How do you charge for royal icing snowflakes that go on to a cake?
Per piece? By the hour (& how many can you do in an hour?)
I might be doing a December wedding cake (my first one!!!!) and would love to suggest a snowflake theme (since the bride is impartial)
thanks for your help!
hmmmm, thanks - but i really like the look of the RI ones...
anyone else?!
I would charge extra for the snowflakes if you do them out of royal. I lost 3/4 of the ones I made for my snowflake wedding cake. They are so delicate I thought I'd lose about half but in the end, it was 3/4. On the bright side, you have several months to make the snowflakes!
OK - extra, but HOW MUCH extra? Is 25 cents each too much or too little?
I have a snowflake wedding cake coming up in Dec also. I was thinking about charging $1 @ for small snowflakes and $2 for larger ones. They will be royal and sprinkled with crystal sugar, or I hope to sprinkle with crystal sugar. It won't cause the royal to break down will it?
hmmm, if i new how much a gumpaste leaf was worth, that would help!
$1 or $2 !!!!! so i suppose my 25 cents was a little off! hahaha
crystal sugar - i don't know if it would break down the RI...maybe if you let the RI dry, then brush with egg white and then sprinkle with sugar?!
i'm sure someone else has experience with this on CC - but not me! i'm just a beginner!
Putting the small sugar crystals on RI snowflakes should be OK. I used Wilton cake sparkles on some of mine and even put very small non-perils(sp?) on some of them. As for price, it really is a matter of what your area will support and how much you think your time is worth. Remember, you won't get every snowflake you make on that cake so you'll need to factor that time into your price. I did my snowflake wedding cake free for a dear friend but I would charge about 50 cents for the small ones and $1 for the large ones if I were to sell it.
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