Newbie List of Questions

To be successful I recommend a unique angle and im guessing gluten and dairy free is the angle.  Do your homework and find out what is required for a license.  Good luck!

Hi, Darcy! Welcome to the site. I'm glad you decided to join!

I'm not a mother, so I can't comment on how to juggle work with kids. But I do know that launching a business is a tremendous amount of hard work.

 

My best advice is to:

 

1) Hone BOTH baking and business skills before you launch your business, ideally by working in an established bakery so you can test whether it's something you really want to do before you take any financial risk. 

 

2) Please check local department of health restrictions before you start selling your products, especially if you are working out of your house. I live in the midwest, and it was illegal to operate a food service establishment out of one's home in my area when I got started.

 

3) I think it's incredibly difficult to launch a viable one-product-only bakery business, especially when that product is decorated cookies. Relative to cakes, they are almost as time-intensive, yet they command a much lower price. In my experience, product diversification was key to profitability.

 

Best of luck.

Well here there is a bakery with special food requeriments and is opening stores in all the city were I live.   Now there are many people that needs a gluten free diet because they really need it or because it is a trend.  This store has a big variety of breads and it is not working only in gluten free, they are working on milk and egg free diet too, I do not know if all three restrictions together or they bake diferent kinds.  I have not visited the store yet. Diabetic bakery is growing too.

 

agreeing with Julia  other comments too   

do your research      go to your  small business administration and seek their assistance          I think at this stage you are not established and inquiring as to what it will take    etc     I can't fathom why  would be unable to assist you in research and your particular endeavor

 

 

 

Welcome Mommasyd. So glad you decided to join!! I agree with everyone above. If you google "cottage food laws for (enter your state)" you will find lots of info. I live in Illinois and it's different for every county within the state as well. I'm a hobby baker and do not sell my cookies. I don't do enough to warrant me getting licensed, getting insurance and all the rest. But, other states may be different, so definitely do some homework on it.

I appreciate all of your comments, and will definitely so more research on this. For now I may just keep watching everyone create gorgeous cookies here, and practice with my family and friends until the time is better for me to establish a business thank you so much!!!