The Social Media Microbakery Business Scam | What it REALLY Takes to Run a Home Baking Business
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Decorating my father-in-law's three tiered coconut birthday cake while discussing the latest microbakery scam to hit social media.
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Here’s the full explanation: ua-cam.com/video/x1esAUDtv3k/v-deo.htmlsi=uNjr1gjY9t768TlN
Thank you for addressing this! There are more people selling digital courses than actually baking products now. I love when I look up these allegedly successful businesses and can barely if at all find them. A cookie podcaster is doing this exact scam.
Making a 3 tiered coconut cake with white chocolate ganache for my father-in-law in today’s video ❤
Thank you, Ashley. Home baking will NEVER be a 'get rich quick' scheme. 😂. I've been doing this for 40 years.
My own pet peeve, right now, is AI generated cakes, mostly on pintrest 😢
I can't tell you how much I agree with you about the AI cakes! As a long-term baker, I see people all the time who think those are real and then try to compare them to what we are really capable of when working with edible products. 😢
Yup.
I started baking during lockdown, learning from UA-cam. I would never even think of teaching others for courses to sell even after 4 years!
It's called the cottage food industry------it does take a while to develop a clientele.
I love making bread, but bread making is so labor intensive and i struggle to think of how you would make a liveable income with a bread microbakery. I had friends who had ordered bread from me, but there is a very few people who are willing to pay the cost for it to be worth it. I know home bakers who sell bread on special ocassions, but they admit is for the art because they could be making so much more money by spending that day making cake orders.
I've seen this idea perpetrated on a home bread oven's website. They have a whole chart about how much money you can make. The baseline is selling 60 (!) loaves of bread a day. Sure.
Idk how much these people said they was making, but you can definitely make some good shmoney doing baked goods, you just have to hustle a lot.
I have a 'micro bakery' which I run from home in the UK. I don't run online classes though.
I rarely make wedding cakes (it isn't something I specialise in) and most of my cakes are bespoke designs. It's a part time business for me.
I don't make a huge amount of money. I do have to pay for public and product liability insurance and keep thorough records to show that all of my ingredients for a particular cake are fully traceable to source.
I am also required to do a tax return, even though I don't earn enough to pay tax.
Pandemic forced me to learn baking. And baking a simple French country style breads for my family of 7 is HARD enough