Hi, I am trying to come up with a name for my cake business. It seems impossible to think of anything original anymore. Everything popping in my head is taken-I always check online to see if anyone else is using it. I am getting frustrated. There are only so many ways to name sugar, cakes, sweets. I need some help!! Maybe my brain is frying out on me-lol I guess I am just wondering what was the one thing that made you pick the one you used for your cakes. I swear there are so many Tanyascakes out there that I could scream!!!! Thanks for any and all help!!

Tanya

Well, mine was a bit easier since I knew I wanted nothing with my name in it.

But it all started 10 years ago when I was planning my daughter's wedding. She was in the Army in D.C. and we were having the wedding in Indy. Even tho' I had been in the wedding industry for 20 years, I couldn't BELIEVE the crap I was going thru to get a weddign organized! I commented a number of times that "....it shouldn't be this hard to do a wedding. It's got to be simpler than this!" Since I pretty much "knew what I was doing", I started wondering about the novice mothers-of-the-brides who were going thru this process and had NO IDEA what they were doing.

It was after I talked to a super hateful florist, who gave me a horrendous quote, and after I went to a second florist, who gave me the very same order for about 1/2 the money, that I saw you CAN have a nice wedding and not spend a fortune on it.

Thus was born "You Don't Have to Cater It Expensive, you can.....

Cater It Simple"

Mine was a simple choice. My kids are my world so I wanted a name to reflect them. Thus, Nolee was born, a collaboration of my children's names, Noah and Marlee. As an afterthought though, my heart belongs in New Orleans, there is nowhere I love going more. Nolee sort of sounds like Nola, so it was a win win situation for me

I named mine because I was inspired at that time and every time I am inspired, I indulge to whatever my mind thinks of : food, go out, shop, etc. =)

I don't have a business, but if I did I'd name it a special phrase my grandmother and I had. Maybe you could expand your thoughts beyond the obvious cake references, and maybe think of a phrase, flower, whatever that you really love? What words make you smile?


Jodie

Mine is Butterfly Sweets. At first I wanted Butterfly Bakery (After my butterfly-obsessed daughter), but of course it was taken. So, my DH did some searches and said "What about Butterfly Sweets?" I thought it was cute, so there you go.

At first I named my business Karema's Cookies and More but I wasnt sure about the name. My mother calls me one day and says she had this dream that I was opening a bakery and her and I was standing in front of the place and she had looked up at the name and it said "A Little Piece of Heaven". I was a little apprehensive at first but the more I said it the more I loved it. So I finally got my DBA and called it that and my business has taken off!

Oh i love that, a little piece of heavon! Very clever : ) i see so many cakes by so and so, or some ones cakes (including me! caths_Cakes!) hahaha! if i ever had my own shop, id like something to have a bit of a ring to