AGood evening Cakers,

I have an issue of knowing how to charge for a Jordan sneakers cake. A week ago I did the said cake for my boyfriend and now it's in high demand. But I don't know how much to charge. It's quite labour intensive and the details sigh.....I've never done a sculpted cake prior to this. Can you all HELP me pls???? Have to give a quote by Monday to a few of my clients.

Thanks much! Kay

PS. I attached an image of the cake I made my boyfriend [IMG][IMG][IMG]http://cakecentral.com/content/type/61/id/3016578/width/200/height/400[/IMG][/IMG][/IMG]

Wow. That looks great! This thread talks about pricing shoe cakes

http://cakecentral.com/t/707623/unsure-of-how-to-charge-for-a-carved-cake

AThanks so much for your kind words and thanks for the link, the thread was very helpful.

Awesome sneaker cake.  My nephew is graduating from high school and is a lacrosse player and was thinking of doing something similar.  Is the sneaker you did made out of all fondant & cake? Or do you have combination cake & rice krispy or fondant & buttercream?  How long did it take you to do this?

AThank you KarenK55!

Firstly, I used a sponge for its moistness but also it's stability.....you don't want a crumbly cake atall, I carved it but in realizing how long I'd take to put it together I filled and brushed cake layers with vodka and kahlua to prolong the life of the cake, I then stacked (4 tiers) and crumb coated with buttercream frosting again I was concerned about cake freshness so I omitted the heavy cream in the buttercream and used water as my liquid (I live in the tropics so its always a concern for my clients to not have spoiled cake on their hands) I used 2 dowels to aid with structural support and placed in freezer for an hour.....removed and left to thaw out for about 20 mins then frosted with buttercream again, left to crust then use viva paper to go over it rubbing and making sure it was very smooth! Left for about 4 hours for crust to be extremely firm, by that time it was night so I just covered in black fondant and used a fondant smoother to make sure it was nice and smooth.....trim edges with my xacto knife because of the curves in the shoe it was difficult to use a pizza/pastry cutter without cutting into the cake.....left cake over night at room temp. Next morning I started the final details using toothpicks to measure and make impressions along the way.

Patience is your friend with this cake took me 3 days form baking to laying down a good foundation and decorating it, the details took about 8 hours alone. I made free hand templates out of wax paper as I went along to help me measure the different patterns and all got thrown out by accident so next cake I have to start from scratch

OMG!  Thank you so much for all the information.  At least I have a couple of weeks, to decide to take on such a project.  It will certainly be a labor of love since it is for my nephew...  Again thank you so much and you will be the first if I get stuck along the way. 

ANot a problem KarenK55, I was kinda lost when I tried finding a tutorial online and another fellow caker Ms. multilayered from CC helped me a great deal. I'd PM you my email add so I'd get your message immediately. I have to do a converse sneaker in a couple weeks which should be much easier than the Jordan's so I'd let you know how it goes.

Kay