To ask how much you would expect to pay for this cake?

[Badger84]

So I've started up a cake business and I'm struggling with pricing. There is quite a lot of competition in my area so want to price competitively but also want to make a profit! Some of the people I've quoted have been fine with my prices, others have scoffed and said far too expensive. I've attached a picture. Can you tell me how much you would expect to pay? I won't tell you how much I would charge to influence you

With help from someone else I made my 3 tier wedding cake about 15 years ago. It looked fantastic. However, never ever would I do it for anyone else - took hours and hours! Not about the money but the time. And on that basis OP, I think it sounds like you're doing it for love not money.

I usually do Nigella's malteser cake for birthdays. Last year I bought some accessories to make it into a football cake - they are pricey! Probably spend about 15 quid on green icing, a new nozzle, football goals and ages on trying to inartistically make a Chelsea badge. Love, not money!

Badger would you mind if I sent you a pm about cake making?

£40

Right shop bought cake is not a patch on a bespoke professionally made cake with fresh good quality ingredients. So don't even compare. However to many, a professional cake is out of the price range, or they prefer not to spend much on the cake, so it has its uses. There are some very insulting prices on here, that does not take into account the time and effort one person has gone to in making that bespoke cake that you do not find in the shop. I have used shop cakes, they are there for a purpose, but they do not taste or looks as good as a professionally made cake!

but they do not taste or looks as good as a professionally made cake!s

Sometimes they do though.

Op your cake looks fab, looks simple to make, but unless you have tried decorating yourself you don't know how hard it is. Some of the cakes you posted looks gorgeous, and too cheap in price. Does not look like the baker is making any profit.

User, Ive never tasted any that is better than a professional cake, Ive bought from ASDA, M&S, Sainsbury etc and they are very sickly and sweet.

I would have said closer to £100. Good cakes take a lot of time and effort and ingredients!

£40 -£45

User, Ive never tasted any that is better than a professional cake, Ive bought from ASDA, M&S, Sainsbury etc and they are very sickly and sweet

I have. And you said shop bought, not "large supermarket mass produced". which is an entirely different category.

user that is shop bought, bought from a shop like ASDA, M&S etc

If you buy from a bakery, than the cakes are much better, but expect to pay about £20+

There are other shops though, which was my point. Bakeries are shops. Local delis are shops.

If you meant supermarket cakes, you should say that. You said shop bought as opposed to bespoke made. I've had bad bespoke cakes and rather good bought cakes.

I think you're being disingenuous user. It's pretty obvious no one was talking about a cake bought from a bakery.

No, it wasn't at all. It was set up as shop bought vs bespoke made. Chain bakeries etc by definition go into the first category, not the second.

Exactly, you user, it was obviously supermarket cakes, and not deli or bakery or people would have said that, trying to be obtuse! No Deli and bakeries do have fantastic cakes, shame they are few and far between. I know a fantastic professional baker, who is also my son's friends mum, and her cakes are always high standard, in decoration and taste. Yes you can get bad professional cakes.

It wasn't obvious though, or else I wouldn't have said otherwise. You didn't say what you meant. Stop being so rude.

£40 to £50 quid.

No, your just being difficult user, usually if people mean deli or baker, they say it!

Usually if people mean specifically supermarket, they say that. Don't blame others for your lack of clarity.

I'd price it at at least £50. Even though I come from quite a deprived area of the UK. If it was in a more affluent area then £60- £70.
You cake is very neat and perfect. If there's competition in your area find a niche and make special cakes of a kind.

My daughter had three as she had a big party where we gave cake to all the parents too. One for family party. One for her actual birthday.

I've paid for professional cakes (that looked amazing) but and had far nicer ones from supermarkets (taste wise)

£40

I would say around £35-£40 xx