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What workedA home baker in Kaptai, Rangamati, in an Ajker Patrika report · Started in 2020

A 2,000-3,000 taka start, and over a lakh earned from cakes

Home baking started in 2020 on 2,000-3,000 taka has brought in over a lakh taka so far; the report gives no monthly income or staff numbers.

This woman in Kaptai, Rangamati, started baking cakes at home in 2020, during the COVID period, spending 2,000-3,000 taka to begin. Praise from her family for the first cakes pushed her to sell them, and she began taking orders on Facebook. The range grew to chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, lemon, orange, butterscotch and pandan, along with custom cartoon-design cakes for children's birthdays - the orders people will pay a premium for. The report says she has earned over a lakh taka from the cakes so far and has trained several other local women to bake. It does not state her monthly income or whether she employs anyone.

Lessons

  1. 1.Custom birthday cakes are the order type people will pay a premium for from a home bakery
  2. 2.Two or three thousand taka is enough to find out whether people will actually buy what you bake

Published with the person's permission, without revealing who they are.

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