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  • Okokimup@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 hours ago

    I’ve signed myself up for a local bake-off. It’s on Nov 1 and I’m doing an apple theme: brown butter cake with apple custard filling and caramelized white chocolate frosting. I’m going to decorate with basket weave piping, apple macarons, and apple cake pops.

    I’ve never been good at piping so I’m most scared of that bit. I’m good at macarons when I do them regularly, but right now I’m out of practice and my first attempt at shells a few days ago went poorly.

    The most stressful bit is that this is the perfect opportunity to launch a business since the hosts will hand out your card to all the guests. So I have to figure out exactly what I want to do there. I have two days to get them my business cards.

      • Okokimup@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 hours ago

        I wish I could just advertise cannabis edibles, but that’s technically not legal here (legal to make and give away, but not sell). My small town has a couple of cake bakeries and people sell a variety of goods at the farmers market on Saturday. What we really need is a bread bakery, but I’m not capable of that at this time in my life.

        I could focus on macarons as a niche, but I’m not sure how popular that would be here. I like making cakes, even though I’m not the greatest decorator. They do taste really frickin good.

        Fortunately, Forrager, the cottage food industry guru, is hosting a workshop tomorrow on starting your own business, so hopefully I’ll pick up some inspiration there.