You are so honest and generous. I can totally relate to the personal hygiene part! On my son's birthday party i had to schedule half an hour to shower at 5 am 😂
again very good ideas, ive already pinched your idea of having one baking day etc so i no longer get muddled, well no more muddled than i normally am lol ;-) would love to see how you set up for photos as thats what my hubby is getting into so i let him take photos of my cakes he just wants to do a more professional job of it xxx
Sounds like my week, only I only do consulting and tastings on the weeks I don’t have orders. Took me 7 yrs to finally find a rhythm. Once I did, I found my life was way less stressful. Thanks for sharing this Tracy, I see this really helping newbies for sure. Wish I had had this info about 15 yr ago LOL
ha ha I'd say you did amazingly! There are still people surpassing 7 years who still find it difficult to get into their rhythm, its so much harder than it seems! ha Thanks Ann-Marie :D xxx
If I knew this last year this would have changed my life and I might be baking full time! I had NO idea that you could bake cakes this early and they would keep!! 😩 I always did mine the night before. Wedding cake, tier cakes, any size cake. It would all be done in 24 hours or even less as I worked part time 1pm-5pm every day! I got so frustrated and stressed towards the end and took too much on that I gave it up after all the fun was sucked out of it and I got made redundant from my part time job. I now work full time in compliance and hardly ever bake. I spent so much money on equipment and tools. I hope I get back into it one day. You were one of the you tubers who got me started in the first place! Love your videos! Xx
Oh wow, I can see how that would be MORE than stressful! Yes, you just have to make sure you sugar syrup them, and then seal them in once stacked with buttercream or ganache. (And also not use any fresh fillings like cream/cream cheese!) Hope you manage to find the fun in it again xx
I always thought u got a maid or someone to help u!! But now I could easily say ur a ”super Woman” 😍💃😘💖 u plan everything ahead!! Great!! Learnt many things in this tutorial 💖💖 thank u so much 💓
i feel you girl gurl.. first i love watching your tutorials then i discover that you are vlogging too so i spend my whole day watching your vlogs coz i find it very inspirational.. think i will do some vloging to in the next day just find my courage to do it because i get easily tired also sometimes.. god bless you and keep on vlogging
I totally agree with you about mid week cakes, had a nightmare week last week because of this!! and customers getting their dates wrong, never again lol virtual fist pump right back at ya xx
Oh God I wish I could do it like you do... I refuse to bake my cakes more than 2 days before delivery becausei workwith small layer (up to 14 per cake) and I can take up to 3 orders during the weekend and sometimes even 1 cake during the week, and i have to do everything between feedings and naps of my twins (3 1/2 month old) and while my toddler is in preeschool... so anything goes... maybe in a year I can actually have a less changing schedule. Keep those tutorials coming! I love your cakes !
I always get majorly confused when people call tea dinner. Dinner is at 12ish, tea is the night time meal 🙈 Love how organised you are. I used to try to do everything from baking to finishing I'm 2 days. Saw one of your earlier vlogs where you baked one day and ganached and covered the next and then started decorating the day after. Genuinely an absolute game changer for me x
I was confused by the tea bit too, but it's because I'm American. Here, we don't do tea. We have lunch around noon-ish, and we call the evening meal dinner. And we don't have tea with dinner, unless it's sweet iced tea lol. Love hearing about different customs from different countries
ha ha yes here in the UK it's usually one or the other. Mainly in the south 'lunch' is 12pm, and the evening meal is 'dinner'. Up North to a lot of people 'dinner' is 12pm (that's why they call them dinner ladies at school!) and 'tea' is the evening meal. Tea is also a drink - but usually we use the slang 'brew' for that LOL x Confusing for sure!
Love this! I always have to write down a schedule so I know what day to do what step! It keeps me (mostly) sane. This brought up two questions, though! I am a "hobby" baker with a full time job, so I sometimes have to bake on a weekend before or something. Usually, I freeze my cakes, then thaw the same day I will cut, fill, and crumb coat. Should I be letting them thaw and settle overnight like you do? I have never had a problem with bulging, but I don't use fondant that often. Second, do you have a box tutorial somewhere? I would LOVE to know how you package those cakes for delivery, especially over long distances. Anyway, THANK YOU SO MUCH for every video you post. You are the best!!
