Some people enjoy tasting sweets, while others enjoy the process of creating them with their own hands.

If you finally have time to cook more complex dishes than soup and mashed potatoes, learn how to learn how to make cakes at home for yourself and to order. We will tell you where it is better to start this delicious and beautiful hobby, what you need to buy, where to learn the skill and how to ensure that the confectionery masterpiece is admired by guests.

Where does the path of a respected culinary begin?

Any mastery begins with desire and practice. But if you dream of learning how to bake beautiful cakes, then do not rush to immediately take on masterpieces from the portfolio of cool confectioners. Start with the basics, gradually moving up the steps.

Simple recipes - quick results and a powerful incentive

It is known that success inspires and gives confidence in a new business. There is only one way to quickly get the desired result - choose the most simple recipes with simple decor elements available for a beginner.

The easiest way to learn how to make cakes from ready-made biscuit cakes that are sold in stores. It is always perfectly even and has the same thickness of the cake. You just have to prepare the cream and decorate the product.

Equipment and tools - necessary tools

If you want to learn how to bake cake layers, you will definitely need a gas or electric oven. For biscuits, it is convenient to use a slow cooker with a baking function (we read more about this technique and its choice). From household appliances, you will definitely need a mixer, it is advisable to buy a stationary one in order to do other things while whipping cream or dough.

If you have a lot of dishes, then most likely you won’t have to buy anything, but make sure that there are bowls of different sizes, plastic and stainless steel containers with non-stick and enamel coating, spoons and forks of different sizes.

However, the most important thing in the preparation of confectionery is the tools for decorating, it is difficult to create admirable beauty with “bare hands”.

What a beginner pastry chef should have:

• kitchen scales, measuring cups and spoons;
• baking molds - professionals recommend buying metal ones with non-stick coating with removable ring, also useful Silicone forms and non-stick mats;
• a pastry bag with a set of nozzles - it is better to purchase a bag, since working with a syringe is not very convenient;
• stencils for quickly transforming simple home tori with powdered sugar or cocoa powder
• brushes for decoration;
• tools for rolling dough, sugar mass and mastic;
• blades for leveling;
• food film.

Of the consumables you will need: baking paper, border and packaging tapes, boxes or disposable paper coasters.

There are many cooking recipes, but there are products that are bought in stock because they are used very often:

• dyes;
• vanillin, cinnamon;
• flavors;
• nuts;
• cocoa powder;
• powdered sugar;
• impregnation for cakes;
• dry milk or cream;
• gelatin;

Later, when you learn how to make cakes and decide on basic recipes, this list will be supplemented by other ingredients.

How to learn how to make beautiful cakes

There are a lot of techniques for decorating homemade confectionery, we will consider only those suitable for beginners.

Mastic - a quick result without flaws. Mastic is a sweet, elastic mass that is used to cover cakes and make decorative items. To cover the cake, the mastic is rolled out into a layer (like dough for dumplings) and the product is completely or partially wrapped with the resulting layer. The result is a ready-made field for creativity - other decorations and inscriptions can be applied to the surface. You can buy ready-made or do it yourself.

Confectionery spray - a novelty for an instant effect. This product deserves special attention, unlike mastic, it does not require any preparation. The spray should simply be sprayed onto the product, after which its surface will acquire the effect of a flocked coating.

Ready-made sugar figurines - beauty without effort. Today on sale is a huge selection of ready-made decor for cakes:

• flowers for every taste of different sizes;
• figurines of animals and people, including the bride and groom;
• toys and cartoon characters for children's cakes;
• figures for anniversaries and children's themes;
• inscriptions, names and individual letters;
• imitation of fruits and berries and other decor.

All kinds of sprinkles look interesting in the form of gold and silver balls, beads, stars.

Edible decals are another secret beautiful cake for those who are just learning the confectionery craft. These pictures are printed food coloring on rice, wafer or sugar paper. The decor is applied to a cake lined with mastic.

Openwork decorations and chocolate figurines also quickly turn an ordinary cake into an elegant and festive one. Later, you will learn how to make lace and leaves on your own, but for starters, you can buy ready-made decor.

The most popular types of homemade cakes

Handmade cakes do not have to be similar to the masterpieces of eminent confectioners. Over time, you will develop your own zest, and perhaps your own style. But with all the variety of options, they can all be divided into several types. Consider the most popular and fashionable, because the confectionery world also has its own trends.

