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Baseball & Commencement Cakes: Grand Cake Decorating Ideas For This Spring

Baseball, is a favorite springtime activity, and this baseball diamond cake will be a home run with everyone. Base ice a round cake with white icing. On the top of the cake, airbrush tan base lines. Airbrush the rest of the cake top green. Outline the base lines with white icing using a cut paper tube. With white icing, pipe the rectangle bases, and level them. Use black icing and a pastry bag to outline the bases.

Produce a baseball cap by trimming a cupcake and placing it on the cake. Ice the cupcake with white icing, and pipe the seams using black icing and a cut paper tube. Pipe the a red brim for the cap, and smooth it with a damp spatula. Place a sugar mitt and baseball on the top of the cake. Pipe the tufts of grassland around the baseball playing field using tip No. 233. Add a brown bat to the top of the cake and white, crossed bats along the sides of the cake using tip No. 6. Pipe top and bottom borders using white icing and tip No. 8.

Spring is also graduation time, which is a major cake decorating occasion. This book design works suitably for any graduate. Cut a quarter sheet cake in half and stack it, so it looks like a closed book. A half sheet cake also works if your clientele need extra servings. Ice one long side and the two short sides of the cake with white icing. Use an icing comb on these sides to make it seem like the pages of a book. Airbrush the combed icing gold. Ice the left over side and top of the cake in the asked for color. Use tip No. 8 and icing to pipe on the edges of the top cover and bottom edge of the cake. Utilize the same tip and icing to pipe details on the book’s cover. Place a Lucks Edible sugar diploma and cap on the midpoint of the cake. Use a pastry bag to pipe the an appropriate message and overpipe the details on the book.

Another decorated cake celebration in the spring is Mother’s Day. Try out this plan. Taper the top two corners of a quarter sheet cake to create the shoulders of the shirt. Base ice the cake with white icing and airbrush it pink, or use pink icing to base ice the cake. Create the collar of the shirt using Oasis Rolled Fondant or gumpaste. Cover up the collar with a flowered Lucks Edible Images design. Place it at the top midpoint of the cake. Use the same edible design blueprint to create the placket and cuffs of the blouse. Use a pastry bag to decorate the edges of the collar and placket with white icing. Place small white candies down the center of the placket to make the buttons of the shirt. Sketch the sleeves and add a bottom edge using white icing and star tip No. 16.

Spring is a wonderful time to try new cake designs and to freshen your cake ideas. Integrate a few of these designs into your standard spring line up. We are happy to help you, so please feel free to visit our Oasis Cake Decorating Supplies website for more details.

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Posted in Baking · February 13th, 2010 · Comments (0)

Custom Made Cakes Are Excellent Business For The Supermarket Bakeries

For Grocery store Bakeries, custom cakes are big business. The profit margins in decorated cakes are lofty; consequently it’s in the bakeries greatest interest to keep up with the most recent cake decorating trends. The grocery store bakeries adorn their cakes with the latest kids characters, holiday decorations, sports figurines, and so on. They buy many of their decorating items from shops that sell Satin Ice Rolled Fondant and other cake supplies.

The In-store supermarket bakeries have to find their niche to differentiate themselves from rival stores. What worked in the past, may not work in the future as times are changing. The key is for them to discover their cake niche, promoting it and keeping up with the customer service that brought them the business in the first place.

The grocery store must encourage their baked goods in the weekly leaflets and brochures that they put out. The flyers are mailed and then they should be circulated to each store and displayed in departments away from the bakery. Promotional buttons can be worn by the bakery employees as well as other store workers. TV and radio advertising campaigns work well too.

Picture cakes are cakes that have a custom decorated Edible Image? placed on the top with a picture. This is not new to instore supermarket bakeries. Putting a custom decorated photo on the cake has been around for more than ten years now, so it has lost a little bit of its luster. Now is the time to give a boost to those types of sales, particularly around graduation time, but differentiates them by using unique cake varieties such as: chocolate chip, raspberry swirl, marble and lemon.

Product position within the store is critical to grow custom cake sales. Attract your customers to the bakery section with well positioned displays of goodies in places other than the bakery. Do not place too much of an assortment in the non-bakery departments for the reason that you’ll want to entice the customer toward the bakery to see what else the store is offering. As a substitute of baking during the nighttime when the store is empty, bake during the day when the baked goods fragrance can whiff all through the store and make customers mouth water.
Grocery store bakeries are relying more on thaw-and-sell cakes because of their labor saving advantages. But, they are also using these cakes to suggest a broader array of flavors and sizes. When accomplished well, quality thaw-and-sell cakes can provide customers with more upscale varieties, odd shapes and sizes or meet special dietary needs, which can be too labor-demanding to produce.

Most importantly it is store customer service and product superiority that will sell more high profit custom decorated cakes and sweets.
We are happy to support you, so please feel free to visit our Oasis cake decorating supplies website for more information.

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Posted in Baking · February 12th, 2010 · Comments (0)