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Home Baking for Profit Paperback – March 12, 2011

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This book is for anyone who bakes and sells or simply wants to learn tips and tricks from a professional. After writing “Start and Run a Home-Based Food Business,” the first comprehensive guide to operating a home food business, Ms. Fix is back with another book, a must-have resource for all home bakers who want to improve their products and skills by moving their baking to the next level. “Home Baking for Profit” has two distinct parts. Part one explains about baking and includes all the secrets she’s learned in her retail, commercial, and home-based baking career. It contains short-cuts, tips, and proven results rarely found anywhere, including tips for recipe and product development, shortcuts for how to improve kitchen production, and how to adapt commercial baking to home baking. Plus it covers everything you didn’t know to ask about how heat and ovens affect your baked goods. She draws upon her experience working with and calibrating both home and professional grade ovens to help readers fully utilize their home ovens. Part two includes more than 100 of her best-selling recipes with variations and creative ideas to help turn them into signature baked goods. Recipe categories include Brownies, Cookies, Bars, Muffins, Coffeecakes, Sweet Quickbreads, Pound and Bundt Cakes, plus a chapter on recycling excess products. Plus you’ll find “Insider Tips” for maximizing sales appeal. Many authors with little or no experience hold themselves up as experts. Ms. Fix, however, with 30 plus years experience in the food industry, actually gives readers usable and productive tips, secrets of the professionals. This book is clearly a recipe for success.

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Mimi Shotland Fix, author of Start & Run a Home-Based Food Business began a licensed home kitchen business in 1979. She has since owned and operated several successful retail bakeries, worked as head baker and pastry chef for multiple restaurants, was featured in Cooking Light magazine, developed products for corporate food companies, and tested ovens for a major appliance company. Later she returned to school for an MA in writing and food studies. She owns a culinary consulting firm, teaches hands-on baking classes, and teaches business in several local colleges and the Culinary Institute. Her third book, The (Faux) Pastry Chef: How I Found My Baking Fix is now available in paperback and on Kindle. Visit her at BakingFix.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 12, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 212 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1453801405
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1453801406
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.48 x 10 inches

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My newest book "The (Faux) Pastry Chef: How I Found My Baking Fix" is a story of re-invention, perseverance, and overcoming obstacles. It’s also an insider’s look at the commercial preparation of food. My second book "Home Baking for Profit" is for anyone who bakes and sells or simply wants to learn professional baking tips and tricks.

Ms. Fix began a baking career from her licensed home kitchen and then moved her business into a bakery and café. She later worked in multiple restaurants and corporate R&D kitchens and then returned to school for an MA in writing and food studies. She owns Baking Fix, a culinary business consulting firm, and teaches both business and hands-on baking classes in local colleges and through the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). Visit her website BakingFix.com

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ruth3ch

I do not have a home baking business but loved this book anyway!

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2011

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I bought this book because I do a lot of baking for parties ( such as my kids' engagement parties) and for friends, although I do not bake for profit. I felt that if I was going to do large quantity home baking, I would like to learn from a professional, how to be as efficient as possible to maximize my baking output in the least amount of time. I got everything I wished for from this book and so much more. Not only did I get a very, very, wide variety of recipes ( no, she is not just focused on chocolate, although she does have plenty of chocolate recipes such as Tunnel of fudge bundt cake , 6 varieties of chocolate brownies, chocolate marble cookies, and chocolate coconut muffins and more...) but a lot of helpful baking tips as well. Every recipe is accompanied by variations, too.
I guess the biggest surprise to me was how fascinating the book was. It was like taking a course in both marketing and customer service. There were guidelines about kitchen cleanliness and food safety. There were tips to streamline production. There were pointers on gift baskets. There was a chapter on organizing fundraisers and bake sales. I found the book succinct and to the point but loaded with info.
In short, I loved the book so much,that I bought Mimi Fix's first book "Start and Run a Home Based Food Business". I loved that book too even though I have no intention of starting a food business.

Clarification: Although the recipes are for home baking for profit, the recipes in this book are scaled down for use in the home kitchen. For example, Cranberry Apple Bars yield an 8"x8" pan and country health muffins yield 18-24 muffins. Mimi encourages you to double the recipes if your production area can handle it, and you are satisfied with the end product when the recipe is doubled, just to be efficient. She also makes it clear that you should only multiply a recipe if you can use it or sell it all before the finished product gets old or stale, after all, she admonishes, a lousy product can ruin one's reputation!

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Dawn M.

