There are two ways to achieve this goal, the first and most successful is to acquire professional qualifications. This ultimately leads to confidence and the ability to decorate even the most elaborate of wedding cakes on.
The second way, and the path starts to follow the majority of people in order, birthday cakes for children, which leads naturally to requests from friends and family. And though you never make a lot of money (no one seems to realize how long it takes to decorate cakes), itprovides valuable experience.
If working from home requires a certificate in food hygiene. The part-time course is available through local colleges. In addition, the kitchen will need to be passed to ensure that it is strict hygiene requirements by an inspector from the Environmental Health Service.
If you rent can afford to shoot a professional photographer at your cake. Displayed in an album (together with certificates you have) they give potential customers confidence in yourAbility.
A good investment is a major food mixer, and good quality baking tins. Cheap doses tend to bend when it's full of mixture, and (as the metal is thin) cakes that cook for a long time to burn on the outside. Novelty tins can be hired. These are much easier to use than trying to cut out shapes from cakes, as can be the result - crumbs everywhere!
It pays to use the best ingredients, customers ultimately forget the price for the cake, but they always follow theTaste. Of course, there is no alternative for butter. Buy dried fruit as necessary when it is nice and thick - it shrinks with age. Eggs deteriorate. Purchase organic eggs in the date stamp.
An old reputation among cake decorators is that they are not sufficient payment is not for the time they sat down: for example, can take to make sugar flowers, days and days ... and then some more. One way to let customers know how expensive the ingredients and be compensated for havinga printed sheet for each order. Whether small ingredients, they contain such as lemon, apricot puree, baking parchment, and the heating is up to each individual. However, the most important points should be listed, for example, marzipan extremely expensive, and the cost of butter for a three-tiered wedding cake is not cheap. Then there is the cake insert plates, cake boxes, pillars, tins (if set), marzipan, sugar paste, flower. It's amazing how quickly the cost of installation - andthat is added prior to labor.
The time is worked out in various ways. Sometimes it is as high as the market to pay! But that is for the "big boys". Another method is to add the cost of ingredients, then double-click. But that's not enough, because depending on model, it can only until decorate a biscuit, as it can be a fruit cake, but the ingredients do not cost that much. You did not beat themselves. You can also flooded with orders, but a by loadingmore competitive rate (even if the phone will not ring as many times), you will earn as much, without you work in a scrap!
If an estimate can be for a wedding cake shocks a potential customer, then the following alternative of interest. High quality wedding cakes can be obtained from various sources, either with a minimum of decoration, or in some cases only the cake, so that the interior decorator to make the final finish, with a resultant reduction in costs.
And a final word. ProfessionalKnow decorating cake decorators rarely cakes.They other people that even if "Aunt Mary has offered to" make the cake, although it could be a high standard - there is a danger that it can not be. And when guests ask, "Who makes the wedding cake" Your name will always be associated with him.
