Cakes are not my job or anything BUT I sure love doing it (no, I am nowhere near as good as most of you) BUT my family and i are putting on a ton of weight with all my baking. My question is can you bake cakes and give them away to local soup kitchens etc.?

Different places have different rules so check with your local ones.

Don't forget about your local Fireman, Police officers, or do you have a local recruiting station for any of the armed forces?

Just some more ideas!

I sometimes put mine on freecycle. I ask that it goes to a family who has a birthday or something coming up so they get good use out of it... I get sick of feeding my husband's coworkers!

We have this problem too! I never thought that I would hear a man complain about having too much cake in the house!

Do you bake to bake or do you bake to decorate? If it's the decorating you are working on, have you considered buying cake dummies to practice on? I ordered a bunch for myself for mother's day and that's really helped to keep us from eating cake with every meal.

I used to give my cakes to the teachers at my sons school. It is now almost 10 years later, and they still call me for special cakes for the teachers! Try your church, too.

I brought mine to work with me each week when I did a cake as we also battle with weight in my house..

So they started asking where the cakes were when I didn't bring them in and the senior engineering director said that they loved the cakes so much and that it was a great "team" activity (they pile in the kitchen at 2:30 every Monday) and so they let me expense my cake ingredients...How cool is that????

I have had a TON of orders from coworkers...that is basically all I do...and family...

You will get orders I am sure once they get "addicted" to the cakes!!!!!

You might want to try your physician's office as well.....The girls at my old office would go nuts when a patient brought stuff in. We always LOVE sweets!!! You just might get some orders as well

Oh what about some place like a Ronald McDonald house, a women's shelter, or a place like Gilda's Club. Just make sure if you take to a couple of these places that you make a list of the ingredients just incase anyone can't have something.

Thank you guys. I am baking to get rid of stress. Sounds silly I know but when I am working on a cake I think only of the cake. I'm not a pro by any stretch but to me it's fun.