Sell What You Bake · Home Cupcake Starter Kit · PDF

From your oven to your first paid dozen, legally.

Cottage food rules for all 50 states plus DC in one table, a five-item menu, pricing that pays you, the first ten orders in order, the exact messages to send, packaging and labels, the baking morning, and the paperwork to keep straight. Twenty pages, no fluff.

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Sell What You Bake

What is inside

  • Cottage food laws state by state: allowed, registration, sales cap, cream cheese frosting yes or no, who to ask, with a verification note on every page
  • The five-item menu built from the Cupcake Book, all shelf-stable, all repeatable
  • Price from cost, times three: a real cost sheet for a vanilla dozen and the price list to copy
  • Your first ten orders: sampler, workplace, one post, school and team, the seven-day reorder message
  • Scripts for the first post, the quote, the deposit, the reminder, the follow-up and saying no
  • Order form, deposit rule, Wednesday cutoff, tracker, packaging, the required label, the care card
  • Money and paperwork: separate account, income, sales tax, insurance, DBA, when to move to a licensed kitchen
  • Week one checklist, day by day
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Questions

Is this legal advice?

No. It is educational material compiled from state agency pages as of September 2026, with the agency to ask on every row and a note on how to verify your state in 20 minutes. Laws change; verify before you sell.

Will I make money?

We do not promise that and neither should anyone. The kit gives you prices, costs and a first-orders plan that has worked for many home bakers. What you earn depends on your market and your effort.

Do I need the Cupcake Book?

The menu refers to recipes in the Cupcake Book by number, but the pricing, legal and selling pages stand on their own.

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