Starting Your Own Home Bakery: Is a Cottage Food Operation Right for You?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2020
- Bake Toujours Business Vlog-- Episode 1
Want to start your own home business? In this video, I am introducing Cottage food Operations. I am sharing to whom you can sell under this license and what you can sell.
It is important to know each state and each county have different regulations. In this next business series, I will be doing my best in to streamline the info on how to start your own business from home. Please realize that California tends to have some of the strictest laws and your process may be easier and more lenient. Please check with your local Environmental Heath Department for specifics on your County. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Thank you so much Nicole 👏🏻I couldn’t wait for that video😃
Thank you, Nicole!!!! Great vlog!!!
Thanks for the video! I’ve just started a cottage bakery and this video series is perfect! I’m curious how you determined your capacity when you started out, making sure to account for failed attempts at new things. Looking forward to the next video!
Great video and topic. Wanting to start a home business following Texas Cottage Law, sooo many questions and a little confusing from what I have read. Hoping to gain more knowledge and understanding. Thank you Nicole
What a cool video concept! I didn't realize there was so many steps to this. I'll support my local businesses more when we're out of quarantine
cutecrafter8100 love hearing this! 💗
Thanks so much! Never realize it was so many restrictions.
Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom!
Definitely a helpful video...waiting on video part II
Yes keep rolling !!! You are great ~ very helpful !
Thank you so much, Nicole for this information! You are awesome! ❤️
You are so welcome!
Great information! Thanks for sharing
Thank you so much for sharing, It’s coming right on time for me! You are truly talented ❤️
Kimberly Wright thank you! I’m glad it’s helpful info!
Hi! I love that you are doing these videos and providing more information about home cottage food operations. My husband and I have discussed doing something similar for the state we live in. I found the process to be exactly how you described it... convoluted and frustrating! After going through the process to set up my LLC and meet the state requirements, I thought it would be good to help others, but I haven't quite decided how to go about it. I love your videos and have learned so much about making macarons. I started my first home business in 2004 because I didn't want to leave my babies, plus we were homeschooling. Blessings!
This is wonderful. Love hearing more about your story. Good luck with this next adventure!
Fabulous video! I’ve been thinking abt this subject a lot lately because my son wants me to do Farmers Markets with him this summer. Utah has a fair number of restrictions as well. They also inspect your home/kitchen and you have to have a food handlers permit. I’m excited to see your next video and more helpful information 😊
Turena Williams in California we only have to have an in home inspection with class B licenses, but yes we need to get a food handlers permit too. It’s always good to know your food is coming from someone who knows how to keep hot food hot and cold food cold. 🙃
Great video ! Thanks
I am so glad I'm not the only one who felt discouraged and frustrated. It's really hard to make the type of flavors and fillings people love under the restrictions! Hoping to come up with some creative compromises!
Love this video Nicole! This is so great! I agree - no matter where you are it’s so confusing and the restrictions are crazy. In Chicago, my first cottage food application wasn’t approved due to a couple of products I wanted to sell that had ingredients that weren’t accepted BUT they do allow you to resubmit. Love all your info here! Keep being amazing!! 🙌🏽
This is amazing info for everyone to read! Thank you for sharing Callie!!! You're the best!
Hi @calthebaker can you explain little more when you mentioned “ they allowed you to resubmit “?
Appreciate this I'm about to Endeavor into this thing license I'm going to listen to this
Thank you for sharing! It’s so clear :)
oh good! I'm glad this was clear!
This was a great informative video. Thank you
Appreciate your help ❤
This is the most helpful video ever!!
Simply Sweet Confections I’m so glad you found it helpful!!💗
Thank you for the time you put into this video: I’m. CFO in ct! You seem so sweat I would buy your macaroons 🤩 I wish you the best🙏
I'm starting my home business in September or October! I'm so excited!
I live in Texas so they don't do inspections and all you have to have is a food handlers certificate as well as follow the food Cottage Law. We're allowed to pretty much make anything as long as it doesn't spoil outside of a refrigerator. I'm making a sweets business. Candy, cookies, and cakes. Not just simple ones either, I'm going fancy with it and cultural as well as organic. I also am donating some of my profits to my city to combat against homelessness and struggling families.
Oh and in Texas, you can take orders online and ship throughout Texas, it just can't go pass state lines or you'll get in trouble with the FDA. So if you live in Texas and word spreads about your home business, you can make a website and online store for your products and ship your products to anyone in Texas!
Wow, thank you for sharing all this great info. Hopefully it helps many people make that jump to start their business. Shoot, I need to live in Texas hahaha.
