I start a plain "New York" style cake at $20 and go from there. Chocolate, pumpkin and other flavors can go as high as $35 if there's some fancy stuff involved i.e. chocolate curls, fruit topping.
That's good to hear, My mom makes wonderful cheesecakes (all kinds) and I'm thinking about having her make them for the bakery but wanted to make sure there's enough profit in them for her to want to make them. I guess I need to price ingredients now.
You have to line the bottom with parchment paper. Once it sets you can slide it off the bottom of the pan onto a board. If the cheesecake is too soft you can put it in the freezer then slide onto the board.
You may have to use a spatula to loosen it from the pan.
You have to line the bottom with parchment paper. Once it sets you can slide it off the bottom of the pan onto a board. If the cheesecake is too soft you can put it in the freezer then slide onto the board.
You may have to use a spatula to loosen it from the pan.
Thank you, I just knew there would be a good way to do this. 
I used the cake matrix from here and changed it to create a "cheesecake matrix" for myself for when I do wedding cheesecakes.
I don't know what it would cost *you* to make them, but you could simply write down ingredient costs for each ingredient in one recipe, your time x your hourly wage, etc., and you'd have a starting point.
I charge $4.00 a serving for cheesecake, but I only do them as wedding cakes, not bakery cakes.
You can also bake cheesecakes with a plain or foil-wrapped cardboard round right IN the springform under the cake, which makes it a snap to take them out and serve them. 
The plain boards tend to soak up a ton of grease though, from the butter in the crust, so I switched to wrapped and LOVE it.
Anyone have a ballpark on what is COST you to make them?
Most recipe's call for 2-3 packs of cream cheese which I buy for 79-89 cents.
3 eggs
heavy cream $3.69 quart. (the recipe's I use you only need one cup)
or sour cream 79-89 cents.
1 cup sugar $4.89 10 lbs.
tsp vanilla, tsp lemon extract
for the crust I use crushed vanilla waffers $1.00 (need 1/2 box) 2 tbs conf sugar, 2 tsp nutmeg, 2 tsp cinnamon and 1/2 stick butter (2.29 lb.)
The parchment paper is about $2.69 per roll. I trace the bottom of pan and make parchment circles( don't know how many I can get from a roll because I use it for other things.)
This is just the basic cheesecake
I used the cake matrix from here and changed it to create a "cheesecake matrix" for myself for when I do wedding cheesecakes.
I don't know what it would cost *you* to make them, but you could simply write down ingredient costs for each ingredient in one recipe, your time x your hourly wage, etc., and you'd have a starting point.
I charge $4.00 a serving for cheesecake, but I only do them as wedding cakes, not bakery cakes.
You can also bake cheesecakes with a plain or foil-wrapped cardboard round right IN the springform under the cake, which makes it a snap to take them out and serve them.
The plain boards tend to soak up a ton of grease though, from the butter in the crust, so I switched to wrapped and LOVE it.
Thank you, I can't get the price matrix to open on my computer (I have a mac and it doesn't have Excel on it yet). 
I just did the math, and if I buy Costco butter and cream cheese for .80 and .85 each, I'm at about $13.50+ with boards and use of pans, etc., according to my matrix. Not counting my time...
If I buy butter and cream cheese anywhere else for the usual $1.12-1.98 each that they cost, I'm at like $17.00 cost before time.
hth
I just did the math, and if I buy Costco butter and cream cheese for .80 and .85 each, I'm at about $13.50+ with boards and use of pans, etc., according to my matrix. Not counting my time...
If I buy butter and cream cheese anywhere else for the usual $1.12-1.98 each that they cost, I'm at like $17.00 cost before time.
hth
Thank you, I shop at Sam's (about the same prices).
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