I have another cake order for this cake (almost exactly the same) how much should I charge? Could I do anything to make it more cost effective? Make it look better?

Thank you for your help!

Cost is dependent on how many servings. Most people charge a certain
$ amount/serving. My only suggestion would be to make the bed/bear more to scale (the bear is MUCH bigger than the bed).

Cost is dependent on how many servings. Most people charge a certain
$ amount/serving. My only suggestion would be to make the bed/bear more to scale (the bear is MUCH bigger than the bed).

How much did the ingredients cost for that cake, and how many total hours did you spend on it? What kind of overhead do you have (insurance, license fees, etc)?

Sharing a cake pricing matrix in excel.

http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-724514-.html

Yes, that bear is huge. Maybe make it smaller, or the bed larger.

i don't know if this was how you presented the cake, but you could put it on a covered board to make it look even better. the size of the bear you could as the previous poster suggested, reduce, which could make things quicker and a little easier, although if the client has already seen this maybe they will expect an exact replica.

It looks like the bear could sleep on that bed if you were to set him lying down...so it's not out of this world huge...lol. Now that we know he's made of cake and has to stay that size, and maybe you can't make the bed bigger because that's the size the sheet cake should stay at too, maybe a way to make it better would be to make the headboard taller. It might give the illusion of bigger.

And yes, you could do something with the board. If you don't cover it altogether and want to leave it white, perhaps a little rug would be nice?

I love the rug idea, that would be really cute!