Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I do not find cake ingredients to be cheap at all.....Hmmm
I'm a hobby baker so not charging for my cakes. I wouldn't really know where to start with pricing, at the minute pretty much every cake I do is something different so I end up needing to buy a new piece of kit, or have to factor the cost of fixing my mistakes. It also varies depending on whether I dye my own fondant or buy pre-coloured (which I will do sometimes for very dark colours like navy or black). A kilo of white fondant costs me around £2.20 ($3.40) but a kilo of pre-dyed fondant will be more like £10/$15. Ganache is much more expensive than buttercream (again around $15 to cover a three layer 9" tier), then there are cake boards, boxes, ribbons etc to buy. The cheapest 9" cake I can make (without labour costs, utilities etc) is probably about £20 ($31), if I was to charge for it I would probably charge around £35-£40 ($60) but that's not based on anything scientific! just what I think the market here would allow.
Hi ericaann,
I was wondering if you could post that spreadsheet you use to calculate the costs of making the cake and labor and how much you should charge.
Thank you,
MeadowsweetCakes
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You can't really do it that way...I have a spreadsheet I use, I will attach to this reply. It factors in my grocery cost and my hourly cost. Then it calculates what I should charge. If I don't charge the full amount I use the second summary to find out what I made per hour...let me know if you have ?'s.
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