For basic cupcakes, I charge $15 per dozen with a 2 dozen minimum.

AI get $3 per cupcake. Therefore a dozen is $36.

AFor just a basic cupcake with a swirl and some sprinkles I charge 2.75 a cupcake...so that's $33/dozen. I'm in Houston,Texas

I'm in BC, Canada, and my cupcakes begin at $20/doz for a standard cupcake with vanilla buttercream swirl.

I m from SG and selling my cupcakes between $3.00 - $3.50

Some will buy & some will source for other places.

I looked out prices from popular store here some selling from $4.00 - $4.50

Minimal price starts at $3.20 per cupcakes.

It really depends on where you stay and the prices really varies.

Sha

In the Uk i'd expect at least £2.50 each for a basic cupcake from a cake decorator (butter cream swirls).  You pay more than that for a mas produced one from Starbucks.  I'm doing some fancy fondant ones this weekend which will be £4.50 each.  Basic vanila sponge but with lots of moulded buttons on top.  :-)

Hi Snowflakebunny23

I m crazy over Peggy Porschen cake parlour in London and plan to visit there soon.

Have you visited her cake parlour in Belgraves.

I suppose the cake price in UK is about the same in Singapore .

Sha

AI have heard that Walmart/Sams club ship there cakes from china. They are frozen. This from a friend of a friend.

Hi Showflakebunny23

Oh please keep in touch with me on your next trip to Singapore.

I do home bake & don't have a shop yet .

I take small orders for birthdays, simple wedding cakes and I also conduct workshop as and when requested by friends or clients.

Do visit me on Facebook - Sha's Baking Passion.

Contact me : [email protected]

Happy Monday everyone...

So these were the cupcakes I did over the weekend - they cost £4.50 each (I think that's about USD 7.50 with the current exchange rate?).  With hindsight, I'm not sure it was enough though as they took ageeess!!  I'd be intrigued to know how much people would expect to pay for something like this in their local areas?  Sponge is a vanilla sponge with jam injected filling and butter cream.

Shaleha; Thanks for the offer, I'll probably take you up on that when I next make it over there! :-)  You have some fun cakes - love the fact that you're on the other side of the world but still have people asking for Manchester United cakes ;-)

ASnowflakebunny, they're beautiful! They'd be perfect for mothers day.

Snowflakebunny they are beautifully decorated.  From what I saw in Brighton yesterday afternoon, your cakes are priced right.  I saw cakes priced at £2.55 which were bogstandard ones (and not too appealing either in the hot sunshine).  I have not seen cupcakes like these on the shelves to buy - so definitely a bespoke bake.

I think I slightly under-charged for the last lot of bespoke cupcakes I did.... 

3 dozen cupcakes with Superhero cupcake toppers - all handcut!  No edible images. 

I charged £3 each  (that's around US $5)

Thank you for the feedback everyone - I have had a few people ask about them but so far, only one person has actually bought them after hearing the price!  I was worried I was way off but at the same time, couldn't face making them for any less...

@Relznik - they are awesome!  Must have taken ages to get them so perfect to each other without cutters :-)

I personally hate doing cupcakes...give me a 5-tier any day!! xx

I was thinking about my cupcake prices the other day (after having another 'how much??!!' response for a customer being quoted £2.70 for a choc fudge cupcake with a buttercream swirl)...and was then in a coffee shop and realised I was paying £2.50 for a cup of tea...which is made in a matter of seconds and the 'ingredients' are water and a teabag.  I am no longer hung up on my cupcake prices!!

AIf a person doesn't want to pay the price of bakery quality cupcakes... and comments on the price of cake mix. ... would it be appropriate to recommend they could save money if they make the cupcakes themselves ? I mean. .. they are only cupcakes after all..... jk :)

Yup I agree or I would recommand them to others esp the well known bakery and see how they ca agree to the price . I cannot accept that people always think homebake are cheap! Are we that cheap when ingredients are better off than from the commercial bakery?

Well there was a homebaker on a group on Facebook tonight proudly declaring she was cheap and loved to cater to Walmart budgets.  Everyone deserves a custom cake, all the usual stuff most of us fight against. Really sets us all back. 

So why do people think we're cheap? Because some of us are cheap and are too stubborn to get what we're worth or use excuses like "people won't payyyyyyy that much." Gah!