Unemployed? Make the best out of it.

Hey folks. Chucky here again!

About 8 months ago i lost my job. I use to be a QA analyst for a known company (Globant). Things are hard in Argentina currently and alot of people have lost their jobs as well. After Macri became president things got a little out of hand and lots of different companies went bankrupt or cut down personal, i was one of those.

Im married and i have a 9 year old boy. You guys know that a desperate father will do anything to feed the family and continue on living. So, i tried various different things in order to continue on living. One day i stumbled upon this and ever since than i have been making the best out of it.

I currently bake cakes for a living. Yeah cakes. Ive been doing this for the past 8 months and its not extremely profitable but it sure does help (Thank God my wife is a school teacher). I wanted to share with you guys my experience and the different steps i take in my cake baking business.

The Selling strategy

Every single day around 1pm i start cooking my cakes and around 4pm i leave my house with a tray full of different cakes i bake. I mostly go to stores, and offer a piece of my amazing cake at 10 pesos a piece! (10 pesos is roughly 60 cents USD)
Cheap huh! I already have my customers and i know which places will buy from me and which wont. It costs me roughly 50 pesos to make a cake from which i cut it into 8 pieces. Its fairly simple to sell because who doesnt like cake? And at 60 cents USD wouldnt you buy a piece? If i can do it, so can you!

Preparation

It takes roughly 45 minutes to have the finished product, cut and wrap the portions in film.

Heres the step by step procedure:

These are all the ingredients you will need

A cup of vegetable oil, a cup of sugar, 250 gms of whole milk, 1 egg and 250 gms of self-rising flour.

It is important that the steps are taken in order!

Step 1:

Add a cup of vegetable oil to the container you are going to be using.

Step 2:
Add the same ammount of sugar to the mix and stir.

It should look like this:

Step 3: Add 1 egg and stir.

Step 4: Add the milk and stir until it feels completely liquid not too much just a minute.

Step 5: Add the self-rising flour little by little and stir as you add it on, make sure it doesnt become too hard it has to feel like pancake batter.

Step 6: Throw your mix on a pizza pan and make sure it covers the whole surface of the pizza pan (no need to flour coat the pizza pan)

Step 7: Throw that bad boy in the oven for about 15 minutes on minimum heat

Step 8: Enjoy!

You can add any ingredient you would like to the mix (Chocolate, apples, nuts whatever you please)

So guys i hope you enjoyed my little tutorial and for all of those out there that are unemployed, you have the power to do whatever is needed to continue on living and make that necesary money to feed yourself and the family. I mean, look at me! I sell 4 or 5 cakes a day and i make about 150 pesos (aprox 10 usd) a day and thats how i feed my family!

Hope you enjoyed

Chucky out.

-Cheers