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I have a request for this cake, but by the looks of it....it's huge.
What is the smallest I can make this and still make it to look like this? She said there would only be 15 guests, but I told her it may be difficult to make it for 15 seeing that it is a cruise ship.
Also I have no clue what to charge!! There is a lot of detail on this one and a lot of fondant work. I was thinking of icing it in buttercream and doing the accents in fondant.

Help.....anyone??

i would do maybe a 9x13 cut in half and stacked. It would be a little more than 15 servings, but not a huge cake by any means.

That would be a LOT more than 15 servings . . . lol. But you might need to price it for the cake you need to make to meet her request, not for the servings in this case.

I was thinking a loaf pan.

well it would be about 24 servings minus any additional that you might carve off while you are shaping the cake, maybe for the front end. This would be going party size servings (2x2 which I know are pretty good size pieces)

Oh this is the same method I used to make the space shuttle cake in my photos.

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Very cool Shuttle cake!!! Yeah... I was thinking 9x13 also. What would you charge? $50? too much ....too little??? Man I hate pricing!
Thanks for all your help!
Lisa

If I were doing say the shuttle cake (I figure 20 servings with the stuff I cut off) I would have charged $3 a serving so $60. So I would probably charge about the same amount for the cruise ship.

Maybe even more...that cruise ship has a lot of detail work if you copied it exactly.

Thank you for your help! Your Lightning McQueen cake is awesome!! My little boy would LOVE that!

You are welcome! Good luck!