Flip Flops Cake Pricing..help!!!

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Wesha Posted 3 May 2010 , 10:02pm
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Hi Guys,

I have a customer that wants a pair of flip flops. How much would you charge to do them in fondant? How about buttercream? She wants quotes for both...

thanks

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Wesha Posted 4 May 2010 , 3:31pm
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Anyone out there ever made a pair of flip flops? Can you share pricing please?

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brincess_b Posted 4 May 2010 , 3:43pm
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how much do you charge for regular cakes? you need a solid pricing structure, it makes it easier to deal with different requests.

just add on a bit extra for the carving, $5 per serving for a carved cake is a general minimum but you need to charge for carved cakes based one your area, your costs, your wage (and take into account the wasted cake from carving too) etc etc etc.
xx

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cupcakeatheart Posted 4 May 2010 , 3:45pm
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I made some last week and charged $45 ($5/serving). She wanted 8-10 servings. It's in my photos

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Wesha Posted 4 May 2010 , 3:52pm
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Originally Posted by cupcakeatheart

I made some last week and charged $45 ($5/serving). She wanted 8-10 servings. It's in my photos




Thanks cupcakeatheart

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cupcakeatheart Posted 4 May 2010 , 3:59pm
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No problem thumbs_up.gif Best of luck

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Wesha Posted 4 May 2010 , 4:00pm
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Cupcakeatheart, I did not see the picture.

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cupcakeatheart Posted 4 May 2010 , 4:07pm
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So much for being helpful.... ok here ya go. I just loaded so I'm not sure if it's going to take a second

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1664987.html

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KHalstead Posted 4 May 2010 , 4:14pm
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I consider flip flops to be a 2-dimensional carved cake....or a carved sheet cake.

With that said, I charge $2.00/serv. for 2-d cakes, $2.50/serv. covered in fondant. So if I were to do a pair of them at 10 serving for each flip flop, they would cost $50 for the pair.

HTH

To give you an idea of my pricing I charge

$1.00/serv. for regular round/square 4" high cakes
$2.25/serv. for tiered cakes (w/ bc only)
$3.00/serv. for carved 3-d cakes (w/ bc only)
$.50/serv. to add fondant
$.25/serv. to add fondant accent (when less than 1/2 cake has fondant..ie; polka dots, etc.)

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Wesha Posted 4 May 2010 , 6:11pm
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thanks KHalstead.

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