People think it’s all sweetness and light in the world of home baking but sometimes it’s not all plain sailing. Here are a few of the pitfalls and perils of being a bake-at-home Mummy (my hubby made up the ‘Bake-at-Home Mum’ bit, he’s very pleased with himself for that!):
- You have to fit in all the work when the kids are not around. You’ve got to meet food safety requirements in order to have your kitchen approved for use in a home- baking business and little fingers and helpers don’t always don’t always make for clean caking. In practise this means I have schedule every activity around school hours, my toddler’s nap times and any child-free time in the evening. If the toddler decides not to have a nap then the pressure’s really on.
- There’s often tempting cake off cuts and baking experiments around so it’s hard to resist the temptation to nibble (or scoff!). The waistband has definitely suffered since I started my baking business!
- Sometimes I have to shove hubby and the children out of the house on a Saturday morning so that I can finish off a cake to meet a lunch time deadline. Actually, that’s not such a hardship as I have the house to myself and I can listen to Radio 4 whilst I’m busy caking.
- There’s always something that needs doing, whether it’s updating the website, tweeting, posting photos on Facebook, researching product ideas or writing blog posts. This means that any time I’m sitting down in front of the TV I’ve got the laptop in front of me and I’m tap, tap, tapping away on the computer. I never really switch off from it. If I upgrade my mobile to a Smartphone I might never get away from it!
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