Jelly cakes contain a minimum of dough and fat, for which they are valued by adherents healthy eating. Jelly is made from sour cream, cream, cottage cheese, soft cheeses, juices, fruits. How to cook and decorate sour cream cake, read .

Puff pastry products are most similar to homemade ones, as they resemble grandmother's favorite "Napoleon".

Wafer cakes are suitable for making simple cakes at home. They do not require complex decor and are quickly transformed by sprinkling with chocolate, nuts, and powder.

Medoviki - favorite treat those who love gentle and fragrant dough. The degree of softness of these cakes depends on the cream. If it is sour cream, then it will turn out very soft and delicate dessert, when using an oil cream, a slight crunch will remain.

Biscuit tori are the most popular, dozens of others are distinguished in this group, classified by the number of layers and tiers, types of cream, type of decoration.

At the peak of popularity is a naked cake - with this method, the sides of the product are not covered with cream, but left as is, showing cream layers. For decoration, fresh fruits are most often used.

Where to improve skills and learn professionalism

If you have been baking sweets at home for more than a day, but want to learn how to make cakes to order, consider taking courses. There are three options here:

Homemade cakes are in demand because they are associated with naturalness. Earnings on lovers of desserts - actual direction, but it will take a little more effort to translate it into reality than to learn how to bake for yourself. This is detailed in our other publication.

If you are determined to learn how to make homemade cakes with your own hands, then start baking! Skills and abilities come only with experience, no books can replace practice.

Many people start working for themselves, usually purposefully, but I was an exception. I started making money by making cakes by accident.

Subsequently, this turned into a small home business, which brought me up to 30 thousand rubles a month.

My first experience was with my son's birthday. Two years is not a big and significant date, but we invited a lot of guests and it was no longer affordable to buy a cake that would be decorated with figurines of different heroes. That is why I decided to bake it myself.

After all the guests saw and tasted the cake, they immediately forgot about their son's birthday. For the rest of the evening, they only did what they praised me, and two days later, a friend suggested that I make about the same cake.

Photo, she showed her work colleague, praised my creation and thus I received the first order.

Initially, I refused, because I was somehow uncomfortable. It's one thing - when you do it for yourself at your own peril and risk, it's another thing - when for someone else, especially when you take money for it. I would never have come to this on my own.

A friend persuaded me, convinced me, and even set the price herself, having studied market demand and supply.

For my son, I prepared a cake with the characters of the cartoon "Cars", so I did not experience any difficulties, but, in my opinion, I completed the first order terribly.

But, everything worked out. The cake was successfully sold. Later, the customer admitted: the look of the LoL dolls left much to be desired (in which I completely agree with her), but the taste of the cake is amazing.

About the technology of making cakes

The cake making process is incredibly simple. It only seems to be: in order to bake such culinary miracle you need to be a born confectioner, have talent, patience and a lot of experience.

And before I started preparing it, I also thought so and, until the last, I doubted that I would succeed. But in fact, all you need is desire and a bit of patience.

I have no culinary education, but it took me only three hours to bake a large cake (1500 grams). Half of that time was spent decorating and making figurines.

The cake can be divided into three components:

• THE FOUNDATION . Cakes are used as a basis, regular biscuit and famous American chocolate biscuit brownie. 3-4 cakes are enough, depending on their thickness. Various creams, boiled or plain condensed milk are used as fillings.
• FILLING . Usually cream or chocolate is used. If it is necessary to change the fill color, make it blue, green, then a dye is added.
• FIGURINES . In my opinion, this is the most difficult process, since I never had the pleasure of engaging in art circles. The figurines are made from confectionery mastic. It's best to buy it. At least I couldn't do it myself. By its consistency, confectionery mastic resembles plasticine.

It is in this order that the cake is prepared. In order to prepare it for the evening feast, you need to start in the morning.

The shelf life of this cake is 4 days. To make the figures stand on the cakes, they are attached to toothpicks or skewers. Also, with their help, arms, legs, head and other elements are fastened.

Before giving the cake, you should warn the buyer about this so that no one gets hurt during consumption.

Demand

The image and figurines are the most important requirement of the customers. Parents give preference to the taste of the child. In fashion, popular modern toys, cartoons and animated series:

• Wheelbarrows;
• Cold heart;
• MostrHigh;
• pupae LOL;
• Ralph.

Where to buy ingredients

All products for making cakes can be bought in regular supermarkets. For cooking, eggs, flour, sugar, salt, soda, honey are needed.

