I got a wonderful referred compliment from a friend's husband the last night. Ever since she bought him a batch of my strawberry cupcakes for his birthday (and he's sampled some chocolate ones and Christmas ones too), he compares all other cupcakes to mine and finds them lacking.
*This is actually a little bad, as his accomplished baker of a wife is making them now too, so, it's probably time he shut up and transferred his praise elsewhere ;)
However, she said that he recently declared that I should be selling them - no, that people should be lining up outside my house to buy them! I like this idea. It would also make me clean up more.
I do love it when my baking gets love, I can't deny it.
PS: How fancy is this place? Swoon!
*This is actually a little bad, as his accomplished baker of a wife is making them now too, so, it's probably time he shut up and transferred his praise elsewhere ;)
However, she said that he recently declared that I should be selling them - no, that people should be lining up outside my house to buy them! I like this idea. It would also make me clean up more.
I do love it when my baking gets love, I can't deny it.
PS: How fancy is this place? Swoon!
7 comments:
It is a special kind of pride I love as well, even after only baking a few things. I wish I could come and try your cupcakes.
Do it! Sell em!
Yay JO!
Well, there are issues with that:
The health dept says I must have: a seperate sink, no washing machine in my kitchen, a seperate fridge... these are things I have no space/cash for.
So I's have to rent a unit, which is expensive and hard to do on a batch by batch basis.
So... no real way to do that right now, sadly.
Ever thought about doing it illegally ?? Undercover cupcake baking..meeting in car parks and dark alleyways selling your stash..but seriously, my mother bakes for the country market and there's none of that regulation business..they ve been doing it for years and no one injured yet !
I do when I do...
I suspect the country market wouldn't make me enough money though - would anyone pay €2 for a cupcake there?
I tried to do boot sales again last summer and sold NUTHIN!
You do love baking, Jo. It might well be worth looking into it as a new career. I'm not saying it'd be easy, but wouldn't it be worth it?
This has crossed my mind, as you might all have guessed, but it's a tough one when you have young kids - and no one I know is rich from selling cakes, sadly. I fear it's a chick-lit success story (I have the novel!) but not necessarily for real life in a country deep in recession...
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