It's glorious we live in an age where you can search YouTube for how to do just about anything. As a home baker, who wants to improve and build on your baking skills, you can learn much from YouTube. Below, I chose five YouTube videos from my favorite bakers for specific techniques: sugar flowers, drip cakes, galaxy mirror glaze, stacking a cake, and marbled buttercream. A Beginner's Guide to Sugar Flowers from Buttercut Bakery How To Drip the Perfect Drip-Cake - Full Icing Recipe … [Read more...] about Five of My Favorite Cake Technique YouTube Videos for Home Bakers
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Pre-Sale Holiday Course, Your Roadmap to Success
I created Pre-Sale Boot Camp for Home Bakers for those business owners who want to up their holiday pre-sale game while maintaining their sanity. It’s a step-by-step roadmap on planning and executing a holiday pre-sale. This self-study course has nine video lessons and worksheets for customizing and planning. Do you know what’s crazy? The next holiday pre-sale is right around the corner! Whoa, I know. Now is a perfect time to purchase the course to set yourself up for success (aka make more … [Read more...] about Pre-Sale Holiday Course, Your Roadmap to Success
4 Easy Ways to Provide An Exceptional Customer Experience
These days consistently producing high-quality baked goods is not enough to win over customers. The totality of the customer experience is key to retention and building word of mouth for your home bakery. The customer experience sets a business apart from the average baker down the street. From the first contact through the customer enjoying their treat at their celebration, that experience will determine whether a customer is returning. This blog will explain four crucial tactics to … [Read more...] about 4 Easy Ways to Provide An Exceptional Customer Experience
How To Pay Yourself When you Own a Home Bakery
A home bakery is a business, which means you need to make money. Otherwise, it is an expensive hobby that will drive you to poverty and burnout very quickly. One of the critical factors in determining your pricing is how much you pay yourself per hour. This number is vital since it’s a critical part of the overall pricing equation. Don’t make the same mistake I did early on in my baking career. I shortchanged my growing business by not taking the time to research and thoughtfully determine … [Read more...] about How To Pay Yourself When you Own a Home Bakery
Are Cake Safes a Good Investment
As a home bakery, one of the most important (and stressful) aspects of your job is delivery! Getting that gorgeous cake from bakery to customers can take some serious care. There are a few different methods of pastry-packing you can employ; one such system is a CakeSafe. I first encountered the concept of a cake safe when researching a blog post on delivering cakes safely. Then I noticed bakers talking about the product on online forums. So I dug deeper to see to learn more about it. I am not … [Read more...] about Are Cake Safes a Good Investment