I am making mini cakes (3" round, 2 layers, iced and simply decorated) for a craft fair. What would you think a fair price would be for these? Plan on making them with white icing and a large royal icing pointsettia on top for the holiday season. The two flavors I plan on using is coconut cake with pineapple filling and lemon cake with raspberry filling. I belive I can get 3 (2 layer) cakes from each doctored box mix. Hmmmmm...

I would expect to pay $10. ???

I think I would charge $5-$7 a pop. Have fun frosting them... those things are so small.

Probably about 7 dollars. Seems like a nice even price, not as cheap as 5 but not a pricey as 10. All the same, people might still pay 10 for them, but at 7 or so they might buy more than one.
OOO...lemon raspberry. And I'm off to bake!

Thanks for the input everyone. I am considering the $5 price because the employees of the place I am doing the craft fair don't make alot and it seems a price I would be likely to pay. Wow, $10! I would be dancing in circles if I could get that much. Fair pricing is so hard for me to figure sometimes, being a beginner at this.

One thing I do know, when I do yule logs for Christmas, being I want to use chocolate ganache, they will be priced between $15 and $18 because the chocolate costs so much. Folks tell me that the $10 I charge for my pumpkin rolls should be more.

I did some mini heart shaped cakes for a charity bake sale. They were single layer (about 1 1/2" high, 3" across and 4" long) with cornelli lace and a rose, and they sold for $4.00 each. It was for a charity, and I thought the coordinator underpriced them a bit, so $5.00 or $6.00 should be more than fair with a poinsettia on them. Good luck!

Just an update on selling my mini-cakes. Made 3" lemon cakes with raspberry filling, 2 layers, iced in buttercream with a royal icing poinsettia on top. Had them for sale at $5 each...........no one even touched them, although they looked. Ended up leaving them for the employees at my husband's workplace as I did notwant to bring them home. Decided two things, never make tiny cakes like that again, except for smash cakes (what a pain to ice them) and two, the smallest cakes I will make will be 6" cakes for sale!

deb

some people are really cheap. And depending on your area some are just not interested unless it's at the dallor store price.

You know what, my best seller was red-velvet cupcakes with peppermint buttercream icing (at 75 cents each)!

I charge $30.00 for my yule log and that is with meringue mushrooms. It is a chocolate fudge jellyroll cake with coffee cream inside.

Mac, can you give me the recipe for your coffee cream filling? I am in search of a good mocha filling, but not happy with any I have found yet.

I too am doing a yule lot, but not with meringue mushrooms. Plan on doing a chocolate cake, whipped chocolate ganache filling, covered in chocolate ganache, decorated simply with royal icing pointsettias. Plan on charging $20 as everyone is used to paying $10 for my pumpkin rolls (prices go up next year). Truthfully I don't think I could get $30, even with the mushrooms.

deb

I mix some Folgers instant coffee cystals with water--make it kind of strong and add it to my frosting or even ganache filling. I was told by a coffee company that when a recipe calls for expresso powder, this is what you use. You can use some leftover brewed coffee.

Or you can add some to fresh whipped cream, just be sure to dissolve it in some water. I have even used some of the flavored coffees. I will buy the tiny packages at Kroger's--a little goes a long way.

I would charge $6 for the mini-cakes, they are a pain in the butt to do!