Home Cake Business Tips

When you run a cake business from home you’ll face certain challenges that a storefront bakery doesn’t. One common problem is how to handle requests for cake tasting appointments if you do wedding cakes. I’ve managed tasting appointments in a few different ways through the years, and some work better than others. I’ll go through […]

Every business needs some type of Standard Operating Procedures, and a home-based business needs a control journal where you can write yours down. My Control Journal is a notebook that I put together and update periodically so that someone can pick it up and know what to do in the event that something happens to

If you’re thinking of starting an at-home bakery business, you’ll obviously need to find a name for it. But before you start printing business cards, you’ll need to do a little research to make sure that the name you want to use is legally available! You should give this a lot of thought and not

If you want to start an at-home bakery business, you’ll need to make sure that you can do it legally, depending on where you live. This is REALLY important, because if you sell food illegally, or in an area where home-based bakery businesses aren’t allowed, you can end up having to pay a lot of

I decorated cake professionally for almost 20 years, and a lot of lessons came along with that. These are some of the things i learned about cake decorating the hard way, and I hope that they help you avoid some of the things I ran into! 1. That super-original technique you thought of has already been

I get a constant stream of emails from cake scammers. The usual scheme they use is to order something online, then pay for it with a fake check or credit card. They pay more than the amount due, then ask you to pay their shipping company directly. By the time the bank alerts you that

If you’ve ever decorated a cake, you might want to call yourself a “cake decorator.” But are you REALLY? If you see yourself in this list of 15 things, you might be a real cake decorator! 15 things that prove you’re a cake decorator (and might mean you need to lighten up a little.) 1.

I started selling online in 2008 as a way to reach the DIY brides who had popped up all over the place after the economy tanked.  As my online business evolved, I ended up selling more to other cake decorators and hobby decorators and less to the brides (who have now gone back to buying

Selling cake decorations online is something that people see as SUPER EASY. It’s not, but it’s definitely a good way to make some added income if you’re a custom cake decorator. Deciding on what to sell is really important, though, because it can make your business successful and more profitable if you choose correctly. What