Starting your baking business is no easy pie. This task can be daunting, intimidating and difficult at times. But with the right guidance, you can pull the task off with high vigour!

Here are 5 tips that can help you start your Baking business from home!

Get the required FSSAI Registration for a Home Baker

The Food and Safety Standards Authority of India requires any petty business person dealing with food, even if they make less than Rs. 12 lakh per annum from the business, to register their business. This registration is therefore mandatory for everyone who starts a home baking business even if it is from home.

Get Your Recipes Right!

Cakes are the star of the show; that’s the reason people order cakes from home bakers so that they can customize it as per their preference. Choosing the right cake recipe, therefore, is vital to the success of your home baking business.

Test out your recipes on family and friends. Ask for their honest feedback so that you can make necessary improvements before advertising. Repeat this process until your cakes are the best they can be and becomes the most delicious cakes you’ve ever tasted!

Manage the Store!

Stock control for a home-based cake business need not be a complex process involving copious hours of work. Essentially, you just need to ensure that your ingredients don’t go out of date, and you maintain accurate records of items purchased. A simple spreadsheet will be sufficient for most bakers selling cakes from home, but you may want to invest in a simple stock management system once your business starts growing.

Name and logo of your business-

Your brand logo acts as the face of your business. It makes you recognizable. Your business name is what they will recognize you with. Your brand name must be simple, easy to remember, and talks about the values of your business. Your brand logo should be memorable and should leave the desired impression of your company on peoples minds.

Price appropriately

Once you have sorted out the menu, ensure that you are pricing them appropriately. Keeping a price based on what others are pricing their product at is a bad way of pricing your products. Your manufacturing cost could be completely different to theirs and thus your selling price would be. Do not undercut the prices as that will lead to nowhere. Create your USP’s in other areas and not on pricing. Keeping your USP on pricing might attract customers for a while, but these are the customer that you will lose the moment anybody else gives a better pricing point to them.

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