India’s Top Home Bakers & Brands 2022

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Why Should You Participate In India's & City's Top Home Bakers Ranking?

India’s Top Home Bakers ranking is a great way for the home bakers to get a recognition for their skills & achievements and enhance their baking profile.

Being recognised as one of the Top Home Bakers help builds trust with your clients and propel your home baking business.

See the latest rankings of India's & City's Home Bakers.

India's Best Baking Brands 2021

Home bakers use multiple baking & caking products & tools of different brands. Still, there is very limited information available on the best brands that are most suitable for home bakers based on the reach, pricing, quality and other parameters. There are hardly any review or comparison available in the market. They either buy based on a recommendation from other bakers/tutors/cake artists or what’s available with the neighbourhood baking supplier or freebies received in the cake shows/training.

Thats why we decided to identify the “India’s Best Baking Brands” solely based on baker’s experience across multiple parameters that matter the most to them.

Our Judging Panel 2021-22

Our panel of judges includes over 20 supremely talented global top sugar artists, bakers and chefs.
David Close

David close
Head judge

Anjali Tambde

Anjali tambde

chef arvind prasad

Chef Arvind Prasad

Anna Austin Profile Picture

Anna austin

Michelle Salam Profile

michelle salam

anand kumar

Parrejat Boraah

parrejat boraah

Samie J R

samie J R

Reema Siraj

anand kumar

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sebastien haramendy

Hear From the Pros

Top Home Bakers from 2019 and 2020  have something to tell you

Nimmy Raghu
Home Bakers, Hyderabad
5/5

“My work started to get noticed and I started getting more enquiries and orders”

Juilee Sunil Desai
Home Bakers, Mumbai
5/5

“The Ranking helped to get many many more orders and a lot of students. Many people from the baking community started recognising me ”

Basabi Sarkar
Home Bakers, Bangalore
5/5

“This recognition helped me to get more orders.”

Frequently Asked Questions

There are hundreds of thousands of home bakers in India with different experience and skill levels. When a customer compares a home baker against other home bakers and bakeries while buying a custom cake, there is minimal information about the quality of the bakers’ work except for the cake listings on their social media pages, i.e., Facebook Instagram etc pages and a few customer reviews. Qualified and experienced commercial home bakers are not differentiated from the mass. There is minimal information available to consumers about their skills, experience, qualification, FSSAI registration, etc. This makes it difficult for customers to entrust the right home baker with their order and creates an imbalance in the market’s quality versus price of custom cakes & bakes.

That’s why, in 2019 we decided to identify and publish a list of “India’s & City’s Top Home Bakers” based on their qualifications, achievements, food license, complexity, finish quality & the commercial value of their cakes & bakes.

To participate in the ranking, the home bakers from India needs to fill out the online nomination form that opens a few months before publishing the rankings.

The baker has to be a resident of India, and a home baker with no physical bakery store. They need to upload the pictures of their 10 best creations in the form. 

Once they submit the form, they will receive an automated email notification indicating that an online application is received. 

For any query, drop an email at info@homebakers.co.in or WhatsApp +918790910234 or +447918693896.

We take pride in running the most methodical, fair & transparent assessment process for shortlisting India’s Top Home Bakers. This whole process runs over 3-4 months.

Once the nominations are closed, we pull out the information from Google Form, create a folder of images submitted by the bakers, and map the link to each baker. We then distribute the folders of the shortlisted bakers to judges as per cities. For the baking category, a chef judge reviews entries submitted by bakers specialising in baking.

9 Judges review the portfolio of your work based on the images uploaded and enter their score/feedback for the below parameters:

  1. Complexity of your cakes & bakes – 10 marks
  2. Finish quality – 10 marks
  3. Commercial value – 4 marks

The Head Judge then adds his scores independently for the top 600-700 bakers.

Then we aggregate the scores and add scores on FSSAI (1 mark), qualification (1 mark) and achievement (2 mark). These parameters comprise 5% of the total scores. 

We then rank the bakers based on the scores and categories them under different buckets of Top 10/25/50/100.

