Premix Your Recipe Before Major Projects In Baking

5-20-17

I've already made my next big sale for the 4th time and I've gotten smarter as a baker in the realm of cakes. You might have experience and this article may seem like nothing to you, however this is more catered to the new inexperienced entrepreneur.
Please always premix your ingredients before major bakes the night before you are going to bake. This solves so many issues and saves time. This allows you to keep doing batch after batch after batch with little or no interruption to the baking process.

As much of us want to keep quality high and freshness a consistent factor in our recipe, we have to give balance to our own personal time as well. Premixing the night before will not drop quality or freshness knowing as long as it is somewhat air sealed with saran wrap or air tight containers, a 12 hour respite in a container will not really harm your ingredients.

With that being said I am able to drop in my wet ingredients like oil, eggs, and flavor extract into my batch and start mixing. Today i was doing cupcakes for a client I had to make 50 and box them. Mind you i only premixed my dry ingredients the night before, not my wet ingredients. What should have taken about 5- 8 hours to complete this job, which includes washing all my tools and utensils and drying them off and again after boxing my cupcakes, the premix actually saved me two hours and I was able to finish the bake in under 6 hours. Mind you I woke up early to get this job done but the point of this article is to save as much time as possible.

So the only thing left after inputting my wet ingredients was to place the liners on the tray and start baking, which is mostly waiting around and getting the next batch to be ready for the oven bake.

Once you have all the cupcakes baked properly the next thing is to frost them. In today's case it was a clients baby girl's christening. So we used pink food coloring as requested by the client.

I used a Swiss meringue frosting with pink food coloring.

Boxed them up

and my end result was this:

I was able to deliver to the client, got paid, and I have enough time to post my success for you guys.

Baking isn't hard, it requires a plan, a good recipe, some preparation. The idea is as a start up to find what saves you time in your work so that you can maximize the work day and get paid.

SW