Friend Of A Friend Wants Me To Replica This Cake? Price?
Decorating By dtmc Updated 29 Jun 2006 , 1:02am by Mac
How much should I charge for this cake? A friend of a friend wants me to make this cake for her and replicate everything on it but on a smaller scale. Like an 4,6,8 inch cake but with the brighter colors and topsy turvy. The cake is on this website under wedding cakes, picture 165. Sorry I can't seem to cut/paste the picture. Rightly so since it belongs to this website.
http://www.haveyourcakeandeatit.org/noveltycakes
How much would you charge on a smaller scale? There is still a lot of detailed work and all is fondant.
HELP!!!!!!
TIA
which one?? the link opens w/a golf cake as the main pic
oh duh...i see it in your orginial post now!!
but I would charge $3-3.50 per serving for something like that!
HTH
Christine
What do you usually charge for fondant covered cakes per serving? I would charge that, and then maybe an additional $50-$75 for the extra work? It seems like a lot extras. It's hard to give you a price, because we don't know what you charge for other cakes.
For a small topsy turvy cake that I did in BC with fondant accents, I charged $60.00. It would have served at least 25-30 guests (lady only wanted to serve 10 but wanted all the tiers in it). If I had made it all in fondant it would have started at $75.00 then added on for the extra work.
I think the hardest part of this cake is getting the tiers to sit up on an angle. I've seen these in the CC galleries and they're using styrofoam wedges to prop up each tier so they sit like that.
The decorations themselves are not overly fine or complicated, just a lot of them.
I would charge US$250 and up on this cake depending on the cake base.
Nati
I was thinking about $130.00 for a 4,6,8 inch. For this cake. I have never made a topsy turvy cake. Do people normally put wedges in between the topsy cakes?
a regular topsy turvy cake like the one in the CC tutorials is all cake. But this one is a different type, if you look at it, each tier is whole, not carved, and just sitting on an angle. PPl usually use styrofoam wedges for it.
cheers
Nati
PS: If you were making a proper topsy turvy like the one in the tutorials, you'd need more than 3 cakes to do 3 tiers. I did one and had to bake 7 cakes.
Do people normally put wedges in between the topsy cakes?
I am quite sure a lot of people do use wedges. I recall watching a show last year with Colette Peters and her assistant. Her assisant said topsy turvy cakes are all about illusion. The cake they made was not cut to create the tilt. They had tilted stands that created that illusion. Also, Whimsical Bakehouse use icing to fill the layers and create that tilt rather than cut the cake.
Do people normally put wedges in between the topsy cakes?
I am quite sure a lot of people do use wedges. I recall watching a show last year with Colette Peters and her assistant. Her assisant said topsy turvy cakes are all about illusion. The cake they made was not cut to create the tilt. They had tilted stands that created that illusion. Also, Whimsical Bakehouse use icing to fill the layers and create that tilt rather than cut the cake.
Very interesting....I didn't know that it wasn't cake. So are these wedges just covered in BC or fondant?
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