When I first joined I came across a step by step document in one of the forums with each step, beginning to end of completing an order... Anyone know where this is???

Thanks!

where did you get your logo?? Very cool!!!

Thanks! I designed it from several different concepts I had found online

KHalstead- speaking of logos, I love yours!

Totallybaked- I have no idea, I am new to the site, but I will put in another plug for Colette Peters book, 'Cakes to Dream On'. At the beginning of the book she gives some good step by step stuff. Then you have a bunch of amazing and inspiring cakes to look at, and learn from. If you do find a checklist somewhere, that would be cool though, but it seems like it would vary from cake to cake. HTH

The steps aren't so much decorating the cake itself, but more from taking the order, each step in preparing to decorate, (i.e. making fondant and such), paperwork, file keeping, ect... Can't wait to check out that book, though... Thanks for the suggestion )

Should you be a taking cake order if you don't know the steps required to complete it ?

fairly new but have never seen it. hope you find it.

I use Google Calendar (you can download Google Chrome for free) and it combines your calendar with your pictures and email and more...) well in the calendar... I make a Task List.... for the week before a cake is due... then I make a cake (in my head) and start write the tasks in order... so let's say the cake is due friday... I would do something like

Mon - Bake Vanilla Cake - Make 3 Batches of SS Buttercream - Make Fondant and/or gumpaste / make simple syrup
Tue - Prepare Cake Drum / make gumpaste flowers / fondant figures / prepare fruit filling (if req.)
Wed - Tort - Fill - Crumb / Paint / FInish / DUst Fondant/Gumpaste items
THU - Fondant Cake / Add ribbon / border / (at this stage the cake is finished by EOB
FRI - Last minute details / touch-ups / Deliver...

it gives u the option to do the task list with each having a due date and culminating the the completion date... I then print it and put it on my clip board that I have out so I can mark in the check mark spot when I copmple something... I go to it every morning... and I see what I need to do that day without forgetting....

You can even set it up to send you text message reminders and/or email reminders...

hth

hey but if you find that check list... please let me know I would love to see another way to make sure I do't miss anything...

Snarky - Not at all... This was more of a guideline, not a how-to. I just wanted to compare it to my routine and see if I was using my time to the best advantage that I could be. BTW, your screen name fits you )
Dalis- Thanks a ton! I'm definitely going to check it out!

Snarkybaker- lol! Almost every time I take a cake order there are things I am unsure about. That's how we learn...

hursdays, torte/fill/crumb coat

Friday decorate


You'll have to do what works best with your schedule and your cake orders, the planner is a lifesaver though.

Another thing I do is use an order form (I'll attach a photo) and write out each cake order for the week and line them up in order of due date/time in front of where I decorate. This way I have all the info for each cake, like the inscription, flavors, sizes, etc. when I'm baking and again when decorating