Hi! I am new to this forum, but have found alot of useful information so far. Plus I love looking at the cake pictures.
I have been decorating for about 1 year now and I am self taught. I have a request for Wedding Cake, but they would like 2 layers to be "fake" and then 1 real cake for them to cut for their piece at the Wedding. They plan to serve sheet cakes to guests. Is this common? It has been 9 years since I got married and I would have been horrified if anyone would have suggested serving anything but the traditional Wedding and Groom's cake.
Has anyone sold "fake" cakes to Brides? How are they priced?
Thanks! Debra[/u]
It's not unusual for people to ask this. Most do it because they want a larger cake but don't have the people to serve it too. That's usually the case, and so you can definetly do it. I would charge at least 75% of what you would for a real cake. I know people that charge the same, and some that give 50% off. After reasoning it out, I find that a 25% discount is sufficient. The reasoning being that the ingredients are that expensive, it's mostly your time in decorating. And that doesn't change even if the inside is foam. You have to calculate your costs and decide what you want to charge. Not sure if you're making the sheet cakes too, so how the pricing would work out because they'd be paying almost the same as if they went ahead and got a "real" wedding cake.
I haven't sold any dummies but from what I understand this is common especially in large cities. I have also read many comments about not charging any less since you still have to decorate it as if it were real. Personally, I hate the idea but that's just me. I don't charge any less per serve for sheets that any other cake so that kind of deters people from goign that route. Good luck to you and have fun with it!
Poeple do this to save a buck. I won't do unless the cake is something that is real special and will take an incredible amount of work on it. Even then I really hesitate to do this. My pricing is pretty close to sheet cake and the size of my wedding porting is larger than a sheet cake serving. I price a fake cake the same as decorating a regular cake. You are still doing the work to make it look pretty. Just because it is not baked does not make a difference.
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