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Our Broad brought in the renowned decorator and author Colette Peters, who
taught attendees at a hands-on workshop how to make gorgeous realistic
peony flowers. During a
general session, she showed how easy it is to make a “whimsy cake”
that transports well. We
found Colette to be down to earth and extremely cordial; she even posed
for pictures.
Christopher Campbell, the
educational & motivational speaker, interacted well with the bakers,
exchanging ideas on customer service and profitability. Some of the ideas
shared during his general session, Owner’s Only session, and as a lunch
table-top discussion, were old ideas reinforced in new ways, while others
were innovative new ideas.
Former
RBA President, Jackie Scott shared her experience in her session about
“what’s going to happen to your bakery…”, not only when you
retire, but also when you need to get away and take time off.
The Bread & Pastry Chef Dominique Homo brought years of
experience & research with whole grains, raisins, and nuts, into his
session. He demonstrated some
yummy products that are guaranteed to increase profits. Everyone
knows how popular coffee drink are now a days, but Island Coffee showed
how easy it is to create basic coffee house drinks like lattes, espressos,
cappuccino, smoothies, and frappes. If
your bakery doesn’t sell these drinks, you are missing the boat.
Thanks go to General Mills, who sponsored the decorating session
with Mara & Stuart McCoy. Mara
is truly an artist that has channeled her talent into making
caricature sculptured cakes. During
the session, Stuart shared some of their unique concepts for order taking,
pricing, and advertising, as well as decorating.
They asked us ahead to arrange for them to take their cakes to a local
hospital to be enjoyed and not wasted.
Not
only did the people, who were brought in for our program, share some
wonderful ideas and fantastic decorating, but so did our own members.
They shared their own decorating tips to make your decorating run
smoother in the “Decorating Showcase,” and formulas to make some
delicious products in the “Bakers Showcase”.
You can also see from the pictures that the Baked Foods Contest had
loads of terrific cakes and ideas. Have
you ever thought or tried to incorporate spun sugar creations into your
decorated cakes? Well the
beer bottles and plate were spun sugar in the ice chest & grill entry.
Or have you thought to put a digital frame or music player into a
decorated cake? All of the
decorated cakes, both wedding and special occasion, were unique. Not to
mention all of the wonderful tasting cakes, cookies, candies, Danish, and
breads. This years’
competition had sooo many good entries that it was hard to choose the best
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Dominique Homo
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Mara & Stuart McCoy. |
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Colette's Peony
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