Hi bakers,
I have an issue with a cake that i recently made. It was a two tier cars cake. Two chocolate fudge cakes and the whole cake was edible. the cars were made by me too. The lady I made it for said that she was over charged and that my prices were to high. please can you take a look and let me know what you would have charged. I actually charged £40 and that was cheap. The cake sizes were 8" and 6" many thanks
ps there is a picture in my gallery
You definitely didn't overcharge. According to google that would be about $63 over here and in my area a fondant covered cake without the hand-made figures would be at least $3 per serving so they'd be looking at about $110 without the figures (and prices are low here because I'm in a rural area). Sounds like the lady doesn't realize that custom cakes are not priced like grocery store cakes. Or she's just cheap.
I would have charged £90 for the cake without the figures. I probably would have charged £5 for each figure.
I charge about £2.50 per serving, an 8" and 6" serves 36 so that's where the £90 comes from. If any balks at my pricing, I tell them... a dessert in a restaurant costs £4.50 and that is just a frozen cake warmed up in the microwave and mass produced, not a custom designed cake.
Thanks ladies. I do struggle to set the prices on my cakes is there a guide somewhere on here that I could follow?
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