oh, it's an addictive (and expensive) habit! and almost everything I make tasted amazing. even the flops! Luckily for me, I have a mom in the UK who's obsessed with kitchen gadgets so when she immigrated I adopted all her baking stuff. I have enough to open a little bakery actually! I need @zakludick to build me a baking cupboard in the garage so I can sort out everything I have and unpack all the boxes. It's a lot of stuff! But to be honest, the costs of running a small home bakery are not worth it at all. Unless you're running a massive production line and paying wholesale prices, there's no way you can make a decent profit, unless you can find a way into boutique shops. No one wants to pay more than ZAR500.00 (about USD25.00) for a cake and to be honest, that is what it takes to make a basic one, not including labor and electricity. People don't value your time. They just think about whatever crappy mass-production cake they can buy at the supermarket and then try to compare it to home-baked, quality ingredient goodness, and that's just not fair. So I just bake for my family and for those I love. I'd rather give and not expect anything in return. It brings me joy to bring other people joy, and what better way to do that is there than with cake?
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