oh man i had a funny one today...

she was wanting very ornate small stacked cakes 8 with a 6 on top...

i told her ok...that size is 69.99...

to which she replied "DOLLARS?"

ha ha...i said no, 69 cents.

then she told me her sister got the most beautiful ornate stacked cakes in branson for 10 bucks...

i told her she better go to branson then (6 hours away)...she said she'd need 10 of them, (like i should jump at that...whoo whoo 100 dollars for 10 stacked cakes)....amazing....

Hysterical!! Cake civilians ...... whatta ya gonna do with 'em?

8/6 serves 24/12 = 36 times 10 cakes = 360 servings times my rate of $3/serving = $1080.

And she thought you'd jump thru hoops for the chance to make 10 of 'em for a hundred bucks.

Some people are too ignorant to know how to breathe on their own.
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edited to correct the math!

the more i think about it, the more i DON'T wanna be everyones cakelady....

i want to be thought of as a luxury item, that not everyone and their brother can afford....i have limited time, i can only do so many cakes, why people go for "yard sale" prices is beyond me.

that"supposed" baker that made stacked cakes for 10 bucks...devalues cakes for everyone, it's kinda sickening.

oh, she said her sister got these cakes from a shop!

and i have no problem with home decorators, i even have a guy here that i send my overflow business to.....

i wasn't trying to make this post about that tired subject.

I was reading this and trying to add up the cost of supplies for a cake like this. Not even including time. And I don't know that I could even buy the supplies needed for $10 a cake. Ummm sounds to me like somebody's sister told her a story.
And including the time it took to do it...well, I know I'd be charging more than than and I don't charge near what some people do. (Mostly cause people won't pay that around here. They'd rather go to Wal-Mart)
I end up just making them for gifts for friends and family. I think I've only charged for like 2 or 3 cakes in the past year.

i think that chic was lying...(i never think of that, i guess i'm a naive 50 year old)...

i looked up all the bakeries in that area that had a website online...none of them would do that....

unless maybe she went to a grocery store....sometimes the bakery manager aint with it, and will make the decorators do stuff for crazy prices.

Maybe it was a $100.00 each, and she got all confused, the poor cake muggle!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL cake muggle! Thatt's to cute, I need to remember that Cakebelle.

Wow 10.00, there is no way. I just finished my first tiered cake (an 8" and 6") for my daughters 11th birthday and after the time I spent planning it, doing the baking, making the frosting and decorations plus putting it all together, I would never question someone telling me 70.00 !!!! I'm sure those with more practice can whip em out a lot quicker than me but still.