I'd charge at least $400 including delivery and set-up. Those babies are going to take you a looooooong time to do!
That'll depend on whether you are swirling the icing on with a tip, or smearing with a knife - piping will take more buttercream. I'd say probably 1/8c per cupcake, so if a batch of buttercream is 3 cups, you'll be able to ice 24 cupcakes with each batch. So you're going to need about 8 1/2 - 9 batches of buttercream for 200 cupcakes.
Edited to say: I was working in Euros earlier, so my price would be more like $500 - sorry!
I have a similar order for 200 with reg. gumpaste rosebuds, leaves ad a chocolate butterflie fluttering on EACH one, plus a 6" round. I am charging $3.50 each. ALOT of time. And I am hoping to start on them no later then Wed of this week (gumpaste and butterflies). The wedding is in a little over 2 weeks.
hope this helps!
Hey,
Don't be so sure yet. I have had people contact me 2 weeks before the wedding to order!
You really don't want to sell yourself short either. You will end up angry and resentful at your customer, and at yourslef for getting paid so little for your hard and sometimes stressful work. I have done that WAY too much and have decided (together with my hubby- who REALLY THINKS it's not worth it at all) to really make sure it is worth all the time away from my family, all the time I turn into a raging maniac cake monster to get them done, and all the time cleaning up my kitchen.
Depending on the cake I STILL only get paid maybe $2-5 an hour!! (We're both hoping I get better and faster.)
All that said... hang in there! People who will appreciate your work are out there, just make yourself availiable to them!
I would suggest to this bride that you do the ribbon roses of fondant rather than gumpaste. Because they will be just about bite sized on the top of the cupcake people are going to think they are meant to be eaten. Gumpaste dries rock hard and doesn't taste very good, fondant would be softer and more digestible too.
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