Cyndie Downer started baking cakes about 6 years ago. She began baking cakes for her 2 daughters and some family friends, after this went on for awhile she began to sell her cakes.
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| Cyndie decorating a birthday cake |
Cyndie's speciality was birthday cakes but recently she has started making more wedding cakes. She says they are very beautiful to make but she still loves the challenge of a fun character-full birthday cake.
The most recent cake she made was a two tier glow in the dark splatter paint birthday cake. She covered both tiers in black fondant and made glow in the dark icing to splatter across it.
Cyndie enjoys baking cakes. She says it's almost like a relaxation hobby that she gets paid for, therefore even better.
Currently she bakes around 2 cakes a month, but the past month of October she has made 7 cakes. Her busiest time of the year are the months between March and August because she says those are big wedding and birthday months.
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| Naked Wedding Cake |
She says this was her favorite cake to make because it was one of the most beautiful ones she's seen. What she says she likes most about the cake is the fresh white roses added on each tier.
Cyndie sold the cake for $350 and it fed 100 people.
The bride this cake was made for was given a quote of $900 by another bakery for this same cake. Cyndie does not have as many fees to pay for within a commercial bakery so she can charge a lot less for her cakes.
Click here to visit Sweet South Bake Shop's Facebook page. Orders for cakes or general interests in them can be made through this page. Cyndie is available year round for cake orders.
Click here to visit Sweet South Bake's Instagram to see more photos and videos of Cyndie's baking skills and some of the cakes she has made. The Instagram is updated every time a cake is baked.
Awesome job, Courtney!
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