brown sugar carmel cake, infused with apple ciroc

cookies and cream cake with brown sugar caramel drizzle

The hardest part about being a home based business has to be the part where youre not able to run your business when something like an family emergency comes up and no ones is able to run the business after that. When a business has to cancel orders it may turn the customers away , the point of being open is to meet the demands of the customers the best we can, i guess life happens sometimes,.

Menu

A menu was highly requested for my business, I finally made one.
i will probably remake this menu over and over again until i am happy with it completly.
It took a very long time to finally post this because this is official, this means i am officially taking a variety of orders.

This weekends sales

 Full size pan of scratch made banana pudding

 1 Dozen RedVelvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing with pecans

Red Velvet Brownies with cream cheese icing



















I didnt take many orders this weekend, business was slow alot of people were out of town. That comes with this business.

My Progress on Cinnamon rolls 5 different attempts 5 different outcomes,
consistency is the important thing to me when people buy something from me multiple times they expect the same product. I am working on perfecting my craft .

1st attempt Sept. 23

second attempt october 5

3rd attempt october 11th

4th attempt october 18th

5th attempt october 18th

The 5th attempt is the one that i like it has a good thickness and if i was buying them from someone i would choose attempt 5.



I took the last attempt and sold them individually.

I looked into the cottage food law .
Basically all i need to have is my  Servsafe & the form filled out
I also have to have a label stating that the food was not inspected by the health department.
There may be a small fee but it’s not Too much I can handle all of that before January.
After this permit is recieved I will go ahead and make my business cards and start marketing
I am so Excited about Actually getting to have contest and things so the word of my business is spread.

Weeked Sales

Stuffed Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes With Cheesecake Icing. 

I dont think I charger enough for these cupcakes they are a bit pricy to make.

I think I am Going For affordable right now tho until i get a price list up.

 

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing

This is a classic recipe of mine. this presentation is nice !

Making these made me think about piping, i should practive more. 

 

Red Velvet Brownies with Cheesecake Icing

the first picture is a rushed job, this presentation is horrible.

I cant believe that i sent them out like that. 

I felt so bad after I told him Id make him some more & i also tweaked the recipe.

The brownies on the right look and taste better. even tho the ones on the left taste amazing as well.

Presentation is very important to me, Presentation on social media helps me with marketing. People taste with their eyes in this case, when you look at a picture you you instantly decide if you like it or not and then you decide if you want more and asking the baker about buying one.  

Location Matters

In December I started working for Marcos pizza in my local city, great location , right off of a main street, easy to find and close to everythign else. a few months later another one opened up in a town not to far away, we thought they would have amazing business because its in a college town, college kids love pizza. The problem with this marcos is that the location is wayyy out of the way. Being a college student sometimes we want good food when we do have the money and its convenient for friends to go in on a pizza or two but transportation isnt always an option. So with the Marcos at the location that its currently in not only are people not able to get to it but they are so far away from everything most people dont even realize that its one even there. So with that being said business is slow, slow business seems to bring the quality of the stores production down, a lot of review talks about how old the stuff tastes so that makes me wonder about the quality. Going back to the store i worked for we had a truck coming weekly sometimes an emergency truck because we would end up selling out of things quicker than expected. Location matters, you have to be convenient for your target customer base.

Things i want to accomplish

So Reality has officially kicked in , I am in school, working a new job, and trying to wiggle my way into the business world just so i can be my own boss.
I hope that i can accomplish a few short term goals by december.
I want go to the City so that i can be aware of all the things that i need to do before starting an home bakery.
I want to get the LLC to my name.
I also want to bake at least once a month for money.
These things are very possible and i will get them done

Business Idea...

bakery/cafe ..
the menu offers a small selection of food from the kitchen and doubles as a bakery
the bakery is the main focus
but the kitchen wont be a let down either