If I want to become a cake baker/decoratorand run my own shop when I grow up, how do I start?!


Question: If I want to become a cake baker/decoratorand run my own shop when I grow up, how do I start!?
I'm 12 so I'm not old enough and being a cake baker/decorator is what i want to doWww@FoodAQ@Com


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Take a cake decorating class!. I took them at a local cake shop, but JoAnn's and Michael's offer them!. They are also available at the Jr College in our area!. Contact these places and see if they offer classes in your area!. I think that you could handle it at 12 yrs old!. If you are to young for the classes, find out how old you have to be to participate, and sign up then!. Good luck and enjoy!Www@FoodAQ@Com

You can start baking now!. Do your mom or any of your grandmas bake!? If they do, and they do it well, start with them!. Go to different recipe sites and look up recipes that you might like!. You can experiment a lot with cooking recipes but don't experiment too much with baking recipes!. Start watching the foodnetwork and see if there are cake decorating classes in your area!. Theres a special kind of frosting thats called fondant and its a dough form of icing!. Buy some playdough and it has a similar texture!. Decorators use fondant to cover cakes but also form it into figures!. Use the play dough to practice making little figures!. also go to youtube and type in different things so that you can watch videos on baking and decorating!. Some ideas are "decorating with fondant", "working with fondant", etc!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Start at home!. You can practice while you're young!. Look at some specialty books, how to frost epically, there's plenty out there!. Maybe when you're older you could get a job at a bakery and after that do culinary and business courses in college!. But totally start now :3 the sooner the better!.
And get creative, for my cousin's birthday I carved a two layer caked and pieced it together into a racecar, it was really fun ^^

Now go experiment! :]Www@FoodAQ@Com

Start by trying to bake simple stuffs and the best thing to do is do research and read up on the topic!. my favourite book is jacques torres: dessert circus!. it's the best! it teaches you the basics!. Once you are older, you can take up baking classes during summer and eventually, an apprentice to a chef!. :)Www@FoodAQ@Com

Hey!.!.
I just done my GCSE exam i and made sculpted cake of a dog:)
i got the whole idea from youtube!. its not to hard baring in mind im only 15 youl be ace if you just follow the steps and get the rightequipment etc its very cheap to make sculpted cakes!. but ther will often be a waste ofcake mixtureetc but its worth it as the cakes wil always look amazing!.http://youtube!.com/watch!?v=DIYNEhY0614
^ thats dog cake sculpting!.
and ther is a wide range that follows that are easyer and easyer!.
GOOD LUCK xWww@FoodAQ@Com

im 13 i all so want to be a cook, what you should do is start cooking now so you can learn start off with small things and make your way up good luck with it ps!.its fun to come up with ur own stouffWww@FoodAQ@Com





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