A change to Texas’s Cottage Food Law will triple the amount bakers are allowed to earn from home.
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Texas bakers who use their homes to make a living can breathe a sigh of relief in September.
A change to the state’s Cottage Food Law will raise the maximum sales allowed from $50,000 to $150,000 per year. Senate Bill 541 also provides for the amount to be adjusted for inflation going forward. The previous Cottage Food Law had been in effect since 2013.
Kelsey Velez, who owns Sweet Sábado Bakery, said the earnings cap increase will especially make things easier during the holiday season at the end of the year.
“As we want to increase and be able to do more… we don’t have a forced stop,” she said.
Velez said a change to the law which will allow bakers to label food deliveries without including their addresses also puts her at ease.
“You can imagine just me by myself having people I don’t know very well coming over,” she said. “It’s like ‘ah, I don’t really like that part of it.'”
Velez and her boyfriend, Cario Dickerson, co-own Sweet Sábado. She said she hopes to incorporate Dickerson’s Georgia roots into future food options. Velez started baking for her grandparents during the COVID-19 pandemic when trips to Mexico for pastries weren’t an option.
She said the law will also open opportunities to sell tres leches cakes for same-day deliveries, which wasn’t possible before. Velez and Dickerson said they also hope to open a food truck in the future.