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Cake Decorator
Job Position: Cake Decorator
Location: The Carriage House
Reports: Executive Pastry Chef
Status: Full Time & Part Time: Weekdays, weekends as needed (one weekend day a week required, depends on business needs)
Pay based on experience and knowledge
Age: 18 & UP
Summary:
Luscious & Sweet Bakery is seeking a talented and creative Cake Decorator to join our team. The ideal candidate has a passion for baking, strong decorating skills, and experience creating specialty and wedding cakes. We are looking for someone who is detail-oriented, artistic, and able to work efficiently in a fast-paced bakery environment.
Duties:
- Accurately scale and mix fillings and icings. Prepare and bake cakes, pastries, and other baked goods according to bakery recipes and standards
- Decorate cakes with buttercream, fondant, and other techniques
- Design and decorate specialty cakes, including wedding cakes and custom orders
- Maintain a clean and organized workstation in accordance with food safety standards
- Assist with ingredient preparation and inventory when needed
- Ensure product quality and consistency in all baked items
- Follow custom orders and design specifications accurately (weddings, birthdays, special events, etc.)
- Deliver finished products for the bakery, sister property
- Any other tasks assigned by management
Qualifications:
- 1–2 years of experience in baking and cake decorating (at commercial bakery settings preferred)
- Experience creating wedding cakes preferred
- Proficiency in buttercream, royal icing, fondant and specialized piping techniques (flowers, boarders)
- Understanding of cake stability, filling preparation and icing consistency
- Understanding FIFO method is crucial
- Strong fine art and design skills
- Attention to details
- Portfolio demonstrating your previous work
- Basic math skills to calculate recipes, scale ingredients, and manage inventory
- Ability to stand for long periods of time
- Ability to work independently, efficiently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
- Must have Driver’s License- Driving pastries to Luscious & Sweet Bakery
Benefits: Full-time employees are entitled to only medical health insurance and IRA.
- Part- Time employees are entitled to NJ Sick- 40 hours. Can utilize after the waiting period, 120 days after employment begins.