HOW TO BECOME A CAKE BOSS

A cake mimicking Cold Stone ice cream

Baking cakes has become a lucrative business and sometimes a good side hustle for a lot of Nigerians. The very first step is to get training on how to bake and decorate a cake for all occasions. One of such places where you can learn this is a place called The Cake Chancery at Ibadan.

It is owned by a renowned baker Nike who started out small but is now a Cake Boss. Her handle on Twitter is @TheCakeChancery . Once you have gotten a grip on how to bake and design amazing cakes for all types of occasions, the next step would be branding.

According to Nike, these were made with fondants

Cake for a teacher

Having a skill is one thing, but turning it into a business is another one thing Nike has being able to accomplish. In other to have a business, you need to understand the fundamentals of business, which one basic thing is having a name otherwise called branding.

You need to have a brand name, a catchy name which people can easily use to identify you. After getting a name you need packaging and i mean that in the full sense of it. You need a nice logo, and packs with your brand name in order to properly deliver your cakes. Once all that has been done, you better get a social media presence.

Take Nike as a case study, she has over 31,000 followers on Twitter and most of the time what she does there is showcase her works and talk about cakes in an interesting manner that engages people. This lady has been able to this so well that she has a governors name as a list of satisfied clients she can add to her resume.

Cake for a Dentist

Believe, this is a cake

Hennessy themed cake

She's a superb baker alright, but one other secret i think she can't deny is her apt use of social media, how she carries her audience along and showcases her work is a thing to marvel at, hence her being a case study for this. You need social media presence, in fact i can't over emphasize how important it is in this present day and time.

To be a boss in anything you do, you need hard-work, dedication and smart thinking. According to Nike, C.E.O of The Cake Chancery, she started baking just about 6 years ago and she mastered the craft by going for different training to perfect her skills.

Make-up themed cake

Contrary to what some people might believe, she has no background in fine arts, her artistic side woke up when she started baking professionally so it means you too can bake such amazing cakes when you put your mind to it. Nike fuels her focus by her zeal and passion for baking and she says managing customers is still something she is working on.

She passed an advice to upcoming bakers that they shouldn’t relent and consistency is what changes the game from zero to 100, so from an already established baker, in other to be a cake boss you need to be consistent. She really doesn't have a strategy for her business, so you don't have to worry you can just dive in and things might just fall in place.

According to Nike, who we see as a cake boss, social media has influenced her business a great deal because that’s where she gets to showcase her jobs and people retweet them all for awareness.

Cake made for the governor of Oyo

Cake made for a nurse/doctor

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