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Illinois Cakes Cottage Food Labels
Illinois's required disclosure statement added automatically. Ingredient lists for cakes built from Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Ghirardelli and more.
Here's What Your Label Will Look Like
Add the cakes products you use, and Quickly Cottage builds the ingredient list, detects allergens, and adds Illinois's required disclosure automatically.
Product
Ingredients
Vanilla Layer Cake
Net Wt: 8 oz (227g)
Produced: October 24, 2026
Sunflower Home Bakery
Permit #CF-10293
Springfield, IL, Franklin County
Ingredients:
Enriched Flour Bleached (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Sugar, Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Palm Oil, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Corn Starch, Eggs, Soybean Oil, Water, Propylene Glycol Mono and Diesters, Salt, Monoglycerides, Polysorbate 60, Dicalcium Phosphate, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Xanthan Gum, Cellulose Gum, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Citric Acid, Yellow 5, Yellow 6.
Contains:
This product was produced in a home kitchen not inspected by a health department that may also process common food allergens. If you have safety concerns, contact your local health department.
What Every Illinois Label Needs
Every cottage food product sold in Illinois, including cakes, needs a label with the following.
- Name of the cottage food operation and the local government unit where it is located
- Registration number and the municipality or county where you registered
- Common or usual name of the food
- All ingredients in descending order by weight, including color, flavor, and preservatives
- Major allergens (milk, egg, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans, sesame)
- Net weight
- Date the product was processed
- Statement: This product was produced in a home kitchen not inspected by a health department that may also process common allergens. If you have safety concerns, contact your local health department.
Required Label Disclosure
This product was produced in a home kitchen not inspected by a health department that may also process common food allergens. If you have safety concerns, contact your local health department.
Added to every cakes label automatically, exactly as required.
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Common Allergens in Cakes
These are the FDA major allergens most often found in cakes — the exact list depends on the specific brands and ingredients you use.
- Wheat
- Eggs
Quickly Cottage detects all 9 FDA major allergens automatically from your ingredient list, not just these common ones.
Illinois Cottage Food Rules in Brief
Annual sales cap
No cap
Permit
Required
Training
Required
Home inspection
No
Online sales
Allowed
Shipping
Allowed
Across state lines
Not allowed
Wholesale
Not allowed
Verified against official sources on 2026-10-21.
For what you can sell, where, and how to get started, see the Illinois cottage food law guide.
Frequently asked questions
What goes on a cakes label in Illinois?
A Illinois cakes label needs the product name, a complete ingredient list in descending order by weight, all FDA major allergens present, net weight, your business name and address, and Illinois's required disclosure: "This product was produced in a home kitchen not inspected by a health department that may also process common food allergens. If you have safety concerns, contact your local health department." Quickly Cottage builds all of this automatically.
What allergens are common in cakes?
Cakes typically contain: Wheat and Eggs. Quickly Cottage detects these automatically from the specific ingredients and brands you use.
Do I need to list sub-ingredients from a packaged mix on my Illinois cakes label?
Yes. This is an FDA labeling rule that applies in Illinois and every other state. If you use a branded cake mix, frosting, or coating, its sub-ingredients must appear on your label. Quickly Cottage expands these automatically.
What is Illinois's required disclosure statement for cottage food labels?
Illinois requires this exact language on every cottage food label: "This product was produced in a home kitchen not inspected by a health department that may also process common food allergens. If you have safety concerns, contact your local health department." Quickly Cottage adds it automatically to every cakes label.
Can I sell cakes at a Illinois farmers market?
Yes — Illinois's cottage food law permits sales at farmers markets. Your label still needs to meet all Illinois requirements, including the disclosure statement.
What is the annual cottage food sales cap in Illinois?
Illinois's cottage food annual sales cap is: No cap gross revenue.
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