Someone I have never met has asked me to make her a wedding cake. It is a 3 tiered cake consisting of a 6" - 8" and 10". She wants the bottom cake to be a white cake with a simple cream cheese filling. The second layer german chocolate with german chocolate filling. The top layer strawberry with strawberry cream cheese filling. She then wants each cake covered in buttercream.
First off it is my opinion that all those flavors together will taste nasty. Second, what would I charge for something like this. There are to be no decorations - just a 3 tiered buttercream covered cake? (she is supplying the flowers and topper - I need to supply the columns).
Would you even consider making it if you thought the flavors would not compliment each other?
PS - Does anyone have a contract I could copy for this?
What are the chances that someone is going to eat all three kinds of cake? People get one slice of cake at a wedding. As long as you make the cakes well, don't worry about how the flavors would taste together, chances are they will never actually be mixed.
Lots of people on here have posted formulas for pricing. I can't really help you with that, I have yet to charge someone for a cake : )
Good luck, hope it turns out well.
My daughter had 3 flavors on her wedding cake. It just gives the guest a choice. Each layer is cut and put out for the guest to choose from. They would not be eating all three flavors in one slice. Sorry I cannot help with pricing you could call around and ask people in your area for a price range per slice for a butter cream wedding cake. I would guess from $2.50 to $3.50 per slice.
I do not supply contracts especially for a wedding cake but each tier sounds delicious individually and you're right, not very complimentary to each other.
Since each tier is to be a different flavor and different filling you definately need to charge as if there were going to be even minimal decorations on the cake. If it were me doing the cake, because of the different scratch recipes I would charge a minimum of $3.00 slice! That's just me! You could charge more I assume but no less than $3.00!
Amy
Are you worried about the buttercream icing workin with each filling? Not sure about that.
I would be more worried about the fact she is going to stick some gawd awful flowers on that cake and you will get credit for that.
I woud probably ask $100 but no idea what anyone else would do. : )
i do this all the time...
it gives the guests a choice of flavors...i think its kinda cool.
Thank you all for your answers so far. I guess I did not express myself properly. okienalaska asked what I didn't get out properly - I am worried more about the icing complimenting (or not) the fillings of each individual cake. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I would not worry about the flavors complimenting one another because the guests are only going to eat one slice at a time. If that's what the bride wants let her have it. At least she knows what she wants. If you are really concerned about the BC with all the other flavors, make a small test cake first. That's what I did when I was not sure what it would taste like together. The bride wanted marble cake, choc filling and amaretto frosting. I did a test cake and took it to work with me and they loved it and so did the guests at the wedding. If you really don't think it tastes good with the BC, let the bride taste it and let her decide.
As far as pricing I charge $3 per slice for basic yellow cake and BC icing. So all the diff flavors and filling would drive up the price. Start with your base price and go up from there.
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