Introduction Selling cookies and baked goods at a bazar can be a great way to earn some extra money while showcasing your baking skills. It's also an opportunity to meet new people and gain valuable experience in sales. In this blog post, we'll discuss three things you need to consider when selling cookies at a bazar. However the main thing discussed will be cookies but it will be talking about certain things like baked goods. Choosing the Right Baked Goods When selling baked goods at a bazar, it's crucial to choose the right types of cookies. You want to appeal to a wide range of customers, so it's best to offer a variety of flavors and textures. For example, you could sell classic chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, and peanut butter cookies. You could also offer gluten-free or vegan options to cater to customers with dietary restrictions. It's essential to make sure your cookies are fresh and well-presented, as this can make all the difference in attracting customers. When given the options be sure to include free taste batches to see whether or not the customers like the baked goods you baked. Don’t forget to do some taste samples if you haven’t baked before and gain feedback from others to make sure that the cookies and your other baked goods. Trying to gain the market in the bazar is definitely important as everyone has different ways of spending time at a bazar. During the bazar period I sold peanut butter and chocolate chip walnut cookies which the business has been selling out for a while as it’s important that the business be sure to include the bestsellers into the cookies and brownies whenever its needed to sell more cookies. The bazar ended up with a leftover 18 cookies in a pack of 6. There was a rival business stand that was in their game of selling cookies, whatever the case may be, be sure to up your game for whenever something happens. As long you have something delicious that everyone loves and is worth their money they’ll keep coming back to you. Pricing Your Baked Goods Pricing is another critical factor when selling cookies at a bazar. You want to make sure your prices are competitive while still allowing you to make a profit. One way to determine your pricing is to calculate the cost of ingredients and packaging and add a markup. You could also check out the pricing of other vendors at the bazar to get an idea of the average cost of cookies. It's important to keep in mind that customers may be more willing to pay a higher price for high-quality, homemade cookies. Be sure to also cover up rent costs especially if rent will be paid out during the bazar. Luckily for me the school is the one paying rent and the one managing the bazar expenses, but if in case going to the bazar was out of your own initiative be sure to cover all the costs. Also don’t be sure to overprice the cookies or other baked goods whenever it comes to selling at a bazar, as it’s important that pricing isn’t overpriced or underpriced. The other booth that I ended up outselling kind of had a little bit of overpriced cookies and they were an adult already. There was someone who went on the booth and said my cookies were yummier but they ran out of money. However, a lot of people found the cookies cheap from where I sold and I earned a decent bit of money on the side. I’m not sure about how much the rival business stand earn but my dad bet it wasn’t a lot of money since he observed that booth for a bit. Setting Up Your Booth The way you set up your booth can impact how many customers you attract. Make sure your booth is eye-catching and well-decorated, with a sign that clearly displays the name of your business and the types of cookies you're selling. You could also offer free samples to entice customers to try your cookies. It's a good idea to have a variety of packaging options available, such as individual bags or boxes, so customers can easily take their cookies home. Finally, make sure you have enough supplies, such as napkins and utensils, to accommodate your customers. Be sure to put utensils depending what baked goods are going to be sold cakes definitely need utensils for example. If your business has e-payment methods be sure to setup available QR codes that your customer can easily scan because customers would find it easier to scan your QR code rather than asking for whether or not students have this certain set of payments. Plus it saves time for you and your customers when it comes to making out a QR code that could be scanned instead. Also be sure to set up an area for free samples preferably in front of your customers or where customers easily go to so that customers would easily get impressed and try the free taste samples. However some customers would rather buy if you’re skilled enough salesman to persuade customers without tasting that your baked goods taste good. And try to stay at the bazar till night time or evening at the latest many people stay and buy in the bazar at the time for a whole day. Many people would like to go buy when a stall stays long enough to catch their eyes and have so much time to explore the bazar. Be sure to stay as long as you can or you’re sure people won’t be buying anymore at the time to warrant staying longer than expected or needed. Conclusion Selling cookies at a bazar can be a fun and rewarding experience. By choosing the right cookies, pricing them appropriately, and setting up your booth effectively, you can attract customers and make a profit. Remember to have fun and enjoy the experience, and you may even build a loyal customer base for future sales.

