Pricing A Martha Stewart Wedding Cake
Business By Jenn2179 Updated 23 Aug 2008 , 2:13am by mysonshines
Even with real ric-rac.. that cake will be a pain in the butt. Lots of flowers, and while they do go pretty fast, it gets soooo tedious. I would be inclined to make them out of gumpaste.. it just behaves better than fondant.
If you want to make the ric-rac edible (and I would too) I would make it from gumpaste as well.. you can roll it nice and thin and if you let it dry a little before you pick it up it will not stretch. Candy clay is less pliable than fondant when it's cold, but roll it thin and handle it, and it will warm up and get soft on you too.
My base price for fondant is 5.50/serving.. and I think it's a 6-9-12 too. I'd call it 90 servings so $495 for the cake and I'd tack on $300 for all the detail work.. so at least $795 plus delivery. You don't have to just make the flowers.. but you have to take the hours to attach them all into consideration as well. It's a beautiful cake.. but time consuming.
I am new at this so this might seem like a silly question. But isn't doing all those flowers in gumpaste a pain for teh person cutting the cake. wouldn't you have to remove all them first. But then again, wouldn't you have to remove if it was fondant. I understand it is all edible, but noone actually really eats those hard things. I just wonder do people tell the brides these things when they choose cakes like this?
They are so little.. you can just cut right through them. It's not different than people eating royal icing flowers.
Most people will also just not eat the fondant part all together, so there's really no issue.
Jenn,
When did you say you would be doing this cake?
I will be looking forward to the pictures.
-Debbie B.
Jenn,
When did you say you would be doing this cake?
I will be looking forward to the pictures.
-Debbie B.
Not until May.
OMG. It's a gorgeous cake. I can't wait to see it, Jenn! Great advice on this thread. Thanks all.
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