Where does everyone purchase their bakery supplies? I've always just picked them up here and there as I need them from different websites and local stores. But as my business is growing I'm really needing to order more bulk (shortening, colorings, boards...).

Where's the best/cheapest places you've found?

Cooks Specialty is where I get most of my items. They are out of Chicago.

I just recently found fondantsource.com, lots of great stuff at really good prices!

Thanks! I'm going to check that one out!

Any other ideas??

fondant source .com

There was a thread last week in the Cake Decorating Forum titled "Cake Supplies" (if you wanted to read all of it).

I wrote:
Ace Mart
Albert Uster
Americolor
Avalon Deco
Bake Deco (Kerekes)
Bakers Nook
A Bakers Place
Bakery Crafts
Cake Deco (Pfeil & Holing)
Cake Decorating for Less
Cakes by Sam
Cake Supplies Depot
Cal Java
Central Restaurant
Chef Rubber
CK Products (Country Kitchens)
Cooks Dream
Dade Paper
DecoPac
Esco
European Imports
Fancy Flours
Fondant Source (Jesters)
Foodservice Direct
Global Sugar Art
Globe Equipment
Golden Crown Petals & Herbs
Instawares
Into the Oven
Kitchen Krafts
Kopy Kake
Lucks
Midcontinent Paper
Midwest Imports
Oasis Supply
QA Products
Royal Paper Products
S-u-g-a-r-c-r-a-f-t
Viking Importing
Wasserstrom
WEBstaurant Store
Wilton
Wine and Cake
(and more if youre also looking for bags, boxes, chefwear, equipment, packaging, pans, etc., or edible products and materials that arent necessarily supplies.)

I'll add...
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I buy the vast majority of supplies from CK Products and Bakery Crafts.
Food supplies from Dawn.

Wow!! Thanks a bunch!!!