As a small businsss owner who is only run by one employee, it's important to build relationships with your clients. Remembering their names, preferences, and specific details about their lives can help you create a loyal customer base. However, sometimes it's easy to forget to ask their preferences, especially names and when you're dealing with a large volume of customers and doing things like me doing this business as part time job. Im not the kind of person to hire staff but being an all round employee who’s starting small. In this blog post, we'll explore the story of forgetting a customer's name but being pleasantly surprised when he remembered me. Embarrassing Moment It was a busy day at work, and I was dealing with several customers at once who wanted to order my cookies. One particular customer approached me, and I recognized his face but couldn't remember his name. I tried to play it cool and engage in small talk, hoping he would mention his name. Unfortunately, he didn't, and I had to carry on with the conversation without addressing him by name. During the chess Tournament, I remembered I was about to ask his name. But I was too shy to ask his name, I had to go already before the field trip of the Mint School tour before going to ask his name. By Monday I baked his orders but I still wasn’t able to ask his name during the delivery period I wasnt able to figure out what class he was. Surprising Turn of Events To my surprise, the customer remembered his order but not my name as I was heading the stairs to leave, he remembered his order and Importance of Building Strong Relationships with Customers Building strong relationships with your customers is essential for any business. Customers are the lifeblood of your business, and without them, your business would not exist. By building strong relationships with your customers, you can create an environment where customers feel valued and cared for. One of the benefits of building strong relationships with customers is that it can lead to increased customer loyalty. When customers feel valued and appreciated, they are more likely to choose your business over your competitors. Loyal customers are also more likely to recommend your business to their friends and family, which can lead to increased business and revenue. Building strong relationships with your customers is not just about making them feel good about your products or services. It's about creating an emotional connection with them. When you create an emotional connection, your customers will become loyal advocates for your brand. Building relationships with your customers requires a customer-centric approach to your business. You need to put the needs of your customers first and make sure that they are happy with your products or services. It's essential to listen to their feedback and address their concerns quickly. You should also make an extra effort to get to know your customers. You can do this by engaging them in conversation and asking them questions about their interests, hobbies, and preferences. By doing this, you can personalize their experience with your business and create a connection that goes beyond the usual customer-seller relationship. The Benefits of Building Strong Relationships with Customers When you build strong relationships with your customers, you create a sense of loyalty that will help your business grow. Customers who feel valued and appreciated are more likely to recommend your business to their friends and family, and they're also more likely to become repeat customers themselves. Loyal customers are also less likely to be swayed by your competitors. By investing in your customers and building strong relationships with them, you'll create a loyal customer base that will help your business thrive. How to Build Strong Reltionships One way to build strong relationships with your customers is by providing excellent customer service. This includes responding promptly to customer inquiries and complaints, delivering quality products and services, and offering personalized attention. When you provide excellent customer service, you show your customers that you value their business and are committed to their satisfaction. Another way to build strong relationships with your customers is by going above and beyond their expectations. For example, you could surprise your regular customers with free samples of new flavors or provide them with exclusive discounts. By doing this, you show your customers that you appreciate their loyalty and are willing to make an extra effort to keep them satisfied.It's also essential to keep in touch with your customers regularly. You can do this through email marketing, social media, or even phone calls. By keeping in touch, you can remind your customers of your business and update them on new products, services, or promotions. In summary, building strong relationships with your customers requires a proactive approach that prioritizes their needs and interests. By providing excellent customer service, going above and beyond their expectations, and keeping in touch regularly, you can create a loyal customer base that will help your business thrive. Remember, the key to building strong relationships with your customers is to show them that you care about them and are committed to their satisfaction. Remember, your relationship with your customers is just as important, if not more so, than the quality of your products and services. By creating an emotional connection with your customers, you'll create a loyal customer base that will help your business grow and thrive. So, invest in building strong relationships with your customers, and you'll see the benefits for years to come. Building strong relationships with your customers is a long-term investment that will pay off in the form of increased revenue, customer loyalty, and a stronger brand reputation. Conclusion In conclusion, forgetting a customer's name can be an embarrassing moment, but it doesn't have to ruin the relationship. Building strong relationships with customers is crucial for any business, and it's essential to make an effort to remember their names and details about their lives. However, if you forget, don't worry too much. The customer may remember you, and that's a testament to the service you provided. Always strive to create positive experiences for your customers, and they will reward you with loyalty and referrals.

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.

A week ago I mentioned that I’ll be providing a new brownie recipe and experimenting with it and so far it looks delicious when it came out of the oven and I noticed that I could make more brownies without brownie mix. I think I went from baking from brownie mix to baking scratch brownies. Since during the previous baking class teacher says this “I don’t care if you know how you make brownies from scratch you need to make brownies from brownie mix.” The lesson is learning and using an oven the concept seems simple at first glance. But I guess its more difficult when using it more and more because the baking result wouldn’t turn well depending on how one would bake it. Also an oven comes with different sets of results when baking. The teacher asked whether anyone of us has an oven and if not he’ll transfer the person to Robotics. Which I wouldn’t really enjoy because of all its stem stuff and baking as a class would be a lot more useful. So this lesson would be simple enough my dad bought a chips delight brownie mix and then I baked them, submitted it to class and it got sold too. This story brings the founding story of The Ghost Corner Bakery which is a homemade bakery from a very young person. Now that there’ll be no more baking class for next semester and I don’t have to bake anymore for school and my business is a little flourishing. At least I wouldn’t really have the opportunity to do it out of school and flourish it more as a business than a something I do for class because I don’t like eating them well I’d like more of brownies and cookies but not in the way of seeing it. This would lead to a little a lot more growth and experimentation for me and the business. Then maybe I’d have a cool backstory to write to colleges (I mean colleges love passion projects right?) even US ivy leagues are more likely to pick someone who became an entrepreneur at a young age than someone who just went there. At least that doesn’t matter too much I don’t want to say this that I’m doing this for the sake of college but I enjoy baking. This brownie recipe was a sucess of the series of experiments I plan to do at the moment because I need to be at least productive this summer and not do nothing, besides what will doing nothing achieve? It won’t achieve anything at all by default. At least I could earn a decent profit by baking brownies it’ll be much better than not earning anything at all. I could buy some mangas and comic volume every now and then with that money. It would be a good idea for now while I don’t have regular employment my mom’s side hustle is a general store after all, so I could sell whatever I want and it wouldn’t be much of a problem. I used a cookbook to actually make this new brownie recipe because I need a basis for the recipe itself to begin with, I used ganache to actually make the chocolate flavoring itself. Ganache is basically melted chocolate plus heavy cream however becausebI couldn’t find any heavy creams. I just substituted it with butter and milk, the first thing I did so that the chocolate would melt and this is the safest way to milk chocolate so far would be to heat the heavy cream this is a method I got from the book by the way which is a pretty impressive method compared to other methods I found. But because I don’t have heavy cream or know a loccation to buy the heavy cream themselves, I thought of melting the butter with a microave for a minute and thirty seconds. Then after microaving the butter I sliced the chocolate and puts some bits on the butter then mixed that thing for a while till the chocolate melted, afterwards I added some milk. The original recipe required melting chocolate chips but I thought its a little pricey and it’s easier to melt chocolate chips. The ingredients I added were a cup of brown and white sugar, some eggs and vanilla extract the original recipe had syrup but I thought it‘d be expesive and troubling to find. So I ignored that then I also added some flour, cocoa powder, and baking soda to the mixture. The last thing I added to the mixture was the chocolate ganche I melted with the milk and butter. After that I mixed them with the standing mixer I have since I need to mix it and spent some time doing other things while using the standing mixer. Once I’m done mixing this to the standing mixer I poured some of the brownie mixture into one pan. Then I refrigerate for an hour before baking I did the same process again and did it to some other pans. I topped the whole thing with walnuts and baked the brownies for just fifty minutes. I ended up finishing up the whole process throughout the night but that’s no concern for me right now. The brownies are done and then later that night I computed all the ingridients and it came at a cost of 11 philippine pesos and that isn’t too bad for anyone that’s baking brownies and trying to make things affordable. However after tasting the brownies and my dad’s advice I made it 15 pesos because of its size proportions being much more larger than the original brownies I made back then. I’m not too surprised with such results currently because I changed the brownie recipe because I don’t want to hold back myself. This will probably be a new beginning for me and for my business myself I don’t care if I dreamt of it when I was younger, entrepreneurship could start at any age if anyone wants to. This is all for the results of the experiments.

