Free tool for North Dakota bakers

North Dakota Cottage Food
Label Maker

Every label you make here includes North Dakota's required cottage food wording, plus the ingredients, allergens, and bakery information customers expect. For refrigerated foods, Cakery automatically adds the required safe-handling language too. Design it, download it, stick it on the box.

Rules verified August 28, 2026Full North Dakota cottage food law guide →

North Dakota keeps cottage food labeling fairly simple. Every cottage food sale must include the state's home-kitchen disclosure, either on the product or at the point of sale. Foods that require refrigeration have additional safe-handling requirements. Cakery automatically adds the correct wording based on your product.

Ingredients, allergens, your bakery name and contact information, and the product name are not required by the statute for shelf-stable foods. Cakery still includes them because customers expect them and they are good labeling practice.

What North Dakota requires on your label

The label maker below handles all of this for you. Here is the checklist it follows, straight from North Dakota's rules.

  1. 1
    North Dakota requires: the home kitchen disclosure
    The exact statement below, on your product label or on a sign at the point of sale. This is the only label text every North Dakota cottage sale must carry (N.D.C.C. 23-09.5-02).
  2. 2
    North Dakota requires extra labeling for refrigerated foods
    If your baked good requires refrigeration for safety, such as cheesecake, custard, cream-filled baked goods, meringue, pumpkin pie, or certain cream cheese products, Cakery will automatically add North Dakota's required safe-handling language to your label. These products must also be transported and maintained frozen.
  3. 3
    Good to include anyway: your name and contact info
    Not required by North Dakota law, but customers want to know who made their cake and how to order again.
  4. 4
    Good to include anyway: ingredients and allergens
    Not required by the cottage food law. Still, listing ingredients and calling out the nine major allergens protects your customers and protects you. Many bakers treat this as non-negotiable.
Required wording, added to your label automatically
This product is made in a home kitchen that is not inspected by the state or local health department.
  • State and local agencies cannot add labeling requirements beyond the statute. Everything past the disclosure and the refrigerated-product language is good practice, not law.
  • Selling unpackaged treats at a market or pop-up? The disclosure can be a sign at your table instead of a label on each item.
  • Cakery's label maker builds a North Dakota label with the required disclosure, plus the ingredients and allergen info worth adding, in about 30 seconds.

Your label is ready. Now let North Dakota find you.

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