however, there are also safety concerns to take into account when using fresh flowers with food.   As an alternative, you may wish to decorate your cake table with fresh flowers, and use sugar flowers on the cake itself to [...]

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Learn Cake Decorating Online

As a  business consultant most of the questions that come to me are business-related and I can feel good about pointing someone in the right direction about getting their cake or cupcake business on the right track. Occasionally however, I am asked cake decorating questions and recommendations for the best way to learn cake decorating. [...]

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Cake Business, Coffee, Gelato and a Bar.

What an inspiration! Cake Business Documentary

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Advice and Inspiration for Beginners

Let them decorate cake: Here’s an article about some women in upstate NY who find cake decorating  more than a hobby: 2 cake business owners, a decorator and a party store owner who offers classes. New Berlin’s Kelly Banks started her own cake decorating business in 2005. Banks, who trained at the Culinary Institute of [...]

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Un-covered cake (no fondant/no frosting)

What are your impressions of this quirky NY bakery? notes: cakes are un-covered on the sides and we do not do fondant or frosting. cake is approx 60 servings with the top tier to save as your wedding souvenir. price includes delivery in manhattan and set-up; extra delivery fees may apply depending on distance. via [...]

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When Sister Is Your Cake Business Partner

Would you go into business with a family member?  Here’s an informative article about two sisters who started a cake business near Wrigley Field in Chicago. There are several keys to note in this article about starting your own bakery. First, they started off cautiously. …holding down day jobs while they figured out their fledgling [...]

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10 “Crafty” Small Businesses for Budding Entrepreneurs | Outright Blog

10 “Crafty” Small Businesses for Budding Entrepreneurs We all heard growing up that artists don’t make any money. If you had artistic ambitions, perhaps you put them to the side in favor of the daily corporate grind and the promise of a steady salary, health benefits and a retirement plan. Now though, perhaps your job [...]

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Success is sweet for passionate cake maker | CharlotteObserver.com

Success is sweet for passionate cake maker Cynthia George made this four-tiered, heart-shaped chocolate cake for the Valentine’s Day Chocolate Extravaganza at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. In this bad economy, sometimes all you hear is the negative: Unemployment is high and the housing market is slow. But there’s a silver lining: entrepreneurship. Many employees who always [...]

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Marketers find Twitter a tweet recipe for success – USATODAY.com

A great article on how one cake business is using social networking to reach her customers for repeat business. If you’re not using Facebook and Twitter to market your business, read this article and get on these sites! LOS ANGELES — Cake decorator Suzi Finer fills in spare time during the workday updating her “status” [...]

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