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Home › Cake Decorating Basics

Published: Jan 31, 2018 by Elizabeth Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

All About the Cake Tasting

Skill level: Newb

Cake tastings: the all-important meeting between the bride-to-be and yourself.

Cake tastings can often feel stressful, vague, and out of your control. How do you setup the table? What types of cake flavors should you offer? How do you close the deal and get a down-payment?

Liz Marek and her friends conduct a mock-tasting and show how a typical meeting would go, ways to run the meeting and remain in control, how to deal with off-topic ideas from the difficult mother-in-law, and how to get a down-payment on site.

42:33 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to setup your tasting to impress
  • Learn how to direct guide the bride through decisions and add-ons
  • How to deal with off-topic cake ideas and difficult party members
  • How to get a down-payment right away and book clients

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Table setup 1:50
  2. Fondant samples 3:19
  3. Tasting ambiance 3:58
  4. Palette Cleansers 6:53
  5. Cake Portfolio 7:19
  6. Being prepared 8:25
  7. Tasting introductions 10:18
  8. Taking good notes 11:03
  9. Delivery charges 11:43
  10. Wedding colors 13:04
  11. Picking the cake tiers 13:55
  12. Quick cake sketch 14:53
  13. How to handle off-topic ideas 17:41
  14. Rough estimate and cake add-ons 21:04
  15. Tasting the cake flavors 26:53
  16. Closing the sale 33:58
  17. When to refine the cake sketch 38:15
  18. Handling cancellations 41:05

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2. Designing Cakes

3. Cake Tasting

4. Digital Cake Sketch Tutorial

5. Semi-Naked Cake Tutorial

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Quick Quote Form (Round Cake)

Quick Quote Form (Square Cake)

Cake Contract Template

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Hi, I'm Liz! I'm an artist and cake decorator from Portland, Oregon. Cakes are my obession, which is why I'm dedicated to crafting tried-and-true recipes, small cake tutorials, as well as advanced online cake courses!

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