Things are more complicated with confectionery mastic. This is what figurines are made of. I bought it in online confectionery stores.

Sometimes in the wholesale market. You can also buy white or dark chocolate there.

Costs associated with the preparation of one cake

All ingredients are quite cheap, with the exception of confectionery mastic. When I made the cake for the first time, I bought quite a bit, but for serious production, it is best to buy in large quantities.

It is sold in confectionery online stores and wholesale markets, in small kilogram buckets. Each bucket contains mastic of a certain color. It is very rare to find buckets with multiple colors.

The cost of one kilogram of confectionery mastic is 200 rubles, plus or minus 20 rubles.

Not cheap confectionery chocolate. The average cost of one kilogram is 450 rubles. In order to save money, it is best to take tiles weighing 2-3 kilograms.

To bake one cake weighing 1400 - 1700 grams, you will need:

• 6-7 large eggs - 40 rubles;
• butter - 100-150 grams - 60 rubles;
• 5 glasses of flour - 15 rubles;
• 1 glass of kefir or sour milk - 20 rubles;
• boiled or simple condensed milk- 60 rubles;
• 400 grams of sour cream - 40 rubles;
• 400 grams of chocolate - 120 rubles;
• confectionery mastic - 100 rubles;
• a glass of sugar - 10 rubles;
• salt, soda, a couple of pinches of vanillin - 10 rubles.

Outcome: 475 rubles are spent on the production of one cake.

Sometimes, the costs associated with the production of one cake can be more. It is also worth adding the cost of a cardboard box - 15 rubles.

Income from the sale of one cake

I have heard that in pastry shops where cakes of this kind are made, the price is set for one hundred grams or kilograms. To this price is added the cost for each figurine.

Thus, the cake can pull out 3,000 rubles or more.

I set the price (or rather, my friend set the price at the first order, and I just continued to work on it) - 1500 rubles per cake and chose a weight category of 1500 grams.

It takes the same amount of time to make, but the benefit is less.

I spent 400 - 700 rubles on making one cake. Benefit - 800 - 1100 rubles.

Search for customers (clients)

The first three months of orders were few. If my memory serves me 3-5 per month. They were friends of friends, relatives. Word of mouth worked, but at some point I realized that with this approach you won’t earn much.

All three months I was at a crossroads: either go to work after sending the child to a private kindergarten, or wait until they provide a place in the state kindergarten while baking cakes.

I don’t remember who told me to create a group on the VKontakte social network. I was advised to use all possible social networks, but I managed with only one and was very successful.
Creating a Vkontakte group, posting examples of your cakes there and indicating prices is not enough.

You need to attract subscribers. I started with all my friends. She asked me to repost on my pages. But even this was not enough. Then I started to climb in other subgroups of our city and spread information there.

Basically, these were communities: “mommies on maternity leave”, “my baby”, “mommies”. In general, wherever there is at least some hint of children. Invited to join the group and directly, women who have children.

Women who had children willingly joined the group. Each cake that I made and laid out in the group was vigorously discussed and praised.
The thing went.

I did not even expect that it would give a great result. Orders began to arrive almost every day. Largely due to the large population of our city.

I asked everyone who bought a cake from me to post a photo on a social network and sign under the photo: “Cakes to order: 8 – –– » . I didn’t keep track of who made such a record and who didn’t, but I guess that not everyone is ready to post photos from the holiday and sign it with such text.

Soon, I was approached to make wedding cakes. Baking a masterpiece weighing 4-5 kilograms is not an easy, but profitable business.

Income that I managed to get

After more orders, I was able to earn per month 22000 - 28000 rubles.

The production record for one month was: 29 cakes.

The most difficult day was when I had to make three cakes at once. On this day, I had to send the child to his grandmother. Like it or not, having a child complicates working from home.

Work process from order to receipt of money

Usually everything happens quite simply. The customer calls (most often the customer), and makes an order for a certain date.

Choosing a cake consists of three parts:

• Base (brownie, regular biscuit or cakes).
• Filling (condensed milk, chocolate or protein cream)
• A cartoon whose characters will sit on a cake.

On the day of readiness, they come for the cake and, taking it, make payment. In the group, I indicated that it is necessary to make an order a few days before the birthday, and pick it up after lunch. But despite this, several orders were received the day before.

