Specialty Cake Decorator

Dougies Goodies Bakery, Ballymena

Full time | 40 hours per week

A steady hand and a bit of imagination

Our specialty cake range is growing, and we’re looking for an experienced Cake Decorator to join the Dougies team.

From a birthday cake with someone’s name carefully piped on top to a celebration cake with all the little finishing touches, these orders mean something to the people collecting them. We want them to be delighted when they open the box.

You’ll help us do that. You’ll bring your decorating skills, take pride in the finish, and enjoy working alongside a busy bakery team. There’s room to bring your own ideas too. If you know a better technique, have a design customers would love or can see a way to improve how we work, we want to hear it.

The role

You’ll prepare and decorate our specialty and celebration cakes, following customer orders and agreed designs carefully. Smooth icing, neat piping, accurate shapes and clear handwritten messages all matter.

We care about getting the details right, but we also have cakes to get out the door. You’ll need to work at a good pace, handle each cake carefully and keep the quality consistent.

As the range grows, you’ll help us develop it. That could mean trying a new finish, improving an existing design, or sharing a technique with the team. We’re looking for someone who enjoys making things better.

What you’ll be doing

• Cutting and preparing cakes accurately to the required size and shape.
• Icing cakes neatly, with a smooth, consistent finish.
• Completing detailed and fine-line piping work, including names and personalized messages.
• Following designs and customer requests, checking colors, proportions, positioning, and finishing details.
• Handling cakes carefully and checking the finished product before it leaves your workstation.
• Working with the wider bakery team to complete orders correctly and on time.
• Bringing ideas for new designs and practical improvements to our specialty cake range.
• Sharing your skills and learning from the people around you.
• Keeping your workstation and equipment clean and organized as you go.
• Following our food hygiene and health and safety procedures.

What we’re looking for

You’ll already have experience decorating specialty, celebration, or bespoke cakes, with work you’re proud to show us.

You’ll need strong icing and piping skills, including neat handwritten messages, and experience cutting and shaping cakes accurately. A steady hand helps, as does noticing the little things before the customer does.

You’ll be organized, patient with intricate work and comfortable in a busy bakery. You’ll also be happy taking feedback, helping a teammate, and speaking up when you have an idea.

Food safety and a clean workstation should be part of how you work every day.

Why Dougies?

We take our cakes seriously and enjoy ourselves along the way. You’ll join a growing bakery where your skills will be valued, and your ideas can make their way into cakes our customers take home.

“Do Good” matters to us. In this role, that means taking care over someone’s special order, treating your teammates well and making a customer feel that their cake mattered to us too.

If you love decorating cakes and fancy helping us grow the range, we’d love to meet you. Bring a few photos of your work—we’ll happily talk cake.