So the people might be asking what are the conditions of the experiment I’m planning to do because of course there must be a limit. Last week I had to bake cookies because of the high demand from the children that they want cookies and couldn’t whip out the new brownies I wanted to experiment with. I mean the original brownies I baked was for a lesson on how to use the oven for a baking fundamentals class. Now I guess I could bake whatever I want or call myself a business I mean its not really a side hustle when you want to because fullfilling this business is tiring but that’s what you get for running one anyways its just exhausting. But I mean its just another way to make money for me. I don’t have plans to ever work for it fulltime after I’m college maybe I’ll take a break for a year and work on it I’m unsure whether I’ll take a break before college. Anyways the children wanted cookies because I barely sold any cookies and I used to always bake them when the baking teacher was out or there was nothing to bake for the week. Since baking class is over I could focus on this business of mine set up a better Facebook page and then use it as backup for my portfolio if ever the admission team ask about me starting a business or a passion project at least that’s something decent I could put not a 100% garentee that I’ll get into college. But this website is just there to prove that this business exists, other than social media. I guess people are still impressed of children and teens starting entrepreneurship at a very young age I mean universities are still impressed by those scenarios just look at people say that the number 1 way to get into an ivy league in the US is to start a passion project. So here’s how the experiment is going to go and I’ll start making a runthrough of the results by next week if the children would stop demanding for cookies since I need to get a life outside of baking. The first thing I’ll experiment with and I keep writing it this way is to bake brownies and to bake brownies from scratch so that it’ll be more like a bakery than what it is now. After baking a new brownie recipe I might end up baking some kinds of bread like pandesal then I might bake some other things that are probably worth baking and could be sold easily. Demographic wise I have to make sure that I don’t bake anything too expensive or anything too difficult because the ingredients will eventually be too expensive and be out of reach to buy for most of the customers so I’ll need to make sure that I could stick to limitations and not try anything too expensive and maybe out of the realm. If anything majority of college is mostly going to be self studying so I must try hard and a lot of things will be my choice I need to overcome my weakness in math immediately since I’ll be eventually taking a business course. At least getting this baking startup was a wise choice I suppose and if I want another proof the business exists I’ll just get a city permit to proove that it’s a business. After I try baking a couple of things and remaking the brownie recipe from scratch. I’ll try to eventually develop a focus on baking cakes once I try to experiment with the other half of business by July. I’ll sort of just bake a cake every other week and try to figure out how to make a decent cake and start up cake decorating services and make it customized so that I could also earn a more decent scrap of money from there. Well I‘m not going to start making cake decorating services by the end of the experiments on summer but I’ll pratice and maybe hone it a little. I’ll also try to learn on cake layering so I could know what kind of height cakes have and the kinds of icing so I could know how to make them decently I suppose. I already tried baking cupcakes for someone’s birthday party but that’s just about it not so much experiences with baking cakes but I need to expand my skillset in order to improve my business, I also need to expand my skillset in other areas but its more on math and probably a bunch of other things like asking my parents less for money because its childish of me. I’ll try to write as much as I could in this blog post at least once a week whatever the results of this experiment and take pictures of the process even if they’re poor whatsoever when it comes to results. I used to do this for every baking class homework I did but now I need to keep accountability somewhere else and this blog would be a perfect place to do it as well. I’ll try to use stock photos less whenever I write my blog posts and show the process of how I actually bake instead of hiding behind stock photos. I’ll also try to take better quality photos of the products I’m baking businesswise so that there’s at least better quality pictures for marketing reasons. When one is making a business, trying to sell a good quality product one must improve on what they’re doing well at least college is mostly self studying for a degree anyways so I must improve and must try harder especially that its a more math oriented course. At least it’ll do me some good once I get this degree I could use this to the advantage of the hiring process in the Philippines since most people will only hire here if one has a college degree unless I decide to do entrepreneurship full time which is unlikely to happen. Then that’s all I plan for said experiments.

