Diaper Cake Business
My wife and I make all of our diaper cakes together. Our style of cake takes four hands to make, besides, we just put on some rock and roll and get busy making them...we love it! The rolled diaper cake style as well as the theme style cakes can be made by one person but we wanted to offer something different and something we could do together. Keeps it from becoming a chore.
You do the math...$37,000 last 12 months of which about half is profit after supplies. Some times there are 6 - 7 cakes in a day and then we could get 2 - 3 in a week. Seems like the orders come in bunches. Your busy (baby season) months are April to October.
As soon as you possibly can, get an assembly line type work ethic built into your business. At first it takes anywhere from 1 - 3 hours to make one cake but as you get an assembly line going it will get alot faster. It takes my wife and I about 20 - 30 minutes to make a cake. Understand that the profit from our business is not enough to keep either of us from our 9 - 5 jobs. So we have to "fit" it in and have learned to get real fast at making them.
We carefully wrap every cake in tulle netting which does a better job of keeping the flowers and topper where they belong, besides, it's way better looking. We then put them in a 250 lb test cardboard box from ULine.com. Our 16" cake board fits snug. We then fill the rest of the box with ultra clean packing peanuts (we are working on a cardboard insert system because packing peanuts are extremely expensive). It's probably overkill though because our cakes are put together so well you can actually hang them upside down and they won't fall apart.
If you have any other questions, feel free to email me.
Regards,
Don Perreira
diapergifts.com
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