Anthony Parr

Thanks for the reply. We set up our business (www.sweetcompositions.net) about four years ago. First we built a commercial kitchen, to code specs, onto our home as an addition. We then had it inspected and registered with all of the permit offices, health department, sheriff’s office, etc. It was a pretty involved process. Cottage law was not a thing here at the time, so we jumped through all of the hoops. There are no internal doors or windows between the adjoining kitchen and house, it has a grease trap, etc. We home-school, another thing we have to get permits for every year, and as our girls have gotten older and their curriculum are getting more advanced we have to shift our resources from the cake shop. Our cakes are not refrigerated, we are a custom shop and everything is made to order.

I will contact the health department again and see what they want in our area. Let me ask you another question I may already know the answer for. Does cottage law affect taxes, monthly and yearly, in any way? I guess I also need to get the stickers that state that the cake was made in a home-based kitchen to put on the bottom of the cake boards as well. I am trying to simplify things as much as possible and keep things legal.