Fucking 70 quid for a cake????

[Hairwizard]

As title says. Quoted 'from' 70 quid for a Christening cake. This was based on a 6" square cake with 4 sponge layers. Not tiers. Buttercream icing. Any decs toppers etc would be extra and from 8 - 15 quid!
Am i missing something?? How the f does a cake cost that much?

You crack on love if you reckon you can professionally finish a cake in an hour.
I'll give you a week before you get fed up of it

I make loads of cakes and have had colleagues ask me to make them for birthdays/christening etc.

Buttercream is easy to apply, even going for a really good finish. I can easily sandwich 4 layers and finish with buttercream in an hour including piping all edges.

Most cake making businesses make nowhere near the minimum wage, the work is labour intensive, you have to produce at s low price, unless you are 1) effectively giving the cakes away 2) operating on an industrial scale

Glad to hear it and I'm sure your customers are happy and come back for more.

I'm only saying what I've read hundreds of times here.

Do a search for margarine vs butter in cakes and see what comes up.

My daughter’s 18th cake was £70 and it was beautiful. If it takes 5 hrs to make, and the ingredients are £20, that’s only £10 an hour. Do you want them to do it for free?!

I'm amazed really that you're not all doing it to be honest. Surely you must be comping at the bit as you can all do it so quickly and easily and you earn so much money

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland
I make loads of cakes and have had colleagues ask me to make them for birthdays/christening etc.

Charge them £70 and see what they think of your cakes then!

@HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee because someone thought OP needed advice on a cake for a christening that took place a year ago. Remember those halcyon days when people could gather together and celebrate family occasions, with real people in the same room?

great cake for a christening, isn't it!

Depends what you’re christening, Damian, LucyFer, 666 inscribed fire breather
Aghhh kids parties, big buffets,runny noses,fights,tears,cake

@Kissthepastrychef don't forget it costs nothing to bring your kitchen up to standard and your public liability insurance is free as well. The tooth fairy delivers all your ingredients and the elf on the shelf pays your gas bill. All your baking trays, tins utensils and specialised equipment and colourings Santa delivered.

Have you ever made a themed cake? It takes ages. You’re paying for someone’s time not just ingredients.

@ElizabethofpeanutYorkies
Oh of course ! And why wouldn't I want to spend my precious time making a perfect centrepiece for a party where the only consideration is how cheap they can get it for. I know I'd be thrilled to work for peanuts

The poster who reckons they can get the ingredients for a 4 layer cake for a tenner clearly shops in Lidl. and has entirely forgotten that you also need to buy a board and a box...

But fortunately my clientele don't expect a cake made out of 30p economy chocolate and Aldi rollout icing and are quite happy to pay for a premium product

the thread is 22 pages so someone has probably said this - if the OP wants a simple (cheap) cake she should buy a supermarket one and not waste someone's time with her enquiry.

I am a cake maker my 6 inch cakes start at £30 so what you are asking would be about £40 tops from me

Anyway @ElizabethofpeanutYorkies I'd better get on with my Valentine range not fritter time down the drain arguing about why bakers should get paid properly !

@Kissthepastrychef you supply a board and a box? I bet you also pay for fancy muffin wraps and use actual egg white in yr pavlovas. What a mug!

@Kissthepastrychef yeah, do some work. Liberty taker!'

You're paying for someone's time and skill.

If it is so easy you could do it yourself.

My god stop the fawning and self congratulatory posts @ElizabethofpeanutYorkies

We get it you bake some cakes

I don’t agree with the comments here saying you get what you pay for. Not necessarily. A lady on our school WhatsApp group recently offered her cakes at Christmas. She is not qualified and not insured. She just makes cakes. Honestly they are not at all professional standard. I know I sound catty- and maybe I am- but she posts pictures of her creations. Honestly not good at all. Anyway she wanted £85 for 8inch cake at Christmas. Not a Christmas cake. No tiers. Just a sandwich cake with thick fondant. It would not look like a professional had made it. Because they hadn’t. Anyway I’ve no idea if she got any orders. I doubt it.

You are paying for time , talent and costs , you obviously don’t realise what’s involved

Zombie thread

@Therarestone

You're paying for someone's time and skill.

If it is so easy you could do it yourself.

Most of us do. It’s not brain surgery.

I really really try to support small business. I asked a friend who has started to make cakes to do one for my daughters birthday. To feed 12. One of those 4 layer tall drippy look cakes with a few chocolates on top. She quote £150. £150!!! Knowing you pay a bit more, in my mind I was thinking £75, at most £100. I did buy it from her because I felt weird to tell her i felt it was too much. But I’ll never use her again nor will I recommend her. Particularly as I subsequently saw almost identical in Waitrose on the shelf for £25

@HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee yes, i spent yrs training , saved for yrs for my kitchen and equipment and i make a very good living from it. I will fawn all i like