Small Cakes, Big Business
Chrissie Boon
Class Preview
- In-depth Instruction; over 111 mins
- On-demand video access anytime
- Bonus downloadable PDF resources
- Access to class Q&A
Balancing Your Customers & Costs
6:58
Meet Chrissie and learn her strategy for balancing customization, customers and costs.
Basketball Cake
20:08
Learn Chrissie's techniques for making a sporty basketball cake and how to create cake boards that look like hardwood.
The Perfect Princess Cake
23:16
Chrissie shows you how to form, paint and store gum paste tiaras to top a beautiful, quilted princess cake.
Drippy Icing Cake
26:43
Learn to make candles, cherries and other decorations ahead of time and see how quickly Chrissie's Drippy Icing Cake comes together.
Present Cake Details
9:08
Form tissue paper out of fondant and make a fashionable textured bow in preparation for the Present Cake.
Putting the Present Cake Together
19:27
Wrap a square cake like a present and then add the fondant-covered top and maybe even a little jewelry!
Marketing Considerations
5:05
Chrissie shares invaluable tips and advice for decorators looking to market and sell their own line of custom cakes.
Description
Delight customers with a line of amazing designs you can create efficiently, consistently, and for much less than the cost of a custom cake. With expert decorator Chrissie Boon, you’ll learn cake business tips for pricing your designs and making decorations ahead of time to cut down complexity. Then, discover Chrissie’s time and cost-saving processes as she guides you through four dazzling cake projects from start to finish. You’ll see how to create Chrissie’s basketball-themed cake with a scoreboard, a princess cake with beautiful bling, a drippy icing cake decorated with fun fondant candles, and a gift box cake you could mistake for the real thing. Plus, take a tour of Chrissie’s Web site to see how she markets and displays her cakes!
Chrissie Boon
Chrissie began her baking career as a teenager, when she took over a cookie business that her mother and next-door neighbor had started. While at university, Chrissie took some cake decorating classes and realized she had found her career. Following her passion, Chrissie opened a small cake and cookie shop. Today, she and her husband run their custom cake studio, Too Nice to Slice, which is also home to Icing Inspirations, their cake decorating supply store. Chrissie is proud to create cakes that her customers cherish and share what she's learned with cake decorators from around the world.
Bonus materials available after purchase