Difficulties and non-standard situations that I had to face

By and large, I cannot say that there were many difficulties in the process of work, but I had to face some difficulties:

• Once I didn't complete an order because I accidentally dropped my creation off the table. Of course, the customer was dissatisfied and this case even knocked me down for a few days. I didn't take orders for two days. I just didn't pick up calls from unknown numbers.
• An unusual situation occurred when a man came for the cake and asked to see the sanitary book. Fortunately, I had it, although the last entries in it were made before maternity leave. The man leafed through it with the air of a connoisseur and, having taken his order, paid.
• Several times customers asked to bring a cake, although I always said to everyone: no delivery. I had to carry. There was nowhere to put the cake, but I didn’t want to lose money.

Making cakes at home, the work is not difficult, but you always have to get up early. After the cake is baked, it needs time to infuse.

So it will taste better. As beautiful as it is, taste matters.

Conclusion

Making cakes at home is a great income for those who are on maternity leave or simply cannot find a job.

Many people say that working from home is relaxing, but it depends on how you feel about it.

Even my capricious child did not stop me. Managed to organize myself.

Making cakes at home is not only a good income - it is interesting and very entertaining. I still do this, but I take orders exclusively on weekends, since I went to my main job, after their maternity leave, I had to think about how to reduce the number of orders.

* Calculations use average data for Russia

30 000₽

Starting investments

200 - 300%

Product markup

1 month

Payback period

From 10 000 rub.

A home business on cakes is a great business idea for moms on maternity leave, as well as everyone who loves to cook beautifully and tasty. In this article, we decided to answer the main questions of beginner cake makers and give them an incentive to act.

In other words, for those people who really want to learn something, there is no shortage of information. All bakers “from God” were once mere mortals. You can master all the wisdom in baking cakes for free and on your own only if you have the desire and ability to self-organize. It is best if you conduct the first experiments on your home, slowly and step by step honing your skills. Do not rush to immediately sell without really learning anything. So that later you don’t blush in front of people and discourage yourself from moving on. Break more firewood, but let no one except the closest people know about it. Oh yeah, don't forget to take pictures of successful attempts. They will come in handy for your portfolio.

Cost price. How to calculate the price of a cake

To bake cakes to order, you do not have to draw up a business plan according to generally accepted canons and standards. It will be enough to learn how to calculate the cost of cakes and set a margin that will allow you to extract the desired profit. talking plain language, the cost of a cake is the cost of all the ingredients included in it + the price of packaging and other consumables. To calculate the cost, you will need to know the number of ingredients. The inconvenience is that you will need to transfer many ingredients from teaspoons, tablespoons and faceted glasses to grams and kilograms. To make calculations easier, keep translation tables close by, like this one:

There are a lot of similar tables on the Internet, translation into weight measures can be found for any product. An easier option is to purchase a kitchen scale. The only thing is, if you are weighing something that cannot be weighed without dishes, do not forget to subtract the weight of the dishes from the resulting figure. Please also note that the weight finished cake will always differ from the weight of its ingredients, as shrinkage occurs during baking.

How much do you charge for your cakes? Experienced cake makers advise boldly multiplying the cost by 2-3 times (markup 200-300%). That is, if the cost of a conditional cake is 1000 rubles, then the price of 2000-3000 rubles is normal. Remember that the cake includes not only the ingredients, but also the light, gas, water spent on its preparation, and most importantly, your time and your work, which should also be rewarded. The second criterion when setting the price is the price of competitors. The price should not be higher than other cake makers.

How to calculate profit? What do you want? 30 thousand rubles a month? Then you need to sell 15 conditional cakes with a cost of 1000 rubles at a price of 3000 rubles. 50 thousand rubles? Then you need to sell exactly the same 25 cakes. This is elementary mathematics, elementary school. Of course, all cakes will be of different sizes, weights, and costs, but sketching out a rough plan is not difficult. As a rule, most often cakes weighing 2 kg or more are ordered from private traders. You can't earn much in the production of cakes and mini-cakes.

