To think this isn't great for £55?

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We ordered 20 cupcakes from a local cake shop for my child's 6th birthday to give to her friends at the end of the day at school. Paid when ordering (no images available or book to choose from and the staff member serving just told us to go online to look at examples on their social media profile, but we were in a queue and didn't even have WiFi). Picked them up today. I'm not going to complain and I'm sure they're going to taste nice but at £55 for 20 of these, were my expectations not reasonable?

cup cakes are the simplest things to make and every supermarket sells icing and cake decorations if you did not want to make them yourself.

More fool you for ordering cupcakes when you hadn't seen examples of the products and apparently ordering them without knowing how much they cost either.

I'd never have paid 55 quid for 20 cupcakes in the first place, no matter how good they looked and yes, I know the shop has to make a profit and ingredients are expensive and the time to make them has to be taken into account and all the rest, but still I don't think they are worth it even if they are fancy and look better than the ones you got.

Too much frosting which my DC hate.

My local cake shop sells 6 for £17

Yep! I proved up the last batch of brownies I made - one batch worth of ingredients was £14!!

Cupcakes are time consuming to make lovely ones worth a baker's price tag. I've looked maybe once at buying them & said nope ... I buy some of the little basic ones from the supermarket for a few dollars. The kids don't care. It's cake. DD & I made the last batch and used packet cake mix & supermarket decorations.

That is the price you pay for these things. You could have make them for £10 yourself probably

Yes I think I’d be a bit disappointed at £55 on those, they aren’t really personalised cakes just pretty standard .

Now I want a cup cake….sorry nothing more helpful to add.

I get the cheap packs of 12 iced buns from Morrisons/Tesco for kids parties and to take in when it's a birthday at school...Cheap and cheerful 😁

Right. I think YAB a bit U because: £2.50 a cupcake. What would one cost in a cafe? Someone professional has made these so you don't have to. The icing looks pretty ok/professional. Nothing to scare the horses but what on earth were you expecting for the price?? 'More luxurious' how exactly? Hand-carved sprinkles? Pound coins stuck in the frosting?

I also think YABU because WHO DOES THIS? For a 6 year old?? FFS just make a batch of basic fairy cakes, do a glace icing, stick on sweeties or sprinkles, get your DD to help, job done. 6 year olds don't care, OP. They just want the cake with lots of icing and crap on top. You are trying to impress the parents.

Bizarre. It's hard to see clearly with the lids on the boxes, but they look lovely to me! Charming, wholesome, and not too large. Much more appealing than the Lola's brand linked, which are overdone, with pyramids of garish UPF icing and decorations drowning the actual cake.

Six year olds certainly won't care about the fine detail of decoration either, they'll just cram them in their wee faces. Just as we did with home baked fairy cakes topped with plain icing and maybe a few sprinkles. Which is what I'd do if worried by cost, and wanted to ensure wholesome ingredients. They'll vanish just as quickly.

Sounds like you move in circles which use their children's parties for social one-upmanship and flaunting wealth/success.

I'll eat them if you don't want them ...

£2.75 each?!?

2.75 per cup cake, made fresh and by order sound about an ok price. Although they look very average and I would expect a more refined pipping because I like baking and I can do something like that. Cupcakes are expensive unless you buy it in the supermarket. The buns are about 1.30 in Greg's and 2 quid the muffins and they are chain produce.
I would think that for about 15 quid someone who knows can make them buying all the package and decorations The rest is the time the person put doing it and a bit of profit what you are paying. It will take me a few hours to do it. So yes, the price is OK.

That works out £2.5 a cupcake so it doesn’t seem unreasonable, imo.

I’d probably just get them from the supermarket, to be honest.

I think that's okay, they look nice and you got 20 for that price. My friend paid £30 for 12, in a similar style, so I don't think you were ripped off. If you wanted to save money, you could have bought them from a supermarket?

They look a bit shit to be honest.

What the fuck are people on. £2.75 per handmade cupcake, I'm sorry what are people expecting? They look perfectly fine?

YABU OP, first of all for spending that amount of money on cupcakes for 6 year olds and second for bitching about perfectly normal cakes from a shop you admit you never even saw an example in.

The Lola’s link you have provided is not a fair comparison as that’s for mini cupcakes vs the standard sized cupcakes that you received. The standard sized Lola’s cupcakes are £3.95 each, whereas you paid £2.75 each. You get what you pay for!

I say this as someone who orders Lola’s cupcakes and large cakes for special occasions when I (a professional baker in a past life) can’t be arsed to bake.

Next time, buy a cake mix and a can of frosting and make your own. Probably cost you a tenner.

These are very exciting, @Guavafish1.

Cupcakes are mostly a visual thing. Why go to the effort of making a decent cake and icing them, just to cop out at the decorating part and show them absolutely no love? It's not even about effort - you don't need lots of fancy piping and fondant work, just some more visually appealing toppers.

They look ok, marginally better than supermarket cupcakes I suppose.

i would have said you were slightly overcharged but its in the ballpark.

They might taste amazing though!

If I don't get my own nation in my goody bag I'm not going to your party. 🙄

YANBU- you ordered for a 6th birthday and they've put a 9!

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I think they look fine for what you paid tbh.

Hopefully they taste very nice if they're homemade.