I thought of writing this to end the Baking Class startups series Today eh as of this blog post the school year of my grade 11 ends and the baking class elective is done. I mean its well the summer for grade 12 for me and the final school year before I eventually end up having to be an adult and get sentimental about my school days. But before I eventually move on to probably making this an official business and all. I’ll have to talk about what’ll be happening to this business. Well before I get started I just want to say this, I started this business as a motivation to actually push through the baking class, the other option of elective didn’t work out and that was Robotics in all fairness I took the Robotics class last semester because I have no clue why I’d want to take it plus I’m not going to take a Stem course in the future. The other option was baking which even if its not something I’d think I’d enjoy would be a lot more useful in the long run and a much easier class for me than the Robotics course, so to actually have another purpose of getting grades and starting something I decided I’d sell the leftover baked goods, since the only thing I’d enjoy out of eating are cookies. The first lesson I’d eventually baked brownies and enjoyed them and ever since people would buy lots of these from where I’d sell them a family general store. Then I‘d made it a rule whatever I baked for that class would be for sale. So what’ll happen to this bakery well sometimes I’d start businesses because the school makes me do it pun intended here. Back in 4th grade I was groupmates with some people and I sold a Philippine recipe called Mango Graham Cake, in 5th grade I sold polvoron or something like that and in 9th grade I sold ice cream with graham crackers and smores. Also I gave out for sugar apples in 9th grade for class. Then I guess that’s all my history with business. Perhaps, in the future I’ll continue this as a side business not something I’d do full time since I guess it’s a risky thing to do. I’ve learnt that this bakery got rivalry the next door neighbor of mine its called Braided Bakery and they’re also a cloud kitchen like mine. I’ve got envious of them since they have a following and mine doesn’t but I got to remind myself I’ll eventually get there. So if you’ve read till this point I’ll get this straight so for the first few months of Summer which is like two months or maybe a month and a half I’ll experiment on the more recipe sides of things like what the bakery sells and all. Since if I want to up my game I need to experiment on what sells and what doesn’t, the second half of the summer vacation, I’ll experiment on business tactics and all that marketing call it the boring side of doing stuff if you want. Well as a business it must figure out itself and its still probably a startup of things. I mean legally its not really a business yet because I can’t sign any legal doccuments or do anything anyone legal can do till next year, well at least the pandemic has benefits. I’ll just wait next year to turn 18 because it’s just legal to do so. I’m already implying here that I’m 17 anyways. Since there’s not much I could do I guess I could probably start formalizing a business formula once the school year starts and check the changing food trends and try out doing things since it gets stale in business once in a while. Also because business needs to change with the times. I mean I’ll call this a side business, a side hustle is blurry its either you make money from it from passion or you call it an official business anyways. Depending on what you make out of earning money from it. But ehm for the sake of this thing I’ll just call it a more formal business it probably got out of this side hustle passion phase just after the school year ended. I mean there’s not much I could do other than maybe applying to college or spending a gap year if there’s a possibility for it. I guess that’s for me to decide. One thing that’s probably a bestseller for this business was the brownies and maybe the second one was cookies and I was thinking of having a preorder date a cutoff date and time and perhaps an estimated delivery date and time also making a google forms for order perhaps and allowing messenger messages. Also putting up two tarpolines perhaps to rival out the other bakery. I mean it’s got to be a marketing strategy. I mean you got to up a lot of things if you want to be serious. I also need to figure out doing stuff part time and doing stuff for schoolwork and blogging this for college applications (to prove that this business is actually real and not a scum). I mean one thing for certain during midsemester exams and final exams the bakery will be closed even if its college. Because I need to focus also probably for my grade 12 year my exams will probably be mostly project based but there’s still written exams anyways. So to not overstress myself the bakery will be closed. Probably whatever happens when I’m 18 has to be some choice I’ll make. So for now I’ll probably make this a more formal business and up my game due to rivalry it’ll be a friendly competition. Also to probably be more formal as I need to balance this as a part time student and part time entrepreneur. But this summer is probably a part 1 formalization of this business with blog posts being more on it and once that’s settled probably most of the blog posts I write will be more on the business side of things rather than me baking a new recipe. I think it’ll be a recipe for

I wasn’t able to post for the past weeks mostly because of the end of the school year activities. Thankfully its finally over because I could probably bake more and finally post more if I need to and hopefully sell more. I think honning my baking skills is a nice thing to do for the summer since there’s not much to do it anyways and its nice to grow some skills that you’re learning. At least I could try and figure out what I want to do this summer and try to make a set of goals. So teacher for the finals wants to bake three variations of the same thing or bake the same three thing consecutively and that’s for the baking exams and the last thing to bake before the school year ends. It’s also going to be the last blog post under baking class startups since a new chapter’s going to launch. Probably the next thing I might need is marketability but other than that its going to be no big deal for me. At least I have something if I need to write stuff on a college application. Anyways since for finals I had to bake three variations or three of the same things I decided that the best thing to bake are tarts. One is already making ready bake apple pie from blind baking ready made crust and someone already decided to make pandesal and I’m not allowed to bake those things myself if someone choose them. Tarts are the best compromise for me. I could just bake (a smaller and a variation of pie anyways) with different ingredients it wouldn’t be too bad on the other hand it fits the requirements of baking them on seperate days. Baking tart and pie crusts which I’ve noticed are better of blind baked which means baking your pie and tart crusts before putting in something inside. So I thought it could be a good idea to bake the tart crusts on one day and then put the insides the next day so I did what I planned and messaged my dad to buy all the ingredients for tart shells and then buy the ingredients for the inside tarts. I figured I’d make an original tart called “Mango Graham Crumble Tart,” an apple crumble tart and a chocolate peanut butter tart. So I told my dad to buy baking chocolate, creamy peanut butter, apples, crushed graham, all purpose cream and whatever is needed to bake the tarts themselves. On the first day did what I planned and followed the instructions, creamed the sugar and butter with the standing mixer, then sift the flour, add the vanilla extract and eggs then stir, made the tart crusts into a bowl then I rolled the tarts and chilled them in the refridgarator for an hour then baked the tarts itself. I honestly