CEDAR RAPIDS — Sneh Chopra has always loved to cook, but she never planned to open her own restaurant — her father was in business, and she could see the uncertainties of that life. “The ups and downs — that kind of thing freaks me out,” she said. So when she started her home bakery business, Melting Bite, last October, taking orders for elaborately decorated custom cakes, it was more of a creative outlet than anything else, a mental break from her job as a software specialist at educational game company Leapfrog. “I like the creative side of designing cakes,” she said.