Cash from Baking??

babyrut

I am going to buy a giant cupcake mould and was wondering if anyone could advise me on which one is best, I have seen silicone ones and also the wilton metal pans, all help gratefully received! Oh and got environmental health visiting my kitchen tom morning, so scared!!!

gazpacho_uk

I bought a silicone one from one of the cake dec suppliers on here. It was £8.99 (will have to go through my emails when i am not at work LOL)
There is a place called "redsave" who sell them, but they have had a lot of bad feedback (do a search on MSE) so I would stay well clear of them

superwoman247

Hi all, hope you do not mind me tagging along. I have been reading this thread for days and feel totally inspired. I have been baking for friends and now taking the "leap". I have got the EHO coming in 2 weeks and I am petrified having read some of the things others have gone through, I have just done a facebook page. Please search for me "wokingham cakes" there are a few cakes uploaded I have done at cost . Hope I will do well like some of you have.

Hope you "like" me while you are there!!-

getting-sorted-sarah

superwoman - I've added you to my page's favourites (Curious Cupcakes). Good luck!

superwoman247

added you too, thanks.

babyrut

superwoman247 wrote: »

Hi all, hope you do not mind me tagging along. I have been reading this thread for days and feel totally inspired. I have been baking for friends and now taking the "leap". I have got the EHO coming in 2 weeks and I am petrified having read some of the things others have gone through, I have just done a facebook page. Please search for me "wokingham cakes" there are a few cakes uploaded I have done at cost . Hope I will do well like some of you have.

Hope you "like" me while you are there!!-

I am sure you will be fine, had my inspection this week and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

hayley11

I finished my cake decorating course yesterday, got a merit award for my sugar paste cake, yay! :j Don't know how well I did on the actual course as we don't get our certificates til August.

Wanted to do level 2 but they've put the price up to £470! And there's no funding available so can't afford it. Really disappointed as level 2 seemed to be a lot more modelling rather than royal icing.

hayley11

judywoody wrote: »

I don't know if that has been discussed yet but I am terrible when it comes to staying away from the cake mix :-( Also, after cutting off the top of the cakes I ALWAYS have a nibble...wah!!How do you manage your weight when baking cakes? I always get very stressed when I bake a wedding cake and end up not eating anything all day but cake!!!!

How to you stay away from it? Or are just sick of it after a while?

I am sick of it now! Mostly anyway, I do love my banana & chocolate chip cupcakes but that's about it. I do have to try them when i'm trying new flavours though.

With regards to weight, i'm one of those really annoying people who can eat whatever they like, do no exercise and put on no weight so even if I did eat loads, it wouldn't affect me.

mummypumpkin

Hello all,

Am also new to the Baking From Home brigade! I was just wondering how everyone else deals with paperwork side of things? At the moment I have a receipt book from Staples and I just handwrite a receipt out when someone pays me...

gazpacho_uk

mummypumpkin wrote: »

Hello all,

Am also new to the Baking From Home brigade! I was just wondering how everyone else deals with paperwork side of things? At the moment I have a receipt book from Staples and I just handwrite a receipt out when someone pays me...

I have been doing the same, just a hand written receipt. Due to "word of mouth" we have been getting orders from people we do not know and have decided to take deposits from them, but to be honest we should be doing it for all orders now.

As for other paperwork, I really need some help too with "costings". I have tried a cpl of times to try and get something on a spreadsheet, but it doesnt work out ..... if anyone has a template or starting point for a costings spreadsheet (wink wink)