Chrissie Boon

Small Cakes, Big Business

Chrissie Boon
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Meet Chrissie and learn her strategy for balancing customization, customers and costs.
Learn Chrissie's techniques for making a sporty basketball cake and how to create cake boards that look like hardwood.
Chrissie shows you how to form, paint and store gum paste tiaras to top a beautiful, quilted princess cake.
Learn to make candles, cherries and other decorations ahead of time and see how quickly Chrissie's Drippy Icing Cake comes together.
Form tissue paper out of fondant and make a fashionable textured bow in preparation for the Present Cake.
Wrap a square cake like a present and then add the fondant-covered top and maybe even a little jewelry!
Chrissie shares invaluable tips and advice for decorators looking to market and sell their own line of custom cakes.
 
 
7 Lessons
1  hrs 51  mins

Description

Delight customers with a line of amazing designs you can create efficiently, consistently, and for much less than the cost of a custom cake. With expert decorator Chrissie Boon, you’ll learn cake business tips for pricing your designs and making decorations ahead of time to cut down complexity. Then, discover Chrissie’s time and cost-saving processes as she guides you through four dazzling cake projects from start to finish. You’ll see how to create Chrissie’s basketball-themed cake with a scoreboard, a princess cake with beautiful bling, a drippy icing cake decorated with fun fondant candles, and a gift box cake you could mistake for the real thing. Plus, take a tour of Chrissie’s Web site to see how she markets and displays her cakes!

Chrissie Boon

Chrissie began her baking career as a teenager, when she took over a cookie business that her mother and next-door neighbor had started. While at university, Chrissie took some cake decorating classes and realized she had found her career. Following her passion, Chrissie opened a small cake and cookie shop. Today, she and her husband run their custom cake studio, Too Nice to Slice, which is also home to Icing Inspirations, their cake decorating supply store. Chrissie is proud to create cakes that her customers cherish and share what she's learned with cake decorators from around the world.

Chrissie Boon

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