Competition. What kind of cake to surprise the sophisticated

"Households". They “sit at home in their kitchen and try to bake to order”.... “They don’t have a health book, they don’t have special equipment.” This is “lack of any control over the production process” ... Some seasoned confectioners, whose interviews can be found on the net, in their own words can demotivate you. But try to react less to them. Despite the huge competition, anyone can stand out with their confectionery and make money on it. He is not even very versed in catering, does not know the norms of SanPiN and does not have a network of pastry shops behind him. To figure out how to stand out, you need to do two things. The first is to see what offers are available in your city. The second is to see what offers are not available in your city yet. You should pay attention not to the assortment of large confectioneries (although knowing their cakes and prices will not hurt either), but to what private traders offer. The best way to search is through social networks. A simple query with the word "cakes" and the name of your city will give you a lot of food for thought. For example, the query “Moscow cakes” on the social network “Vkontakte” gives 1838 answers, “Krasnodar cakes” - 414 answers, and even “Pyatigorsk cakes” - 34.

But do not rush to despair of such a beating! Probably half of these groups are dead. Their number well illustrates the number of failed attempts to start a business. See what quality is offered in the largest and most active groups: this is what you should strive for. Here, at the same time, you can see the methods of doing business on social networks, but more on that later. Please note that no one offers ordinary napoleons and sour cream to order. Most often, these are all kinds of children's and wedding cakes: Romantic and funny, bright and stylish. A huge number of stories. Someone makes chocolate portraits, someone sculpts confectionery trees, someone produces edible Disney cartoons ...

Ready-made ideas for your business

No matter how unfortunate it is for you, but all the ideas for cakes have already been invented. On the one hand, this is good - there are many examples for inspiration. good selection with 300 ideas for decorating cakes from the 1000 ideas portal. On the other hand, you can't invent anything radically new. If you don't believe me, try this experiment. Go to any Internet search engine in the pictures section. Type the phrase "cake in the form of ..." and then substitute any words that come to your mind: "piano", "iron", "elephant" and so on. Whatever request you make, all the cakes have already been invented by someone. Moreover, the features of the cake business are such that the client himself sometimes acts as the main creative inventor, sending you a photo of some cake in the form of a cap or a pink laptop with a request to bake exactly the same and no other. Here we are gradually approaching the fact that the very idea does not in any way guarantee you 100% success without a lack of skill, a willingness to take on any order and, of course, without the right approach to promotion.

Promotion. How to advertise yourself for free

After you get your hand on cooking cakes for your family, start moving on to acquaintances and friends. Surely by this time recipes and photos that you are not ashamed to show will appear in your portfolio. Be sure to create a group or page on Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki and Instagram and try to fill them out regularly, keep active, invite friends. You can publish not only your own photo reports, but also photos of cakes from other masters, inspiring ideas. Try to lead communities not too banal - people like a lively approach, lively emotions, watching the process. Remember that the main thing is your customers, so set up phone notifications for incoming messages, try to respond to orders as quickly as possible. Over time, you will realize that social networks can be your launching pad for much more. Many cake makers through social networks are beginning to gather an audience for their own master classes, hold promotions with free tasting, upload educational videos, and hold contests with reposts. Remember that you must use the word “cakes”, “cakes to order” and so on in the name of your accounts so that you are sure to be found when searching.

Pay close attention to the Instagram page. Up to 80% of your customers are likely to come from there. Food photography is one of the most common types of blogging on this social network. Learn the basic principles of food photography. Consider examples of the best pastry art Instagram accounts. As a rule, photos of food with a natural light source are successful. In the light of lamps, any food looks plastic and unattractive. The composition of the frame, angle, background are also very important. Here is a good article on how to properly sell food through Instagram, from which you can get some useful ideas. Also, take a good look at the tips for designing Instagram profiles - a lot of articles have been written on this topic.

Many decide that the most important thing in starting a cake home business is to create your website. And it is desirable that the design of the site looks richer and more expensive. But this step should be taken only after considering the consequences well. Otherwise, there is a risk of getting what the majority gets - a lot of money spent, a slanting-crooked page that Yandex and Google bypass (and therefore your customers don’t see), periodic blocking and a whole set of hitherto unfamiliar technical problems, that distract you from your main occupation.

Ready-made ideas for your business

Secondly, in the psychology of people, a site is something more than just a set of pictures. This is your official representation, a kind of administration, the demand from which is increased. The site, as a rule, is started by those stores that have already acquired their own identity and somehow stand out from competitors, have well-established mechanisms for interacting with the client. Now imagine that instead of the image of a pastry shop with hundreds of delicious cakes and a designer interior style, the customer comes to your house for an order and sees stained old wallpaper and you pulling a cake from the balcony in slippers. It is unlikely that his expectations will be justified.