realized that it took an hour or so to put them in the oven compared to yeast goods or even stuff like cookies and brownies. The banana bread was supposed to be an hour (but maybe that’s my oven teacher also had the same thing and was baked for 30 mins instead). Anyways the first stuff out of the oven is flaky, and they were hard to take out of the aluminum molder, but I took a bit of cupcake wrappers and wrap the tarts and also baked them for an hour. When the tart shells are done and what came out are cupcake wrappers, they look better as tart shells. So I baked them till I was about to go upstairs for bed and then I computed about the serving size for each tart filling and I was glad there was enough tarts per flavor. Then since it was getting late and teacher wants to make sure that the stuff everyone’s baking is more than one day. I had to agree to getting shut eyed anyways. The next day after putting the tarts in the refrigerator, they came out looking fine, I just use the rest of the morning to make tart crumble to cover the tart first, there was enough to tarts, before making the last minute touches to the tart, my dad bought mangoes for the mango graham tarts. Then after making the tart crumble I put the filling, the first filling I did was the chocolate peanut butter crumble tart, since it was the easiest, I tried a method of putting whip cream in the microwave for 30 seconds and then putting it for an additional 10 seconds of putting it in the microwave the whipped cream was hot enough to put the chocolate and it ended up melting. I also melted creamy peanut butter for 30 seconds in the microwave and then mixed them together for the tart the last was to top it with the crumble and I’m done. The second was a recipe of my own except the tart crust so I got a bit of all purpose cream then mixed it with mangoes and then with a thing now in the grocery called crushed grahams. I mixed them as a tart filling and then sprinkled some crumble to cover up the stuff. Afterwards the last one I made apple crumble tart, I used a no bake filling to make this one so I chopped some apples and using a stove, I boiled the apples and add some brown sugar, I also added white sugar beforehand, then I added a couple of other ingredients Like cinnamon while boiling. After boiling I put the stuff on the tarts and covered it with crumble and honestly. The tarts taste delicious, the only tart I haven’t tried was the chocolate peanut butter tarts but other than that, that’s fine. Thankfully that was all there is to the baking exam and my last baking class for the semester before I move on to next school year. I think there’s more things to promise like continuing this business after the school year ends.

This week’s baking class which has been extended homework since in the Philippines, Holy Week is usually a no school week and people just spend time in their homes relaxing in vacation and all that stuff. Also because baking class is like running out of time and we have two weeks before the school year ends and maybe a few weeks before the baking business comes out of the experiment phrase and actually becomes an official business but its still considered a side hustle for me. Since I don’t want to rely on baking once a week for business or almost every two weeks for income maybe it’ll become a thing for a while or maybe it’ll become a long time thing. I’ll still be unsure how long the business will last. Well before the exam week at school there’s still one last thing to bake but it’s free to choose what you want but be sure to submit it in time and after that I would’ve completed a baking course that gives me credit for whatever reason I need to. I’m guessing it’ll be baking for a grade 11-12 course for what I need. But other than that this blog will still be here for archive purposes and all. And then a new chapter begins and this will be old. But before I say goodbye to baking class and this chapter of the blog post. With the second to the last thing I’ll be baking is cinnamon rolls the teacher told us about how the baking exams will be is to bake three different recipes or to make variations of certain recipes so stay tuned on a baking blog on me making tarts. Then afterwards is another journey of baking and that’s that. Teacher decided to open up by talking about baking with flour and talking about gluten in itself since baking without gluten is almost impossible. Also talking about what flour is and how it works in baking because that is something he hasn’t talked with us. Afterwards he simply decided to show a video of himself making cinnamon rolls because that’s what he usually do on Thursdays and probably once Holy Week has finished. I’ll be baking instead, for the exams and studying for exams instead. Then I baked last Friday since I mostly bake weekly so I gathered all the ingredients that I need then I poured all the ingredients in the bowl and then stirred it afterwards I put things in the mixer and got them mixed then waited till the dough hardens but the dough didn’t harden after a while (even if there’s yeast) so I decided to put an additional cup of flour. The dough didn’t harden because I put in the filling with the yeast, and the recipe made me separate the filling and the yeast. But I thought pulling them together would make them look yummier so I just put everything in and then dumped an additional cup of flour. I put it in the mixer again and then it hardened. After putting it in the mixer I took the dough out and started rolling the dough since the dough needs to be rolled before cutting it. After rolling it with a rolling pin I rolled the dough with my hands into a spiral. Then with A dough cutter I cut the dough so that it could be cut efficiently and so my hands won’t get messy and to not use a knife when cutting dough. After cutting the dough for several rolls of Cinnamon I baked them for like 15 mins and I pulled them out of the oven I continued baking a second batch despite the complaints of my dad. I just continued working on the Cinnamon rolls like that till like 9:00 pm my dad also put parchment paper on the tray of Cinnamon Rolls so that the tray won’t get any flour on it, after I’m done baking since its super tiring I just ate dinner and showered then just went up to my room. The Cinnamon Rolls like tasted better with filling than I expected tasted sweet with all the sugar and it was soft and it wasn’t too sweet since I think Cinnamon could be bad in itself not too bad for turning a spicy thing into something sweet just combining a whole new slew of flavors helped for me. I think it tasting sweet and having the filling in the bread make things taste better and I already knew it which isn’t a better and all. The next day, the teacher recommended so badly I put all the ingredients for the icing into a bowl since I didn’t have time to make any icing the previous day, I still had class in the morning for that day so I did it after class and put icing on the cinnamon rolls then I sold the cinnamon rolls by the time the afternoon came since nobody’s probably going to buy cinnamon rolls in the morning. My dad bought a pack of them for breakfast and so that he could give away the baked goods and all it wasn’t terribly a problem for me. I’m fine as long as I have cash in store for something that’s totally fine with me. The following week since Holy Week is treated like a holiday in the Philippines like a no school day and a day of work and all that. There’s obviously no baking class but I probably won’t be able to bake that week either since I’ll be on vacation and out of town on a yearly holiday trip. The week after Holy Week I’ll probably just bake a random set of tarts in the hope that everything will turn out fine for the baking performance exam and stuff like that. I wouldn’t really have issues like that and all but I think this would be a nice way to end the baking class which talks on trying out everything I learned in baking and at least to walk out knowing the baking fundamentals. Which is all for this week’s blog post.

