HOME BAKERY DEVELOPMENT COURSE

Launch Your Favorite Recipe As Your First Business

The Home Bakery Development Course is a career training program for aspiring home bakers who want to build a cottage food business the right way. Grounded in Georgia House Bill 398, it walks you through the practical systems — pricing, labeling, compliance, and finding customers — needed to run a legitimate home bakery. By the end, you'll have built the core documents to launch your own cottage food business.
HOME BAKERY DEVELOPMENT COURSE

Launch Your Favorite Recipe As Your First Business

The Home Bakery Development Course is a career training program for aspiring home bakers who want to build a cottage food business the right way. Grounded in Georgia House Bill 398, it walks you through the practical systems — pricing, labeling, compliance, and finding customers — needed to run a legitimate home bakery. By the end, you'll have built the core documents to launch your own cottage food business.

Course at a Glance

COURSE DETAILS

Duration

32 Hours
16 hours classroom
16 hours field-based

Learning Format

Blended Learning
Self-paced online
Instructor-led sessions

Location

Tucker
Georgia

Outcome

Certificate of Completion

Course at a Glance

COURSE DETAILS

Duration

32 Hours
16 hours classroom
16 hours field-based

Learning Format

Blended Learning
Self-paced online
Instructor-led sessions

Location

Tucker Georgia

Outcome

Certificate of Completion
ABOUT THE COURSE

Designed for Aspiring Cottage Food Entrepreneurs

The Home Bakery Development Course is a blended career training program that combines self-paced online learning, in-person classroom instruction, and field-based practical work to help aspiring home bakers build compliant, profitable cottage food businesses.

Built around Georgia House Bill 398, the legislation that reshaped Georgia's cottage food industry, this course provides a clear, step-by-step pathway from learning the law to launching a real business. Students gain practical skills, complete real business documents, and develop the systems needed to confidently operate a home bakery.

Throughout the program, you'll learn how to:

  • Understand Georgia Cottage Food Law and the changes introduced by HB 398
  • Build compliant product labels that meet legal requirements
  • Calculate your true cost of goods using a practical COGS worksheet
  • Set profitable prices using a simple one-page pricing model
  • Identify and evaluate potential customers using a 100-point prospect scoring system
  • Create a professional invoicing process for your business
  • Complete a comprehensive 90-Day Launch Plan as your capstone project
By the end of the course, you'll have built a complete business toolkit containing the same practical documents and systems used by operating cottage food businesses, giving you the confidence to move from your kitchen to the marketplace.
CERTIFICATION

Build the Skills to Launch with Confidence.

Throughout the program, students learn to:

1

Understand Georgia's cottage food rules and what HB 398 changed

2

Build a compliant product label

3

Calculate true cost of goods using a working COGS worksheet

4

Set profitable pricing with a one-page price model

5

Identify and score potential accounts using a 100-point prospect rubric

6

Create a simple, professional invoicing process you can use to manage customer transactions

7

Assemble a complete 90-Day Launch Plan as the capstone project
Director & Lead Instructor

Cary Parker (C.P. Parker)

Cary Parker serves as Director and Lead Instructor of the Merch Small Business Institute and designed and delivers the Home Bakery Development Course. Built entirely around Georgia House Bill 398, the course reflects Cary's hands-on cottage food operating experience, translating real-world practice into a structured, step-by-step path for home bakers preparing to launch compliant businesses of their own.
"Real-world experience translated into practical, step-by-step business education."

RESOURCES & CERTIFICATION

INCLUDED RESOURCES

Tools You'll Use to Build Your Business

Compliant Label Template
COGS Worksheet
One-Page Price Model
Account Scoring Rubric
Invoice Template
90-Day Launch Plan
CERTIFICATION

Certificate of Completion

Students receive a Certificate of Completion after successfully completing all course components, including the 90-Day Launch Plan capstone.
Issued upon successful completion of all required online and in-person components.

Self-Paced Learning

Interactive SCORM modules you can complete at your own pace.

In-Person Instruction

Hands-on classroom sessions led by Cary Parker.

Field-Based Work

Apply what you learn through guided practical assignments.

Certificate of Completion

Interactive SCORM modules you can complete at your own pace.

READY WHEN YOU ARE

You're Closer Than You Think, Your Home Bakery Starts Here.

The Home Bakery Development Course equips aspiring home bakers with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to build a compliant cottage food business from the ground up.