4 minutes to save the world!
So I started work at Albertsons' this past thursday.. there's nothing better then being thrown right into the deep end head first.
Currently my store is going through a full scale remodel. Everything from the walls, to the floors, to the cake case! Meanwhile the entire store is a mess, in the bakery we are trying to transition from the summer schematic to the fall schematic. A transition like that is no easy task.. everything from the colors, to the flavors of cake have to change. Going back to my first sentence of being thrown into the deep end head first, I have been working to get the bakery up to fall schematic before the head honcho's decide to walk the store.
Oh and by the way.. the walk is happening THIS THURSDAY!
So... again... thrown in, head first. < insert sigh face here > lol
Customer order shaped cakes seemed to be on the menu during my first week back with Albertsons. I had a request to make "Thomas the train","A world out of candy", and lastly a Motor-home cake. I really have my hands full this week between trying to change over the cake case and also make these wierd designs.
A favorite of mine is the new variety of triple layer cakes like the Rocky Road, Triple Chocolate Decadence, and the White Forest cake. Most of the new cakes focus on the revenge of whip cream, but thankfully it's not all bad. These triple layer cakes focus primarily on mixed layers of chocolate and white cake. Flavor and cost wise it's a great idea.. not to mention that the cakes actually look really nice.
For my first week back I have been finding it difficult to ramp up my speed and lower my quality in production. It's harder than most people think to go from making grocery store cakes to wedding cakes and back to grocery store cakes. It's been like a rollercoaster trying to go up to the slow speed and high quality of what a wedding cake should be. Then back down to working fast and low quality at a grocery store. Either way I think I have found a happy medium where I am able to push cakes out at an alarming rate of 8 minutes for a 1/4 sheet, 10 for a 1/2 sheet, and 4 minutes for a double layer cake.
Stay tuned this next week for the continuation of this weeks events!
Tell us how/what you're gonna have prepared for the walk and let us know how it goes!!!!
ReplyDeleteYeah, would love to know! Love the blog, the colors! More cake pics, do you have any from the ones at PP?
ReplyDeleteMiss you and Josh!
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yea, i think maybe my next blog i'll start posting some of my cakes from PP
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