And I haven’t posted after a week since I baked what I needed to bake that week too. But it ended up becoming up almost two weeks since I haven’t blogged anything last week but there were a slew of events that happened when baking and all that. It’s unrelated to baking but there were a bunch of special events that happened at my school that included a talk on college (because I’m about to be college anyways so I have to focus on getting into it). I went to prom and went with a date and there was another talk on Cyberbullying but that wasn’t really worth all that stuff. So teacher being gone and me having a delay in baking for almost two weeks or maybe one week if you count Sunday as a start of the new week. Since I was on a vacation to an island called Borracay in the Philippines. My cousin wanted the whole vacation anyways and I’ll leave it at that the cookies I baked that week ended up selling well (thus making money from vacation). The good thing is that I earned some money from baking and that’s good for me too. Well since baking class has been slacking lately due to the fact that we haven’t baked Focacia Bread, or talked about the Focacia Bread we baked in like several weeks due to a slew of events happening teacher made us what stuff we baked and asked whether we wanted to do the easy or hard stuff. Most of the class voted to do the easy stuff so the teacher decided to teach the class about baking Banana Bread. Which is probably one of the easier stuff that none of us actually baked yet because of time then exam week is coming up in a few weeks. So teaching us how to bake Banana Bread wouldn‘t be an issue currently. After teaching us how to make Banana Bread I had to ask to go bake on Sunday. Since Friday was a prom and since I’m not allowed to bake without my parents around and my parents are out already I had to wait till Sunday to be allowed to bake. So I baked on a Sunday the Banana Bread because that is what’s expected of me to do not because I want to bake up something and not make any money at all. Anyways I got a new standing mixer and thankfully I don’t need a hand mixer anymore because a standing mixer is pretty good material for baking anyways. So I poured the ingridients I considered dry and manually mixed them, then afterwards I put all the wet ingredients on the new standing mixer and turned it so that it will be able to mix and all. So instead of doing the mixing myself I standed near the mixer and wait for the whole thing to be properly mixed. Afterwards I poured the dough of the Banana Bread to the loaf pan I had but before that I preheated the oven but accidentally preheated it to 160 degrees farenheit instead of the 300 I was supposed to heat but its harder to preheat your oven anyways so I just agreed set the oven temperature and put the Banana Bread in the oven. Well I was supposed to bake it for an hour but the Banana Bread started smelling and burning when it hit the 40 minute mark of the Banana Bread since you’re supposed to bake the Banana Bread at an hour. I keep forgetting that the oven bakes faster than normal recipe time so the top got burned the sides and bottom were toasted. The insides were still soft I removed the top part of the bread and just sold the bread without it I racked some money my dad bought the second batch of Banana Bread and I ate it. The banana bread ended up burning because of my carelessness at least I know that the mixer I just bought isn’t a problem of itself. Honestly I accidentally burned a plastic cup because I accidentally preheated my oven without looking at it now it’s burnt. I realized I did this twice with carelessness is me not caring and learning from my mistakes at all. Well at least admitting it in this blog is a good thing. So thankfully a bit of the banana bread got sold and all and there was some cash out of this whole project. The thing got sold out in a day since I’ve been baking cookies as this quick and easy dish to sell which could get tirring for a while thankfully I have next summer to actually experiment more with stuff. But for now I’m just going to bake whatever what teacher wants the class to bake for grades and all. Thankfully in a couple of weeks its exams and planning for the last day of school then a thought about the cold long distance future. Which probably involves growing this business anyways and trying to figure out stability and what stuff shall we bake in the future. Which is almost close now and trying to run a business let alone something with food is something tricky to consider. I told the baking class the story of the whole me baking the banana bread and they keep insisting that I was bragging of putting the temperature wrong which I’m not by the way putting the temperature wrong and the teacher thought I didn’t have an oven thermometer the again he was wrong. My oven thermometer was recently bought. It was bought back when I was baking the White Amish Bread. So this was nothing new overall and my baking slightly improved when I baked certain things. I have to admit this fundamental baking course helped me. This might be the third to last blog post on Baking Class Startups series. Which is coming to a halt when this whole baking class is over and now the business is about to pass its startups phase and move on to becoming an actual business and not a startup company that we did to sell deserts. At least having work experience at a young age is great right? Companies will most likely ask for experience anyways when one is applying for a job.

