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to think that people will pay £2 for a cake pop?

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theotherloobyloo · 07/12/2011 13:34

I'm planning to start a baking/cake business at home, and am thinking of just doing cake pops. DH says that I am barking to think that anybody would pay £2 for a bit of cake on a stick - is he just being a miserable git (always a possibility) or is he on the money on this one? I'm done my sums and I think that to make a go of cake pops I'd have to get about two quid a pop (as it were). All views appreciated ... even if you think that cake pops are boakworthy yummy mummy dross

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marge2 · 07/12/2011 13:47

Why would you want a cake on a stick?? I wouldn;t pay that, sorry. Also I avoid most shop made cupcakes, they are mostly revolting and overpriced. Sickly icing, Kids think they look great, which they do, and then take one bite and hand it back.

NatashaBee · 07/12/2011 13:49

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grumplestilskin · 07/12/2011 13:51

I do agency type work, and there's someone in every other work place I go into trying to sell cake pops on the side.
they're EVERYWHERE and the novelty is wearing thin
no I would not pay £2 for one
come up with something a bit more unusual if you want to charge high prices for it

Aworryingtrend · 07/12/2011 13:54

Not a chance.

I would pay 50-75p for a cake pop (well actually I wouldn't, but that is a reasonable price IMO) and up to £2 for a cupcake in a coffee shop (less for ones bought to be consumed at home).

belgo · 07/12/2011 13:55

No. I assume you will be trying to sell them in bulk to parties etc?

DamnBamboo · 07/12/2011 13:55

Well there you go OP.
Seems to be a collective big YABU.

grumplestilskin · 07/12/2011 13:56

plus once you run out of polite friends and family, IMO home baking businesses will dry up and die.

I will OCCASSIONALLY feel pressured into buying some sickly disgusting over decorated under flavoured cupcake from a friend of a friend, but never from strangers who could live in minging houses with 20 cats! I do buy cakes (not cupcakes or cake pops!) from small local businesses with professional premises though cause I hate baking!

DamnBamboo · 07/12/2011 13:56

Am still interested in your calculations and how you got that figure

SantasENormaSnob · 07/12/2011 13:56

Yabu

I wouldn't pay that for a bit of cake on a stick.

lubeybaublely · 07/12/2011 13:59

£1 is more like it

You can get ten doughnuts in Tesco for £1. Or a whole bacon roll/other sandwich from caterers for £1

squeakytoy · 07/12/2011 13:59

YABUnrealistic

Great idea for a hobby, mad to think you could make money out of it.

chrisrobin · 07/12/2011 13:59

No, I would expect to pay 50p, 75p max.

bemybebe · 07/12/2011 14:01

just googled cake pop
no change for paying 2£
hth

HappyAsEyeAm · 07/12/2011 14:01

I probably would actually, DS loves things like that, But it would be one, once in a while, and not anything like enough to sustain a business.

Hatwoman · 07/12/2011 14:02

I have to agree with the others - I wouldn't pay £2. If you're interested in doing something beautiful, time consuming - and therefore expensive - I wouldn't go for small and quickly consumed. People are more inclined to pay for beautiful presentation for ocassions - when there's time to stand back and admire - and I don;t think cake pops lend themselves to that

Bathsheba · 07/12/2011 14:03

Starbucks charge £1.25 approx.

No idea where you plucked £2 out of the air from as a reasonable price.

Will you be selling to people directly through a shop or are you expecting to supply local cafe's/delis etc...because if you are supplying them to other businesses to sell you need to consider that you are doing wholesale prices and not direct sales prices...and then you really need to be looking more toward the 40p area

GypsyMoth · 07/12/2011 14:04

Seems like you would be just paying for the stick!

FellatioNelson · 07/12/2011 14:05

I think you may be a bit late to the cupcake party, whether it's on a stick or not. Over-saturation of the market springs to mind. I think these ideas have a two or three year shelf life and we are coming towards the end of that now.

cantspel · 07/12/2011 14:06

never heard of a cake pop until i read this but after googling i cant believe anyone pays £2 for a lump of cake on a stick.

oranges · 07/12/2011 14:06

The original place that did cake pops in the UK - pop bakery do charge 2 pounds a cake, but I think they market themselves for photoshoots and food displays rather than just individual consumers. you need to think who you are targetting.

TroublesomeEx · 07/12/2011 14:08

Wow, I've just googled.

Lots of artificially coloured icing on a tiny cake.

£2 is VERY expensive!

GypsyMoth · 07/12/2011 14:09

Where do you live op?

slavetofilofax · 07/12/2011 14:09

A cake pop is about two mouthfuls of cake, it would have to be something really special for one bite to be worthy of a pound!

I paid £1.50 for each of my dc to have a cake pop from a stand in our shopping centre recently, they did look lovely but the dc would have been just as happy with something much cheaper, so I wouldn't be ripped off again.

Maybe you could charge less and make the same money if you did them for childrens parties or weddings?

upahill · 07/12/2011 14:11

I'm sorry but it is a no from me as well!!

Quenelle · 07/12/2011 14:11

No I wouldn't. I'm idealogically opposed to buying grossly overpriced baked goods, sorry.

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