How to Sell Home Baked Cookies Online

Although there are many types of cookies, home-made ones are still appealing. It takes lots of planning, culinary skills, business acumen and passion.

Home cookies are made with a verity of ingredients and home recipes. To start a home food business you need proper health certification, food safety and certain quality standards. Startup funds are low and you require appropriate equipment.

Create a Recipe

You need to create an amazing recipe to compete with top brands. Develop interesting products such as herbal cookies, vegan or nut-free. Other ideas are diary free cookies and gluten-free.

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Different Types of Cookies

• Oatmeal raisin cookies
• Ginger cookies
• Sugar cookies
• Peanut butter cookies
• Chocolate
• Vegan cookies

Purchase Equipment and Supplies

Purchase baking equipment such as blenders, oven and mix bowls. You need baking pans, trays including a measuring scale.

Purchase your supplies in bulk for reputable sources. Basic supplies include flour, baking powder, sugar, butter and other ingredients.

• Blenders
• Oven
• Mix bowls
• Baking pans
• Trays
• Measuring scales
• Flour
• Baking powder
• Sugar
• Butter
• Other ingredients.

 Equipment List for small Bakery Startup

Licensing

Apart from a health certificate you can apply for a tax identification number. Choose a keyword rich domain name and host plan.

Your commercial kitchen needs to pass a kitchen inspection from local authorities. You might require a business name and license to sell snacks.

Find out your state laws before opening your kitchen. Use appropriate packaging and labeling of your products.

• Health certificate
• Tax identification number
• Business name
• Trade license
• appropriate packaging and labeling

Selling the Cookies

You have many options to sell your delicious cookies. You could sell them at event centers, trade shows, and schools.

Sell based on orders, weddings ceremonies, anniversaries and kiddies birthdays. Offer local store merchandising deals to stock your products. 

You should approach restaurants, pubs, supermarkets and coffee shops to stock the cookies. Another marketing tool is selling through a food truck or cart.

You could also open a small stall, cookie store or sell online.  Use traditional advertisement to reach your customers. Use print media like billboards, flyers, complimentary cards and posters.

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Where to Sell Cookies

• event centers
• trade shows
• schools
• Take orders
• webbings ceremonies
• Anniversaries
• kiddies birthdays
• Approach restaurants
• Pub
•  Supermarkets
• Coffee shops
• food truck or cart

How to Sell Cookies Online

There are two ways to sell your cookies online. You could open an ecommerce store on a popular host provider or your own store.

Opening the store through an ecommerce platform is infinitely easier. Use an end –to end ecommerce provider to get your store up and running within minutes. Some require paid upgrades and provide shopping cart solutions.

If you want to build the site from scratch, choose a domain name and host plan. Use wordpress.org and select a premium ecommerce template.

Add a shopping cart, image of your products, description and prices. Include email address, contact information, about us page and phone number.

How to Attract Online Customers

To attract customers to your online store you need to drive traffic to the site. Use social media advertisement, directory submissions and yellow pages. You could include a blog to your ecommerce site and add quality posts.