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Starting a Cake Business

How to Start Your Cake Business in Six Easy Steps


Summary: Do you find yourself interested in baking? Then you could be successful in starting a cake business. Read on for six easy steps to start a cake business!

Believe it or not, I love to bake cakes and cookies! The warm smell of cinnamon and ginger wafting through the air is enough to satiate my children’s raving hunger pangs.

Baking cakes is fun and with two children running around the house, everything I made was consumed in less than a few hours. Friends, who were lucky enough to be around at the time of baking, always raved about the cooking and urged me to start a cake order business. “We’ll pay to eat a much bigger slice of those exotic goodies”, was the common refrain!

Tips and trick on how to start a cake business!

So it was after serious thought, I decided why not really turn this into something profitable. The very first thing I did was to read up on how to start a cake business and here’s what I learned.

  • If I wanted more business, then I had to make sure my cakes and cookies were better looking, tastier, and yummier, than the local bakers. That meant regular new classes and newer recipes and my family as the guinea pig. But that’s the best way to be in demand, right!
  • I tapped all those friends who were willing to pay for my goodies and then utilized them to get my business going by word of mouth publicity. I even got them to distribute flyers and discount coupons for my cake business!
  • I then approached local cake and coffee houses for taking on my samples and selling my cakes. Although a few did refuse, many did like my products, and that gave me a tremendous boost.
  • I contacted local wedding planners to show my cakes, show my ability for wedding cakes. Believe me a well made wedding cake can really get you going with the wedding planners! And through them, I managed to get referrals to several party organizers as well as event mangers.
  • Free publicity always counts. In a bid for recognition, I sponsored quite a few local events and church fundraising activities, as well as offered free sample products to the local orphanage. This created really great exposure and word of mouth publicity free of charge!
  • After a sufficient amount of publicity was generated using press releases, I decided it was time to keep the interest going and baked a really big cake for the local orphanage in the form of a giant cookie. The cake was cut and the proceeds went to charity. I had to spend a really great amount of time to do this but the publicity it generated was…………………….priceless!

10 Responses to "Starting a Cake Business".

1. TERRI on 7/14/2008

I WANT TO OPEN A HOME BUSINESS FOR BAKING CAKES, WHAT DO I NEED TO DO? I HAVE ALOT OF PASSION FOR BAKING & WOULD LOVE TO SHARE IT WITH OTHERS

2. David Bacon on 2/14/2009 11:34:47 AM

I restarted or am trying to restart my mother's cake business. She made cakes for a local bar/tavern. Her cakes did very well in the 1980's. So I am using her recipes, I left several complimentary cakes with my business card with several restaurants. They like them but they don't follow up. I got to actually see an owner at my latest apartment. I left a chocolate peanut butter cake and a whiskey. The cake is a tube cake with chocolate chips, coconut and pecans and whiskey of course... it's a delicious cake. Well, he tried them and tells me that the whiskey belongs in a diner and is nothing more than a pound cake and of course the peanut butter didn't go over well due to the resent peanut butter scare.... So he threw them out. I made two other cakes... a boston creme and a carrot cake. He's going to try them but reminds me that he can go to BJ's and get larger cakes for $9.95... Like New York style cheese cake. I offered a 9" boston creme for $13.00 and a 9" carrot cake for $16.00. (complimentary to him) The carrot cake is a scratch cake... with real cream cheese icing. How do I get around the Sam's Clubs and BJ's. I would like to sell my cakes to a restaurant. My 3 attempts haven't been good...so far. How should I change my approach or product price?

3. Kitchen Wizard on 5/7/2009 6:31:50 PM

How can all of you bake out of your homes? Don't you know it is illegal to do so? It's also illegal for a restaurant to purchase a cake that was made in a home.

Please explain how you have gotten around this? I am so curious as I have started a cake business and of course am not doing it from any home. Please advise.

4. Linda A. Anthony on 7/24/2009 4:43:55 PM

I have started a cake business and I need some tips on what to do. And yes I do work out of my home.

5. James on 7/24/2009 6:33:08 PM

@Linda, next will be making some loyal customers. Don't target for a huge profit from the day one. This is the time to buildup your reputation in the market. Reaching to your customers is another issue that you should not forget. Advertise your business as much as possible. You need to set up some goals for yourself and try to reach that at any cost. Come back and share your experience with us. Good luck!!!

6. Barbara on 7/28/2009 3:20:26 PM

Kitchen wizard, mind your own business instead of implying these people don't know what they're doing. I'm sure they know about laws and licenses and stuff so get a grip!

7. Dina on 7/29/2009 6:23:28 PM

Hi, I am from Europe I make good cakes which you can not find around. Is there any restaurants or coffee shops who would like to have good cakes on his or her own menu for the first time for free and later we can talk about it only serious owners of business.

8. Toni on 7/29/2009 7:20:05 PM

It is not illegal to bake out of a home kitchen. It just requires proper licensing....

9. J LOVE on 9/20/2009 4:48:39 PM

I'm thinking about going to the flea market trying to sell my cakes there another person selling there now and have so a lot of customers. My cake taste ten times better what so I do

10. Fatima on 10/20/2009 5:42:32 AM

I'm thinking of baking cakes at home. I'd like to know how much money is needed to start cake business?

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