Custom Cookies Home Business
Are you good at baking? I´m not, but if I were, I might consider a home business in custom made cookies. It appears to be a very profitable niche and you can create cookies for absolutely any occasion!
Custom cookies are very popular for events such as baby showers, weddings, bridal showers, bar mitzvahs, etc. Basically, if you can think of a holiday or event, you can have a custom cookie made for it. These cookies come in fancy or simple shapes, decorated professionally in icing. You can personalize them as well. For example, custom wedding cookies might be in the shape of a wedding cake, a dress, or just a simple circle with the couple´s name in scripted icing.
In order to make and sell custom cookies, you need a good sugar cookie recipe that is stable and reliable. The cookie needs to be relatively hard so it can hold up to being packaged and should last at least a week without deterioration. This allows for shipping.
You will also need a good icing that goes hard when cured and that is easy to handle. And, of course, some icing skills. These can be practiced, there are plenty of books and websites out there that will help you learn on your own, or you can take a cake decorating course to learn the basics.
Custom cookies can be advertised wherever an event might be held. Put an ad in local newspapers and magazines and offer free cookie samples to wedding planners and event organizers to get them to recommend you. You might also offer a commission to organizers who bring you clients.
Custom cookies rang in price anywhere from $1.50 to $10 per cookie, depending on the complexity of the design and the decoration. It could be a very profitable business and an enjoyable one if you like to bake and decorate cookies.
Custom cookies are the perfect way to enhance a special presentation. Those are baked fresh and decorated by hand. Customize cookies with your logo could be a highly personalized and memorable gift.
Custom cookies are an untapped niche that should be seriously looked at. Schools are another good place to showcase your talent. The possibilities are endless as to where to market your cookies.
The idea of setting up a custom cookies business is interesting for women – and men – who want to run a home based business. It is a promising niche. You obviously need good recipes, and then use good marketing techniques in order to reach the customers and generate substantial sales.
As in many other types of businesses, preparation and creativity are essential. The market is there.
I love to bake also!! I use to help my sister with her in-home baking business years ago. Scentsy has a Candlebar Scent that is perfect to use in a bakers kitchen it smells great! and it is appropriately called “Sugar Cookie” you should try it! my website is http://www.get-scents.com Happy Baking!