This is a weekend job baking cakes that allows you to earn money in your spare time, working from home doing what you love! This is a fantastic opportunity with flexible hours, for a passionate individual with a love for baking and an interest in vegan and Gluten-free foods.
The Guilt-Free Bakery is a small start-up business specialising in gluten-free, vegan cakes and confectionery. The business is currently growing from a bespoke cake business into the product distribution market and is in the process of trialling and testing ingredients for final recipes.
We are looking for a self-motivated individual to join our team on a freelance basis, to help our business grow to meet rapidly increasing demand for this type of product. This role is perfect for someone who is either considering a career in the culinary arts, or an experienced non-commercial baker or cake blogger.
The job is simple: to trial our recipes by making small sample batches using the recipes, raw materials and equipment provided.
The hours are extremely flexible and can easily fit around any studies or even other jobs. The successful candidate will be able to choose which days best suit them for batch testing and deliveries. This is the perfect job for someone who loves to bake cakes in their spare time and is interested in making money from it.
The role:
- You will be working from home in your own kitchen, testing products by following simple recipes and baking in small sample batches.
- All raw materials and any specialist equipment (beyond basic baking utensils) will be delivered to you. You will be responsible for storing these safely, reporting stock levels, notifications for re-ordering and any reporting any maintenance failures.
- The testing process is a critical part of our business but the process is sporadic and conducted on a needs base.
- Initially, we are only looking to take someone on 1 day a week but this is expected to increase within a month to a minimum of 2 days.
- This is a zero hour freelance contract, although there are a lot of recipes to trial, the testing process will be regular but not necessarily every week. The hours will vary depending on how many recipes you will be testing per week.
- The rate of pay is £10-£12.50 per hour depending on relevant skills and experience.
Skills and Education needed :
- Applicant must be based in City of London
- You must have or have access to an electric fan oven - no gas. The oven must be of a standard size with a capacity for a minimum of five small (12.5cm diameter) cake pans. With a minimum shelf height of 15cm.
- We are not exclusively looking for candidates with catering related higher ed qualifications, however, a higher rate of pay will be considered for candidates who have any food safety certificates, catering college qualifications, culinary NVQ's or BTEC. Consideration will also be given for completion of any food oriented short courses such as cake making, cake decorating or pastry making, providing that proof is available.
- Minimum 2 years experience in a related field. This includes non-commercial baking, formal catering or baking related apprenticeship or internships, work experience within a commercial kitchen or bakery environment or even running a successful baking blog.
- Must have in-depth knowledge of baking styles and techniques. You must also have extensive experience working with a range of different ingredients and raw materials.
- Your baking style must be efficient to maximise time and output and minimise waste. Training will be available for this.
- Knowledge, experience and passion for cooking with Vegan and Gluten-free ingredients. This is not essential but highly favourable.
If you have prior commercial kitchen experience please provide at least one reference with your application. If you are a non-commercial baker or blogger, please include images or a link where we can see your previous creations.
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