Okay this is what happened.....a customer just called & asked if I could make her some gumpaste/fondant flowers to go onto a cake that SHE is baking and frosting! Weird?!? 
Do you guys ever do this?....just make the decorations and hand them over to someone? What the heck would I charge? What if the cake looks awful & people find out that I made the flowers for it!? So I repeat...what would YOU do?
why not? no matter what she does to her cake, it won't affect how your flowers look. i did the orchids for a the wedding cake a friend made for her daughter. I think I would have done a better job on teh cake, but it was important to her to make her daughter's cak and her daughter also wanted the orchids (they are in my photos). It was a win win for everyone.
You know that's a tough call because you don't want to be mean or rude but I agree with everyone..I would politely say that you prefer to make the whole cake and not bits and pieces...or however you word it but I would have no problem saying.."I don't do that"...
Why not think of this as just another talent, your ability to make beautiful accents for cakes? Anyone can buy something but when it's made by someone they know it seems more special. I would call some places or check online what they would charge and go from there. You do make some beautiful flowers so I can see why she asked you to do this!
why not? your flowers, her cake...like most people that would order their flowers ready made.
If you have a problem with that just tell her not to tell people where she got them,
but this sounds like a way to make extra income. I made air drying butter cream and marzipan flowers for my local bakery for about a year. It was a pretty good deal. 
why not? your flowers, her cake...like most people that would order their flowers ready made.
If you have a problem with that just tell her not to tell people where she got them,
but this sounds like a way to make extra income
Yep, I would be inclined to agree, particularly the 'extra income' part!
I don't see the problem. If a cake decorator puts silk florals on a cake, no one talks about "....that ugly cake with the Hobby Lobby flowers." They would talk about Sally Sue's ugly cake. I can't see how this would really affect you at all except give you an opportunity to start a side business with your talents.
Yep, there are a lot of fancy cake decorators out there that don't bake their own cakes...the bakery that I made the flowers for always offered to sell me cakes for me if I ever needed them.
but I wasn't lic so I never took them up on the offer. But it was nice to have a little corner there to make my flowers.
Are you business or hobby?
If you're business, here's an easy sale. If you're hobby, easy money might not matter as much as the need to control every aspect of any cake you're involved with.
I wouldnt do it! I dont know how to make them and I know people that do but I found them online for reasonable prices so I didnt bother anyone about it. After they saw my cakes, they thought I did a great job. I still buy them but would love to learn how to make them.
I have done it several times. I charge a premium price. When you order then online, there is no guarantee the color will match, or that one or more won't be broken. There are a few decorators in my area that know I make flowers-and they don't.
I even had one bride contact me because the Albetson's store didn't make gp orchids.
Easy money in my opinion.
Ok now you've all got me thinking that I should consider it, so what the heck do ya charge? I haven't the slightest idea.....because so far, it's been included in the overall price of the cake. I've checked the ones online & them seem very inexpensive,...like $2 each!!
Well I guess it would all depend on if I had the time and if I needed the money. I have made cakes where I have used flowers purchased wholesale just because I didn't have time to make my own.
the ones online ARE inexpensive, but you get what you pay for. take a close look at them, then look at the type and quality of flowers that some of the CC members do - there is a WORLD of difference. custom made and higher quality flowers should command a higher price.
I say go for it. And if you are a business then this is just another service you offer, my parents own a printing shop, we sale blank paper if a customer asks for it, this is the same. If the cake looks like heck the flowers will still look wonderful people might not think she made them anyway. "Wow the flowers look amazing...too bad she cant even do a even star boarder"
Thanks for your input everyone! JoAnnB, thank you for your help. I ended up figuring out prices to sell my wired flowers. I called the lady to give them to her and she told me that she wants royal icing or drop flowers, not gumpaste......so I pretty much said 'I don't do that'. I'm not interested in selling my RI decorations. 
I get the impression she was trying to be as economical about this as possible, but still have her cake look like she hired a professional, although she was unwilling to hire one!
Flowers and boquets to sell is an added product. You can compare prices on the internet, catologs and cake decorating supply shops.
Single flowers-roses made with royal icing-tip 104 are $1.00 each. Sell them by half or dozen.
Gumpaste and rolled fondant are labor intense.
Cost out your ingredients and multiply by 3, 5, 7 whatever your target market will allow.
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