These days, I am so busy (thank God!) that my house is now being taken over by my business. Even as I type this, right now my kitchen table (which is a large country kitchen table that seats 8-10) has fondant tools all over it and fondant roses currently drying and waiting for dusting. My family room coffee table has several boards full of daisies I made yesterday and some sea creatures for a sea cake. My dining room has cupcake holders, boxes of saran, and some cake boxes. My spare bedroom has a folding table in the middle of it, with shelves all around fullof boxes, boxed up gum paste flowers, and royal icing flowers. My office is full of paper work I need to do, and a sales receipt pad is constantly by the phone. This week I need 10 sheet cakes, a star shaped cake, a 12 inch cake and a 3 tier wedding cake. So the oven is constantly on, as I can only bake one cake at a time in my conventional 30 inch oven. My DH and I had no idea how this would kick off, (I still am not making enough money to quit my day job, but man, I am itching to!) and we even thought about moving and building an outbuilding just for my cakes. But we are in a incredible neighbhorhood, where houses are going up in value, and I am in a prime location, with a lot of young urban couples who don't think twice about spending a 100 dollars for a birthday cake. And I love my house. We live in a neighbhorhood that doesn't allow outbuildings. And my DH has a pressure washer business so I can't have the garage. So we have decided to look into adding a room off the kitchen for me. At first, we thought it would just hold some tables to work off of and a fridge and move my freezer from teh garage into there, and put in a sink..we didn't want to make it too much of a kitchen type thing as incase we decide to sell in a few years we who would want a house with a commericail kitchen! SO we want to be able to break it down easily. But then the discussion of an oven came up. I need more then this little oven I have. So I would like to look into used bakery equipment and get maybe a rack oven (Oy, the $$$$$$!) or something that will bake 10-12 cakes at a time.
So my long winded question is this: Do any of you use a system like this? How do you get all your cakes baked? Do you use large mixers, and such? What brands do you recommend? How did you chnage your recipes?
Thanks!!!!
PS I have already looking into renting a kitche. No thanks. They want a ton of money, and the hassel of trying to get all those cakes home isn't worth it!
Joined: Sep 23, 2004
Posts: 1098
Location: Montgomery County, Maryland
Posted:
Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:39 am
Sorry but I don't have any advice. I was just shocked to read that you have a FT job! Wow, how do you do it! Your cakes are great! Good luck on whatever you decide!
loriemoms Forum SuperStar!
Joined: Nov 09, 2005
Posts: 2965
Birthday: Feb 12
Posted:
Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:03 am
sweetbaker wrote:
Sorry but I don't have any advice. I was just shocked to read that you have a FT job! Wow, how do you do it! Your cakes are great! Good luck on whatever you decide!
hahaha! I just give up the small things. Like Sleep.
I have found the hardest thing is that people who call me on Mondays and want a cake for Friday. or worse, they call me on Wednesday and want a cake for friday. If i was doing the cakes full time, I could tell them sure! I feel like I am throwing money and opportunity out the window!
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Joined: Jan 06, 2006
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Location: Chilliwack,B.C. Canada
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Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:15 pm
beautiful cakes and really nice web site simple and easy to read info very specific.
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