Cake Icer: Craft Beautiful Cakes with Flexible Hours

Staten Island Chamber of Commerce; New York (NY); On-site; USD 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

One complimentary dessert per day

Flexible working hours

Professional decorating skill growth

Job summary

Magnolia Bakery is seeking a Cake Icer to craft beautifully finished cakes and cupcakes in a fast-paced bakery setting. You will assemble, fill, ice, and decorate per Magnolia’s signature styling, while upholding quality and color standards.

The role emphasizes training others, maintaining equipment, and producing consistent, high-quality products for daily production, seasonal orders, and events.

Qualifications

• 6–12 months of cake-decorating experience.
• Knowledge and proper use of cake-decorating tools, equipment, icings, ingredients, and techniques.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to consistency.
• Ability to maintain Magnolia Bakery standards while working efficiently in a high-volume environment.
• Hands-on, flexible, and highly responsive.
• Strong communication, reading, and writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Trim, assemble, fill, ice, and beautifully finish cake layers according to Magnolia Bakery specifications and quality standards.
• Ice and decorate specialty cakes, house cakes, specialty cupcakes, and other assigned products.
• Create inscriptions and decorations while maintaining Magnolia Bakery’s established design standards and signature aesthetic.
• Prepare and tint icings and other decorating components needed for daily production, specialty orders, seasonal products, and special events.
• Maintain Magnolia Bakery standards for color palette, cake design, presentation, portioning, and finished-product quality.
• Inspect finished products before they are offered for sale and ensure they meet Magnolia Bakery specifications.
• Maintain and properly care for assigned cake-icing tools and icer kits.
• Assist in training new Cake Icers and retraining existing Cake Icers on Magnolia Bakery recipes, techniques, procedures, standards, and seasonal or new products.
• Help organize and maintain proper station setup for all shifts.
• Be capable of executing required prep items associated with the Prep Cook/Baker’s Assistant position.
• Maintain a clean, organized, sanitary, and production-ready workstation.
• Follow and reinforce safe food-handling, sanitation, equipment, and cleaning procedures.
• Work collaboratively with the production team to meet daily production needs and special-order deadlines.
• Communicate clearly with team members and management and raise quality, supply, or production concerns promptly.

Skills

Cake decorating

Attention to detail

High-volume environment

Tools

Cake decorating tools

Icing equipment

Job description

Magnolia Bakery is seeking a Cake Icer to craft beautifully finished cakes and cupcakes in a fast-paced bakery setting. You will assemble, fill, ice, and decorate per Magnolia’s signature styling, while upholding quality and color standards.

The role emphasizes training others, maintaining equipment, and producing consistent, high-quality products for daily production, seasonal orders, and events.