Would you pay for this cake? And how much would you expect it to cost?

[Greensleeves]

The brief was "chocolate heaven"... would you be happy with this? And how much would you pay for it?

Aww Greeny, I think it looks smashing.

out of interest, how did the strawberry layers turn out? Daughter made a Neapolitan cake a few months ago and used strawberry nesquik in the mix for her strawberry layers.

Considering your not a professional that is really good. I would rather have that than a supermarket one. It's all in the taste.

I agree.
Lots of cheap tricks in the cake-
Jaffa cakes, Terry's chocolate orange, maltesers, chocolate, pre made doughtnuts
All a bit predictable and sad.

There are many techniques with chocolate that the baker could have used/

Taste is important, but would you expect a baker to use all the cheap chocolate items? Jaffa cakes?

Would expect to pay about 90£

I think it is great and I would expect to pay £50 minimum. Well done!

Why so rude?

Why is it rude?
I have made no personal attacks.

I’d be very happy. I’d pay £75-£90

I occasionally make cakes for friends and family. I would usually charge the ingredients and either round it up to the nearest ten, or add 50% depending on how much effort was involved.

Off the top of my head I'd have suggested £25 for that, assuming it covers all you ingredients and it's for a mate.

The brief was very unspecific.
If it's for children, they'll love it.
For adults, I would have produced something more like this, maybe with added truffles round the perimeter.

I've read your posts and some others, but not the whole thread.

If you made the underlying cake then scrumptious. And I would ask £20-30 but will that even cover the cost of ingredients/elec? If not, and you only decorated then perhaps less.

About 15 years ago i was quoted £40+ for a cake for my pre-schoolers party. The cake was bought (M&S, Waitrose - I had the choice!) and only decorated. I didnt even reply to the quote (having had no idea at the time a cake person might think that decorating a shop bought cake was acceptable!).

I met a wonderful cake-MAKER a couple of years later and she made me the most wonderful Famous Five cake. I still cry every time it come up on my feed as it is fabulous. I paid what she asked. Sadly she is no longer in the business but she should be because the CAKE was lovely.

There’s a lady in our village that made celebration cakes to order. I say “made” because she has closed her business this week due to rising costs and her business no longer being viable. A general rule of thumb for her cakes was £10 per inch, so an 8 inch cake cost £80.

it’s not just the cost of ingredients, but the time and skill level involved. I’d expect a cake of that size to probably take 3-4 hours to make (mixing, baking, decorating, etc) and paying minimum wage of £9.18ph that’s £30-£40 before you even think about ingredients. I’d not expect to pay a skilled cake maker minimum wage so realistically with quality ingredients added on top I’d say £60 bare minimum.

Awkward...

I'd say £20 since that would cover your outlay.

Looks good - not my cup of tea, but clearly a lot of work went into it. I like the neapolitan idea for the layers.

Well I think it looks great - she’s lucky to have you as a friend.

I'm a bit over the drip cakes personally, but if that was the request then it's a very good example of one.

I LOVE it! Looks great! Well done! I would expect to pay around £60+

There are some needlessly shitty comments here. It has the same vibe as the threads where an objectively slim person posts a photo of themselves for opinions and people suggest that she weighs 40 stone and wears a dress size 76

OP, the cake is beautiful - really impressive. You've obviously put a tonne of time and work into it, I'd expect to pay about £70 for it.

Looks great, a similar professional one is around £60 here.

£40/£50 IMO

I buy 4-5 cakes a year. This is a £100 cake, though not the decoration I would order.

I think it looks exactly like the title and very, very imaginative and exciting.

Hard to know what mates rates would be, but in a baker's or deli £55.

You told OP that the cake she made was “all a bit predictable and sad” . How would you feel if someone said that to you about something you had made? It doesn’t have to be an attack to be rude.

It would be about 65+ around here.

Your concept of rudeness needs a bit of work @speakout, if you could diss someone's homemade cake as a bit sad, and then claim you hadn't been rude.