Sell What You Bake · Home Cupcake Starter Kit · PDF
From your oven to your first paid dozen, by the rules.
Cottage food rules for all 50 states plus DC in one table, a five-item menu, pricing built from real costs, the first ten orders in order, the exact messages to send, packaging and labels. Twenty pages, no fluff.
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What is inside
- Cottage food laws state by state: allowed, registration, sales cap, cream cheese frosting yes or no, who to ask, and how to verify your row in 20 minutes
- 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
- 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, weekly cutoff, tracker, packaging, the required label, the care card
- Money and paperwork: what to ask about income, sales tax, insurance and a business name
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. Laws change: verify before you sell.
Will I make money?
We do not promise that, and nobody honestly can. The kit gives you prices, costs and a first-orders plan. What happens next 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.
Sell What You Bake
Or add it when you buy the Cupcake Book.