Bake for Profit

Build A Business Through Baking

Students learn practical baking techniques alongside business fundamentals to create and sell baked products.

Overview

The course is designed so that both baking and business skills learnt in theory are put into practice in real life situations. With the high unemployment rate in South Africa, the Bake-for-Profit course is meeting one of the deepest needs in communities throughout the country: the right to earn a living.

This course covers BOTH business & baking skills – which will help build a baking business from home. During the course participants will need to go into their community and sell their products.

Students Learn

Baking techniques

Safety and hygiene

Pricing strategies

Customer service

Quick flour mixtures

Baking with yeast

Cooking and mixing methods

Career Pathways

Home bakery owner

Catering assistant

Retail bakery employment

Entrepreneur

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Added Value

LtE Business Essentials Course

Recipe costing
Financial management
Creating a business plan
Marketing your business
Stock control

A hand up not a hand out

Acquiesce, Bake for Profit Khayelitsha Graduate

"The course has equipped me with the necessary skills and knowledge to turn my passion for baking into a profitable business. They taught me different baking techniques, understanding costing and exploring marketing and customer service, this helped me to start my own small business at home."

Bulelwa, Bake for Profit Khayelitsha Graduate

"I am so grateful to Learn to Earn because now I always have money unlike when I had nothing to do. I can help my daughter now and not sit and wait for her to feed me. Now I have a customer who wants me to bake for her at a reasonable fee so that she can also sell at her work. This would not have been possible if I did not come to Learn to Earn."

Mandisa, Bake for Profit Khayelitsha Graduate

"I came from the Eastern Cape just to do the baking course, and I am so grateful that I did. Learn to Earn helped me a lot, they changed my life for the better. I was not working before coming to Learn to Earn but now I am able to do something for myself. I know my business will grow and it will help my kids in the future."

Philiswa, Bake for Profit Khayelitsha Graduate

"Learn to Earn played a huge role in my life, I have learnt how to save money and how to run a successful business. I am able to take care of my daily needs like paying my rent. And the fact that I am the only one selling baked products in my area is helping my business to grow faster."

Frequently Asked Questions

Location

Khayelitsha and Hermanus

Entry Requirements

Basic literacy and numeracy assessment, course participants will need daily access to an oven and stove stop.

Course Duration

8 weeks

Times

Full day, three days per week

Cost to Student

R800 (R300 non-refundable course registration fee + R500 course fee)

Cost to Learn to Earn

R24 200 to train one student.

Practical skills training courses

Designed to help the unemployed find work, start businesses, and build sustainable livelihoods.

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