All The Rage Cake: All The Rage Mistakes

All the Rage Cakes is a one person owned company in the little town of Nora Springs, Iowa. The name of the company is from her own name, her name is Amanda Wrage-Stayner. Her maiden name is Wrage which is pronounced as rage so she put that as the name because she has found many people have issues with pronouncing her last name correctly.

Amanda grew up cooking desserts with her mom which just lit the fire of wanting to bake. When she was in middle school in Pennsylvania she had a culinary class that she took which taught her how to prepare food for large groups. She has always loved art but with raising a family she had a very difficult time finding time to do art. She went to NIACC and got a degree in drafting and a minor in art. Amanda does

Her first goal was just to have some fun and make a little extra cash. Her main business plan was to just have “a side business and develop some new skills”. For advertising her business she said “I just don’t. People I did cakes for in the past tell their friends and that is how people know of my business.” She thought it would be fun to start her business full time but that was years ago she even considered

She only makes about 10 percent of the final cost which is one of the other reasons she does not do it full time. She keeps the price down low because it is her way of competing with other places. She says the reason she keeps selling things is “Cause it takes good and they can have more flexibility and try to keep prices lower than other places”. The busiest time of the year is graduation and the summer time because of weddings, the largest order she has ever had was during graduation which was six sheet cakes which all together serves about 216