What Would You Charge For This Cake?? Please Help!
Decorating By Melinda3 Updated 13 Jan 2010 , 9:05pm by Mike1394
Hi, so I made this open basket cake with red roses. I only charged for what it took to make it because it was a friend of mine. What would you have charged if you didn't know the person or if it was a friend of a friend?
Also, I have an order coming up the end of this month for a 6 year old, who wants a bakugan cake. So, I was going to make a sheet cake then use the wilton ball pan to make a bakugan ball cake on top. She is also a friend and I have no idea what to charge her. I'm new at this and I don't want to charge to much because I want to make all the cakes I can right now. I don't want her to say never mind.
Need more information. What size/how many servings was the rose baket cake? Was the basket part covered in BC or fondant? Were the roses BC or gumpaste/fondant? How many roses were there?
As for the other cake, also need more info regarding the size. "Sheet Cakes" come in many sizes (some common sizes are 9x13, 11x15, 12x18, 24x1
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Oh, and just FYI, it is not legal to sell cakes with a design of a licensed character without permission from the copywright holder AND in most counties in GA, it is not legal to sell cakes out of your home (some counties do if you get your home kitchen health inspected and licensed).
Thank you for your reply! The open basket cake was a 2 layer 9" round cake. With creamcheese filling and covered with BC. There were 8 roses that were also BC. The open "lid" on the basket was white chocolate.
The other cake needs to feed 30-40 people so I guess I was thinking of making a 9x13 sheet cake.
So I see you want to make all the cakes you can. WHy don't you order some dummy cakes to work on decorating as opposed to selling cakes for cheap, cause you want to make as many as you can. Selling a "CUSTOM CAKE" cheap is never a good idea.
Sorry Mike. 
I read your post as being sarcastic, so I replied in kind. Bad me.
A few months ago I updated my pricing charts, after determining that for most cake and icing flavors that 25 cents per cubic inch of cake covered my costs and paid me for my time and talent.
For a 9"x4" cake, that computes to $63.59. On 8 and 9 inch cakes, up to 5 buttercream roses are included, with each additional rose being 50 cents, so that's another $1.50 for the extra 3 roses. Tack on 10 bucks for the chocolate lid and it actually comes out to $75.09, which I rounded down for the ease of posting. 
Is that more like what you were intereseted in reading, Mike? 
Sorry Mike.
I read your post as being sarcastic, so I replied in kind. Bad me. A few months ago I updated my pricing charts, after determining that for most cake and icing flavors that 25 cents per cubic inch of cake covered my costs and paid me for my time and talent.
For a 9"x4" cake, that computes to $63.59. On 8 and 9 inch cakes, up to 5 buttercream roses are included, with each additional rose being 50 cents, so that's another $1.50 for the extra 3 roses. Tack on 10 bucks for the chocolate lid and it actually comes out to $75.09, which I rounded down for the ease of posting.
Is that more like what you were intereseted in reading, Mike?
Thank You now the poster has a better idea on how to compute the cost of a cake.
Mike
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