Specialty cake baker is kind of interesting job. In this case, if you are interested in this job, to begin it, you’ll need a commercial or high-quality consumer oven plus mixing bowls, baking pans, pastry bags for filling, icing tools, and other utensils. You’ll need to invest in basic ingredients and store them properly. For formal cakes, you’ll need elegant presentation platters and cake plates. To create image cakes, you can choose to draw pictures freehand using a food-grade airbrush system with food coloring. The high-tech solution requires a computer and scanner to create digital files from photographs or an Internet connection capable of accepting digital images sent directly by customers; you’ll also need image-editing software such as Adobe Photoshop.
Finally, you’ll need an ink-jet printer, a supply of edible food color ink, and special edible transfer sheets that can be laid on top of an iced cake. Ink-jet printers range in price from about $150 to $350; ink and edible frosting sheets cost about $2 to $4 per cake. You will also need delivery boxes for local customers and shipping containers and access to packaged dry ice for cakes that will be sent by air freight.
But, before you go on to run this kind of job, you have to make sure that you are aware of any legal requirements in your area regarding the preparation of food. An insurance agent can offer counsel about commercial insurance or riders to your homeowner’s policies to cover business use of your kitchen (providing such use is permitted in your locality).