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Selling homemade cakes and biscuits

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  • hardpressed
    hardpressed Posts: 2,099
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    Is there a WI market near you, they sell home made produce and take a small commission.
  • corris3
    corris3 Posts: 47 Forumite
    WI market would be a good idea, can you make jam and chutney... everyone seems to love homemade stuff
  • amyparr wrote: »
    If I bulk made lots of fairy cakes, biscuits, gingerbread men, etc it would probably be quite cheap to do, and if I sold them for 10-20p per cake, I might make some money out of it!

    The only thing I'd be worried about would be that a) I won't make enough or b) I make too much!

    Lol!


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    Im not sure about the health certificate but i know we do this at local gala day every yer to raise funds for kids dancing class to pay costumes. We have made anything up to £400 in a day but thats with a few different people doing a whole load of cakes.
    If you can fruit loaves/ banana loaves etc all sell well and i believe these can be made in advance and frozen (just make sure you label that cannot be frozen!)
    We genarally sell loaves for £2.50- £3 and they FLY off the stall, cant get enough of them! Fairy cakes etc we sell for 30p or 4 for £1, mix and match different cakes.
    We do truffles/ coconut balls/ marshmallow top hats etc to 20p or 6 for £1 and believe me there was only ever one year we were left with cakes and thats cause the sun had melted the choc ones!! lol

    Ive had the same idea as yourself before as my kids love helping at stalls but wasnt sure of the legal requirements for hygiene, so stayed well clear, be good to knwo how you get on!!
  • melt71
    melt71 Posts: 586 Forumite
    hmmmm interesting. I would be interested in doing this. I have thought about it before but didn't know where to start.

    I'm having a kitchen refurb at the moment and it means I will be much more organised space wise, have a bigger more economical oven and a HUGE fridge. So....

    I would need to think about where/how I would sell the cakes. So far I've come up with;

    School fates
    Local market (costs of a stall are quite expensive though)
    Our local specialist deli/butchers may be interested as they sell things like this

    after this I ran out of ideas!

    Any further tips/advice would be welcome :D
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  • Hi ya - I've just started selling my home made jams and chutneys at our local market - I joined the old 'WI' which is now called 'Country Markets'.

    I chose them as it's only 5p to be come a member - yes, that's right - five pence! That covers you for insurance etc and then everything you sell, they take 15% off for their commission. They usually ask that you help run the stall. The other option for me was to have my own stall - cost of £18 a week and insurance for about £50 a year... lots of Jams and chutneys needed to be sold each week to cover that!!!

    It's not going to make me tonnes of money, but I am using it to test the market for my home made items. I have registered my kitchen with my local authority's Evirnomental Health and on the waiting list to do my Hygiene certificate. I hear that they also will refund you the cost of the Hygiene certificate if you stay for more than a year or so.

    Good luck, let us know what you do in the end!
  • Milka
    Milka Posts: 8 Forumite
    Hello,

    Just wondered if you are succesful with selling of jams.
    Fairyone: Do you still sell jams at country markets? If yes how is it going and if no, why not?

    Thanks for your replys.
  • simpywimpy
    simpywimpy Posts: 2,384
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    could you supply a local cafe with cupcakes etc?
  • jen_br
    jen_br Posts: 2,653 Forumite
    simpywimpy wrote: »
    could you supply a local cafe with cupcakes etc?

    No local cafe will take your cupcakes unless your registered... and have a hygeine certificate..

    my MIL has a postoffice and it has a tea room just teas and coffee and cake she had to get her hygeine ANYONE handling food needs one.

    A local cafe who took your cupcakes and someone got sick who would they blame??? Whos insurance???

    Its a tricky business food. I use to run a bed and breakfast and have a catering company.
  • geordie_joe
    geordie_joe Posts: 9,112
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    edited 21 January 2010 at 12:04AM
    jen_br wrote: »
    No local cafe will take your cupcakes unless your registered... and have a hygeine certificate..

    Why? Are local cafe owners the only people involved in the food business whom are law abiding?

    We've all heard about the people in the food industry who break the rules, are local cafe owners different?
    jen_br wrote: »
    my MIL has a postoffice and it has a tea room just teas and coffee and cake she had to get her hygeine ANYONE handling food needs one.

    B*gger, I handle food every day and don't have a hygiene. Then again,. what does it matter, most people don't have one and still handle food every day. I reckon I'll just hide in the crowd.
    jen_br wrote: »
    A local cafe who took your cupcakes and someone got sick who would they blame??? Whos insurance???

    Are you saying you can't blame someone who hasn't got a hygiene certificate? Or are you saying you can't blame people who do have one?

    I always thought you could blame anybody.
    jen_br wrote: »
    Its a tricky business food.

    But mostly that's because people talk bull sh*t about it.
    jen_br wrote: »
    I use to run a bed and breakfast and have a catering company.

    I'm sure you did, and still do.
  • well.. if i bake cakes, i will do em in a hygienic environment.. so i wont be to blamed :p
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