My husband and I have decided that starting my cake business was a good idea and are in the process of getting my license!! It's taking awhile but we are finally starting to sort through all the legal stuff (I live in FL...so this esp. difficult and time consuming and expensive).


We figured it is going to take me awhile to build up my business enough to make enough money to payoff the money we borrowed so
in order to pay off this venture in a reasonable amount of time.....I have to go back to work full time!!! I start next week, I went back to my old job....different position...but more money!!! But this going to be difficult!!! ALOT of late nights/early mornings!!!!!

The only silver lining is that w/this job we will have the money we borrowed paid off in 1 year....plus a few extra debts!! Then I can quit and do cakes full time!! All the money I make off my cakes until I quit will be put into a seperate account and saved until I quit my fulltime job....so when I go into this fulltime...I won't be in the red!!!!

I'm hoping I will be so busy, this year will just fly by!! I'm also hoping I can figure out how to handle a fulltime job, a two year old, a husband, cake decorating (I'm hoping for at least 1-2 cakes a week...for now anyway), and somehow still have fun!!! But since I know how long I will have to do things this way......I know I can handle it!!

This all seems doable right now.......but we'll se how it goes once I start working fulltime!!!

And somewhere in my free time ( ) I think I'm also going to write a book about how to start a small 'bakery' business in Fl ....man is this a pain in the rear!!

AMEN! I too live in Florida and am in the waiting process for opening my own bakery. I jumped through so many hoops and got so many different answers from various departments and am no further along to show for it. I am currently looking at properties that could be rennovated to accomodate my cake business and my husband's brokerage business under one roof. I would love any advice you can give me about how you did it. And know that you are not alone in your GREAT WAIT. At least you have time and goal in sight. Good luck!

I wish you the best of luck in your endeavor!! I know I 'm in a similar boat!
I can't quit my job as a teacher because I'm dependent on that check, but I am hoping that my cake business picks up and pays itself off this summer when those cake orders come in for weddings. It is very hard work. I go to work all day, burnt out from working with teenagers, and then come home to work until 10 or 11 in the upstairs kitchen. But I love every minute of the baking and decorating, and it is a stress release to me. And working full time gives me some funds to pay my neighbor to come and super clean my kitchen twice a week.

The only thing I don't have is a two year old!
I wish you the best of luck! It sounds like a wonderful plan, and with your caliber of talent, I am sure you will be successful!!
Ellen

ellepal
I feel your pain! I to work full time, teach cake decorating part time, work many nights till ........decorating cakes .and have two little grandaughters 3 and 7 mo to help me a lot. Only I don't have the neighbor to clean, but I do have a kitchen in my basement and it is much easier to clean than doing it in my regular kitchen. I love baking and decorating too! Then here I am and it's bedtime. Good luck to all of you!