please be brutal. its still a work in progress.

www.countrycottageconfections.com

Is it legal to be a home based baking business in South Bend? That's not my understanding of the recent Farmer's Market bill. Does your county have an exception?

I like the setup..Easy to read..I noticed you didn't offer a Vanilla cake in your standard cake choices...You may want to consider that.Looks good from what I can see...

You may want to check your spelling

under the cake balls you say there own paper and it should be their

with the new HBV law, it is possible to bake at home, just follow the labeling rule, I checked with the Health Dept. Each county will interpret the law differently.

and I sell at the local Farmers market as well

i'm surprised that south bend would allow this?? ( i live relatively close to you). i talked to the HD (i currently rent a commericial kitchen) and they said the new law clearly states that you cannot bake cakes from your home and sell them to the public. how are you getting around this? would love to know!

"aka: Cottage law" allows baking of non potentially hazardous products . Now this said, each county "interprets" the law differently, even each Health dept employee "interprets" the law differently. In Elkhart county, which is a stone throw away interprets it completely different.

Well you say that you add $.25 for premium flavors but you don't give a price for standard flavors.

If each employee is going to interpret it differently, then I would base my business on the strictest employee, as they are most likely the one who will fine me if I'm doing something incorrect.

Didn't read all the replies so it may have been noted already..My son is helping me do a website so I was all but happy to see yours.lol He says you need a website address icon...look at the address bar for this site and to the left of it is a little cake. I NEVER noticed it..lol..but he did..lol

Also, are you selling your cookies $8.00 per dozen? That just seemed a little cheap to me..but I'm not sure how big your cookies are...

All in all it looks pretty good.. CONGRATS on your new website, I'm excited for ya!!

I'm sorry, but I thought this topic was for feedback on a website- not a debate on legal vs illegal?

have your main content frame centered on the page instead of on the left.

I love what you're saying here, it's so cute:

" We Want to be a part of your Day "

but I prefer the capitalization to be:

"We Want to be a Part of Your Day" or

"We want to be a part of your day!"

the black border around the images at the top of the page have inconsistent widths:

the pricing page kinda confuses me because the information isn't in list form. i prefer separate vertical sections for each product.



Instead, something like:

Chocolate Fudge Brownies
<description>
<price>

-----------------------------------------

Cookies
<types / descriptions>
<price>

-----------------------------------------

Cake Truffles
<description>
<prices>

Sorry for all the screenshots, it's just easier for me to get my ideas across. I'll take them down if you like.

I just have to say, I am so sorry I even bothered posting on here.

According to our dept of health, you can produce non potentially hazardous bakery products from a home, as long as 1) follow the strict labeling, 2) sell from a roadside stand or farmers market, which i do.

All this debate about legal, illegal gets way out of hand, just because someone is legal and has an inspected kitchen, doesnt in no way shape or form mean there kitchens are as clean as when they get there inspection. I know this as a fact as I am a CDM CFPP in the state of Indiana, get routine Inspections at all of my long term care facilties that i work in and I can say, as a blanket statement, Kitchens are not all clean 100% of the time. granted they are clean for inspections to pass, but come on, we are humans and things are not always as they seem on "inspection" time.

That said, I might get blasted for saying that. But I will NEVER post on this website again. Back and forth with the legal, illegal. most customers are smart enought to know that just because a kitchen is "inspected" , doesnt mean its always that clean. This is the REAL world.

Anyway , I have 6 licensed inspected kitchens that i can bake from. so I will just change the wording on the website, and bake from one of my kitchens that are licensed. Does that please everyone? Probably not , as I dont have to pay or rent to use them for my use.

Dude, unclench.

No one said anything about inspected kitchens being cleaner. You are the only one who did that. Did you ever think that folks were concerned that you were wasting time and money on a website when you had been given the wrong information? Being 'legal' doesn't necessarily mean cleaner, everyone who has ever worked in a restaurant knows that, but it does mean that one has jumped through the hoops, paid the fees and taken the courses.

As for 'NEVER posing on this website again' (which, by the way, you have already posted), well, don't let the proverbial door hit you on......

Can't take the heat...Get out of the Kitchen ....HA!HA! ..I crack myself up...

Another example of if you don't like the answers you get, the people doing the answering must be big old meany pantses!

Mensch, is that a young HR in your new avatar? I can't tell but if it is he was awfully thin. Or is it someone trying to look like him

yup. He's a funny man, ol' HR. Still angry after all these years!

Gonna add my 2 cents worth.................... in the OP it said "please be brutal. its still a work in progress. " hmmmm you asked for it and you got it!!! maybe next time dont ask!

you have to expect the "legal" questions because

1) the rest of use (most of us) try very hard to BE legal
2)People in your area, just want to know how you got around it, cuz maybe they could use it to thier advantage.
3) No one wants to see anyone spend alot of time and money (we know how much it takes of both for a web site) when you might get shut down!

Now, what was asked before was "DO YOU JUST SELL AT A FARMERS MARKET?" , so why couldnt you just answer?

You cant ask for brutal, and then expect butterflies (whuich you have been getting IMHO)

Here I will do it as well!

Can you be brutally honest about MY website? www.sweetheartconfections.blogspot.com

GEEZ LAWEEZ!