Sell Xmas cakes on ebay

apprentice_tycoon

That's great, I too use the Delia recipe for mincemeat (a bit less sugar tough).
The only thing to remember with the flour is that it's plain flour, you need to add baking powder for sponges. My friend said that the nicest tasting cake that I made with it was a chocolate flavoured Victoria.

The Broadlands gluten free suet is from health food shops

ashmit

ebay link to food policy

Hermia

Good lord! I didn't realise people sold food on ebay. It sounds like a minefield. Can you imagine selling something and then the buyer contacts you to say he or she has food poisoning...

black-saturn

On the run up to easter I sold a basket with cream eggs in it to someone abroad who couldnt get Cadburys chocolate.

I've also seen wedding cakes on ebay and also a chocolate gateau once.

Burlesque_Babe

I've bought homemade fudge from ebay, it was really really fab......I love cooking, so might have a look at the policy and have a go myself! Never thought of doing food!

(also bought my pooch some handmade doggy biscuits once, he adored them!)

Glad

black-saturn wrote:

I've just typed 'christmas cake' in on ebay and found several people selling them. I thought it would be a good opportunity for O/S bakers to make some extra money for Chrsitmas. There would be no use in me doing it as I might poison someone. But I thought it was a good idea.

why just old-stylers??
wouldn't this be a good opportunity for anybody to make money on ebay?

tru

I agree Glad.

There were a couple of other threads which were moved from here lately because they would benefit everybody, and some people complained that they wanted it moved back because they felt more comfortable in OS.

OS is just one part of the forum, not an exclusive area.

BTW I love it, it's just a shame it's seen almost as a separate forum.

black-saturn

I realise it would benefit everyone. I thought about putting it on the ebay bit but after another think I thought the OS board were probably best at making cakes. Sorry if I stepped out of line. I won't do it again.

Pink.

Hi blacksaturn,

I don't think you've stepped out of line at all, in fact I think your idea was an excellent way of making a bit extra for Christmas.

As other's have suggested your thread could be of benefit to other mse users, I'm going to move it over to the ebay board, but I'll leave a redirect on this board so that it's easily accessible to Old Stylers.

Pink

soolin

Jay-Jay wrote:

apprentice tycoon, I think you have your first customer :money: :dance:

I'd be the second..I am a coeliac too, although I find the M and S gluten free one quite edible.

Now, before we get our wrists slapped by Abcon :eek: I think we should get this back on topic. Ebay have very strict rules concerning the sale of food items and many auctions get pulled as they do not comply with all the various rules regarding labelling and health and safety etc;

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/food.html

Food is even on the questionable items listings so be careful if anyone does decide to list anything and pay particular attention to the fact that ebay require all food items to be guaranteed next day delivery, which will make postage very high.

Soo