If you already have something to brag about, then another matter. Then you have to create a website, which must contain a catalog of your products, current prices, an individual order form, and contacts. When you have something to be proud of, you can add elements of status,

publish the faces of satisfied customers, their wonderful reviews of their work, and so on. In the meantime - gain experience, collect photos of your creations, reviews of those who have tried them, develop, but don't start a website.

Underwater rocks. You are hard, the share of the cake maker

Baking cakes is not without a fly in the ointment. The most common complaint of those who have started working to order is physical fatigue. Many women admit that they overestimated their strength. Fulfillment of orders with the parallel upbringing of the child becomes a burden for them. You have to spend the whole day on your feet near the oven and stove, while taking your son or daughter to the kindergarten or to sections and circles. Legs begin to hurt, nerves fail, patience bursts.

And it also happens that demand has gone, orders have gone, and not only there is no time to fulfill them, but also knowledge, it turns out, is somehow not enough. Orders are filled in a hurry at night, and a person suddenly finds himself spending several hours leveling a cake, which he could do much faster if he just knew how. Tortodel suddenly discovers that there is no time to study, and there is not much time. Cakes come out slanting, and the client is dissatisfied with the result. Time is generally headache for everyone who makes cakes. For example, large cakes from 3-6 kg give more revenue, but it is better to take orders for them in advance, because there is a risk of not meeting the deadline. And the deadline here is strict: after the holiday, no one needs the cake.

Many mistakes are made when communicating with clients. For example, many cake makers forget to discuss return conditions with the client, when the customer, having already eaten the cake, says that he did not like the cake and wants to return the money. Even if your business is not registered, you should not forget about basic hygiene: cleaning nails, hands, teeth, and so on. Wear gloves, meet the customer in a cap or with collected hair, keep the kitchen, apartment and bathrooms clean, where the client can go, taking your finished order. Avoid situations where pets roam freely near orders. The client may be put off by this.

Another pitfall is scammers. Unfortunately, your activity in in social networks surely will not go unnoticed. One way to get divorced is this. A client enters your group and leaves an order on your wall. While you are not online, a scammer immediately answers the customer on your behalf in private messages - he names the price of the cake and “negotiates” the price. Details are sent to the client, he pays an advance payment, the scammer immediately disappears. Then the dissatisfied client writes in all publics that your community scammed him for money, and you are a scammer. Warn potential customers about such cases and clearly indicate who exactly you need to contact to complete the order. Also, never forget to watermark your photos so they don't get stolen.

IP opening. A little about the fears of “torto-makers”

One of the debatable questions among beginner cake makers is whether or not it is worth opening your own IP, officially registering a business and paying taxes to the state? From a legal point of view, of course, this is necessary. But in practice, when starting a cake business at home, most home bakers turn a blind eye to the formalities. Until a decent customer base has been built up and there is no stable sales volume, no one usually bothers with registration. For such a business in the format of a part-time job, this is unprofitable: you need to pay taxes and pay mandatory insurance premiums for yourself (in 2019, this is a one-time payment per year in the amount of 29,354 rubles). Of course, one can easily succumb to fears while reading legal advice. Up to the point that, for example, you can be imprisoned for five years, or, for example, fined 500 thousand rubles. But it is not so.

Why? Firstly, serious liability arises for tax evasion on an especially large scale, and it is rather difficult to prove this. Here you need a law enforcement officer to make a test purchase for a large amount or to prove that you received large incomes. And secondly, excuse me for being so direct, nobody needs you with your cakes. You can verify this if you open any news aggregator and see exactly who is being fined for illegal business activities under Article 171. As a rule, these are alcohol sellers, spontaneous street hawkers, or sellers of counterfeit antifreeze from the garage. Sometimes raids are organized along the embankments and parks, from where they drive any illegal trade of an unsightly appearance, flea markets, or, for example, hookah workers who sell hookahs from the floor. In a word, trouble awaits those who either sell "opium for the people" or simply an eyesore to the authorities.

Ready-made ideas for your business

Now imagine what will happen if the state massively starts hunting for maternity moms quietly selling cakes? At the same time, they bring up a couple of small noisy creatures, preparing dinners for their husbands, keeping the household. Yes, nothing but a people's revolution, which will begin with Malakhov's programs. The only option where you can run into a real problem is this. Some client will really suffer from your cake, for example, get seriously poisoned and write an evil statement to the police. Then a test may come to you. And he will fine you ... in the amount of 500 to 2000 rubles (administrative responsibility). Of course, accidents still occur, no one is immune from them. For example, one of your competitors can send you a check, from which you take customers away with your cakes. You can find out how such checks are carried out in practice and what you need to be prepared for.

