Get Crosodo Certified
A third-party credential for cottage bakers who know their state's rules. Pass the assessment, earn the badge, and put it where customers decide: your website, your market tent, your order form.
Badge preview — earned badges carry your name, state, and cert ID.
The Crosodo Verified badge you display.
Put the badge on your page
- Pass the quiz (Library Pass members take it free in the dashboard).
- Your Crosodo profile at crosodo.com/p/your-handle shows the badge automatically.
- On your own website, paste the snippet from your dashboard. It looks like this:
<a href="https://crosodo.com/verify/CC-TX-26-XXXX" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://crosodo.com/api/badge/CC-TX-26-XXXX" alt="Your Bakery — Crosodo Verified cottage baker" width="180" height="180" loading="lazy"></a>
The badge image is served from crosodo.com and links to your public verify page, which states the badge is a knowledge credential — not a license or inspection.
Proof you know the rules. Nothing more, nothing less.
Customers don't know cottage food law — but they know what a badge means. Crosodo Certified tells them you studied your state's rules and passed a real assessment. Four modules:
What's allowed, sales caps, where you can sell, registration. State-specific questions drawn from Crosodo's report library.
Required label elements, allergens, the home-kitchen statement, weight declarations — the stuff inspectors actually check.
Potentially hazardous vs. shelf-stable foods, temperature control, cross-contamination. Knowledge, not a kitchen inspection.
Direct vs. wholesale, the interstate shipping trap, farmers' market rules, record-keeping.
This is a private knowledge credential — not a government license, not a kitchen inspection, not permission to sell. Every badge links to a verification page that says exactly that. We'd rather have a badge that means one true thing than a seal that implies five false ones.
Three steps to the badge
Your free Crosodo state report is the study guide. The exam's state module is drawn straight from the report library.
40 questions, 80% to pass, 60 minutes, open-book. We test comprehension, not memorization — and we say so openly.
Website badge, market-tent signage, and a verification page at crosodo.com/verify/your-ID that proves it's real. Plus a directory listing.
This is not a five-question quiz.
Sample questions from the bank. The real exam randomizes 40 from 60+, weighted toward your state's law:
Which of these frostings is most likely to be restricted under cottage food law in many states?+
Cream cheese frosting — it's a potentially hazardous food. American buttercream is generally allowed; cream cheese usually isn't.
You bake in Ohio and want to ship cookies to a customer in Pennsylvania. What's the key legal question?+
Whether both states' laws cover the sale. Many cottage food laws apply to in-state direct sales only — interstate shipping can fall outside your home state's protection.
A customer asks if your kitchen is inspected because you display a food badge. What's the honest answer?+
Crosodo Certified confirms you passed a knowledge assessment — it's not an inspection or a license, and the verification page says so plainly.
Pick your level
Quiz and Verified badge included. Badge kit, verification page, directory listing.
Take the exam →The whole report library, the quiz, and the Verified badge — one year, cancel anytime.
Get the Pass →Certification is valid for two years, then a shorter re-assessment — cottage food rules change, and a credential that never expires stops meaning anything.
The exam is open. Your state's report is the study guide.
40 questions, 60 minutes, open-book, 80% to pass. Pick your state in the dashboard and the state-law module draws on your state's real rules.
Take the quiz — included with the Library Pass