@@baketoujours You should totally think about it! The rent is cheaper over here than in California and Texas is more laid back on it's laws. I live in the Central part and I think it's the best part of Texas. The West part of Texas is more hot, dry and more prone to drouts. The East part rains a lot and is really green, but tornadoes hit more often over there. And the South is like the west with palm trees and the occasional tropical storm and hurricanes. Of course the weather in central Texas is random, but it's way safer and affordable in my opinion.
Hi there! I was wondering if you could share your Macaron recipe?? I’ve just been trying out are flavored ones and they are ok but I wanted to see if I could try your recipe out with different flavored fillings. Much appreciated!! Thank you!
Love the intro!!!
Kindled Cakes Awesome! My husband will be so happy you liked it! He works hard on those intros!! 💗
This video series is exactly what I'm looking for!!! I'm in LA and the list of ingredients not allowed was disheartening. Can you go over labels (do you have to put every ingredient for each macaron, or just every ingredient you use in general for you business?) Can you explain how chocolate ganaches are okay if they have heavy cream? Can you also go into how you'd list and label Amoretti compounds that you'd put in a buttercream? Also, if you come up with a new flavor, how to update your license to include new ingredients. Looking forward to hear the obstacles, challenges and over-comings you dealt with in California. Thanks again for this vlog series!
So each product has a different label. You only have to put in the ingredients for that specific product. If you have something like Amoretti in your filling, you just put your shells ingredients list, then filling ingredidents and add all amoretti ingredients in by weight as they have on their label. As for why and how i got ganache passed, I don't know! It really is up to whoever looks at your labels. There is another mac business in pasadena with me and she got Italian meringue buttercream passed somehow and I couldn't. So some things like this are frustrating, but just take them one at a time and you can still make your product great!
Thankyou!!!!
What alternatives do you use for milk in the buttercream or cream cheese?
This video is so helpful thanku
Thank you so much
What a great vlog - thanks for all you do! I've been baking under the Ohio Cottage Food Law for several years and feeling so blessed as we don't have to obtain any licenses or pay any money. We just need to be aware of the laws and abide by them. Mostly the labeling - and they are very strict about that. But thankfully no CFO licensing ;) required!
so helpful!
So glad this was helpful!
Hi!!
Thank you so much for your video!!!
I have a baking business in Peru, but planning to move to California, don't know jet the county. I do personalized cakes, do you have any idea what are the regulations for selling cakes? Because is not mentioned on the cottage food.
Thank you again. :)
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I’m confused about the extracts part of the food laws here in California. Is that the production and sale of extracts? Or the use of them in our cooking? We can use extracts in our baking right? Like peppermint?
Fantastic video! This has been something that has been on my mind lately, as I have been refining my recipes. You are right about the restrictions... there are a LOT! Do you think you can go into more detail about products that can be sold? I’m really interested in selling French Macarons, cookies, and Cupcakes. But based on the restrictions listed here in Maryland it looks like I can’t (no cream cheese, buttercream, fillings, etc).
Eryn Hines definitely no cream cheese frostings...things that go bad (not shelf stable will not be allowed). But butter based frostings are okay in California. You’ll have to check with your local area of this isn’t the case for you. You could always use shortening or vegan butters.
Bake Toujours Okay! I didn’t realize butter based frostings were okay. I’ll have to check to see if this is the case for my area. But this is really helpful. I like the idea of shortening or vegan butters. I’ll do more research! Thanks for taking the time to reply!!
Eryn Hines I hope you can use butter!! 🤞🏼
I was wondering if we can bake with liquor because i have some recipes that involve a small amount of liquor for my macaron fillings. Just wondering before I plan to open
Hi Nicole! I was wondering how you create your labels. I'm planning to get certified and licensed to sell Macarons but my Macarons are different flavors. Do you create multiple labels or how do you write your ingredients out? I love watching your videos by the way! They are very educational and helpful.
At my markets I would just have my labels in a print out because people could pick and choose their flavors and I wasn't about to put 12 different labels on a box. haha So if you do a primary label with your info and then secondary label with ingredients you can get away with having one label and then asking if they want the ingredient labels as well and if they do, you can give them the entire sheet with all the products
Please continue to do informative videos about cottage laws in CA!!!
I moved to OREGON for now, but may be back next year. Stay tuned!
Hi Nicole, is butter approved in the list? I've checked the approved list, it only shows fruit butter.
Question, I recently saw the list for CA for approved items, it says frosting without egg, but towards the bottom it says frosting made with merengue, or pasteurized eggs allowed ?
So my question is if it would be allowed to make Swiss merengue buttercream with pasteurized egg??
Hey I plan on starting a at home business CFO I make cookies, brownies, and blondies I'm not sure if having a carpet living room would affect whether the space would pass the exam. I would like to get a insight of the tax situation would I have to pay like an annual or yearly tax if I don't have an established LLC or DBA yet but I'm selling baked goods?
