How much would you pay for this cake?

I’m curious to size and cost of the original? Lucky to get it under £3 where I am. So even just multiplying that out by number of people eating for a 10” cake it’d be pretty high. If you do go for a supermarket cake I had a lovely raspberry and lemon cake from the co-op that wasn’t too sweet. Fed ten for under £8.

Well I charge £45 for what you describe, my celebration cakes start at £75. It's a skill and my time alone is well above minimum wage plus costs, and bakers do need to make a profit.

You cannot compare a factory mass produced supermarket cake with a bespoke product from an independent Baker. If you don't want to pay it, that's fine, but it doesn't mean it's overpriced

Fair enough price, I don't think its expensive at all

However, I would not spend that on a cake...its just not a priority for me so I would never get a cake from a baker/independent cake maker as although I think these people are amazingly talented (some cakes are fantastic!) its not something I would spend that money on

I also think £30 is cheap.

One of my friends once went into a cake business. She carefully priced up ingredient and energy costs, transportation costs, etc, and here own time (more like minimum wage than anything extravagant).

What she didn't include in the price is the cost of experimenting and failure. Cakes have to be perfect, so if there is a little dip in the middle, your own family is going to eat it rather than it being sold. This needs to be priced in.

Honestly, for what you are specifying, make your own. You will save money even if you need to buy the right sized cake pans.

I made DS's wedding cake, which include a couple of trial runs and new cake pans and decorating equipment, and the cost was very little compared to commissioning something from a supplier. And I still have all the kit.

It’s a bargain ! Make it yourself and cost out the ingredients , energy cost and time at minimum wage and you’ll see that

Supermarket cakes last longer as they are full of preservatives and you can taste them , plus palm oil etc

Cakes are anywhere from £35 to £60 depending on size and fillings for a standard nice looking not but fancy cake.

Once you start requesting custom stuff the price shoots up.

Supermarket cake is like eating an over sweet dish sponge so I'd happily drop the extra £15 to get a nice one. It would cost you £15-£20 just to make it yourself.

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That’s extremely cheap for a cake. Do you expect them to provide their labour for free?

A decent sponge ingredients can cost quite a bit - butter is expensive! Add in cost of cream of blueberries your probably looking good £15 for ingredients

I had a gluten free cake made for a birthday in the summer, around the 12" (in old money) size. It wasn't particularly fancy and was £40

yanbu OP, a tenner would have been ample to pay

Some people are absolutely deluded about the cost of bespoke products. You can't expect to pay peanuts for a handmade cake. Cheapskates are always belittling the work they want doing "It's just a small job" "won't take long" "I only want..."

£30 is a bargain unless you want a cheap supermarket cake, in which case go buy one!

I think that sounds very cheap and would have said at least £55 for what you describe.

Curious how much per hour do you think the bakers time is worth OP?

£30 is really cheap, did you think she would do it for a tenner or something?

That’s a 10 inch cake. That, for a very basic cake is around

8 eggs
500g flour
500g sugar
500g butter

Then is the filling is crème pat you need more eggs, butter, and sugar plus cornflour and all the fresh fruit

The cake drum and box

And the skill and knowledge to make and decorate the cake which will take around an hour to mix and bake and a further 15 mins to assemble

£30 is a bargain

Either you value a bespoke fresh cake or you don’t but if you do you need to pay.

She is being very reasonable - likely underselling herself. But it's your money, your choice. You do get what you pay for though.

Lol what? How do you expect them to make any profit if they sell it to you for cheap?

Why do you think their effort isn’t worth paying for, OP?

£30 is a good price. Because of the cost of her time etc as others have said. But it's perfectly fair to decide that while it's a fair price you'd rather have a supermarket one for less money (go to M&S). The automation and economies of scale will make it cheaper, along with the fact it is longer life so there's less waste.

25cm diameter is a reasonable size cake, I think £30 is cheap for a birthday cake from a proper baker with proper ingredients!

Do you think she should do it for free?!

Supermarket is always going to be cheaper but isn't going to be as good as a Baker. If it's literally sponge, cream and blueberries then that's ridiculously easy to make! You just need to bake a couple of sponges!

and supermarket cakes are generally disgusting (and I eat pretty much anything!). So that’s why they’re £10-15.

£30 is a bargain! It's being specially made for you.

YANBU to buy whatever you choose. But YABU to expect to pay supermarket prices (and let's face it, supermarket cake is fine, but it's nowhere near as good as proper bakery cake) for cake from an independent bakery.