I just had my first request for a 3 tier cake A friend asked me to make her this cake for her parents 50th wedding anniversary for the 6th of Feb. She wants 3 tier chocolate cake iced with white buttercream to serve 120 people with no decorations on the cake, she will supply ribbons to go around the tiers and topper ( I would have loved to decorate it, maybe next one ) now my question is, what size cake pans, round, do I need to make 3 tiers for 120 people? Also she said she asked another lady how much to make this cake and the lady said $75 and friend said that was too much, I thought that was pretty good price to serve 120 people.

6/10/14

It would be $390 from me before delivery charge.

Holy cr.....ok. Well, 75$ is ridiculously low. That would get a cake to serve 12 from me. Yikes. Check out the Wilton website, they have the chart Leah pulled those numbers from and lots of other useful info.

that's 63 cents a serving for dessert. SERIOUSLY?

Is it possible you friend was not being honest? you should sais something like you know you should tell her to do it instead.

I know, I know shes a friend but maybe she trying to get the best of you and thats not coo.

Yes, now when I think about it that is pretty low cost of that cake, but I am just starting to learn about pricing, I have just made cakes as gifts for family and friends before and my cakes are not perfect cakes like the wonderful decorators here, I am still learning and need more practise, which I was looking forward to doing this cake for. But I want to at least get the cost of making the cake for this one. She said she done a 3 tier round cake herself for her 25th wedding anniversary and it took 3 box cake mixes, I think her pans must have been pretty small because I know the favorite coconut cake I make for my hubby takes a box and half in just my 8 inch pan.