 The second small food business idea you can do from home are cookies. Cookies are super beloved and it has a mass appeal to all age groups. And that's the reason why it hits that list. The pros of running a cookie business is that it is very easy for you to enter. And on top of that, you can actually have a lot of creative ways to make a good cookie. The sky's the limit when it comes to creating cookies. And on top of that, you can actually batch create many different cookies and you can shove it into your freezer so it makes production a little bit easier as well. Now finally, selling cookies have good margins as well, anywhere from 30 to 40%. That gives you plenty of healthy margins to play around with.