To think this lady is seriously underpricing these gorgeous bouquets of cupcakes?

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They look so real I genuinely thought it was a bouquet of real flowers. She told me it took her 3 years to learn to do them to this standard. How much do you think she charges per bouquet and you can choose the colour theme too?

Sure you can, if you can make them to the same standard and as realistic as those using just different piping tips then you're better than she is as can see some other techniques she has used just from the photo. It only takes a quick Google to see how bad most of the others are or how they don't look anything near as realistic.

I think the lady I know charges about £65 for 12 cupcakes in a bouquet

Those would cost 80 - 100 at the specialist cake shop near me.

They're beautiful.

There is a lady on my local Facebook page who seeks these, I've had some before and they a taste and look amazing. I'm sure I paid £35 and that included 7 cakes

They're very beautiful and I appreciate the skill.

Full disclosure I don't like cupcakes as I don't have a sweet enough tooth but I'm not actually that surprised they're not commanding a massive price.

They are gorgeous to look at but I'm just not sure what the recipient would really do with them or how nice they would be to eat which is their intended purpose.

Most cupcakes are over sweet, too much icing and the cake is often dry and not great quality. You couldn't really display them like flowers for long and then I'm not sure they would be a delicacy to eat.

Again, beautiful sugarcraft but they sort of slip between the gaps of what they're trying to be in my view.

Really beautiful.

Not something I'd ever buy, but I'd imagine them to be in the realm of around £50 where I am in the midlands. After all, as pretty as they are, they ARE just cupcakes. There's probably less than £10 worth of ingredients there, if that.

They look fantastic and I'd have thought they'd cost around £50

They look amazing. If they are piped butter icing on some of those I'd pay anything to stock my face in them 🤣🤣.
But I agree 30 doesn't sound like nearly enough, I would think 50 at least. Real bouquets are 30 and I know which I would prefer!
Nice on on your DH tho that's a well good present. Very jealous.

I think she could definitely get more for her skill! A basic cupcake at the market near me is £4-5 and that’s in the north east. A brownie is usually £3.50

Look up Russian icing nozzles ! The buds are made with one nozzle in one go, they are a lot simpler than they look

Why would anyone buy this? It is not pleasant to eat with this amount of icing, and they are not as good looking as real flowers. Just to impress guests who would be expected to say "wow"?

I think it would depend if the person is a home hobby baker with no food safety certificates or insurance etc as if that is the case I wouldn't go near them and they would worth £0 to me.

An actual small bakery business with the correct set up and food hygiene etc, probably anything up to £40. Beyond that I would rather pay more for a proper decorated cake which would feed a lot more people and probably be nicer to eat as I'm not a fan of all butter icing and hardly any cake.

They look beautiful and the lady is obv very skilled.However ATM money is quite tight for lots of people, and often they will struggle to obtain the higher figure.I personally think about £60/£70 would be about right

30 is definitely too little. A bakery stall in our local market charges 2 pounds 50 for one doughnut! This is in the SE.

They are beautiful to look at and I can certainly appreciate the skill. That said, the beauty and artistry is in the novelty presentation and these are a food item to be eaten same day, maybe next day? They’re not something you can really keep as presented for any length of time so once the recipient is over the “wow” appearance, well, then it’s a few cupcakes with a lot of very sweet icing.

I thinks she’s probably got her pricing about right. At @ £30ish a go she’s in the same territory as “bunch of flowers” occasions so marketed properly could get a steady stream of orders for birthday, anniversary, thinking-of-you, thank you type gifts that people would often say with actual flowers.

Assuming she’s doing it as a business she’s probably not buying ingredients, running the oven and mixing batches of icing for just 6 or 7 cupcakes at a time.

But it's not CAKE is it? I love CAKE (and I have been on mumsnet for yonks). But the trouble with cupcakes is that the amount and quality of the CAKE is usually disappointing because it is all about the icing. I don't love icing. I think these flower things look lovely but I don’t think I would enjoy eating them as much as I would a nice piece of well-made Victoria sponge with no icing but a filling of Raspberry jam and perhaps a light dusting of icing sugar.

Maybe she’s found that most people simply won’t pay any more.
From all I’ve ever heard, the hours of work and skill put into anything home made, whether edible or other crafts, isn’t anything like reflected in the price that people are prepared to pay.

I agree with this and I do lots of crochet, including, on occasion, crocheted animals. I am quite good and I flatter myself that the results are pretty good too. But I would never expect to sell them for a price that would reflect the time they take. Sometimes I make them for presents, but only for people I know would like that sort of thing.

£30-40.

its 7 cupcakes. Not many people will pay more than that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NfeC2G3yRWw it’s a skill, no doubt. But the point is that the demand is less than the supply of cakes like this.

Some people prefer the icing, like anything you wouldn't buy these and that's okay, just as some wouldn't be tempted by a sponge cake with no icing on. These look nicer as a gift of a lovely gesture than a plain cake, of course you'd hope the recipient also liked iced cupcakes though otherwise it would be a waste!

i wouldnt want to eat a cupcake w that much icing on

A local lady here does them in a box of 6, so not a bouquet but the same beautiful cakes.

They are incredible and only £28.50.

A standard box of 6 cupcakes is £15.50.
I say standard - her quality is still exceptional.

Oh I agree of course.

But I was responding to a PP who seemed to think that negative responses to cupcakes made you a cake hater. My view is the opposite. If you love cake, but not necessarily icing, then you will generally be underwhelmed by cupcakes.