Let me start by saying that I am not attacking any commercial bakery or a commercial bakeries ability to sell what they must. I am looking at this from the vantage point of a consumer who has for years, purchased cakes from my local grocer when my energy was low and making a cake from…
Human beings can talk themselves out of anything, dare I say everything; then wonder why they have nothing. We have learned to use every excuse in the book so we don’t have to follow-up, follow-through and do. I recently received a long list of questions from a woman who wants to start a home bakery…
Everyone knows the economy is in a nasty state of affairs and depending on where you live in this great nation, shopping trends are truly in the dumpster. It is Black Friday and Cyber Monday that are suppose to be a shoppers saving grace; but what happens if you don’t have gifting money for all…
It’s a little known fact but baking really is rocket science! There you heard it here first. There are many folks who are great cooks, but when it comes to baking (and sometimes cooking), you must have a certain degree of knowledge about ingredients. weights and measures, how certain ingredients react to each other and…
I was recently going through all of the cottage food laws to decipher which one was the best in the nation and although the only one I found to be great was North Carolina’s there are bits and peaces of other cottage food laws that stand out in a good way. Michigan passed their cottage…