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    Decorated Treats » Other Techniques

    Baking Shopping List

    Published: Jul 30, 2020 · Modified: Aug 4, 2022 by Priya Maha

    This baking shopping list is perfect for home bakers. It comes in very handy and helps you organize your ingredients and supplies by identifying current stock of your supplies and listing out the quantities required to be replenished.

    It is a great way to avoid situations where you run out of ingredients halfway through a baking or decorating project and helps you keep track of all our purchases.

    A poster of 3 tiered cakes - baking essentials list

    When I was running my baking and decorating business, I came up with a baking ingredients and baking shopping list to help ensure all my supplies were in order before I embarked on a decorating project.

    The list is basically an inventory shopping list that I use to check my stock at home and identify supplies that need to be replenished or newly purchased (for example a new cake tool for a new design I was going to decorate). 

    ❤️Why you will love this list

    • It will ensure you have sufficient stock of ingredients and all the necessary tools before starting a cake baking and decorating project.
    • It is very organized and easy to implement.
    • It is an effective way to manage your business and keep track of your purchases.

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    • How to Create an Effective Shopping List
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    How to Create an Effective Shopping List

    The first part of the list focuses on common baking ingredients and supplies. This includes standard cake ingredients such as sugar, flour, butter, and eggs and common supplies like cake boards, candles and cake boxes.

    The second part lists all the tools and supplies that are specific to a particular cake design. For example, if you are going to make a wedding cake with damask design and gum paste hydrangeas, the list would include additional supplies such as gum paste, floral wire, floral tape, hydrangea petal cutters and damask stencil (if you do not already own these), etc.

    Let's look at an example. Assuming you have to make the following castle birthday cake in 2 weeks' time and the customer's choice of cake is vanilla butter pound cake with vanilla buttercream filling.

    A pink, 2 tier castle cake decorated with colorful candies

    Cake and frosting ingredients list:

    After designing and deciding on the cake size,  you need to list out all the cake and frosting ingredients needed. Example as follows: 

    Cake Ingredients

    Quantity Required

    Quantity in Stock

    Quantity to be purchased

    Butter

    Granulated sugar

    Self raising flour

    Salt 

    Baking Powder

    Eggs

    Milk

    Vanilla extract

    900gm

    900gm

    900gm

    a pinch

    approx 2tsp

    15

    15tbsp

    2.5tsp

    500gm

    400gm

    100gm

    approx 500g

    approx 100g

    25

    1 carton

    2 bottles

    2kg

    2kg

    2kg

    -

    -

    10

    -

    -

    The first and second columns are the list of ingredients and quantity you need for the project. The third column is the quantity of stock you have at home while the last column (which is highlighted) is the quantity you need to purchase.

    If you notice the list above, I have indicated the quantity of butter, sugar and flour to be purchased to be more than what is required. This is because these are common ingredients and you can stock them up slightly more than required for any last minute orders or for contingency.

    Next, add the frosting ingredients. For this cake, I estimate about 3 batches of buttercream icing recipe:

    Frosting Ingredients

    Quantity Required

    Quantity in Stock

    Quantity to be purchased

    Butter

    Powdered sugar

    Vanilla extract

    360g

    360g

    1.5tsp

    -

    500g

    2 bottles

    1kg

    1kg

    -

    Again, you can indicate to purchase slightly more butter and powdered sugar than required as you can use them for other future orders.

    Do note that for certain common ingredients like butter, where you will be using it for the cake as well as the frosting, once you have indicated the quantity you have at home under the cake ingredients list, remember to indicate the current stock in the frosting list as zero or nil. In the example above, since the available stock is only 500gm and it has been taken that into account in the cake ingredients list, reflect the quantity in stock for the buttercream icing as nil. 

    Common essentials list:

    The next items to go into the list are common supplies. These are items that are generally required for all orders, so this listing will be fairly fixed. The only changes would be to the color variants and sizes.

    Items

    Quantity Required

    Quantity Available

    Quantity to be purchased

    Cake boards

    - 15" square

    Fondant

    - pink

    - green

    - white

    Ribbon 

    -pink

    Glue sticks 

    Bubble tea straw

    Food coloring

    - pink

    -vert green

    -brown

    Cake boxes

    -15" square 

    Cake knife

    Candles


    1


    1 tub

    ¼ tub

    1 tub


    1.5 meters

    ½ 

    4 straws


    a few drops

    a few drops

    a few drops


    1

    1

    4


    0


    2 tubs

    0

    ½ large tub


    1 roll (4 meters)

    10 

    50 straws


    available

    available

    available


    0

    15

    50


    1


    -

    1 tub

    -


    -

    -

    -


    -

    -

    -


    1

    -

    -

    Specific tools and supplies list:

    The last items to go into the shopping list are specific tools or supplies for a particular cake design. For the castle cake above, the following are the specific items:

    • M&M candies
    • Marshmallows
    • Silver luster dust for wordings on the cake
    • Yellow and purple fondant for flowers (since there is very little of these colors on the cake, you can use white fondant and tint it with food coloring instead of buying pre-colored fondant).
    • Flower plunger cutters

    Items

    Quantity Required

    Quantity Available

    Quantity to be purchased

    M&M candies

    Marshmallows

    Flower cutter

    Fondant

    -purple

    -yellow

    Food color

    - purple

    - yellow

    Silver luster dust

    2 packets

    1 packet

    1 (medium)


    1 tbsp

    1 tbsp


    a few drops

    a few drops

    1 tsp

    0

    0

    1 set


    0

    0


    1 bottle

    0

    ¾ of small jar

    2 packets

    1 packet

    -


    -

    -

    -

    -

    1 bottle

    -

    And that's pretty much how you can use the shopping list to help with your baking and decorating.  

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