I've been in business several years, and this year I had my first wedding requesting a diabetic cake. I just made an 8" carrot cake and charge $30 for it. Well I then realized how expensive it is to make a sugar free cake compared to a regular cake. I left the price as it was, especially since she had tons of other cake to her order.
but now I have started receiving other requests for sugar free cakes. I'm curious if any of you guys out there charge a different per serving price for these.
Any & all comments are appreciated!
Thanks,
Cristina
THe timing on this thread is uncanny. I baked my first diabetic sample cake tonight for a sampling tomorrow. While it was baking, I figured my costs and it costs me 3 times as much to make a diabetic cake as it does for me to make a regular cake. Fortunately, I think this bride wants just a small side cake for the diabetic family members. But that "3 times the cost" factor will have to come into play somewhere.....
The only diabetic cake recipe that I've found that I actually will say is "taste worthy"... I sell at 28.00 for poundcake (bundt style)
or 60.00 for decorated sheet cake
Its such a hassle and so costly that I dont have it on the
menu, its for sale on an ask-only basis.
What ingredients did you figure raised the costs so much?
1 cup of Splenda costs me $0.61 vs. 1 cup of sugar that costs me $0.05. Plus the recipe said it would fill two 8" pans. These cakes didn't rise hardly at all, so to make a decent size cake, I'll have to double this recipe for two 8" pans. I think that's that's the big cost factor .... having to double the recipe for one 2-layer 8" cake. So that's 8 egg (yolks) instead of just 3; 2 cups of SPlenda (@ $0.61 each!
Plus the diabetic icing costs ... don't forget to factor that althought there is not that much cost diff in the icing....some, but not much.
For a diabetic icing, did you simply replace splenda in your IMBC?
Until I have time to really sit down and figure it all out, I think I'm just going to charge an additional $.25 per serving. I think that should probably cover it.
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