Cheapest to bake? A mistake?

So today because of the school’s requirement to go to college prep for the next three weeks and thankfully I’ll be in Bohol by the majority of the second week because I don’t want to take mostly the college prep classes. I’m going to be thankful and to do the market study I decided that I’ll bake something cheap and hopefully sell to the public but unfortunately I realized that I couldn’t make that much money unless something else is there. Since I won’t be making much money I need to make more y the following week or else I won’t get to make enough profits for myself but since I’m conducting market studies I shouldn’t expect much. I’ll just have to try harder or else I won’t get anything to bake at all.

I think the mistake has to be baking pandesal, Pandesal is a pinoy delicacy its basically kind of soft bread made from milk and yeast. That’s what I tried to bake but unfortunately I realized I’d lack profits even if I sold the pandesal at max. At least I’ll be a bit in Bohol tomorrow so I’m just going to hope that I make enough profit. Just going to hope here but I’m not 100% hopeful that it’ll work and I’m a little more on the doubtful side besides I could just bake cookies and brownies if I want a profit for myself. However I sort of don’t want to limit myself to those things if there’s other profitable things, and if there’s not I guess I’ll have to accept the reality of the way things are and just keep baking those things. I could say I’m a cookie baker like Mrs. Fields if I have to.

To bake the Pandesal I used some bread flour, powdered milk a spoon of instant yeast some salt and sugar, water butter and an egg. I dumped them all to the standing mixer I have then wait till the bread mixture was strong enough so I could mold I waited a bit and checked the mixture of the said material afterwards I kneaded the bread dough needed for the pandesal so something yummy could come out of this pandesal alone. After kneading the bread dough for a bit my dad then got small bits of the dough and sized them equally and used a weighing scale to make sure they’re even after the rolling and dividing I rolled the dough from the bread crumbs then after rolling I let it rise and then bake it.

During the second batch of making the bread dough of Pandesal. There wasn’t enough flour and the first flour that was bought was almost finished up so we just added bread flour to the mixture till there was enough and after there was enough I just kneaded the bread a bit my dad did the cutting of the bread and kneading it into something smaller. Afterwards I baked the dough for 25 minutes for all of the bread. Then when it came out there were only 36 pieces of bread which won’t make enough money but I guess that doesn’t matter right now because it’ll only be a small amount which I’m pretty surprised about but that doesn’t matter when you also need to be conducting market studies and writing reports on your blog.

I’ll have to conduct maybe another three weeks of experiments and market studies and then I’m good because I don’t really need anything anymore with 100 php pesos I could always save up the money if there’s nothing I could buy with it and give my dad his payment or salary for helping me bake and then the rest of the money could just pop into my savings which isn’t much of an issue as of now. I’ll probably try to bake as much as I could as the school year happens I need to keep up the front and work harder in order to sustain my income while I’m in school because if I don’t I wouldn’t have anything for myself.

Now I just hope there will be some good results out of this which isn’t too much to hope, but I’ll just see what the results of these experiments because I need to try a little harder and bake more things as I could think of for the rest of June because there’s some things I couldn’t bake and sell because of the market demographic and targets which isn’t too much of an issue for me. I wouldn’t mind at the end of the day at specialising at maybe one or two things that are baked goods. It wouldn’t really matter if I started expanding well my dad says that by this year christmas there’s going to be a bazar and my cousins would be selling there the stuff they don’t need, I could also sell my baked goods there if I want to. At least I‘m being a small homemade baker if I want and need to.

Which also means that I need to keep up this business till I’m 18 of legal age thankfully I’m one year away from being legal age. I can do whatever I want like sign contracts and then into billings and all that stuff. I could at least sign a barangay clearance to prove that I’m trustworthy of this business and maybe present it as proof to colleges that my business exist and I’m not lying. I’ll have to maintain my business as much as I could while school happens I’ll do my work and my modules. If I finish the last two grades in the Philippines it won’t be much of an issue for me. The school I’m applying to could decided whether I need bridging classes and if they see me as not needing one because I‘m already doing entrepreneur stuff then it won’t be much of an issue.

I just hope that any of this pandesal baking ends up successful.