: About Me

Detra "Denay" Davis of Cooking with Denay is a home-based bakery, and the instructor of the ever popular class How to Operate a Home-Based Bakery available online on Denay's website. Learn more about Denay by visiting her website http://cookingwithdenay.com/
and joining Ask the Experts Forum. Email Denay at contact@cookingwithdenay.com

My passion is ...

Teaching

I know too much about ...

baking.

My parents always told me ...

Work hard, plan your work and work your plan!

My childhood ambition ...

To become a writer.

My favorite memory ...

Eating my grandmother's Lane Cake in Clinton Louisiana

Why I write ...

As I write, the words speak to my soul!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Classical music

My first job ...

Working at my parents convenience store

My best moment ...

Holding my new born daughter

My inspiration ...

My daughter and the bakers I meet everyday, they all inspire me to be the best me I can be! No really, they do!

Business > Small & Home Business How to start a bakery or a cookie business

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Profits From My Kitchen Has anyone ever told you to sell that delicious pound cake? Have friends and family insisted you could be making a mint selling your delicious sugar cookies? If this sounds like you, then you could be baking up profits from your kitchen. All over the country there are countless home-based bakeries delivering heavenly baked goods throughout the community. There are many responsibilities that go with starting a home-based bakery. You will first need to have a Food Regulatory Specialist/Food Compliance Officer come to your home and inspect it. In most cases the Departm...

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