I have been doing cakes for several months now and I still don't have a name for my business everybody keeps asking me but I just draw a blank. PLEASE HELP!!!!

What style name do you have in mind? Do you like catchy type names, simple names, fancy? rhyming? What's your name, maybe we can come up with something that includes you name.

I have this same trouble. I can't think of a name for myself either. Maybe somehow incorporate your name into the business name. Sorry I'm not much help.

How about "Edible Embellishments". Embellish is a synonm for decorate.

I plan on doing cakes and petit fours no big weddings so I want to use cake in the business name but I'm stumped for ideas some of the local bakers are The Cake Shoppe, Create-A-Cake, That Special Touch, so I want something different maybe I could just list what I'll do on the card. Kakedecorater I love Edible Embellishments! It's nice and fancy cause I really don't want to use my name in the title. So please keep the ideas for business names coming. THANKS!!

when i was looking for my name...i got ideas from looking in the yellow pages under bakeries in other cities.....

if you found something you like you could change it up some....

there are some pretty hilarious names out there...we really got a kick out of it...

i saw one place called "the little pie co."...

well....i thought that is so cute i love that.

so...the Little Cake Co.

my nic around here is "little cake"...hee hee since there are alot of native americans here i always joked that..."that must be my indian name"

What a great idea had not thought of that. Thanks!

I turned my husband's pet name for me into my cake biz name. Little Apple Cakes. When we first met, I used to wear all that apple scented stuff from Bath and Body Works and once we went to Krispy Kreme and I got an apple filled donut with an apple juice and he made a joke of it and started calling me his "little apple". So something like that might help. I used to make wedding cake toppers to sell with the cakes, because they were custom designed to match and I called that biz The Top Tier, which would also work for a wedding cake shop, if anyone wants it.

What about sugarcreations or somenewcreations?

How about Elegant Cakes or Cake Elegance???

You guys are the greatest I like the idea that ckdcr8r has in for coming up with a cute nickname that your husband inspired I love making petit fours they really are my speciality my husband calls them pedifiles definitly couldn't go with that maybe something like "little cakes" what do you guys think cause that's mostly what I make small cakes. I haven't made anything to grand the largest cake I did fed 100. Can't do anything to big cause I don't have a van to haul it in nor do I want to be responsible for a wedding cake SCARY!!

"Little Cakes" sounds great! Good Luck

Have fun with it! Other possible names:

Wee Cakes
Lil' Cakes
Sweet & Petite

Salsera I love the name "Sweet and Petite" thank you so much it is definitly one of the top 5!!

Here's more:

Splendid Lil' Cakes
Classy Lil' Cakes
Artsy Lil' Cakes
Sumptuous Lil' Cakes
Sophisticated Lil' Cakes
Sophisticated Sweets
Delicious Lil' Bites

Change the words around a little:

Lil' Classy Cakes
Lil' Artsy Cakes
and so on...

Akesunflower it's good to see another MS native on the site thanks for the name suggestions my favorite is "Classy Lil' Cakes" and "Sophisticated Sweets" I definitly have some great names from all you guys hope you don't mind I'm gonna consult with the family to pick the final one cause it has gotten to hard for me to choose the final name. Keep 'em coming and I'll post the winner next week! THANKS!!

I've always been partial to: Sweet Celebrations, but it was taken in my state...boo hoo

You should roll with "Gateaux Fabulous", it sounds elegant to the older crowd and the younder crowd will think it's funny.

Whatever you do... I beg you... Don't use some stupid cliche' in your name UNLESS your city/state is void of other cake companies with stupid cliche' names. As you can see from my screen name... I speak from experience.

In the Phoenix Metro area we have these cliche' names for cake companies:

Let Them Eat Cake
Icing on the Cake
Piece of Cake

I cannot tell you how many times we have been confused with one of our competitors. I'm not talking about the casual phone call wrong number, I'm talking about facilities calling us on the wedding day asking what time we are delivering the cake... and of course, it wasn't us.

Whatever you decide make sure it is something unique to your area to avoid any headache.

Best of luck!

-Kevin

I hate that all the good ones are taken!

Ravissant Gâteau

NoviceBaker2, you are very welcome and glad to hear you're in Ms too!

Family is great for consulting...my little girls like to have say in EVERYTHING! lol! Happy choosing!

I recently thought of a name for a cake business...."Cake Divine".....but I already have one. My name is Sumer, so I call my business "A Sumer Affair Catering". (I do catering and cakes) Now "Cake Divine" is open, here at least!

I'm in the same shoes as you are! I haven't make a final decision on which business names that I would like to us. I have at least 20 names and still UNDECIDED.

What I'm planning to do is to contact your close friends and relatives to cast a vote thru your email system. How's that sound? Hopefully it will help me to make my final decision.

PieceofCakeAZ you are so right we have a lot of cake businesses that have close to the same name thanks for the tip I had not thought about that. I know this is a dumb question but what does gateaux mean and how do you pronounce it? The longer you live the more you learn. Thanks in advance! What would I do without my CC family?

It's French for cakes.

As for pronunciation, it's kind of hard to explain over the internet- the French language has a lot of nasal sounds.

But my closest explanation would be (very nasally ) "GAHGH------AUH------T (tip of your tongue "t") OOOO.

La Dulce Amor
Sweet Heavens
Cake Du Jour
Sugar High
Cake Chic
Cake De Elegance

Just wanted to put in my two cents worth. I love the name that salsera came up with -- "Sweet & Petite". I think that would be perfect for you since you mainly do petit fours. Good luck on choosing

Ha! That's funny! I have a useless talent of mocking Eric Cartman's voice and I used to have my best friend rolling when I would do his version of the ghetto song by Elvis!

I really like Sweet and Petite. It fits.

I agree with the Sweet and Petite it fits what you are doing. That is my vote

I thought I had came up with an Ok name but after this last show I did I am rethinking my name. KAY'S CAKES AND MORE was what I had. I do alot of crafts and wedding flowers and such so I thought that would work. And I had a woman ask me if I was at a bridal show in a neighboring town. Because Kay's Cakes was at the show. I told her no that wasn't me and I was not aware of this other person with a similar name. I am just starting out so I will probably be changing it also. So I am also looking for a name again.