I just started doing wedding cakes, and was recently asked about having a different flavor cake for each tier. Is this some you do and do you charge for it? What do you think would be a fair price for such a request?
Thanks
I charge an additional fee of $5.00 per xtra flavor. So if it's a 5 tiered cake and they want 3 tiers white and 2 tiers chocolate, it's only a $5.00 charge (1 xtra flavor).
I do this ONLY because it causes more time to stop, wash out bowls, beaters, etc. before going to the next flavor and I inevitably always have a little waste, and this just offsets that cost of wasted batter (say I nee a 6" chocolate, an 8" white, a 10" yellow, etc............I would have extra chocolate batter, and a little extra yellow batter as well (6" uses less than 1 batch of batter for 2 layers, and my 10" uses a little more than 2 batches of cake batter for 2 layers)
Where as if they were all the same flavor, I could continue to mix, pour, bake, etc. and have very little waste in the end.
Thanks so much.
I charge an additional fee of $5.00 per xtra flavor. So if it's a 5 tiered cake and they want 3 tiers white and 2 tiers chocolate, it's only a $5.00 charge (1 xtra flavor).
I do this ONLY because it causes more time to stop, wash out bowls, beaters, etc. before going to the next flavor and I inevitably always have a little waste, and this just offsets that cost of wasted batter (say I nee a 6" chocolate, an 8" white, a 10" yellow, etc............I would have extra chocolate batter, and a little extra yellow batter as well (6" uses less than 1 batch of batter for 2 layers, and my 10" uses a little more than 2 batches of cake batter for 2 layers)
Where as if they were all the same flavor, I could continue to mix, pour, bake, etc. and have very little waste in the end.
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