£7.50 for a cup cake - f**k off!

[Lurve]

There seem to be a lot of these "home businesses" starting up recently where people have the idea to sell cupcakes. One of my neighbours put a leaflet through my door at the weekend showing her new cupcake service and she wants to charge £7.50 per cup cake.

Now I don't care how many delicate pieces of lace you put on a cake, you can Fuck off with your £7.50!

[pollywollydoodle]

i paid £7.50 for fi.shcake last week. they were lovely....

[SanityClause]

Eeeeew! Fishy cake? Not for me, McGee!

[McGeeDiNozzo]

If Heston Blumenthal made me a cupcake and it had some kind of caviar in it, I'd pay 7.50 for it.

In the words of Bannatyne, I'm out.

[MyBaby1day]

Extortionate

[lottieandmia]

What?? Even at Center Parcs the cupcakes on the cupcake making activity are not this expensive!

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

Can we have a whip round to buy one for Lurve to photograph and taste, so she can tell us what amazing deliciousness makes it worth £7.50?

[sillyoldfool]

I mean 1.bp.blogspot.com/-4jTKYriWaGk/UQFV10hmtEI/AAAAAAAABpQ/KB0xL4nsn0s/s1600/fairy+story.jpg

[sillyoldfool]

ahem...

1.bp.blogspot.com/-4jTKYriWaGk/UQFV10hmtEI/AAAAAAAABpQ/KB0xL4nsn0s/s1600/fairy+story.jpg

they're fairy cakes, not cup cakes....

[BoomChicaBoom]

Not only is that a ridiculous price for a cupcake, but cupcakes are, like, sooo over...

[DialsMavis]

Surely it's all about the macaroons now anyway, or was about 18 months ago. Are they still cool?

[SirChenjin]

Tee - where is it you're going on holiday again?

[ophelia275]

I always think cupcakes are basically a lump of white bread with a load of sugar and artificial colours on top. I wouldn't pay £7.50 for that. Yuck.

[Marlinspike]

I'm sorry, but I have read part of the link upthread and the sentence "we are eating sugary facsimilies of our vaginas" has now seared itself inside my brain.

OK, in my world there's BUNS, FAIRY CAKES (buns with bits gouged out of the top, then jammed back into some buttercream, which look nothing like a fairy of any description, and CUPCAKES - like BUNS but bigger, with an additional 50% by volume of rancid buttercream piped onto the top.

Give me a Betty's Fat Rascal any day!

[BellaTalbert]

I make and sell cupcakes as a hobby and charge max a £1.00 each unless I have a big order. Giant cupcakes cost more than £7.50 to make let alone sell for. I hope its a typo as no one in their right mind will pay that amount for a single standard cupcake.

[ArthurSixpence]

You can charge what you like, MrsBertMacklin

I've not had many takers for my £45.99 greetings cards though ....

[MrsBertMacklin]

What's the name of the business, I've told my friend who has a baking business about this and she's at the idea of being able to charge this much.

[StuntGirl]

I have one of these. Maybe this is what she's selling for £7.50

[ExcuseTypos]

Money laundering drugs money under the guise of a Cup Cakes business



Sounds like a soap plot!

[ImTooHecsyForYourParty]

They're all just buns.

Oh yes.

[Tee2072]

I would never, BTW, pay £7.50 or $7.50 for a cupcake. Just for the record.

I'm going to San Francisco, Yippee. Can.Not.Wait.

[LEMisdisappointed]

I have paid £3.95 for a cup cake - this was in a posh deli on the fulham road though, and it was, i have to admit the most amazing bit of cake I have ever eaten - three cakes, two coffees and orange juice for DD approx £21 This was for a family treat and it was fab. It wasn't just a cup cake though, it had all manner of marvoulousness in it. There is a shop where i live that sells them for £2, ive had one, wouldn't buy another as yes, they are fairy cakes! Making cup-cakes is old hat now when it comes to home business, people are going to have to ramp it up a bit.

[MrsBertMacklin]

She's on crack if she thinks she can charge that.

Peggy Porschen 'only' charges £3.50.

[firesidechat]

I live in a very upmarket, touristy city (this isn't a stealth boast, just a bog standard boast). I regularly go to the farmers market and spend ridiculous amounts of money on "posh" stuff. The small fortune I spent on flavoured coffee was a definite low point.

I've never seen even the most spectacular cupcake make more than £2.50 around here. Your neighbours new business is doomed to failure I fear.

[Bogeyface]

Oops sounds like someone took the "dont underprice yourself, pay yourself a decent hourly rate" advice too seriously!

[ariadneoliver]

Me too travelling I have yet to see one in real life.