It’s worth thinking about a more serious business if you, at least, bought an additional refrigerator, hired “extra hands” and experience acute crowding in the room, which clearly does not correspond to the level of your ambitions and income. Then it is already possible to open an individual entrepreneur, look for premises for your own outlet or mini-workshop, purchase new equipment, and expand the sales market. The ideal option is to combine streaming production with the production of products to order. Products can also be sold to coffee shops, cafes and supermarkets. But remember that even a tiny production will require investments in the amount of 500 thousand rubles.

This business is not a business, but "self-employment". When considering it, I would pay attention to 5 main aspects:

1. Quality problems. You need to be very sensitive to the source material! If the recipe says "animal oil", then it must be a good quality oil. After all, not always "animal oil" - "animal". At dairy plants, other products, mainly of plant origin, are added to it to reduce costs (coconut and Palm oil best case scenario). And so in everything! At the same time, you need to understand that a tough approach to the quality of raw materials has the other side of the coin - an increase in the cost of the finished product. Balancing it is almost impossible. From low-quality raw materials, it is difficult to make a product that will be bought a second time.

2. On home equipment, it is impossible to reach ... conditionally "industrial volumes" of production, in other words, to a decent income. That's what industrial equipment is for.

3. Sales is always a delicate and complex matter, and the number of “orders” will be “jumping” in nature, and a permanent customer base is created over the years. Therefore ... maybe it makes sense to add something different with elements of meat to the sweet? Scientifically, this is called "diversifying the assortment."

4. When designing this business, special attention should be paid to the problems of “transportation” of finished products. Sometimes it's costly, sometimes it's not.

5. And the last, the so-called "illegal business". In fact, it is desirable to do everything in order not to fall under the "radar of the state", but, alas, this is impossible. It must be borne in mind that such activities are of little interest to the fiscal authorities and are difficult to prove, but ... one must always be on the alert. It is necessary to consult with a lawyer in advance how to answer questions if the situation turns out to be unfavorable. If our state were a little smarter, in its legislative part and not only, such a problem would not arise. In the meantime, we have ... Friends - everything, the rest - the law!

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Fresh, deliciously delicious cakes are always a great idea to celebrate an important event or just to please yourself and your loved ones! They will adequately decorate your family celebrations, friendly parties and corporate receptions and easily turn the most ordinary tea party or everyday dinner into a real holiday!

Delivery of cakes in Moscow from the most famous pastry shops

In our assortment, cakes are made only from selected and natural ingredients from trusted suppliers. Airy mousses, creams and soufflés, soft biscuits and meringues that melt in your mouth, amazing fruits and ripe berries, the most delicate jellies, noble truffles and pralines, hazelnuts and whipped cream, sweet liqueurs and glazes with bright flavors - culinary fantasies confectioners know no boundaries!

In the catalog of cakes of the online store site you can see the prices and buy cakes:

• from the pastry chef "Azbuka Vkusa";
• from the family company Cream Royal;
• cakes "Viennese shop" from the factory "Bolshevik";
• confectionery premium class from the company "Restaurant Collection".

"Bird's milk", "Medovik", "Napoleon", "Kyiv", "Prague" or cake "Moscow" - choose your favorite traditional desserts, familiar to everyone since childhood! Or buy cakes prepared according to exclusive recipes that will pleasantly surprise your guests, friends and colleagues!

Sweet cakes are the best gift!

In the stores of the Azbuka Vkusa supermarket chain and in the online store site you can order cakes with home delivery:

• chocolate (for example, "Three chocolates", "Balthazar", "Biscuit-chocolate", "Cheese-chocolate", "Super chocolate");
• berry (for example, "Blueberry-curd", " wild berry”, “Giovanni”, “Pistachio-strawberry” and others);
• based on butter creams, whipped cream and curd cheese(for example, Curd, Caramel-Pear, several types of cheesecakes);
• low-calorie and lean desserts.

Original "dressy" cakes will perfectly complement any holiday or cozy evening with a cup of tea! It is impossible to imagine a birthday without a sweet treat, March 8, September 1, New Year, February 23 and other joyful events of life! Choose a delicacy for every taste, order cakes with delivery in our online store, enjoy yourself, treat your loved ones or take it with you when you are going to visit!