Wow so glad this restriction isn't in Ohio because I sell Pound Cakes
Can you sell at the farmers market with cottage food license A? In California
so no butter, no fruits for pies or cakes? Can you provide a list of alternatives to butter? Wow! Thanks, so useful. I'm in LA and so overwhelmed :-(
Thank you so much for these informations I have a business license for reselling cookies and cakes am planning to start my home bakery for cookies and cakes so am still confusing how I can get the label an scan code for the products can you help me with more info about it please thank you again
Thank you so much for this video!! Can we sell ganache in CA even if it has heavy cream in it?
Kim Van Dyne I got it passed.
Can you provide some details about the pressurized portable water requirement? We can't use water from our tap from our local water district?
Hi there, I watched a video where you disclosed the place you buy your cute boxes, could you please share again? Thank you!
Hi! www.brpboxshop.com
Please , can i have an advice, My macaron feet jusst not balance, i dont know what to do, please help me
Hi I would like to have a coconut flour macaron recipe if u have one thank you
Hello there, thank you so much for your helpful videos on starting a CFO! I have a question for you - how are you getting your products to your buyers? Are you primarily selling from farmers' markets or are you shipping anything to customers? Thank you again!
No shipping allowed with cottage food operations. It has to be local.
@@baketoujours I see. Thank you so much for your reply! I really like watching your videos:)
I have an Instagram page and do local pick ups only! I used Hotplate for this and it's been pretty seamless. I initially used Squarespace to handle my payments and I never want to relive that nightmare
Can you sell on facebook market place without a cottage food license?
Good information. I looked up the CFL in Missouri and it’s so restrictive, I don’t see the purpose.
It’s hard when they make it super restrictive. It’s definitely good info to take in, see if its worth altering recipes a bit to get your name out there before making the move to renting commercial space or a shared kitchen
Thank you so much for the information, I'm trying to sell Tamales from home, does the inspector comes and sees how you make them and waits until there done?.. I'm so confused 😔🤔
Not sure, this varies between counties and states. I know for sure someone comes and checks out the premises with a class B license-when you sell whole sale and indirectly to customers
what are you using to replace the egg whites in the macarons?
Since macarons are baked, the egg whites are fine.
Hi Nicole, thank you for all this information. I'm new to this channel and so happy I found you as I'm starting my home based business. My question is, how do you make different flavors macaroons with one large batch? Is it even possible?
if you separate the batter and make different colors from one batch you can make them different flavors. Or if you are uncomfortable splitting your batter, just make one color and add something decorative to the outside of the mac for each different flavor.
Hi thank for the information, I want to start my own business from home I have two little boys but I do cake for events and the idea of not using cream or custard is terrible!!! How that can be ?
Definitely hard! But you can use jams, and other things to make it delicious with buttercreams!
Also if it’s ok to ask how much do you sell your desserts??
www.baketoujours.com has my limited menu
at 2:00 do you need those as well?
You do not need a DBA as well in many states but it depends on where you are located
So how do you make macarons if we can't use eggs?
Hi, you bake the macarons so its fine. They don’t want you using eggs that aren’t baked
hi... i want start cottage food but i wonder they ok with home kitchen or do i need separate kitchen for cooking???
It depends on where you live. A friend told me they need completely separate kitchens in places in Canada. California was not this way. I worked out of my home kitchen
yes mam... i live in california
thanks for reply mam
Can you sell buttercream??
here in los angeles yes
Apparently Washington State is a lot stricter than California!
What!? how are tamales okay!? Ohhh if they don’t have perishable meats, like the fruit kind.
I can sell anything without meat here. And it doesn't need a label. And no license is needed
You should change your title to this video for California only. Every state has their own rules and regulations and if somebody sees this video and doesn’t realize that they’re going to be in big trouble
DIFFERENT REGULATIONS IN EVERY STATE. SOME STATES LIKE MINE, YOU DONT EVEN NEED A LICENSE
I have a question!🖐😲
I attempted to start a C.F.O. in Sacramento CA. in 2015 but due to underestimating the market, refusing to end a bad partnership and constant overspending of unnecessary equipment, I lost $500,00 in a period 5 years!😣
But I wonder if It was legal to offer to pay multiple C.F.O. bakers around the city to make and sell my (BRAND) cookies…..🤔
At the end of 90 days, the company takes the profits and divide them among the bakers.
Your input on this idea would be much appreciated!😔🙏
Hi! I’m not sure about that. You’d still need a license though, if it’s being made in your home. And it would probably need to be a class b since you’re selling “whole sale”