I hope I'm not in the wrong forum asking this but does anyone have any ideas on how to go about going into the business of baking/selling cakes?! I know in order to sell em' you have to bake em' (lol) but I'm a newbie at this idea...not at baking cakes,but they're usually the boxed kind, I frost it, might even decorate it somehow. What I'm wondering about is how some of you might start doing something like this if you were doing it. I can be very creative...I just don't want to overwhelm myself at the beginning but I would love to do something like this fulltime and then branch out into some of the surrounding areas. i would like to do things like candies, cookies, cakes..etc. I just have all these ideas but I can only start out so fast right now & I do have limited income right now too...I just moved back down to Georgia. So thrifty ideas are welcome too. Oh, one more thing...we have a festival here in town every year too and I'm thinking about maybe asking about a stand to set up and see how much it costs for a space...so ideas for possible setup would be welcomed too. Okay, I'm going to stop rambling now...I made my mother this angel food cake for mothers day with actual fruit between each layer, I'll see if I can get the pic off her cell phone and post it. Hope to hear from ya'll soon.

Kim

Welcome to CC - you are going to love it here! I would suggest you take a couple of cake decorating classes first to polish your techniques. you can take the wilton classes at Michaels and they are inexpensive. as for starting a business, if you want to do it legally you need to check with the laws of your state and county to see what they allow for a home based cake business. some states will let you do it from home and some require a commercial kitchen. start with the department of agriculture and department of health then check with the business license office, zoning, and building standards.

once you find out if you can legally do it there, start making cakes and giving them away to people at work, charity auctions, your kids schools, etc. anywhere you can so people can see and taste your work.

good luck!

I agree with MontiBellesBakery, the best way to get the word out is to donate cakes to everyone you can think of! Make sure you send along a bunch of business cards too! Just tie in a theme to the business or whatever (eg. a school theme for the cake you donate to the school bake fair, a book theme for the cake you donate to the local library....) and you're off and running! Good luck!