to want this cake as my wedding cake and not pay £500 for the priviledge!

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awesome cake

That is really cool!!

That is amazing and worth every penny of £500!

Cakes take for-fecking-ever to make, so you're paying for someone's time really. It's fab. I would buy it!

I reckon that would actually be do-able by a good amateur cake maker... I have seen something similar. Do you know anyone who is good at making cakes?

yabu. I have no idea what the going rate is for wedding cakes, but i imagine that someone is going to be putting a great deal of time and effort into making such a cake. unless its a wedding present, they should be compensated appropriately for their time and skill, as well as the costs of the products.

I once made halva in a sandcastle bucket for my DD's birthday and it looked a teeny bit like this (although sagged a little - probably got my recipe a bit wrong), you could probably fake it for a lot less doing something like that.

Wow! Thats so good! My brother made my Dad a caravan cake for his wedding :)

Oh, although depends how big it needs to be - the one I saw was actually made in a seaside bucket (for a child's party) so if you need it for a lot of wedding guests and it would need scaling up it would be harder. The one I saw had the sand done with light brown sugar.

I really love the cake, we are getting married on the beach so it ties in with our theme, I understand that cakes like this take ages :)

Whereabouts are you? I know a cake maker who would do that for you for a lot less. ( not me! )

Ask a cake maker to make a Sandcastle shaped cake for you.

Under no circumstances mention it's for a wedding as this fact alone instantly triples the price of anything! If pushed say it's a birthday cake!

I love the sandcastle cake.
I accidentally caught a programme on Freeview tonight called Ace of Cakes. Features a company in Baltimore that makes amazing cakes.
Here's their gallery, tonight they made a Turducken cake; a huge serving of spaghetti in a globe-shaped bowl; the Lincoln Mermorial and some giant frogs.

Fab cake that looks like a good deal for the price, I make wedding cakes for friends and I have never charged I honestly believe people do not know the amount of time it takes to make a novelty cake like that and the cost of ingredients can end up at one hundred pounds at least before cost of fuel [electricity/gas] and man hours

Actually, I think it looks slightly 'amateurish' and probably not that hard to do!

That's ace.

Check out this beaut

I agree with asking around and leave the wedding , engagement significant birthday out of the conversation when getting a price. You can get a bride and groom on ebay/net

I love this one ..
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that's brilliant vivi wish I had the talent required

She has some other good ones too. What about the heart tower?

Wow! £500 is a lot of money. If I had a wedding again I would have a Croquembouche like they do in France. Every one likes profiteroles.

I also quite like this

MoreBeta My sis wanted Croquembouche for her wedding when she found no one would make it for her she demanded requested that I make it for her, so the day before her wedding was spent making it and between hair and make up I had to deliver it to the hotel and during the drinks reception I was in the hotel kitchen in my floor length dress and heels making spun sugar with the head chef. I now hate profiteroles and crème patisserie and spun sugar
Oh and so you know it was 682 profiteroles as I did not have a mould thingy to stick them to

YABU. Sorry, but the sand castle cake is hideous.

Now 682 profiteroles is quite a lot. I always thought a motorway traffic cone wraped in silver foil might make a good mould.

Well done you though. I hope your sister was grateful?

I remember making a Croquembouche when I was at catering college twas fab.

I agree the sandcastle cake is not nice and very basic. I'm sure a good amateur cake maker could knock that up.

ChooChoo even as a basic cake it is really two days work for the castle cake 3 if the base is fruit, ie soak mix make fruit cake 4-5 hrs, make maderia for top 2 hrs, make filling and fill, almond paste and cut cake to shape 2/3 hrs , make icing and ice cake 3 hrs and add details 1 hr so that is 12/13 hrs but that is cutting it fine time wise tbh and at Euro 10 an hr that is Euro 120/130 before ing and over heads. Need to get back into making cakes for cash