If we see any inconsistency in scoring for a judge or if a baker has fallen off the previous ranking, we get the scores reviewed by the judges.

They assess the intricacy of designs a home baker applies in cakes & bakes within a technique. The creations indicate how experienced bakers are in a given style. Some bakers may follow simple designs, whereas others may create complex ones that go beyond the cake idea.

They assess the finish quality of cakes & bakes by looking at the sharpness and finesse of your work.

They assess the commercial value of cakes & bakes from a consumer point of view. Would they pay for this cake as a consumer for your celebration? They may not want to pay money for something complex or non-edible.

While there was no change in the assessment criteria, this year, we received 30% more entries than in 2020 and 70% more than in 2019. It only means more experienced bakers would have participated. Moreover, the same judge wouldn’t have judged a baker this year and the previous year. Last but not least, the judges assessed a baker’s quality of work based on the ten images the baker uploaded, which would have been different a year earlier.

The judges assessed a baker based on the technique & medium followed by the bakers as interpreted from the images uploaded. This is independent of mediums and techniques by other bakers. Moreover, cake artist judges assessed the bakers specialising in decorated cakes, and Master Baker Chef Arvind Prasad assessed the bakers specialising in pastry bakes. In addition, one of the parameters is the commercial value of cakes that allows bakers to get extra points with simply tidy and yummy-looking cakes.

Ideally, yes. However, no tool can help us catch the plagiarised images out of 17,000 submitted photos. That’s why the assessment is based on trust between nominated bakers and judges that they have uploaded their bonafide work, not third parties. However, as we’ve seen recently, sharing access to baker’s folders of submitted images with other bakers may help us identify such cases. So, in the future, we will keep the folder accessible to everyone until the judging starts. All decisions in this regard by Homebakers will be final and cannot be questioned.

We understand it can happen unintentionally to a few bakers. If we clean such images at our end before judging, then this will reduce the number of pictures for bakers. If challenged by bakers on why their folders have fewer images, it will be difficult for us to prove to bakers that they had uploaded irrelevant photos. During the assessment, judges ignore these images and score based on the relevant photos. The fewer pictures would result in a lower score as they may get a limited perspective about the baker’s work compared to others. Therefore such entries are not disqualified.

There was no written rule on uploading non-watermark images. However, on a few occasions, we had suggested bakers upload non-watermark images. We understand that the bakers keep only watermark images on their phones to safeguard their work, and that’s why we let people upload watermark images too.

It is an independent yearly process. Any baker who has nominated themself will become a part of the scoring process for that year.

As Instagram may hold a mix of images for a baker – their work, student’s work and other non-relevant posts, we request bakers to upload ten photos of their latest bonafide work.

Terms & Conditions

  1. The Top 100 Home Bakers nomination process for 2021-22 was closed on 15th March 2022. 
  2. There is no cost for nominating yourself.
  3. The person nominated must be a resident of India, and a home baker with no physical bakery commercial store.
  4. Once all nominations are received, an initial shortlisting process will be done. Nominating is NOT a voting procedure.
  5. Your nomination does not guarantee your place in the Top 100 list.
  6. The nominator consents to allow us to use the information given to us by them. This can be used for promotional and marketing purposes, amongst others. This includes name, gender, photographs, contact information, and all other information submitted in the process of this competition.
  7. The results of this competition are declared on the website homebakers.co.in. The same are intimated to nominees via our social media pages.
  8. No request for re-evaluation of results will be entertained. 
  9. The role of the judges is to help determine the process of this competition, add their valuable inputs, and to conduct the judging with the shortlisted persons.
  10. Judges cannot be nominated for the competition.
  11. Judges are bound by these terms to maintain confidentiality about the awards process, the results of the competition and other trade secrets as deemed fit by Us.
  12. The information given by the judges in the process of judging can be used by us for creating content for our blog and social media, and all rights remain with us for the same.
  13. The decision of the judges and homebakers.co.in is final, and it cannot be questioned.
  14. Judges affiliated to any businesses or brands, will not in any way be involved in the assessment of a product linked to that brand.
  15. Lead and associate partners have no direct or indirect influence on the judging process.

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