Omg you’re brilliant at it - I know what you mean it definitely is a cottage industry and I’ve seen some real shockers advertised locally, but yours are honestly amazing?! Have you ever though about selling them?
I think a few came from Mumsnet - before their Jack thread was zapped, someone expressly mentioned tattle. And then I saw a few new members turning up.
I first heard about this place through Mumsnet (dunno why I read it so much, I'm not a mum, and the quality of the AIBUs just gets worse and worse) and came in to check out the Meghan Markle threads. Found them a bit mad, full of conspiracy theories about fake babies and the like, then I noticed that Jack Monroe had a thread...
I think Fiddlers’ Lancashire Crisps are the best. My mum always has them when I go home (can’t get them down here - London). Thin and crispy, just the right amount of salt.
I had a small business doing it for a while (with a punny name and everythin but it was so hard to charge the prices you need to charge to make it profitable, let alone to pay myself a reasonable salary. I did it in the evenings and weekends and just never got anywhere close to being able to make a leap to full-time. Sadly these were pre-Patreon/Crowdfunder daysOmg you’re brilliant at it - I know what you mean it definitely is a cottage industry and I’ve seen some real shockers advertised locally, but yours are honestly amazing?! Have you ever though about selling them?
I love the artsy~ cakes with pastel smudges and edible flowers too, am aware this is v basic
That thick ‘dusty’ one at the bottom with all the flavouring on....
Those Walkers Double Crunch Bold BBQ ribs are my favourite crisps at the moment. I totally forgot to mention them earlier.
Omg thank you for sharing these, it’s so lovely to see what you make, they’re fab and it’s interesting to hear about the business side of it too. You should share these on an insta, you’d build a following easily! I wonder what the cake insta community are like, hopefully less batshit than some other niches. Thankfully more solid than Jackie’s niche.I had a small business doing it for a while (with a punny name and everythin but it was so hard to charge the prices you need to charge to make it profitable, let alone to pay myself a reasonable salary. I did it in the evenings and weekends and just never got anywhere close to being able to make a leap to full-time. Sadly these were pre-Patreon/Crowdfunder days
I peaked around 2011 when a few of my cakes got featured in a book of cake decorating ideas. Which was cool but also a bit silly, just loads of pictures of cakes madeby different bakers. I’m not sure how useful it was to anyone who bought it. But it was kinda cool to pretend I was proper published
Then the market got saturated with loads of people who were hobbyists, which isn’t to say they were crap, not at all (though some were, and dishonest, I had some businesses steal my photos to pass off as my own, that was fun. One had the bare faced cheek to claim it wasn’t my photo, but their cake inspired by mine. Bizarre early social media gaslighting there) but because they didn’t need to make a lot of money from it, they were doing it for fun, it made the market incredibly hard to be profitable in.
So, in the end, I had to give it up as a business because it was driving me crazy from lack of sleep, I couldn’t see it going anywhere, I also was ill for a while then ran away from my marriage and it all got too much
I love edible flowers too. Here have some pretty ones @heretoreaditall2019
I’m off to bed, and will restrain from excessive cake photos in the future. You are all lovely to be so nice to me about them, I have fond memories of them as I lost myself in making them and they were a joy to me in a crappy time. x
They’re amazing @Flumps
