St stage

 

Buying and supplying all necessary ingredients

 

 

Nd stage

This stage involves receiving an order for the cake and discussing particular wants and needs with the customer.

 

 

Rd stage

 

Making a cake

 

 

Th stage

 

Decoration of the cake

 

 

Th stage

 

The final stage of the production process involves a supply of the cake to the customer meaning that the customer has to come and pick the cake up himself, or home delivery service, depending on the customer’s choice.

 

In order to decide what quantity of cakes I will be producing, I decided to find out how long it actually takes to make a cake. It takes up to two hours to make a simple vanilla cake, and about half of an hour to decorate it. It also doesn’t take much time to make small cup cakes, but it may take up to 1 or 2 days to make a proper wedding or fruit cake, because the individual needs of the customers have to be discussed. Considering the fact, that I will be working 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week, it is possible to project that my potential quantity of cakes produced is likely to vary between 2 and 4 simple vanilla cakes per day and 24 cakes per month. However, if it’s a wedding cake my projections are likely to be less optimistic and are likely to be between 3 to 5 cakes per week, and about one cake per day.