Hey! I don't freeze mine so I cant say for sure - but I would have thought they would have already settled during that process so you should be fine :D x I just place my cakes fully built on some non slip matting inside a regular cardboard box :D x Thank you so much for watching!
Very interesting I didn't realize that a cake business full-time was 7 days a week basically it's a lot to think about things for sharing everything that you share you make things so much easier on my life you're wonderful person thank you again and keep on caking
Thanks for the video Tracey. Another item for my 'to buy' list along with the weekly diary is the cake storage box to store the cake overnight before filling and ganaching coz i am sick of fighting with cling film 😆 i usually bake late afternoon so by the time the cake cake cools fully its usually too late to start filling and ganaching so im assuming leaving it overnight is fine? Gives it more settling time maybe??
When decorating do you put cake in fridge to cool or does it stay out of the fridge once you crumb coat? Love your videos, thanks for helping this home baker improve!!
Hi! No I don't like to put cakes in the fridge as it makes the sugar paste sweat. Once they are finished they go into a box in my living room as shown in the vid :D x
I don't run a cake business,but I run my life in a very similar way to you accept I am very I.T challenged so do as little as possible, I do love a list ! It's interesting seeing how you fit everything in,are you going to cake international in London ,I hope so x
Great help thank you ! Can I just ask as I am due my hygiene checks soon & rather nervous haha ! Do ganached cakes not need to go in the fridge ? Is it the sugar in the choc that makes it keep ... I was told using cream puts your food business in the higher risk bracket . I’d definitely prefer to use it xx hope you don’t mind me asking
Hi, I love your tutorials and always find them really helpful.. 💕 If you're making a "rustic" wedding cake that's covered in ganache, and then a "rough look" buttercream/cream cheese frosting (applied the night before) would you refrigerate the cakes over night or just leave in a cool place.? Thank you x
Thank you! If its just regular buttercream it can be left out and it will crust on its own. If its cream cheese that 100% needs refrigerating as it's not shelf stable xxx
Hello, thank you for your video, it was very helpful. When you do this, what is the weather like, in your place? Also, May I ask what is your airbrush and what colours do you use?
Im in the UK so it can be anywhere from humid and sticky, to freezing cold! LOL Yes if you head to one of my videos where I do any type of airbrushing the products are listed in the description box :D x
Hi. It's not out a week. The actual cake is only open to the air as it's cooling on a Tuesday. By Tuesday night the cake is fully sealed up in ganache and is eaten on the Saturday. No preservatives. :D
Thank you so much! You're so funny! (maybe you'll have time for hygiene). I'm gonna try to get the entire cake done in one day tomorrow.... haha, wish me luck! o_o
On my kitchen worktop at room temp. I'm in the UK so it's not hot. The ganache creates a sealed shell around the sponge and I don't use perishable fillings. :D x
HELP!! I'm trying to start posting vids on utube and for the life of me I cant find get my camera to record longer than 29mins at a clip. I looked into better memory cards etc with no luck. Idk what else to do. I'm renovating my house atm and one of the spare rms I'm turning into a bakery so it's been soo crazy here and wit this vid problem I'm going to lose my mind
Hi Katherine wowzers you have a lot going on! Maybe do your renovations first and then take a look at your camera in greater detail afterwards, as you'll be less stressed and rushed :D Maybe it could be your camera settings, SD card or maybe what you're trying to film on has limitations. I'm sure googling your camera type, along with your problem will pull up some good results x
I’m curious as to what you price your cakes as I see you only do 2 or 3 cakes a week? I’m in the states and some weeks I have 5 plus other treats. Sigh
Ooooh it would have been quite a few months in 2009, I was pregnant with my daughter and the smell of the oven just being turned on would knock me sick LOL
They are settling under tupperware until they are soft, and then covered in ganache so its all sealed :D Things go stale faster when exposed to air. The chocolate barrier stops air getting in - like wrapping sandwiches in a bag, apposed to leaving them out on a plate :D x Theres also sugar syrup too which keeps them extra moist :D x
Thank you so much 😊 I need to learn from the master herself 😂 I usually bake my cakes the day before and decoration is done the day before as well and it can be tiring 😴
The Friday night freak out is so real!! I was always cool as a cuce right up until Friday then suddenly Id realize it was 3am and I'm crying😂
The Lovely Baker truth!!
PAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA too true xx
Virtual fist bump indeed 👊. I love this. Its given me an idea on how to plan myself.
You are so honest and generous.
I can totally relate to the personal hygiene part! On my son's birthday party i had to schedule half an hour to shower at 5 am 😂
pahahah that's hilarious XD
Thank you so much
You are most welcome x
Thanks for sharing Tracey, really helpful. I’ll come down, all the way from Edinburgh and give you a day off. You soooo deserve it!!!! 👊🏼 xxx
ha ha Thanks Paula!
again very good ideas, ive already pinched your idea of having one baking day etc so i no longer get muddled, well no more muddled than i normally am lol ;-) would love to see how you set up for photos as thats what my hubby is getting into so i let him take photos of my cakes he just wants to do a more professional job of it xxx
Thanks! Yes pricing and photos are my most requested and awaited videos - they are just going to take longer to shoot lol
Sounds like my week, only I only do consulting and tastings on the weeks I don’t have orders. Took me 7 yrs to finally find a rhythm. Once I did, I found my life was way less stressful. Thanks for sharing this Tracy, I see this really helping newbies for sure. Wish I had had this info about 15 yr ago LOL
ha ha I'd say you did amazingly! There are still people surpassing 7 years who still find it difficult to get into their rhythm, its so much harder than it seems! ha Thanks Ann-Marie :D xxx
If I knew this last year this would have changed my life and I might be baking full time! I had NO idea that you could bake cakes this early and they would keep!! 😩
I always did mine the night before. Wedding cake, tier cakes, any size cake. It would all be done in 24 hours or even less as I worked part time 1pm-5pm every day! I got so frustrated and stressed towards the end and took too much on that I gave it up after all the fun was sucked out of it and I got made redundant from my part time job. I now work full time in compliance and hardly ever bake. I spent so much money on equipment and tools. I hope I get back into it one day. You were one of the you tubers who got me started in the first place! Love your videos! Xx
Oh wow, I can see how that would be MORE than stressful!
Yes, you just have to make sure you sugar syrup them, and then seal them in once stacked with buttercream or ganache. (And also not use any fresh fillings like cream/cream cheese!)
Hope you manage to find the fun in it again xx
Yaaay Fistpump! 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽
I always thought u got a maid or someone to help u!! But now I could easily say ur a ”super Woman” 😍💃😘💖 u plan everything ahead!! Great!! Learnt many things in this tutorial 💖💖 thank u so much 💓
hahaha Thank you!
Very thankful for this info, can't wait for the Next one 😊
Thanks!
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i feel you girl gurl.. first i love watching your tutorials then i discover that you are vlogging too so i spend my whole day watching your vlogs coz i find it very inspirational.. think i will do some vloging to in the next day just find my courage to do it because i get easily tired also sometimes.. god bless you and keep on vlogging
Thank you so much!
I totally agree with you about mid week cakes, had a nightmare week last week because of this!! and customers getting their dates wrong, never again lol virtual fist pump right back at ya xx
yes you end up working over the weekend doing baking and things! xx
Thank you so much for that! Was much needed for me from a pro like you
Thank you!! xxx
I've just had me 'tea' an thought I have a quick look because its Tuesday yay! Muted the Chase haha
hahaha XD
Thank you so much! This is so so helpful!
Thanks Sarah! Glad you found it helpful :D x
Oh God I wish I could do it like you do... I refuse to bake my cakes more than 2 days before delivery becausei workwith small layer (up to 14 per cake) and I can take up to 3 orders during the weekend and sometimes even 1 cake during the week, and i have to do everything between feedings and naps of my twins (3 1/2 month old) and while my toddler is in preeschool... so anything goes... maybe in a year I can actually have a less changing schedule.
Keep those tutorials coming! I love your cakes !
Thanks! Wow 14 layers! That's fabulous x
I always get majorly confused when people call tea dinner. Dinner is at 12ish, tea is the night time meal 🙈
Love how organised you are. I used to try to do everything from baking to finishing I'm 2 days. Saw one of your earlier vlogs where you baked one day and ganached and covered the next and then started decorating the day after. Genuinely an absolute game changer for me x
I was confused by the tea bit too, but it's because I'm American. Here, we don't do tea. We have lunch around noon-ish, and we call the evening meal dinner. And we don't have tea with dinner, unless it's sweet iced tea lol. Love hearing about different customs from different countries
ha ha yes here in the UK it's usually one or the other. Mainly in the south 'lunch' is 12pm, and the evening meal is 'dinner'.
