Bake for events without finding the clients yourself
Miami Treats brings you orders for weddings, quinceañeras, showers and office parties in Miami-Dade and south Broward. You set your prices and bake. We write the quote, take the payments and coordinate delivery and setup.
Founding bakers are joining now. The first ones help us set the menu and get the first orders.
What we do, what you do
Miami Treats
- Finds the customers and answers their questions, in English and Spanish.
- Writes the quote from your price list, so you do not spend evenings on messages that go nowhere.
- Keeps the schedule: dates, design deadlines, tastings, deposits.
- Collects the deposit and the balance and pays you.
- Coordinates delivery and setup with the venue: load-in time, contact, where the table goes, picking up stands.
You
- Set your own prices and say which dates you can take.
- Bake, and package and label what you make, as the law requires.
- Deliver yourself and keep the delivery fee, or hand the order to the driver we arrange.
- Sell to the customer under your own name. Miami Treats never buys your desserts to resell them.
What you earn
Miami Treats keeps 12% of your order total. Card processing is included. There is no sign-up fee, no monthly fee and no charge for leads that don’t book.
An example
A $600 quince table. Our 12% is $72, so you get $528: $264 within three business days of the booking, for ingredients, and $264 within two business days after the event.
What the customer pays on top
The customer pays our 8% booking fee, delivery and sales tax on top of your price. None of it comes out of your share.
If the customer cancels
You keep your share of whatever deposit the cancellation rules leave unrefunded. Inside 14 days, that is the whole deposit.
What we ask of every baker
The right kitchen for the order
Under the cottage food law you can make cakes, cookies, pastries and other foods that keep without a fridge. For tres leches, flan, cheesecake, cream or custard fillings and cream-cheese frosting you need an FDACS food permit or a licensed kitchen.
Food handler training
A current food handler certificate from an accredited course, such as ServSafe Food Handler. Most can be done online in an afternoon.
Liability insurance
General and product liability insurance that covers events, usually $1 million per occurrence. Many venues ask for a certificate naming them before they let a vendor in.
Photos of your own work
Ten or more photos of cakes and desserts you made yourself. We show them to customers with your quotes, so no photos from other bakers or the internet.
A tasting
Before your first order you bring us three of the things you make most. We taste them and talk through your price list and the dates you can take.
Labels and packaging
Cottage food items must be packaged and labeled, with allergens listed. We give you a label template if you need one.
Baking from home in Florida
Florida’s cottage food law lets you sell some foods from your home kitchen without a food permit. In short:
- Allowed: low-risk foods that keep at room temperature, like cakes, cookies, pastries, breads, candies, jams and fruit pies.
- Not allowed: anything that needs a fridge, such as tres leches, flan, cheesecake, custard or fresh-cream fillings and cream-cheese frosting.
- You sell directly to the customer, in person, online or by mail, never wholesale. That is why the customer buys from you and Miami Treats only books and coordinates.
- Gross sales up to $250,000 a year.
- Every product needs a label with your name and address, the product name, ingredients, net weight, allergens and the statement "Made in a cottage food operation that is not subject to Florida’s food safety regulations."
- Sales tax applies to what you sell.
Sources: FDACS, Cottage Foods; Fla. Stat. § 500.80. Check the current rules before you sell; this is a summary, not legal advice.
Apply
It takes five minutes. The form opens your email app with your answers written out; attach a few photos of your work before you send it. We reply to set up a tasting.
Questions from bakers
Can I join if I bake from home?
Yes. Home bakers under the cottage food law take orders for cakes, cookies, cupcakes, cake pops, pastelitos and alfajores. Refrigerated desserts go to bakers with a licensed kitchen.
Do I have to take every order you send?
No. We ask you first, with the date, the design and the price from your list. You say yes or no before the customer sees a quote.
Can I keep my own customers and my Instagram?
Yes. We only take a fee on orders that come through Miami Treats. If a customer we sent you orders again for another event, we ask that it comes through us; your own customers are yours.
Who is responsible for the food?
You are the seller, so the food, its labels and its allergen information are yours. We pass on everything the customer tells us about allergies and diets, in writing, before you accept.
When do I get paid?
Your half of the deposit, less 12%, within three business days of the booking. The rest, less 12%, within two business days after the event, by bank transfer.