Nope...no flavour description (or # of servings) listed... maybe that designer can command those prices... Nhora de la Pava @ Nemacolin Woodlands Resort... I guess resort life is a good business to be in!
A HUGE budget... that cake looks like it could probably serve at least two hundred!... doing the math... holy cow... that would be a $12,000 cake!!!!
I'm sure the price has something to do with the reputation of the baker as well. I've watched even local cake artists prices go way up as they win awards and gain experience and reputations. II am guessing that bakery is somewhere on the East Coast? 
Here is a link to her page at the resort site...
http://nemacolin.com/nem_cms.asp?sectionID=33
Well, this is the cake that Nhora featured at the Cakewalk held at GCS in NYC last March. I completely fell inlove with it the moment I saw it...I actually voted for the cake! I ended up meeting her and her son and husband and some other family members...She is a doll! Very sweet, and kind...She's an incredible artist. Her cakes are also featured on Satinice...those precious moments figures and the little mice...the hand painted flower vines...that's her...
However, she is the official artist for Nemacolin and not the owner of her own shop. She was actually moved from Florida to PA by the owner of the resort, that's how good she is! But look at the resort, what kind of people you think has their wedding catered there? $$$$$...I'm thinking it's a typo, probably meant $16 
$60 is outrageous anyways!
It looks like this resort is near Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater... maybe there's a big artist community there? STILL.......$60????
WOW That resort is about 45 minutes from my house, and no I haven't driven up there for a slice of cake. LOL
If you check out the prices of lodging, etc. for this place, $60 a slice for cake is a minor detail. I'll stay at Super 8 and eat Hostess Twinkies.
Diane
Haha, funny thread, I must say, I would like to be paid $60 a slice, haven't you ever slaved over a cake for weeks worth of work with the flowers etc and felt like even at $60 a slice, it would be a steal? Don't know about you folks, but when I am making a difficult cake we tend to eat a lot of take-out or heat and serve and it gets expensive.
It is a beautiful cake. I find that cakes at resorts and better hotels are priced fairly high.
Hugs Squirrelly
My point exactly Squirrelly... it is gorgeous, and obviously a ton of work with all of those flowers. If they had been charging the $15-25 I've seen other "designer" cakes go for, I'd have just thought... "I wish I could charge THAT" ('cause I certainly put enough time into my cakes to charge that) adn moved on to the next one! BUT it still blows my mind that even the stinking rich would pay $12,000 for a cake! LOL
Oh well... I guess if they've got the clientel who are willing/able to pay that, then good for them for not undercharging!!
My point exactly Squirrelly... it is gorgeous, and obviously a ton of work with all of those flowers. If they had been charging the $15-25 I've seen other "designer" cakes go for, I'd have just thought... "I wish I could charge THAT" ('cause I certainly put enough time into my cakes to charge that) adn moved on to the next one! BUT it still blows my mind that even the stinking rich would pay $12,000 for a cake! LOL
Oh well... I guess if they've got the clientel who are willing/able to pay that, then good for them for not undercharging!!
Heehee, I know, when I see that kind of price tag I think furniture or a downpayment on a house, not cake.
hugs Squirrelly
We didn't pay 12000 for our entire wedding! 
And that was for 80 people, full sit-down dinner and complete open bar!
But I looked on the lodging part of that website, and you can rent the one estate, for up to 14 adults, at the chump change price of $3000 a night 
Thats not including tax or tips of course! (or dinner or anything extra) If you can stay a week at a place for $21,000 then $12,000 for a cake is nothing.
That cake is worth 14 mortgage payments for us!! (and I agree, for that price, I couldn't care less about the outside, the inside better be the the most mouth watering thing I have ever put in my mouth, with chocolate that was imported from the mountains of Switzerland, cream from the happiest cows in the world and all of which were blessed by monks!) 
People will pay what they can afford and if they can afford to pay $60 per slice and they think it's worth it that i think it's great.
What's upsetting is some of the comments about the cake in question 'being beautiful but not that beautiful' or 'not seeing it as as being $60 worth of stunning'. Makes me wonder if the people with the negative comments would make them if the designer was a Cake Central member (who knows perhaps she might be). Reminds me of a thread on another site where Colette Peters was criticized and she popped up and posted.
Ok this is my goal for the new year! I will make a $60.00 per slice cake and sell it!!! LOL I wish 
Lazy_Susan
Hmm...once again, everyone is entitled to their opinion. I guess to most of us it would just seem very far outside our budget to pay such a price for a cake. I am not saying that someone shouldn't pay that amount if they so choose, just that as far as that cake went.....I personally would NEVER pay that sum for a cake. I wouldn't change my post or feel differently if Colette.. plus the maker of said cake and the pope all disagreed..but then again..just my 2 cents worth. I guess a certain amount is envy because ...I guess some of us are so underpaid for what we do it is hard to believe that some are worth that much more than some of the awesome work I see here.
well, here is my 2cents on the issue. I think it is a ridiculous price. Even if she took 3 weeks to make it at 10 hours a day, it would not be worth 12, 000 dollars. ( you would be making around 57 dollars an hour ) The whole attitude of "if someone is willing to pay it charge it" drives me crazy! Not when there are more people in the world who can't afford a place to live and a meal to eat, then people in the world who can. Of course people deserve to be paid for their hard work, but crazy is just crazy. Just like no place to lay your head down is worth what lots of places charge. Just cuz one can and people are willing to pay it doesn't mean that either one should. But again, that is just my 2 cents. =)
If you check out the prices of lodging, etc. for this place, $60 a slice for cake is a minor detail. I'll stay at Super 8 and eat Hostess Twinkies.
Diane
I second that! 
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