How much would you pay for this cake?

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Just curious! Not the best picture.

Chocolate and vanilla, with vanilla frosting. Serves about 30 - 40.

I’d say £50

£60-£70

Just had another look, it's very neat OP!

I think the people saying £30 are answering a slightly different question from the one Op is interested in. I think they’re saying honestly that they’d pay £30, which isn’t the same as saying they think this is a fair price (clearly it isn’t). Effectively they’re saying they wouldn’t be willing to pay an amount that would make selling cakes like this a viable business. And that’s fine- most people aren’t the target market because most people don’t commission cakes for children’s parties. The Q is whether enough people who are the target market would pay a high enough price for a cake like this, so do your costings really thoroughly, see what your competitors charge and whether your offer is to the same standard.

I wouldn’t pay more than £30k for a car. If you asked me how much I’d pay for a Rolls Royce, I’d say £30k. Doesn’t mean I think that’s what it’s worth, just that I’m not in the market for a car like that.

I said around £40.00. Agreeing with the pp that the finish doesn't look professional but homemade. It's still a nice cake, as I said, but if OP is looking to sell in future then it's helpful to be honest.

I'd pay more for a professional finish, obviously.

I'd expect to pay over £100 for that OP.

However I never do expensive cakes for kids birthdays, as in my experience they prefer Tesco or Sainsbury’s ones.

Is it? I would only say icing and only heard frosting on American shows.

As that poster knew perfectly well, they just felt like being an arsehole.

These threads always bring out the 'I wouldn't pay anymore than £10 for that' types.

Agree, I’ve never heard “frosting” in a British context except where the speaker has also picked up extensive American vocabulary – eg hearing teenagers the other day say “Let’s go get groceries so we can make cupcakes for movie night”, but with West Country accents.

Entirely irrelevant to the thread, mind. Having made wedding cakes etc for friends and worked in a sugarcraft shop (years explaining that a cake portion for a party cake to serve 40 is done in thin slivers to a diagram, not triangular wedges like a homemade cake for tea!), I know its worth might well be £100+. But as pp have said, I wouldn’t pay that or be willing to – I’d do it myself.

Also on team no clingfilm, and team don’t put fondant in the fridge lest it weeps. It’s a nice-looking cake though, OP!

Cost of ingredients plus a bit for oven baking time if it's for a friend.

I would expect to pay around £50-60. It's great!

I think it's really sweet looking. Can't believe how big it is though! The sizes are huge and if it feeds 40. People aren't prepared to pay a lot for a cake I'm afraid. Shame.

So many passive aggressive posts in here.

Op it looks great my kids would love it and I certainly wouldn't have the skills to do that

o god so sorry op! Only read the first post 🫣

That’s unnecessary, I just went by the first post as all of them didn’t load (as often happens in the app). I’ve apologised to the op.

If my friend made that's I'd be delighted

I'd pay the cost if ingredients etc then £40 on top for her time and effort.

Ha, ha, ha, ha! You couldn't make it yourself for that, not even close. You're clearing just joking.

it’s a nice cake. I don’t think it will feed 30 - 40. Maybe twenty or so. If the person wanted a cake for that many they will be disappointed. It would be very hard to slice it so thin to get that many portions due to the way it’s built with the thin scenery. You’d need to be very stingy and very careful

I'd say it would easily serve 30-40 - its a huge cake!
Over 15 inches long, and 4 inches tall - which is double the height of most supermarket cakes

That’s a fab cake! I’d happily pay £70-£80 for this as it feeds so many and looks brilliant

So thinking maybe £80

Sorry posted to Soon

If you start taking commissions then you have to factor in your time. I have two very close friends, both of whom had cake making businesses. People used to expect the cakes for next to nothing but just didn't seem to think about the amount of time and effort involved in making them. Especially with fruit cakes.

There are people who will pay high prices for a beautiful cake. My prices start from £70 and I made a 2nd birthday cake last week that I charged £170 for. Of course many people see that as a waste of money and will go to Asda and get a cake for £15. That's fine... those people are not my customers. A bespoke handmade cake is a luxury item and like all luxury items there are those willing to pay for them and those that aren't.

No they wouldn’t!

£70ish sounds about right. My DGC would live it.

Thanks everyone - even the not so complementary (a few brutal 😂) comments. I knew it wasn’t perfect and all feedback is appreciated.

I just charged ingredient costs. Bottom layer is a chocolate fudge cake, top layer vanilla/malted milk as requested by colleague. Ermine frosting (no crusting issues) and fondant details. Cling film has absolutely not touched the frosting (I am British but in my mind frosting and icing are different things?).

Board looks a bit crap but it was last minute. I thought the bare board looked boring so quickly whipped it up using the final bits of fondant I had left over it is very thin to be fair. Colleague was very happy with it none the less.

By commissions I just mean friends of friends who have been to the birthday parties etc who have enquired. I find baking very therapeutic so thought why not make a little bit of money if possible.