JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Cake Artist & Custom Cake Specialist

Location: New Delhi, India

About Us:

Mira’s is a premium bakery and café in New Delhi, offering artisanal baked goods, gourmet beverages, and a thoughtfully curated guest experience. Our brand focuses on warmth, consistency, and refined service, making guest satisfaction and staff excellence equally significant.

Job Summary:

We are looking for an exceptionally talented, creative, and experienced Cake Artist & Custom Cake Specialist to head our bespoke cake and premium dessert design section at Mira’s. In this role, you will conceptualize and execute intricate custom celebration cakes, tiered wedding cakes, handcrafted fondant figurines, sculpted novelties, and delicate artisanal dessert collections, ensuring our creations exceed client expectations in both artistry and taste.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Custom Cake Design & Fondant Artistry:

· Conceptualize, sketch, and handcraft custom theme cakes, multi-tiered wedding cakes, celebration cakes, and novelty sculpted cakes.

· Demonstrate high craftsmanship in working with fondant, sugar paste, gumpaste floral work, 3D figurines, modeling chocolate, and wafer paper art.

· Execute sharp edge finishing with chocolate ganache, silky buttercream, velvet sprays, and hand-painted edible artwork.

· Coordinate with guests and the retail front desk to interpret custom theme requests, color schemes, and reference mood boards accurately.

2. Gourmet Dessert & Pastry Finishing:

· Design and produce premium café dessert showcases including entremets, tarts, contemporary mousse cakes, choux pastries, and dessert jars.





· Develop bespoke dessert tables, themed cupcake towers, cake pop displays, and festive dessert hampers for private events and celebrations.

· Balance visual aesthetics with exceptional flavour profiles, delicate sponge textures, curds, and balanced fillings.

3. Recipe Standardization & Quality Control:

· Maintain consistent standard operating procedures (SOPs), recipe cards, and portioning for all cake sponges, ganaches, and frostings.

· Ensure structural stability, internal doweling, and secure packaging for multi-tiered and heavy novelty cakes to prevent transit damage.

· Inspect raw ingredients (dairy, couverture chocolate, edible colors) to uphold premium quality and shelf-life standards.

4. Kitchen Hygiene, Inventory & Team Mentorship:

· Guide and mentor commis bakers and trainees in fundamental cake prep, crumb coating, masking, and basic decorating techniques.

· Maintain meticulous cleanliness, tool maintenance (airbrush kits, sculpting tools, turntable sanitization), and food safety compliance.

· Plan daily production schedules, manage specialty fondant tool inventories, and order specialty cake decorating supplies efficiently.

Qualifications & Skills:

· 3–6 years of specialized experience as a Cake Artist,



Custom Cake Decorator, or Pastry Chef in a premium bakery, luxury hotel, or custom cake studio.

· Diploma or Degree in Bakery & Confectionery / Culinary Arts (preferred, though exceptional portfolio/experience is valued equally).

· A compelling professional portfolio showcasing fondant sculpting, gumpaste florals, clean sharp-edge ganache finishes, and custom cake artistry.

· Mastery of various decorating media: fondant, royal icing, buttercream piping, airbrushing, modeling chocolate, and isomalt/sugar art.

· Strong structural engineering knowledge for tiered cakes and safe delivery transit.

· Meticulous attention to detail, strong aesthetic sense, creativity, and steady hands.

· Ability to manage production deadlines under rush festive orders and work cooperatively in a fast-paced team.

What We Offer:

· Budgeted Salary: ₹32,000 – ₹40,000 per month (commensurate with portfolio strength, skill evaluation, and experience).

· Creative freedom to design bespoke cake collections and head custom cake orders for an upscale brand.

· State-of-the-art kitchen facility equipped with high-quality baking and sugar-art tools.

· A supportive, craft-driven culinary culture with long-term career growth opportunities.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Interested candidates can share their CV at: [email protected] or +91-XXXXXXXXXX

Benefits:

· Food provided

Work Location: In person

Pay: ₹32,000.00 - ₹40,000.00 per month

Benefits:

- Food provided
- Provident Fund

Work Location: In person

📌 Cake Artist & Custom Cake Specialist (India)
🏢 MIRA'S BAKERY CAFE PIZZERIA
📍 India