TIPS ON HOW TO GET MONEY AND EXPERIENCE IN BAKING LIFE. QUICKLY

By following these simple steps, I reached level 23 in 6 days. Please feel free to share this, or to add more tips of your own at the bottom.



Experience Tips:

* Make "Baked Donuts". Lots of them. If you have enough money, it's worth baking then deleting them. You get 63 exp points doing that, and it only costs 350. [**Update. Independence cakes are better as you get 81 points and it costs 350 too**]
* Keep baking. You need to have a good mix of money-to-experience point products.



Money making tips:

* Sell Lemon meringues. I make meringues in all but one of my ovens (which I keep for baking and deleting donuts). Share with friends to get extra portions. You will get 1895 profit per serving (if you have 105). You will get more if you share with your friends.
* Use Baking Life Checker to look for gifts. I normally click on all of the lemon meringue gifts, as well as parisian macaroons, which fare quite well.
* Work at your friends' shops. You will get 750 (450 in tips) when you visit them daily.
* Add lots of friends. Handy for gifts and money. I prefer to add less experienced friends as they have smaller and less complicated bakeries.
* Max your hype. A cheap ways of doing this is to adopt kittens/puppies and place them in your bakery



Baking Life Etiquette:

* Remove old posts on your wall i.e. once you've finished an expansion or a job has been taken. I do this out of common courtesy, and so you won't be wasting your friends' time.
* Send gifts back to friends that send them to you.
* Don't send cupcakes. Well, don't send the cheap ones. I find it quite annoying when I receive them, I know sometimes its the thought that counts, but other cakes would be more appreciated. (Less of an etiquette lesson, more of a tip)



Random Tips:

* Keep your cashier staff stationary. They do not have to be able to get to the display cases to serve customers. This improves on your serving time, and customers leave happy.
* Split your bakery into sections. When your bakery is of a certain size, it is best to section off a cashier area and the seating area. This way, your waitresses will be working only in the seating area, and not cleaning up around the cashier area.
* Block your ovens off. This way your character won't have to move around when baking, saving time. You can do this with any floor decor that you want.

The Baking Life Game On Facebook

One of my Facebook mates introduced me to this new Facebook app called Baking Life of ZipZapPlay. Baking Life opened its doors to Facebook players on the 1st of May [2010] and yours truly was one of the curious ones who tried it out at once.

Baking Life has a lot of similarities with Café World so if you have tried playing [or is still playing] Café World then starting your own virtual bakeshop in Baking Life isn't that difficult at all.

So basically, all you need to do to start playing this game is to:

* allow Baking Life to access your Facebook account
* choose what you want to bake from the Recipe Book
* mix the ingredients
* wait for some time until your cake/cookies/bread is baked
* collect the baked goodies and have it on display
* wait for the customers to drop by and buy some of your baked goods
* earn coins
* clean your oven and prepare it for your next baking session
* ... and that's it!

Do not worry, if you do not feel confident enough to run your bakery, ZipZapPlay has a tutorial for you right after opening your very own virtual bakeshop. So, better not miss that!
You can add some more ovens, cash registers and display cases in your bakery however, you can not do this anytime you want to. You need to reach a certain level in order to unlock an additional oven, a cash register or a display.

Just like the major appliances, some of the recipes are also locked. In order to unlock them, you will have to reach a certain level. Do not worry, the levels required are listed below each recipe.

Aside from earning coins through customer purchases, you can also collect 300 coins by visiting your neighbors' bakeries. Look for a coin back located on their cash register and click on it. A 300 coin is instantly added to your account. So, the more neighbors you have, the more bonus coins you'll be collecting each day. If you are having trouble looking for new neighbors, go to this page and click on the view all comments link. There you will find a lot of Facebookers looking for new Baking Life neighbors ... just like you!
Do not forget to hire some friends to work for you in order to cut off on wage costs!

Just like most Facebook games, you can still leave the game after displaying your newly baked goods and still earn coins. You can go on with your regular life while keeping your virtual bakery at Baking Life running.

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