I have a friend that works at a local hospital to ask me to quote a fake replica of the hospital along with 10 11x15 sheet cakes.

How do I go about calculating how much to charge for a fake cake? and how do I go about making it?

I've already quoted her the sheets.

what's the cost of the materials - the dummies - the frosting - any other supplies you may use - how much do you want to earn per hour for your time - dummies go together just as any other stacked cake - just skip the supports between the layers - they are solid enough to support one another.....

as a general rule - dummies don't cost that much less than real cake - usually the cake is the cheapest part - people pay for time and talent......

I charge the same as I do for a real cake.

The cost of the dummies (plus shipping) is equivalent to the cost of ingredients for a cake. It takes me the same amount of time and materials to decorate a fake cake as it does for a real one.

We take the normal servings divide that in half and charge the basic cake price. EX. 50 servings divided by 2 is 25 servings times that by the basice price for your cakes. We do this to try to give people a break but after reading the other posts we may think twice. HMMMMMMM

I charge 80% the cost of what it would be in real cake. Dummies cost me a lot less than actually making the cakes (between the premium ingredients that go into my scratch cakes and the baking time) so that's why I discount a little. I'm actually going to change this though... to 90%. It's the same amount of work no matter what it's on.