Posts by cakesbyliz

I just heard from the mother of the bride of a recent wedding cake. She told me that the venue had cut the bottom half (2 1/2 inches) off each cake and then stacked the leftover cake back up for them to take home so it still looked...

Thank you for your advice. From the sounds of what you have said, it will not bring in any more business for me so I will leave offering the cake. I will do some more research into getting my name out there. Thanks again!

I think some of them would but maybe more online. What i really need is to get people to see one of my cakes and go "that's cool", then the next time they want a cake, they remember that cake and then search online. What my main issue...

Hi AllMy background...I have recently started selling cake but I have yet to find the right market that want to /can afford to pay my prices. I love in a small town (pop 3000) with a larger town 20 mins away (pop 50,000) and a few small...

Sorry just to add a bit more, if you use dutch cocoa powder, baking soda and buttermilk, it all evens out and that works in baking. The Hersey's recipe above calls for all three so that one shouldn't be a problem if using dutch cocoa...

I don't know if you found a solution to this but from what i have heard, if you use you dutch cocoa you can't use baking soda in the same recipe. Here is a good link to a blog about mixing the 2. If you aren't using dutch cocoa powder,...

Thanks for that Jason. I need to do a big review on my pricing and adjust quite a few things and this information/help you have given me is awesome, thank you!

Thanks for that Jason. That explains a lot for me. I take it that everything else would be charged in this way too, like cake mixers and stuff like that. Reading through other threads, it seems like 20% profit on each cake is about...

I did something like this for teenagers and little kids so i had to have decorations that appealed to both groups and male and female. I knew it was coming up so when i had leftover fondant, i just made some more of whatever i was...

I have just been reading through this thread. I was wondering how you have gotten on with getting your money owing to you?