Decorating Cakes

If I only knew how close you are to Ohio I could use you in a couple of months for our birthdays!! Hubby, son and me all have birthdays from March 21 and April 14 and May 27...we would love to hire you to make our cakes. That could turn into a good business. Don't you already work out of the home? If so you have a good start already. It is fun and I took a few lessons when a local craft store gave lessons. Sure was fun! Good luck with this!!

Only with a layer of icing... I'm not much of a baker, my gf takes care of that :-)

I try to =). I just love baking cakes & my sister & I actually studied a one-month commercial baking course...it's just too bad that it focused more on breads than cakes. But it did introduce us to some basics---like icing the cae & stuff. As of now, I'm not really that successful with boiled icing (waah!) it almost all the time runs on me...but it's probably because I overdid the beating of whites...anyhow, so as of now, am sticking to chocolate ganache! But for our aunt's 60th birthday, we made sugar roses in 3 shades of pink & decorated 3 bundt cakes with it on white boiled icing--well, at least they were impressed with it =)...I also am thinking of starting a home business on that one, because I've heard that cakes really are a great business, especially specialty cakes (though my sister & I are thinking of venturing into decorated chocolate cupcakes first)--hopefully that one day, we can fulfill our dreams--good luck to you!! =)

I don't get to do it that often but love decorating cakes. I would also like to do it for a living. It'd be a great creative outlet.

You can do what ever you want, don't letanyone else tell you any difference. I teach the wilton way, maybe you should do that to. Go to their page and apply

I recently got into decorating cakes for my family. I haven't taken a decorating course, just teaching myself. I have tons of tips and tools and just do it for fun. Takes a lot of time and work, but fun for the occasional cake and holidays.

I've been decorating cakes as a hobby for a couple years now. I have a couple blogs, if you like to look at cake photos! http://cakemagic.blogspot.com/ http://cakespace.blogspot.com/ Cake space is my own work, Cake Magic is everyone else's!!! If you want to get into making cakes for a living, do a lot of research first. I good place to start is with: http://thebusinessofcake.blogspot.com/2006/07/getting-legal.html Good luck to you! Wendy

I just buy my cake at the store or get my best friend to do them for me.I dont know how to decorate a cake. I dont have any talent.

I too have been decorating my own cakes, I love it. I made my first one 29 years ago for my husbands birthday the first year we were married. I got hooked then! have done cakes for all the kids in the family and adults too! I have so many pans now I have to build a cabinet for them all. I have decorated wedding cakes and done cakes free-hand...made a train that way and it was gorgeous! if you decide to bake them and deliver them, remember you have to have something big enough to move them in (car wise)...and I alway's used foam rubber to move them. it fit the back of my bronco and the cakes didn't move. also the sunlight will change the color of your frosting..I learned that the hard way! luckily I had taken the extra frosting with me and it was fixable, lol good-luck

Nah, once i decorated my lemon butter cake with icing, and I spent more than an hour for the decoration and it is much more harder to decorate as I have to think of what is the decoration ingredients and it is hard to make the icing look beautiful on the cake. The icing just made my cake look more uglier. So i just stick with no decoration if i am baking my own cakes, and everyone agree with me as I am not good at designing after all.

I am definately the kind of girl who goes overboard with her cake decorating. For instance, for a friends birthday, I spent two days making him a cake that looked like it was made out of metal. It wasn't perfect, but the reaction was so positive that it was really encouraging. I learned the basics back in high school and have been trying to teach myself more advanced techniques at home. I think my boyfriend really likes me self-teaching method because then he gets to eat all my mistakes. I posted a picture of one of my cakes in the photo section of this topic. Feel free to take a look. ^_^