Up North to a lot of people 'dinner' is 12pm (that's why they call them dinner ladies at school!) and 'tea' is the evening meal.
Tea is also a drink - but usually we use the slang 'brew' for that LOL x Confusing for sure!
All of this!!! *PLUS a Monday through Thursday Freak Out...I’m a full time Reading Specialist by day and a baker by, uhhhh whatever’s left of the day😩
hahha gosh, busy busy!
Love love love this vlog! Could you do one on pricing cakes?!
Thank you! Yes it's on my to-do list xx
This is a very good update. I find it very helpful. You make wow cakes, I love them. Do you share videos on the cakes you make?
Thanks! yes they are all here on my channel x
Love this! I always have to write down a schedule so I know what day to do what step! It keeps me (mostly) sane. This brought up two questions, though! I am a "hobby" baker with a full time job, so I sometimes have to bake on a weekend before or something. Usually, I freeze my cakes, then thaw the same day I will cut, fill, and crumb coat. Should I be letting them thaw and settle overnight like you do? I have never had a problem with bulging, but I don't use fondant that often. Second, do you have a box tutorial somewhere? I would LOVE to know how you package those cakes for delivery, especially over long distances. Anyway, THANK YOU SO MUCH for every video you post. You are the best!!
Hey! I don't freeze mine so I cant say for sure - but I would have thought they would have already settled during that process so you should be fine :D x I just place my cakes fully built on some non slip matting inside a regular cardboard box :D x Thank you so much for watching!
And thank you so much for always replying! @@Cherrycakeco
Fist bump right back at ya 👊🏼
Helpful as always😇😘
Thank you Jenny!
Awesome video.....love each and every one of yours......hope you can do a video on how to price a cake....love you
Thank you!
I noticed that you do not refrigerate your cakes. Do you ever bake ahead & freeze them?
No, I always bake fresh - just personal preference :D x
@@Cherrycakeco but when you put the filling you put the cake into the fridge
Very interesting I didn't realize that a cake business full-time was 7 days a week basically it's a lot to think about things for sharing everything that you share you make things so much easier on my life you're wonderful person thank you again and keep on caking
I gave u a fist pump😍 You're awesome! I make a long list. And I do what you do. And this is just a hobby for me.💕
Got to love a list! Gives the brain a small rest from storing it all haha x
Thank u sooo much for tht video
Thanks for watching!
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Thanks for the video Tracey. Another item for my 'to buy' list along with the weekly diary is the cake storage box to store the cake overnight before filling and ganaching coz i am sick of fighting with cling film 😆 i usually bake late afternoon so by the time the cake cake cools fully its usually too late to start filling and ganaching so im assuming leaving it overnight is fine? Gives it more settling time maybe??
Sure that sounds ideal! xxx
When decorating do you put cake in fridge to cool or does it stay out of the fridge once you crumb coat? Love your videos, thanks for helping this home baker improve!!
Thanks!! I never put my cakes in the fridge at any point :D x
Do you refrigerate your cake after covering your cake with fondant? And how do you store when you finish decorating? Thanks in advance🙏🏻
Hi! No I don't like to put cakes in the fridge as it makes the sugar paste sweat. Once they are finished they go into a box in my living room as shown in the vid :D x
Little Cherry Cake thank you for answering! Btw i love all your vids👍🏻
I don't run a cake business,but I run my life in a very similar way to you accept I am very I.T challenged so do as little as possible, I do love a list ! It's interesting seeing how you fit everything in,are you going to cake international in London ,I hope so x
Thank you! Yes I'm there on Thursday and Friday :D x
Great help thank you ! Can I just ask as I am due my hygiene checks soon & rather nervous haha ! Do ganached cakes not need to go in the fridge ? Is it the sugar in the choc that makes it keep ... I was told using cream puts your food business in the higher risk bracket . I’d definitely prefer to use it xx hope you don’t mind me asking
Hi love all you video😀 do you share your cake recipes?
