SMALL CUP CAKES MAKING

Do you end up intrigued by baking? At that point you could be effective in beginning a cake business. Read on for six simple strides to begin a cake business! 

Trust it or not, I want to prepare cakes and treats! The warm scent of cinnamon and ginger floating through the air is sufficient to satisfy my kids' raving cravings for food. 

Preparing cakes is fun and with two kids circling the house, all that I made was expended in under a couple of hours. Companions, who were sufficiently fortunate to be around at the season of preparing, dependably raved about the cooking and encouraged me to begin a cake arrange business. "We'll pay to eat a considerably greater cut of those fascinating treats", was the regular hold back!

Ingredients

For the cakes

- 100g unsalted butter, softened

- 100g caster sugar

- 2 free-range eggs, at room temperature, lightly beaten

- 100g self-raising flour

- 1 tea spoon of vanilla extract

- ¼ tea spoon of fine salt

- 1 table spoon of milk

For the buttercream

- 125g unsalted butter, softened

- 200g icing sugar, sifted

- 1 table spoon milk

- 1 tea spoon vanilla extract

- lemon curd or jam for the topping (optional)

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line a 12-hole bun tin with 12 paper fairy cake cases. (Or for deep American-style cupcakes, line a 6-hole muffin tin with larger muffin cases.)

2. Place the softened butter in a large bowl then beat with an electric hand-whisk until pale and fluffy. Gradually add the sugar and continue to beat until fully combined.

3. Add a little of the beaten egg to the butter mixture, then whisk again. Gradually add the egg, little by little, whisking after each addition. It’s important to go slowly here, as adding too much egg at once can cause the mix to split. If it does split, simply add a tablespoon of the flour and whisk until the batter is smooth again.

4. Sift the flour into the bowl. Using a large metal spoon or spatula, fold the flour into the cake mix.

5. Add the vanilla and the salt and stir to combine. Add the milk to get the cake mix to a soft dropping consistency, where a heaped spoonful of mixture falls off the spoon after tipping it for few seconds.

6. Using two dessert spoons (one to scoop and the other to push the mix into the tin), fill the paper cases half full with the batter, filling them equally.

7. Bake the fairy cakes for 15 minutes in the middle of the oven, until golden-brown and the cakes spring back when pressed lightly. (Bake cupcakes for 18-20 minutes.)

8. When cool enough to handle, lift the cakes onto a cooling rack and leave to cool completely. The cakes can be frozen for up to a month, or will keep fresh in an airtight tin for a few days.

9. To make the buttercream, put the butter into a large bowl and beat with electric hand beaters until smooth and creamy. Sift in the icing sugar, then work it into the butter, starting slowly at first, then beating more vigorously once all the sugar is combined. Add the milk and the vanilla, then beat until creamy and smooth. If the mixture is too stiff, add a little more milk. You can colour the buttercream at this stage.

10. To make butterfly cakes, cut the top off each cake using a small serrated knife – angling the knife in slightly so that you make a concave cut. Cut the tops in half, to make two ‘wings’. Spread or pipe a heaped teaspoon of buttercream into the dip you have made in the top of each cake, and spoon on a little lemon curd or jam. Place the wings into the buttercream, and dust with a little icing sugar.

TIPS AND TRICKS ON HOW TO START A CUP CAKE BUSINESS

*If you wanted more business, you have to make sure your cakes and cookies are good/better looking and tastier than the local ones.

*you tapped all those friends who were willing to pay for your goodies and then utilized them to get your business going by word of mouth publicity. You can even got them to distribute flyers and discount coupons for your cake business!

*you can then approached local cake and coffee houses for taking on your samples and selling your cakes. Although a few will refuse, many will like your products, and that will give you a tremendous boost.

*contact local wedding planners to show your cakes, show your ability for wedding cakes. Believe me a well made wedding cake can really get you going with the wedding planners! And through them, you can managed to get referrals to several party organizers as well as event mangers.

*Free publicity always counts. In a bid for recognition, you can sponsor quite a few local events and church fundraising activities, as well as offering free sample products to the local orphanage. This will create really great exposure and word of mouth publicity free of charge!

*After a sufficient amount of publicity was generated using press releases, you can decide it is time to keep the interest going and baked a really big cake for the local orphanage in the form of a giant cookie. The cake was cut and the proceeds went to charity. You have to spend a really great amount of time to do this!

Cupcakes are a delicious snack that can be sold through a cupcake shop, bakery or online. Before opening a physical store to sell your cupcake creations, you may want to start off selling your treats online or at local events. Make money on your cupcakes by charging enough to cover the overhead to make the treats. Compare the prices charged by other cupcake sellers to stay competitive in the market.