Just an FYI for fellow Oklahomans...

Just spoke with David Myers at the Health Department (was directed there after calling the Ag department). He says the Oklahoma law is you must have a separate kitchen to have a cake decorating BUSINESS. HOWEVER, he volunteered the following information: HE said "If you are decorating for friends of friends or family, etc., (such as by word of mouth) and NOT advertising as a cake decorating business, we don't have time to come after people like you and you will probably never be caught. However, if you are decorating and advertising as a cake decorating business and another cake decorating business calls them to report you, then you will be checked on." He also said you will need to call the City/County Health Department for them to approve the kitchen you do prepare for full-time decorating. The phone number I called to get this info is 405-271-5600.

I hope this is as helpful to others as it was me.

Great information! Thanks.

Michele

yeah there are quite a few home decorators around here....no one thinks a thing in the world about it....i think one even works at the police station!....ha!

I haven't really given much thought about getting in trouble until reading all the posts on here. Now I'm a nervous wreck!!

I do know a lady who has been doing cakes from her home for over 30 years and she hasn't ever been in trouble. Shoot she even sells to the local courhouse!

I've heard several times that in Oklahoma they don't care as long as your not advertising. I would feel better if I was legal so I was thinking of atleast getting a food handling license since I can't get my home kitchen licensed.

I've also been wanting to move to an acreage just outside of town and have been working with a realtor in finding something. I would really like to put a shop on the property and set a kitchen up in there but I heard you can't get that licensed either unless it's zoned and it's nearly impossible to get part of your land zoned. I was wondering if anyone had looked into that or knows anything?

Thanks, RitzyFritz! I always wondered about that! I don't advertise, just word-of-mouth, but I do have business cards that I tape onto my cake boxes, and I do have a website. But I don't put anything in the phone directory and you have to know where to go to find me on the internet, you won't just happen onto my site. Wonder if that is the same thing.

when i was looking at a house to buy in a neighborhood...i went to the city planner and he said it was ok...if there wasn't alot of people parking and staying...and the sign could only be 2by2...

i bet its not as tough to get zoned as you think.