I had a friend ask me to do a Lightning McQueen 3-D Cake, but I don't know how much I should charge. I've only done them for practice so far, and have never charged for one. Would you charge per serving and how do you figure the servings, or for the cake overall.
Thanks for your help!
I actually charge on a cake by cake basis, my Lightning McQueen cake cost $85 australian dollars and that was with a Work Colleague discount, I think that's like $100 or so USD. He told me that they managed to get 35 servings out of it (not big ones) but still I thought that was pretty good. If it's to feed a lot of people you can always put the 3D car on more cake. It was only my second car and I did spend two evenings of labour on the design and decorating another separate evening on baking.
HTH
I charge 2.25 a serving for carved cakes.....and I tack on extra for fondant.....I have people say, oh I don't want the fondant and I'll tell em' too bad that design requires it be done in fondant.....and then they have to decide if they want it or not...when I can use bc I do but otherwise they have to pay extra!
Based on other car cakes I've done - it wouldn't be unreasonable to charge $100 for about 25-30 people. Again - depends on size.
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