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What are some requirements to be a cake designer?

I'm looking to become a cake designer and I'm looking for some colleges to attend. So I need to know some requirements to get into a college and to expand my career.

Asked By: mz.glittery - 1/11/2009
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If you are artistic and good at baking you can actually start a home-based business. I have a girlfriend that designs wedding cakes from her home and she is so busy she has had to hire in some help.



Cake decorators design and decorate cakes for birthdays, weddings and other special events. They use techniques such as:


royal icing, including coating, piping, lettering, lace and frill work
sugarcraft, including modelling, flower-making, crimping and bas-relief
marzipan coating and modelling
chocolate decoration
floristry.
In a small bakery, a decorator might help customers decide on the cake they want, and then bake it themselves or instruct a baker. They then decorate it by hand. Cake decorators working for larger manufacturers may work with a large number of decorators, assembling the cakes and adding decorations, icing and models.

Self-employed cake decorators create high quality decorations, and also have to buy in ingredients, promote their business, sell to customers and keep accounts.

Most cake decorators work 37 hours a week over five or six days. The amount of work can change depending on the time of year. Bakeries are clean and dust-free, and decorating work is usually carried out in a separate, cool room to stop the icing from melting. The work can be done either standing or sitting. Some cake decorators work from home.

Salaries for cake decorators range from around £10,000 to £20,000 or more a year.

Cake decorators need:


good hand skills
creativity
to be patient and methodical
an interest in cookery and food.
There are opportunities in most areas, and specialist cake decorators are in high demand.

It is possible to train as a cake decorator without qualifications, but GCSEs/S grades (A-C/1-3) in English, maths and science or food technology may be useful. Full-time courses are available in bakery craft management, cake decoration and sugarcraft. In some bakeries, especially craft bakeries, Apprenticeships may be available. A high proportion of entrants to this job are adults.

Employees train on the job, often alongside an experienced decorator. Some bakeries give staff the opportunity to take part-time courses and work towards NVQs/SVQs.

In larger companies, it may be possible to become a supervisor or to train new cake decorators. Some decorators set up their own business or take a teaching certificate and pass on their skills to others, usually at adult education classes.
Answered By: sky - 1/11/2009
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I became a chef simply by working my butt off in the industry for 18+ years. I didn't worry about money, I just went for the best experience I could find. That took me all over Canada and the US, as well as other parts of the globe.

That all said, I never attended a day of cooking school. I learned from great chefs, and then I moved to the next place.

I'd suggest getting a job as a cake decorator, even if you are only working at a local grocery store doing crap birthday cakes. That will give you a good sense of what you are doing. Take pride in that job, learn as much as you can, then work in a better place, even if the money is worse.

Flash forward a few years, and you will have zero student loans, and a great resume with the skills to back it up.
Answered By: Derek J - 1/11/2009
Your local craft store should have the free wilton cake decorating classes. All you do is buy the student kits and make your cake and frosting. This is a good way to see how much you truly like it before you decide to invest in college
Answered By: elaine_cartier - 1/11/2009
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