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Ive been asked to make a wedding cake its 4 tier
6'8'10'12'
6 and 8 will be fake and 10 and 12 will be cake
ive priced this up does this sound right?
Icing and ganache $50
Fondant $75 (4.5 kgs)
Cake mix $50
Ingredients (eggs butter) $20
Board $12.00
Stencil $7.00
Pearls $26
Dowels $10
Inside boards $10.00
Box $40
Tin Hire $30
Fake foam layer $20
Total $350
I would have to say that your "cost" should be much less. I guess it depends on where you live.
Icing and ganache $50
No more than $30.00
Fondant $75 (4.5 kgs)
Homemade marshmallow fondant would be about $25.00. Not sure about cost for premade.
Cake mix $50
Should take no more than 8 boxes of mix. It's $1.14/box where I live so $9.12
Ingredients (eggs butter) $20
$8.00
Board $12.00
Depends on type of board used.
Stencil $7.00
My quilt stencils were around $5.00 ea. so that's about right if you need them shipped to you.
Pearls $26
$5.00 at most
Dowels $10
No more than $4.00-5.00. I use those big straws with dowels in the middle. Straws are $1.00 for 50 and 3 ft. dowels are less than $1.00 each at the hardware store.
Inside boards $10.00
Are you using regular cardboard cake boards?
If so, no more than $5.00
Box $40
What kind of box are you using? Typically, you only need the box to get the cake to the event.
I use regular moving boxes that are about $3.00 each. I do leave a small box for the anniversary cake. I buy them in bulk for less than $1.00 each.
Tin Hire $30
Not sure what this is?
Fake foam layer $20
That's about right if you order them online and have to pay for shipping.
Total $350
AYou also need to include the cost of your labor, overhead on a per-order basis (license fees, insurance, etc.) and markup based on market prices where you live.
If those prices are in USD I agree that they are way too high. Based on including tin hire (renting the cake pans) as a line item and your posting time it sounds like you are in Australia though.
Thinking Australia too ..... and yes - a cake mix here will set you back $6 for a standard Betty Crocker one!
Eggs $6 per dozen (can be more expensive and if you are happy to purchase eggs from poor little chickies that live their whole life in a caeg the size of a shoebox $2.79)
Butter $4- $5 per 250g .... which I think is about 2 sticks
Things are a LOT more expensive here - and yes a 'regular moving box' to deliver a cake in - clean/un-used etc can add an additional $28 for a large cake - smaller ones used for books are approx $8
Bakels fondant here ranges from $48 - $80 for 7kgs (depending on what part of the country (east or west) you are and the purchasing power of the company you are buying from
This is why I think these posts re pricing are such a waste of time - people ask a question and well meaning people offer answers - only to find that the answers bear no REAL meaning at all
No offence meant to anybody - its just as stupid as asking..... how much is my house worth?
Thanks for the replies, I'm in Aus, i forgot this was an Amercian site. Hence why our prices are so different.
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