Fall Baking Topics
Harvest additional sales with small autumn treats
In the fall, customers go crazy for novelty designs in Bob Brougham's bakery, The Cakery, North Aurora, Ill. Your customers are sure to enjoy these cookie...
Decorating Ideas
Halloween ideas Halloween will soon be upon us; be sure your bakery is prepared. Bakery Crafts offers Sugar Dec-ons, edible designs, jimmies mixes, pics...
Fun winter cake designs
With cold weather right around the corner, it’s time to start preparing your winter cake displays. These diverse ideas will offer customers the perfect accompaniment to almost any winter occasion....
Decorate spook-tacular cakes
Halloween is a time for fun and fantasy. These designs will help set a festive atmosphere in your bakery....
Prepare your holiday business plan
by Edward M. Lee, editor emeritus Jim Murphy of Sweetish Hill Bakery increased fruitcake sales by revising his fruit candying process. Sweetish Hill's...
Add cheer to customers' holidays
by Shirley Ryan Rose with Katherine Martin 1. For a Santa and snowman cake, base ice an 8-in. round cake with white icing. Spread additional white icing...
Bump up cute quotient with sugar babies
Sugar babies are a unique decoration to add to your decorated cakes, and they areSugar babies are ideal for sales all year long, or dress them as Santa...
Quick ideas to generate Halloween sales
For parties of any size, use a single 8-in. layer cake and cupcakes simply decorated in orange icing and topped with plastic novelties. Use an open coupler...
Where have all the good pies gone?
An in-store bakery director called me a few weeks ago to tell me about something unusual he was planning for his supermarket bakeries this holiday season:...
Quick decorating ideas for busy holiday season
Place a plastic Kwanzaa design on an 8-in. square cake. Add colorful strings of icing with tip No. 3. Stripe a pastry bag with white icing and fill it...
Scare up bountiful Halloween cake sales
by Jan Cartwright, Decorating Ideas editor For quick production, ice a heart-shaped cake in the tin-foil pan to resemble a pumpkin. Use a quick icer tip...
Christmas Bread
This formula was contributed by the Cherry Marketing Ingredients Lbs. Ozs. Method Maraschino cherries 3 2 Drain, reserving 5.5 ozs. of juice. Coarsely...


