Cake Prices. What Do You Charge?
Decorating By kakedecorator Updated 7 Jul 2007 , 10:42pm by yellobutterfly
I don't know if there is already a thread with this topic if so, please direct me to it. If not, Maybe this will help some of us who don't know what to charge or don't charge enough. I'm real bad at this. I just did a wedding cake to serve 80 and a grooms cake to serve 50, including delivery-30 miles, for $200.00.
What do you charge for wedding cakes?
What do you charge for a birthday cake?
Whatever you can share in regards to how you price your cakes. And maybe include you location (since that does factor in when pricing).
There was another thread, but can't seem to find it.
I've seen where others charge any where from $1/slice to $3/slice depending on the complexity (fondant, gumpaste, figures, etc.) They use the Wilton serving chart, and some use Earlene's chart. HTH
I don't know if there is already a thread with this topic if so, please direct me to it. If not, Maybe this will help some of us who don't know what to charge or don't charge enough. I'm real bad at this. I just did a wedding cake to serve 80 and a grooms cake to serve 50, including delivery-30 miles, for $200.00.
What do you charge for wedding cakes?
What do you charge for a birthday cake?
Whatever you can share in regards to how you price your cakes. And maybe include you location (since that does factor in when pricing).
Figure out what you spend on ingredients and supplies. Do a mark up (10, 20 or 30 %) on these items.
Figure out what you think your time is worth taking into consideration the complexity of the design.
Add the 2 together and there is a price.
There's numerous threads about how much to charge on this site. Use the search feature to locate them.
Here are a few that I found.
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-318383-pricing.html
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-388333-pricing.html
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-388123-pricing.html
There are dozens of pricing threads in the business section. You have to determing what your costs are, what the typical cake sells for in your area. and then choose a pricing strategy that works for the kind of cakes you make.
To make it easy on myself, I charge $1 a serving for simple cakes, $25 minimum and $2-3 for celebration and wedding cakes. Extra for gumpaste flowers.
Some areas can charge much more, some less.
cakepro - do you do out of your home or storefront? Just wondering - I'm in the Houston area but I don't think I could get away with your prices - I'm a home decorator and just raised my prices to a buck a slice for bc simple cakes, and will charge 2 and up for wedding/tiered...I'm still cringing to see if anyone gets pissed and tells me I'm too expensive!
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