Help. 1St. Paid Cake, What To Charge.
Decorating By brightbrats Updated 31 Aug 2006 , 9:16pm by rajinaren
This is my 1st paid cake. I am really excited about that. 
It is not the best by any means, but for my work so far, I think it was pretty good.
Anyway I have no idea what to charge for this, could someone please help out.
It ia a plain yellow cake ,9x13, covered in MMF.
Fish is trimmed also from a 9x13 pan, also yellow.
Any help at all would be very helpful.
Thanks a million.
Sorry I couldn't get it to post, I don't know how to resize. 
If you would please take your time to look, I would appreciate it.
i would say $40- $50. you spent a lot of time working on that and it looks very good. did you make this cake already and you are going to tell them the price as you give it to them? because if that is the case, i would go a little cheaper for them, depending on who it is and what you think they will think is exceptable
Congratulations on your first paid cake!! I saw your photos and one of your cakes looks like me!!! but I don't sell my cakes so I can't help you there this will get you a bump though
I would probably charge about $60. I recently did a fish that was all in buttercream and I charged $35, but that was just a fish, without the 9x13 underneath. And you used fondant, which I always charge more for, so I think $60 sounds aboout right....I'm up in Canada though, so I don't know if prices are similar.
What a great cake! Now, how many does it feed? Is it all MMF? Is it a friend, what economic bracket does your client fit? Where in the country do you live.
The reason I ask these questions are for the following reasons:
I charge clients more than friends. I charge by the slice and up the price when fondant is used. "More hand work." Some parts of the nation can handle 5 to 7 bucks a slice i.e. East coast whereas other parts can only charge 1.75 to 2.50 a slice i.e. very small town 60 miles away from any Midwestern city 
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For me, I tell my clients that I am expensive and then charge through the nose, because I don't want to become known as someone that is cheap and then have to do a ton of boring cakes! And if they give me free reign, I charge a little less so I can create different styles.
So with that being said, and if all fondant, and in my neck of the woods, and not a friend, then I would charge $3.50 per slice.
Thanks you guys for the tips. Even though I am still afraid of what to charge. I don't want to scare my 1st. customer to death.
And yes the cake is already made, she just asked if I could make one, and didn't even ask the price. But she knows me, and she is probably sure that it won't be high.
Oh well, I'll shoot her a price, and go from there.
Thanks.
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