Hello bakers,
I had my first wedding cake order and my husband and I at a disagreement over the price I said. This cake, bottom tier 8" is dummy cake and the top 6" ×5" is lemon with strawberry and lemon fillings. Everything from scratch and i made the sugar flowers too. How much would you say I should have charged?
$9,876.56
Random price thrown out for a random guess...
We don't know your location... and pricing varies by location so so so much...
We don't know your minimum order pricing, your overhead... your ingredient costs... your labor time and cost... if you charge for delivery or not... and so much more...
I can say that in my opinion, the dummy cake should cost almost as much, if not as much, as a regular cake that size... the styro can cost almost as much as the ingredients and the time to decorate it is the same no as real cake...
this is where your minimum price point comes into play -- i would not touch that for less than $200 -- i mean figure if it was a 10x8 -- that's over 60 servings -- that cake should be $6 a serving with that decor -- that's $300 for the 10x8 --
if you charge for the servings as is it's $72 -- for the same work -- 12 servings
same work -- oh my no --
tell us who thinks what between you & your husband
Thank you all for the replys.
I have to say that I tried to find a way to edit my post since I posted it....no luck
I don't know what happened here but most of my reply is not showing above...:-(
As I said I wanted to edit my post because it did not sou d the way I wanted. My question was not exactly how much $ should I charge ( I know it varies a lot depending on multiple factors) but more about how much other bakers charge for their dummy cakes in comparison to their real cakes...which you all lovlies answered...thank you ☺
It does make since to charge close to the real cakes. When all the decorating efforts are the same, the price of ingredients is the smallest expense in the equation
In regard to who thinks what t is unfortunately me who undervalues my work and feels bad charging for it. My husband sees how much time and efforts I put in my work and feels I'm not asking for what I'm worth.
I have few years of experience On the actual baking but not a lot on the business side of it. I hope it won't take me long to figure it out.
Thank you again everyone :-)
yeah, what youngj said -- and because a celebration cake has two major functions -- one, as focal point to look pretty for the party and two, to taste great for dessert -- so that's where you gotta charge for both -- and you made a killer focal point i'm sure it tasted great -- as much as it grieves me to say it your husband is right :)
so charge a lot* or find another way to make money -- y'know if we made baby formula to sell -- yeah, let's have mercy on all the new moms and give solid price breaks to everyone but no we are not that --
do you know how absolutely cute the tier cakes are sam's club --
contrary to popular belief those cakes taste great --- if those bakeries weren't good they wouldn't still be there -- so nobody has to go without -- and you don't have to work for peanuts
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