Cash from Baking??

julie03

bluefire ; i have a son addicted to anything cookie dough, any chance of the recipe please

karenccs67

esmer wrote: »

Question: How soon can I make sugarcraft snowflakes and store them so I can just bake the cupcakes?? I dont want to leave myself with too much todo. If I can make them now how do I store them?

Thanks

Esmer i make my decs 2/3/4 days in advance, i let them dry out and then store them in a plastic box lined with bubblewrap so as not to break them.

hayley11

Bluefire wrote: »

Totally addicted to chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes at the moment, only done them a couple of times but planning to sell them for the first time on my next stall at the end of November! Photo below if anyone wants to take a look:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=119870514741552&set=a.119870511408219.15845.119866558075281

I've also finished uploading the rest of my photos from the cake show:

http://s204.photobucket.com/albums/bb268/Socialchemistry/Cake%20International/

If I could make something like this one day I'd be a very happy lady!

Wow this is awesome, can't even imagine how many hours this took!

dawnybabes

esmer wrote: »

Question: How soon can I make sugarcraft snowflakes and store them so I can just bake the cupcakes?? I dont want to leave myself with too much todo. If I can make them now how do I store them?

Thanks

I have a little tub full of hearts, stars, blossoms etc that I cut out if I've a little bit of paste left. I levae them to dry out fr a day or two them pop them in here - they are ok for months then

Laneyboo

Just stumbled across this thread and thought id ask a couple of questions as you all seem very knowledgable!!

I am in scotland so this might affect any answers im looking for!

I have been given the opportunity to sell my cupcakes at a local food market at the weekend (this would be my 1st time at a market, have done school fairs and galas etc without any thought of registering) and have enquired with environmental health whether i have to be a registered food business to have a stall.. they say i do. (:undecided i read on http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/scotfarmersmarket.pdf that if the market is registered by the organiser then stalls provided by them need not be licensed, is this not the case then ??)

Also there is someone else who ive seen in a shopping centre selling cupcakes to take away and eat as is (exactly what i want to do!) yet i have just been told by an EHO that i need food labels stating everything on all cakes.. not to question them but really? i cant remember the last time i bought a cupcake that had ingredients listed, even from a bakers :-/

Lastly, if i register my home as being a food business premises do i incur business rates?

Its really put a bit of a downer on what i had thought would be a fantastic opportunity so if anyone could give any info to help it'd be much appreciated.

:A

marzipan30

esmer wrote: »

What's that?

Its pumpkin already pureed in a tin like beans! I used it this week to make spiced pumpkin cupcakes with cinnamon frosting and they went down a treat!!

Finefoot

Where did you get your pumpkin? I am craving a pumpkn pie....

esmer

Laneyboo wrote: »

Just stumbled across this thread and thought id ask a couple of questions as you all seem very knowledgable!!

I am in scotland so this might affect any answers im looking for!

I have been given the opportunity to sell my cupcakes at a local food market at the weekend (this would be my 1st time at a market, have done school fairs and galas etc without any thought of registering) and have enquired with environmental health whether i have to be a registered food business to have a stall.. they say i do. (:undecided i read on http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/scotfarmersmarket.pdf that if the market is registered by the organiser then stalls provided by them need not be licensed, is this not the case then ??)

Also there is someone else who ive seen in a shopping centre selling cupcakes to take away and eat as is (exactly what i want to do!) yet i have just been told by an EHO that i need food labels stating everything on all cakes.. not to question them but really? i cant remember the last time i bought a cupcake that had ingredients listed, even from a bakers :-/

Lastly, if i register my home as being a food business premises do i incur business rates?

Its really put a bit of a downer on what i had thought would be a fantastic opportunity so if anyone could give any info to help it'd be much appreciated.

:A

If you look several pages back there is a lady from EHO that put up some GREAT advice. I am from Scotland and basically got told NO, there is another on here as well and she was the same. Read what our kind EHO person on here said and follow that advice.

HTH

marzipan30

Hey, I got it from my Greengrocers in my town!! I was soooo impressed with the price as i have been looking for it for a while.....in 2 of the food halls of those big department stores it was £3.99 a tin, but here £1.65. Bargain!!!

stokegal

Hi All

After reading this thread for inspiration - I'm contacting my local farmers market tomorrow and was wondering for some advice. How many cupcakes do you normally sell at this kind of event? What do you charge? - I wasnks thinking that i didnt want to commit to anything if I couldnt match the demand - I work fully time so would be doing this part time until I'm brave enough to jump into it properly


Thanks
Stokegal x