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Cakes & Baking to Order

Celebration cakes, cupcakes and treat boxes
5
Setup steps
3
AI prompts
5
Tools & links

What it is

Baking cakes, cupcakes and treat boxes for birthdays, weddings and events from your own kitchen. It is a favourite side hustle because orders are booked ahead and happy customers come back every year.

Watch this first

How to register and set up your home bakery business in the UK

Step by step

  1. 1

    Register your food business

    Register with your local council at least 28 days before you start trading, even from home. It is free in most areas, and they will inspect your kitchen and give a food hygiene rating.

  2. 2

    Get food hygiene trained

    A Level 2 food hygiene certificate (cheap and online) is expected by customers, insurers and councils.

  3. 3

    Handle allergens properly

    You must be able to tell customers about the 14 major allergens, and food packed before sale needs a full ingredients label with allergens highlighted.

  4. 4

    Get insured

    Public liability and product liability cover are a must when selling food.

  5. 5

    Price for time, not just ingredients

    Custom cakes often sell for £30–£150 or more depending on size and design. Include ingredients, packaging, your time and delivery.

AI prompts to try

Copy one of these into ChatGPT, Claude or your AI tool of choice and adapt it to your situation.

Price a cake
“My ingredients for a 3 layer celebration cake cost £[COST], packaging £[PACK] and it takes me [HOURS] hours. What should I charge to earn £[RATE] an hour? Show your working.”
Order form
“Write an order form for custom cakes: size, flavour, design notes, allergies, collection or delivery date, deposit and cancellation terms. UK friendly.”
Allergen label
“Show me how to write a compliant ingredients and allergen label for a vanilla cupcake box sold in the UK, with allergens in bold.”

Get help setting it up

Hand the fiddly setup to a freelancer on Fiverr and start earning sooner.

Useful links

Gov.uk: register a food business↗Food Standards Agency↗Instagram↗Simply Business (insurance)↗Canva↗
Started? Run it from one place

A free OddSync account gives you a booking page, quotes and invoices sent as a link, and a running tax estimate for your side hustle.

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