Do you have a passion for cake decorating? Do you astound friends, neighbors and coworkers with your amazing and unique cake decorating techniques and creations? Do you dream of turning your cake decorating passion into a viable business? If so, you will want to check out these tips on getting started with your very own [...]

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Lisa Donahue was a stay-at-home mom with a sweet tooth and too many disappointing experiences with chocolate cake.
“I kept trying to find a chocolate cake to satisfy me. I couldn’t find it,” she said. “I thought I’d just make it myself.”
Her quest for the perfect chocolate cake propelled her into the bakery business, starting in [...]

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I was watching a television show the other night about women entrepreneurs and came across an interesting. The story of Andra Hall intrigued me the most because she was a corporate employee who decided to start her own cake business. While on leave to care for her sick child, she made the decision to never [...]

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Hello Cake Friends,
Patience, a member of CakePals.com as a great question about cupcakes that I think will spark some conversation with our readers. It’s about cupcakes! Check out what she wrote below.
“Hi,
I just don’t get why cupcakes in general are so trendy these days. I get it for a shower or party, because a dessert [...]

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Elisa Strauss, a former fashion designer, is the proprietor of Confetti Cakes, a top New York City-based bakery specializing in custom designed cakes. Confetti Cakes enjoys a large celebrity following, and Strauss has been featured on numerous television shows, including three Food Network Challenge series, Martha (TV series), and The Today Show. One of her [...]

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Vali and Earl Lameman have been customizing cakes for five years.
They opened Vali’s Custom Cakes at Alma School and Baseline roads three years ago and have lured customers from California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado.
Lameman, a design engineer for a Chandler-based aerospace company, learned how to decorate cakes several years ago after taking [...]

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Recently, I found a great video that discusses what brides really want in a cake business. One of the most important things I got from the video is that taste matters. Most brides want their cakes to taste great and not just a beautiful decoration. I also found out that the grooms cake is also [...]

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Shannon Spencer’s passion for creative arts and cooking has turned into a new business she operates from her family-owned restaurant in Cedar Lake.
Cakes by Pier 74 began two years ago in the kitchen of Pier 74 Bar & Grill after Spencer enrolled in a cake-baking class. Spencer originally had no plans to incorporate her new [...]

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I love to keep a list of tips to help bake better cakes, which is why I’m writing this blog post. I think it would be a good idea, especially at the beginning of the year for us to create a list together. I started the list off below. Please add to the list by [...]

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Eric Lanlard is often referred as the wedding cake maker to the stars with a star studded client list including Madonna and Elton John. As a master patisserie, Lanlard teaches others the art of baking amazing cakes at CakeBoy, a cake emporium and cooking school he started in 2007. To top it all off, you [...]

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