Posts by rsaun

I have had a desk-type job for 11 years, and type all the time, but it wasn't until I started cake decorating in May that I started having pain/numbness/tingling/etc. in my right hand. I put off doing anything about it until now, and...

I took the three Wilton courses in March, April, and May, and had my first paying job (a smash cake for a co-worker's daughter's 1st birthday pictures). After that, it snowballed. I offered my co-workers (I work for a huge law firm) a...

I don't know what pricing is like where you are, but for a 12 x 15 cake, I would charge $60.00 and for a 7 1/2 in round, I would charge $25.00 for my base rate. For all buttercream, I wouldn't go much more expensive, but I'm not sure...

Parchment paper triangles, rolled into cones, work great for SMALL amounts of icing. They're much cheaper than the disposable bags, too. HTHI like plastic best, and I wait till Hobby Lobby does 50% off Wilton and stock up on boxes of 100.

This is sticky. Most of my orders are filled for co-workers and most of them give me feedback without any prompting from me. I did a cake back in October (ghosts in graveyard in my gallery) for a non-coworker customer, and he was a tad...

I started off that way...looking for opportunities, and then it just took off. Now, I'm looking for my post-holiday cake "sabbatical." I cut off my order deliveries for Christmas on December 15th and then don't have another order until...

I'm a non-professional baker, but I have upwards of 10-12 orders per month. My stroke of luck is because I work in a large law firm and the people here are my customers. I've actually been booked for a few months in advance, and now...

Instead of being an "Army" brat my whole life, I was a "Sears" brat, and that company moved us all over the country as I was growing up as my father moved up in the company. Because of that, I feel like I know retail like the back of my...

I've not had the same problem, however, I can see how it could happen. I had someone order a cake for an October birthday back in July. When I delivered it to her in October (I deliver to the downtown where I work), she had totally...

Thanks. Should I substitute the OJ for some of the water in the recipe or just add it? Will the mix be too "liquid-y" if I just add it? Sorry for the somewhat "stupid" questions, but I've not messed w/ cake mix too much.