Detra “Denay” Davis of Cooking with Denay is a home-based bakery, and the instructor of the ever popular class How to Operate a Home-Based Bakery available online on Denay’s website. Learn more about Denay by visiting her website http://cookingwithdenay.com/ and joining Ask the Experts Forum. Email Denay at contact@cookingwithdenay.com
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Today food crafters have more options when it comes to selling their specialty foods, and consumers are seeking out the unusual to compliment their daily meals. Visit any food cooperative, farmers market, or street food festival and you are bound to run across pickled okra, Plumhoney ®, chocolate truffle cupcakes and hot pepper cheese bread.
If you are a novice in the industry, a bit of a newbie, not a chef or head baker; but a cook or assistant; you’re competing with a lot of cooks and chefs who know more than you do, so don't let your degree, if you have one go to your head.
Has anyone ever told you to sell that delicious pound cake? Have friends and family insisted you could be making a mint selling your delicious sugar cookies? If this sounds like you, then you could be baking up profits from your kitchen. All over the country there are countless home-based bakeries delivering heavenly baked goods throughout the community.