I do! They are often written in the comments under some of my videos. It's just a regular victoria sponge cake recipe :D x
Where I can buy the tool that you use for level the chocolate layer?
Hi, I love your tutorials and always find them really helpful.. 💕 If you're making a "rustic" wedding cake that's covered in ganache, and then a "rough look" buttercream/cream cheese frosting (applied the night before) would you refrigerate the cakes over night or just leave in a cool place.? Thank you x
Thank you! If its just regular buttercream it can be left out and it will crust on its own. If its cream cheese that 100% needs refrigerating as it's not shelf stable xxx
@@Cherrycakeco Thank you 💕☺️
Can u give me tips on working on cakes while being a student ☺️
Hello, thank you for your video, it was very helpful. When you do this, what is the weather like, in your place? Also, May I ask what is your airbrush and what colours do you use?
Im in the UK so it can be anywhere from humid and sticky, to freezing cold! LOL
Yes if you head to one of my videos where I do any type of airbrushing the products are listed in the description box :D x
Hi, how does your cake stay out for a week without going stale ? Do you use preservative ?
Hi. It's not out a week. The actual cake is only open to the air as it's cooling on a Tuesday. By Tuesday night the cake is fully sealed up in ganache and is eaten on the Saturday. No preservatives. :D
Thanks for sharing..!!
I have a question..?
What you do when people ask you to low a cake price?
Thank you again God bless you.
Thanks! Never, ever, ever lower a cake price. They wouldn't do that on their weekly shop! x
Thank you so much! You're so funny! (maybe you'll have time for hygiene). I'm gonna try to get the entire cake done in one day tomorrow.... haha, wish me luck! o_o
Ha ha thank you! Hope it went well xxx
do you use chocolate ganache for every cake flavor? what if the customer asks for something different? do you ever usr buttercreams?
I sure, do, ganache all the way! : ua-cam.com/video/R4gEJ1eLISU/v-deo.html
Brilliant thank you!!
Do you charge for consultation?
No, but there is a charge on the final cake order if they fail to show up on the day x
How do you keep your cake after filling and ganache crumb coating tuesday night? Since you said your not putting cake inside the fridge.
On my kitchen worktop at room temp. I'm in the UK so it's not hot. The ganache creates a sealed shell around the sponge and I don't use perishable fillings. :D x
HELP!! I'm trying to start posting vids on utube and for the life of me I cant find get my camera to record longer than 29mins at a clip. I looked into better memory cards etc with no luck. Idk what else to do. I'm renovating my house atm and one of the spare rms I'm turning into a bakery so it's been soo crazy here and wit this vid problem I'm going to lose my mind
Hi Katherine wowzers you have a lot going on! Maybe do your renovations first and then take a look at your camera in greater detail afterwards, as you'll be less stressed and rushed :D Maybe it could be your camera settings, SD card or maybe what you're trying to film on has limitations. I'm sure googling your camera type, along with your problem will pull up some good results x
I’m curious as to what you price your cakes as I see you only do 2 or 3 cakes a week? I’m in the states and some weeks I have 5 plus other treats. Sigh
Yep a pricing video is well requested, it's on my list :D x
How many days/weeks have you ever gone without a cake order? #TheCherryBrigade 🍒
Ooooh it would have been quite a few months in 2009, I was pregnant with my daughter and the smell of the oven just being turned on would knock me sick LOL
@@Cherrycakeco lol I remember those days! My husband couldn't make hard boiled eggs! I wanted to die! Thanks for answering!
How do you the cakes not go stale
They are settling under tupperware until they are soft, and then covered in ganache so its all sealed :D Things go stale faster when exposed to air. The chocolate barrier stops air getting in - like wrapping sandwiches in a bag, apposed to leaving them out on a plate :D x Theres also sugar syrup too which keeps them extra moist :D x
Thank you so much 😊 I need to learn from the master herself 😂 I usually bake my cakes the day before and decoration is done the day before as well and it can be tiring 😴
Why don’t u refrigerate them between steps😁
Hi, personal hygiene what’s that, I’m permanently sticky. Lick me and I taste of icing sugar... and the places I’ve found ganache 👀😉🤫
LOL usually in my eyebrows or eyelashes hahaha x