How Much Should I Charge For This Cake?
Business By Dottiecakes Updated 10 Dec 2016 , 2:30pm by Dottiecakes
I made this cake for my daughter's birthday and am getting alot of requests for it. I'm just not sure how much to charge. Can someone help me out?
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First of all you are very talented and your cake looks great!
Let me just say right off the bat all these people asking you to make this cake for them are not going to be willing to pay what it would be worth for you to make it. This is a carved cake with a lot of fondant details and specialty work. They're asking you because of course they love it but they have no idea went into it and what that would translate into dollar wise. How long did it take for you to make this? What hourly wage would you want to make? How much did the ingredients cost? How many people does this cake serve? How much for the board and the box? There's a lot that goes into pricing a cake and making it worthwhile. People who don't know anything about doing this kind of cake look at it and think, "Wow, that cake is amazing, I would pay $50 for that!" NO, just NO.
i can't tell how big it is but if it served 50 peeps -- i would expect it to run about $350 - $400 in my area give or take --
Thanks. It served about that with some left over. It was a half sheet doubled and cut down some so it fed at least that. People always ask me how much and I always feel like I under price on them. Now I know I do....lol
Thank you Pastrybaglady. You are absolutely correct. Whenever i try to price a cake most people don't call back...lol
Thank you Pastrybaglady. You are absolutely correct. Whenever i try to price a cake most people don't call back...lol
I printed them on sugar sheets and cut them out.
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