And what I learned plus my first day off I’ll admit that I didn’t bake this week because I went on vacation, and no this isn’t a discussion on what I did this vacation or a vacation blog post or a vacation write up because this defeats the point of this blog niche and purpose anyways. I didn’t know that I generally need a vacation and no this isn’t a burnout blog post since I don’t really get burnout. But I’ll simply say that going on vacation is generally an enjoyable experience since it let’s you relax every once in a while. And I still need to focus on business upon getting back. Passive Income And no sorry passive incomes aren’t a get rich quick scheme Generally when anyone says passive income it means not being in their working area while earning money which is true when one writes a blog post or youtube video or maybe make a TikTok they first make it, then build a following and then once that following a built they earn some money from it. Then while they’re on vacation they could just earn money as more people buy sponsorships, merchandise and watch their videos or they subscribe to the website and gets access to all of their posts while supporting up the creator. Earlier this week I baked cookies, because the baking teacher didn’t assign anything and just gave us a lesson for this week because exam week was just done and he was just grading the exam week see Birthday Cupcakes, Exams and Frosting Failures and that was all that is for the discussion of baking the things we baked well the teacher reassured me that I did fine and he said to just add more sugar and not to trust marketing. He didn’t give anything new to bake. Aside from that I made some money while traveling and this isn’t because I started a blog, nope I just honed my baking skills In the hopes that I could improve and make more products in the future since I’d like to at least could earn money on the side while working on other things. I mean I think that’s something a lot and almost everyone wants especially the whole travel full time and then write a blog, film a YouTube video and earn some money on the side. While I went for vacation on a week, I baked cookies before boarding a flight and then putting it to the store, I then didn’t do anything, but I just went through vacation then while relaxing I got cash and boom passive income. Probably a nice way to do some passive income while enjoying a vacation on the side Focus on spending things out of work Well imagine having to bake once a week then you’re at home and that you’ll be doing something else that’s not baking like marketing and all the other stuff like that, then from marketing you have to check up the whole stuff of it, and then having to bake once a week means that even if there’s no baking class there’s still need to bake. With a vacation however, you could focus on relaxing and spending time with people you care on and look forward to fun activities that one enjoys that could only be done in a certain time or location because in the truth it doesn’t matter. After the vacation once would argue that they want to stay longer on this mental state because let‘s admit its more fun to be on a vacation than ever. I didn’t have to bake anything for class because that week teacher said I was “off the hook” because I already baked everything needed for the class itself sometimes you have to complete the requirements in advanced because of the business side of things especially that I’m mixing a business model of once a week subscription boxes and one time purchase payments of things and some people don’t want to buy for the week and that’s ok too. During the vacation I tried new sweets and see how they all form compositions together since they all taste yummy and what their differences are I think tasting other‘s sweets is a nice touch to how baking should be done and all especially tasting someone else’s baking which is just really plain and simple. I think after taking a vacation I could try to improve the baking skills I got. Enjoying life I think a lot of us work so much like the typical 9-5 workweek and then we need to factor in more of a work life balance since I think that we need a life outside of trying to spend in the bills and earn a lot more cash. I think that when you work too much you only focus on the necessities of things and what’s important is that we don’t get to take breaks and all before anything happens. I should enjoy life since I only have one life time and enjoying life for me is the most important thing at all since supporting ourselves in existence is important and it should motivate anyone to have fun and be themselves also to absolutely get out of stress and not think about survival or the future for once. And having fun is a good thing having too much fun is going to ruin a sense of balance and survival and I think we all need a good work life balance to begin with. And I’ll be back working Now that I’m done with vacation I’ll be baking more for baking class next week thankfully the school also gave a no homework week so I could freely enjoy my vacation. But I have to admit I enjoy baking too and not in a weird workaholic way. I just love baking them and selling them at something reasonable and this is for someone who bakes only and I guess its satisfying despite it being long and hard to do since it’s a little tricky but overall its fine. I’ll be baking next week but since baking class is resumed I’ll see what I’ll bake since we’ll poll over what the baking is for next week but I’ll get back to business by next week.

I should’ve bought more flour for the frosting (but at least I made buttercream) So this was another week of baking and because this is obviously a baking class but our school isn’t the all written exam type and no I don’t go to Culinary School but for the midsem examination for baking class we had a choice to bake whatever our heart desires or just in general bake whatever we want because I don’t know who does or could bake that far (I really don’t). Well the teacher adviced us not to go too ambitous for baking class like baking a cake because the class is just starting out for baking (That’s why he said not to go too ambitious for this whole baking class.) I started planning what I wanted to bake (I originally thought of baking a pie) but that didn’t work out too well (not the idea of baking the pie) but I figured it’s best not to start baking and dishing out pies well that’s another one of those very ambitous thing I’m doing since baking a pie is too much. Then I started thinking of baking tarts because it‘s smaller than pies and could be made in batches and they’re also healthier since there’s fruits in pies and tarts. I don’t know if I have any scientific evidence to back the “if fruits in deserts are healthier” so I’ll just leave it at that. Then my mom wanted me to bake for a friend as a birthday gift but her birthday from last week is two weeks from now and unless the teacher decides to campaign for Leni Robredo or get stuck in the mountains for another two weeks or so. I’ll also be going to Borracay the following week (a beach in the Philippines which takes a very long plane ride and will be staying for four days) so I won’t be baking if teacher doesn’t assign any baking homework since I’ll be out and if I bake on that week then the week would almost end or for some people (Sunday is considered another week already) then maybe I’ll post a blog that’s on another topic that’s maybe unrelated to baking or vacation (unsure yet about how to go about this.) Then after that week alone I’ll go back to baking on that week but teacher might be back from his long break from not baking and give us another bread to bake with. So its’ better that I send the gift on that week instead of waiting for another two weeks. The week before that week the teacher discussed what we’re baking and gave us advice (I was originally going to melt chocolate to make the cupcakes sweeter.) But he said no to melting or even modifying the only reason why I’m doing it is to make it sweeter without the carrots but he complained about things halfway through I didn’t want to takeup everyone’s time so I didn‘t argue about melting milk chocolate and my thought process was held back and was very stagnant. So I just left the room without saying my reasoning he also complained that I shouldn’t be modifying the recipe. In the end the only thing I modifed was not adding carrots and frosting (which is just adding food coloring, flour, and cornstarch) but I eventually ran out of flour anyways. Thankfully teacher doesn’t grade the way we make frosting so I can modify it by however I want it). By Thursday I started baking because that’s the dedicated time to start baking so I got up at eight started at nine and then get all the ingredients mixed them and then start putting them in the oven. I realized that the cupcakes needed to be baked for twenty five minutes instead of fifteen. So most of the baking cupcakes fluff was in the oven time and then by four o clock I started frosting them but we ran out of frosting. While making the frosting my dad was supposed to only put three drops of food coloring but the food coloring spilled and it ended up being a reddish brown. Also while making the frosting the whole thing ended up watery so my dad insists we add butter but adding butter didn’t do anything so I told him to add flour instead. It worked the frosting is stabilized now which isn’t too terrible thankfully the second batch of frosting turned into the light brown color I wanted. I just used flour for the frosting to stabilize and it works but we end up rushing the frosting cause it to literally melt and doesn’t look appealing like the cupcakes I bake. The cupcakes had this sweet but not too sweet feeling (I’m just going to guess this is a signature style of mine already) but I wanted it a lot more sweeter than what the recipe had so I couldn’t because the teacher already disapproved my modifications and the defense argument fell slowly upon my lips. He argued that the cocoa powder gives it a chocolate flavor but it doesn’t give the overly sweet feeling I wanted. The following week I showed my cupcakes to class (without frosting) because that was a failure. Then he said it was great because ”chocolate is supposed to be bitter.” Also he tells that marketing lies behind anyone’s back and chocolates like cadbury aren’t chocolates at all they’re considered candies (not actually chocolates). He also provided an example of a sugar free pancake syrup when its not actually sugar free and we all got a laugh of it. Looking back at the day I baked it wasn’t too bad ”I’m starting to get more cofidence that my baking skills are fine.” Thankfully the cupcakes were delivered to my friend who’s having a birthday celebration the following week and I sold some cupcakes to the store. The next thing I’ll be baking got to be the Garlic Bread. Thankfully no frosting when baking the garlic bread.

