Are Cake Sheds a thing in your town?

[ChickpeasOnEarth]

In the last few months there have been 9 cake sheds pop up in my small town - where people are selling homemade cakes from their front garden with an honesty box. According to their social media pages they are really popular, which is great as I love to support small businesses.
Trends like this fascinate me, and I wonder how long they will last once the novelty wears off.
Is it a current thing across the whole country?

I’ve only seen them in the countryside. There’s one at the end of someone’s back garden in grindleford. Lots near me selling jam or eggs but not cake.

No unfortunately, because I live on an extremely poor sink estate. But I'd love to see one! There's a lovely village a couple of shortish bus rides and a longish walk away from where I am that had an honesty box for eggs, now I know cake sheds are a thing I might go and have a nosey.

We have one near us. Fine until someone messes up the allergy info or uses something a bit out of date.

One has popped up recently, it belongs to an already established online baker, the cakes are excellent and it is a professional setup with a ring doorbell, QR code for payments etc. There are a few longer established ones for eggs, flowers, honey etc locally.

I don’t really know what a ‘cake shed’ is, but I’m not sure I’d fancy buying cakes made by a complete stranger with no food hygiene training.

Well, I suppose some of us live on the edge..

Not around here (near city centre), but lots of honesty boxes for fruit eggs and surplus farm produce in nearby countryside. Have never come across a cake she’d, though— but I remember enjoying the idea of cake fridges in Shetland.

You can do the training and get your 5 star hygiene rating but no one knows if you are actually being hygienic.
You could get a dose of d&v from a door handle.
If home made cakes and biscuits give you the heebie jeebies best stick to hermetically sealed upfs.

There are one or two in my area, but I can't see how they'd make any money - they're a bit out of the way (rural) so you'd have to go there on purpose, which means that (a) they have to make sure there's enough cake in there so that it's worth the detour for customers, but (b) they also need to make sure the cake is fresh. So there must be a lot of waste. I've always assumed it's people who just like baking anyway and have some spare, rather than people seriously trying to run a small business.
There are also seasonal mini farm shops that sell fruit, veg, jam, cut flowers etc. and I think they do quite well. The most professional of these has card payments and little refrigerated lockers that pop open when you pay. They'd get away with also stocking cake, I think.

No cake sheds around here, just ones with fruit, veg and eggs! I'd quite like someone to open a cake one...

There is one near us and I think it’s on our estate but I’ve not found it yet while walking about. I am in the countryside though so it’s not unusual for eggs, fruit, veg, honey and cakes to be sold at the end of gardens with honesty boxes. I think the difference with the cake shed is that it’s permanent and the baker will put something in every week. Usually cakes you would get would be apple pies and apple cakes sold alongside apples because they’ve got a bumper lot of their trees.

I drive past one. I’ve never bought there though. I do buy jam and honey, veg and eggs though. Cakes seem like dodgier ground.

I have an honesty stall at the end of my garden. I sell eggs, fruit, veg, flowers, plants and chutney. I've already sold out of my Christmas chutney. It's a fun and sociable thing to do and I make a bit of pocket money. I'm a hopeless baker though so I hope someone sets up a cake shed here soon.

I would buy eggs, and fruit. But no way would I buy homemade goods. I have not seen anything like this where I live, anyway.

One of ours that I see advertised on social media sells pastel de nata, which I would buy if I were driving past, but I wouldn't be driving past because it's in the middle of nowhere.

Same. Veg, eggs, honey & jam round here but I also wouldn't mind if someone offered cakes.

Berkshire here and never even heard of it, let alone seeing one!

There’s one here in brixham Devon

There's a really popular one near us run by a well established baker. She used to have a cake shop but the costs got too high, so she now has a cake shed and it does really well. She accepts cash, card, has CCTV set up and has a 5* hygiene rating. Quite a few people have now done the same, but none of them do anywhere near as well as she does

Round here the cake and the shed would be stolen in 30 minutes.

Nope but as others have said, plenty of people near us selling eggs, jam, chutneys...

I've searched Facebook and I can see a few others, not just in my town. I don't know why there are so many where I am, but we have no egg/honey/veg ones.

Here are a couple of photos of the sort of thing I mean. I wonder if it was a Tiktok trend or something.

If anyone is a better baker than me, it might be a good business idea to try?

There is one by me but unfortunately the cakes are very small and very expensive. There is also one near my work where the cakes are enormous and delicious. I only go to that one

There was one near me for a while but it’s gone now. I think it maybe blew away in a storm and hasn’t been replaced as it was located next to a very quiet back road so likely not much passing trade.

There are quite a few egg stalls near us, some also have veg/fruit or honey. I've never noticed a cake stand though.

Surely the cakes might get nibbled on my rats or mice though? Or are they kept in very hard, plastic containers? 🤔

I know of a couple, but both are in fairly rural areas. The cakes are amazing, homemade is always superior to shop bought. You can leave cash, or transfer into their account. I have also seem similar honesty box systems selling eggs or things like fruit/jam in season. (Central Scotland)