Specialty Cakes

Specialty cakes often constitute a large part of a cake decorator's business. A speciality cake can be defined as a cake that is custom made for a customer.

While a cake decorator who works at a bakery often has a repertoire of cake designs that are used to create cakes for customers, the cake decorator may also fill customer orders for specialty cakes, such as wedding cakes or baby shower cakes. An individual cake decorating business; however, will spend more time creating custom made cakes.

Most wedding cakes fall into the category of specialty cakes because most brides naturally want custom made cakes for their weddings. Store bakeries sell lots of cakes that are not specialty cakes, such as ready-made birthday cakes and dessert cakes.

The customer usually browses through a portfolio and selects a cake. Many of these cakes are airbrushed and follow similar designs, as seen in their display cases, much unlike the customized or specialty cakes. The child's name is added of course. Figurines, such as horses, cars and palm trees, are often an option. Conversely, a speciality cake would be custom made design to baking to finish.

Specialty cakes are often made by cake decorators who run their own businesses. Specialty cakes include cakes for every occasion under the sun.

Depending on the cake design requested, a specialty cake may be rather simple or extremely complicated. Some cake decorators specialize in certain types of specialty cakes.

For example, at Mike's Amazing Cakes Website you will see life-like and unusual cake sculptures that are among the best in the world. Specialty cakes such as these sculptured cakes are created by master cake design artists.

Colette Peters, well known for her topsy turvy cakes and her whimsical cakes, is an example of a cake decorator who specializes in a very distinct style of speciality cake.

Many beginning decorators specialize in children's birthday specialty cakes. Often the speciality cake is made for one's own child, and then a parent who sees it requests one for an upcoming birthday, word of mouth spreads, and the new cake decorator finds she or he is specializing in children's birthday cakes.

Other cake decorating professionals specialize in wedding cakes. Many cake decorators just starting out with their businesses will simply specialize in speciality cakes in general, working hard to create custom cakes that please customers who have provided specific details for the entire cake or have simply requested a theme, cake flavor and types of icing and filling.

Specialty cakes may also include sugar free and vegan cakes. Those desiring to commission specialty cakes should allow for more time than when requesting a cake from a bakery's portfolio.

Communication with the cake decorator is very important. Once the s\cake is under construction, or even before, it could be quite costly to change course because specialty cakes require lots of designing time as well as special ingredients.