Thinking you got the perfect business formula it turned out different and you had it again. I baked cookies this week since the teacher went out campaigning for Leni Robredo or implicitly (The girl in pink) for the philippines presidental election of 2022 since everyone has their *cough* presidental choices for candidency and a bit of political alignment I won’t discuss much in detail about this whole presidental candidency thing or this whole absence of this but that’s the general summary about the whole week. Before teacher decided to leave again for “campaigning” he discussed what we’ll all be baking for midsems or what everyone will be baking for the midsems for midsems I’ll be baking cupcakes because someone’s birthday is coming up and I was paid to do it. I originally thought of lying but I’ll just be truthful since everyone is being honest that they’re doing this for the midsem week and because I seriously need the cash for whatever I want to spend on. There will be a blog post on the whole cupcakes stuff next week, and hopefully teacher doesn’t have another absence because I seriously don’t want a catch up with baking and all. The purpose of this blog My dad insists to keep it for savings and I keep the cash for whatever luxuries I want to spend that I want to buy. Also since I need to bake more especially for business these days but I also enjoy baking so it wouldn’t be that hard “I’m not doing this because I want a job” my past ventures always didn’t work out well but I guess now it’s working because I wasn’t trying to make money through tough means. I’m not saying that I’ll be depleting my money on all the things I want (I try to not spend too much or to focus the money on what’s good for business) like buying a diaplay container like on my last blog post where I bought cupcake containers. So since teacher was out again because he’s helping campaign for philippines’ presidency 2022. I decided to bake cookies and no I won’t always be blogging about baking cookies since everything is different and that’s just going to be tiresome after a while nobody wants to read a million different blog posts on baking cookies unless “you’re looking for several different recipes and variations on baking cookies.” But this blog isn’t a recipe blog I do want to try making my own recipes someday or at leaast experiment but I don’t have a ton of experience to do that. Its more like a random public journal x business blog on me baking. Mostly I write to talk about what I baked this week and the business side of things (I decided to make this blog because I wanted a way to doccument my journey on this side hustle or passion project). Its sort of like a portfolio about what I did to this business and not just me mounting words the pictures are actually mine I didn’t decide to magically search up pictures on the internet except for the stock photos of people but all of the food is mine (I honestly wish the photography is prettier. But I don’t have the time yet to experiment on marketing.) Also I wouldn’t have much time to experiment on taking prettier pictures and having pre orders for certain things. The failure The last time I baked cookies (and honestly I wish I might be joking.) A preschool aged child when they found out I wasn’t selling cookies that day cried, my grandmother had to give her cookies that she bought from me to her and now I feel bad since ugh if I had time and didn’t had the homework of baking Focasia Bread well I would’ve baked more cookies. Thankfully the double edged sword to this was teacher going out the following week and I baked more cookies. The following Friday evening that child came back asking for more cookies and thankfully I was baking when they asked because the cookies were freshly baked so they went with their mom and ordered some of my cookies she asked for big ones and my mom tried getting all the big ones and told me. I didn’t mind and told her to get as many for the child and they and their mom went and get money for a bit and came back for it because they need to pay and they got their orders of my cookies and the mom complimented my baking (hoping that I’ll be baking more cookies in the future.) Which I will (if the teacher decides to go absent again and doesn’t assign anything to bake.) Some kids arrive later on to order my cookies. And this is where I thought I failed over the weekend people buy my cookies and I’m usually out on weekends when I went back the cookies weren’t sold out and not so many people bought cookies that weekend because a lot of people were out. I’d made this huge assumption that nobody is going to buy my cookies but I’m wrong the cookies got an almost sold out. It got more sales mostly on Monday and by Tuesday there’s three cookies left which almost means that it’ll run out of stocks eventually. Well I convinced myself of this assumption because my baked goods always get sold out on weekends or get sold out in three days. But I probably got used to that sequence and convinced myself easily that Sunday. I realized that this was the business model I wanted, not a sold out in three days when I originally thought of a business model or plan I wanted it to be me baking every week and then I sell, whatever I sell will last a week and then when it gets sold out a week will past by and then I sell whatever I baked. Think of it as a cross combo of a business subscription model and a one time payment thing where people can freely order on the week of their choosing on the product and then pay once and right now its working. I think I learned that growing a business and a startup or side hustle takes a little bit of time before it blossoms but it’ll eventually get results it just won’t be consistent if ever there will be results.