Essentials for your cake business
Course Outline
1. Lesson 1: How to measure ingredients correctly
2. Lesson 2: How to measure ingredients without measuring cups
3. Lesson 3: Simple vanilla cake
4. Lesson 4: Yummy chocolate cake(Method I)
5. Lesson 5: Tasty chocolate cake(Method II)
6. Lesson 6: How to make buttercream icing
7.Lesson 7: Simple icing technique and method
8.Lesson 8: 5 minute beautiful cake decoration
9. Lesson 9: How to make a drip cake using homemade Chocolate ganache
10. Lesson 10: Essentials for your cake business
What tools you will need to start baking?
When I started baking, I was overwhelmed by a sea of information. While watching cake tutorials and reading cake blogs, a lot of equipment was recommended. I spent money buying essential tools I needed and useless ones I will never use. Based on experience, I will list the essential and non-essential but helpful tools you will need to start baking.
Essential must-have tools
- Oven
- Baking pan/ Saucepan
- Wooden spoon
- Plastic bowls
- Measuring cups
- Knife
- Teaspoons
Non-essential tools that will simplify your baking
- Spatula
- Mixer
- Palette knife
- 4 Piping nozzles (writing tip, round tip, rosette tip & open star tip)
- Piping bags
- Turntable
- Weighing scale
- Oven thermometer
Ingredients needed
- Gyendi Cocoa Powder
- Gyendi Chocolate bars
- Margarine
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Flour
- Baking soda
- Baking powder
- Vanilla essence
How much do you will need for a baking side hustle?
The biggest investment required in baking is the oven and the baking lessons. Home ovens can go for as low as Ush 350,000 to as high as Ush 4,000,000. I recommend that you join the Gyendi Cocoa Chocolate and Baking Class, a Facebook group to receive recommendations from other bakers to make an informed decision.
The next investment you shall make is learning how to bake. The recipes and methods shared by Gyendi Cocoa have been tried and tested with Ugandan ingredients and will therefore make very tasty cakes. Before you begin selling you cakes to clients, I recommend you try out your recipes at least 3 times to ensure that your cake is edible and tasty. This also teaches you how your oven behaves with different cakes.
Once the initial investment is made, the cost of making a cake lowers that it becomes possible to make back all the money you put in for each cake. Assuming you already have an oven, you shall need approximately Ush 95,000 to start a small baking side hustle at home.
Essential Tools (excluding Oven) -50,000
Ingredients -45,000
Share your baking results & challenges for feedback plus support on Gyendi Cocoa's Baking & Chocolate class.