Excellent recipes and practical advice

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2013

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I am so glad that I bought this wonderful book, along with Ms. Fix's other book Home-Based Food Business. I am in the start-up phase with my own home bakery, and this book has been invaluable. Ms. Fix obviously knows her baking, and with more than thirty years of work in various areas of the food service industry, including home and commercial kitchens, she can offer you that amazing blend of small-production and commercial-production tips. Reading her books has calmed my nerves immensely. She makes it all seem so doable.
The first sections of the book are incredibly useful. She goes over ingredients, equipment, baking basics, and recipe/product development with many practical ideas. The thing I like best about these sections is that she encourages you to use WHAT YOU HAVE on hand rather than invest a lot of money in fancy equipment and kitchen remodeling. She reassures you that you CAN do this. It is possible to start off small, concentrating on just a few, perfected recipes and start earning money.
I love the Production tips section. She shows you how to scale up and streamline your baking.This section alone is well worth the price of the book (which is very reasonable I may add).
The bulk of the book are the recipes themselves, and what a fantastic variety. There are all of the basics you would want like brownies, chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies etc. along with a mouth-watering array of other treats. I particularly like the muffin and coffee cake sections. There are so many delicious sounding recipes I don't know where to start first!
This book along with the Home-Based Baking Business book are must-haves for anymore seriously considering starting a home baking business. Buy them. You won't be disappointed.

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MB

Treat yourself to this Gem from an experienced Pastry Chef.

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2013

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You'll be happy to have this book on your baking shelf. It's a jewel of a book packed with valuable information for anyone who bakes. Whether you're a home baker like me, someone baking for a local charitable organization, or a business of your own; this book will be a great asset to you. With information on setting up your workplace at home and tips and tools for your kitchen use, this book is like a full course in baking.

Mimi covers the basics of home baking, along the way she shares her decades of experience as a bakery owner, teacher, and business professional. Food Safety is one of the vital subjects that she covers thoroughly. All of your appliances are explained so the secret of your oven will be demystified.

She has a great tip on chocolate that I'm looking forward to incorporating in my kitchen. There are so many interesting recipes that everyone will find some of their classic pastry shop favorites. The recipes are written for you to make with fresh quality ingredients including tips on seasonal fruits. I've baked at home for decades and was happy to discover there was still so much really helpful knowledge that I could learn from a professional Pastry Chef.

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Jeannine Massie

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Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2011

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Let me begin by saying if you want some really good dessert recipes, this is a really good book to have. However, I personally have many, many very good and even over the top dessert recipes and that's why I want to improve and expand my own home baking business. I was hoping for more information for resources, laws and regulations and things like that. I still have to buy another book that will help me with the business aspect of having my own home baking business. Maybe her first book addresses my questions, but this one just touches the surface. Again, the recipes are very good and definitely worth having, but that's about all I found this book to useful for. I think the book should be called, Recipes for Your Home Based Business. That's just me. To be honest, I am more confused now because now I have to bake and decide which recipes are better, mine or hers. I already sell good dessert that are really good so it will be interesting.

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That Girl

Quite pleased, thank-you!

Reviewed in Canada on October 17, 2012

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I’ve tried a number of recipes now and have to say I am quite satisfied with my purchase. My only criticism of this book is that the recipes are all in imperial rather than metric; I directly wrote to the author and she replied with the explanation that many (most) homebakers are nervous about working off the metric system (which is silly because it’s a superior way to bake). So I do understand as to why she chose this way but I would have liked to have seen the metric equivalents in a column alongside the metric. This way perhaps a few bakers along the way might start to familiarize themselves with the conversions.

I’ve put a number of recipes to the test and every one has turned out well (which is nice because I have some altitude issues to factor in which always makes baking a challenge, too). Thanks for the book, I like it a lot!

caiti

very thorough and to the point

Reviewed in Canada on June 12, 2013

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i bought this book for the "tips and tricks" front section of the book, since my home business is based on using recipes without regular flour, milk, butter, or refined sugars and oils. i really benefited from this short section (most of the book is recipes) and thought it was totally worth the money i paid. she is very to the point with her writing, there is no huff and puff in any of her tips, she just gets straight to it. there is something to learn in every sentence. i would love to try some of her recipes but since i dont cook with traditional ingredients some day i will play around with subs and see what works. i have purchased her other two books, how to start and run a home based food business, and her personal story the faux pastry chef, and loved them both.

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Pauline Boone

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Reviewed in Canada on June 4, 2018

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This book is a must have!!!

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