to ask how much you would pay for homemade Christmas cake

[TheHopefulBaker]

I am looking into ways to easily earn a bit of extra cash. I make a christmas cake every year just for myself and family as I love doing it, so I'll be putting in the money and time regardless. Every year I get feedback that my Christmas cake is lovely and I should sell them.

I'm wondering if it would be worth it to invest a bit more time and effort to make a few more, and maybe make a bit of money. I was thinking I could take them along to my local car boot sale in October and November.

I'm just wondering how much to ask. I usually make medium round cakes and decorate them with marzipan and royal icing. Then add a few simple decorations on top. Nothing fancy.

I'll try add a photo of last year's

How much do you think people would pay for a cake like this at a car boot sale?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

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I wouldn’t buy it, it’s too big. If it was one of those smaller ‘loaf’ shaped ones I would though, just an idea?

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I don't think you'd make enough profit to be worth the effort to be honest. Without a hygiene certificate I doubt many people would buy from you. My daughter made a lot of Xmas puds to earn money for a trip. They are less time consuming as they don't need decorating but, even with bulk buying ingradients, the profit was only about £4 per pudding by the time you buy everything & wrap them nicely. People are very kind towards kids working to earn money but I don't think they would buy from you to be kind unfortunately. It's a lovely idea but I think you'd soon be tearing your hair out.

I wouldn't buy Christmas cake as it's not that popular in my house but I do know a lady who does a roaring trade in selling mince pies each year and they are sublime. How are your pastry skills?

I too made cakes and decorated them with sugar flowers made by me. Piping round the base. Sometimes on the cake as well. The flowers alone for MiL wedding took 160hrs to model and assemble. With other associated costs I was never going to make money. Interestingly I made more as a night class tutor teaching others how to do it

I go for the taste

The only time I have ever bought a Christmas cake it was a special gluten/wheat/eggs/dairy/everything free one as a gift for my aunt who has coeliacs disease and multitude of other food allergies and issues. I therefore paid someone to make her a specific Christmas cake so she could have her favourite dessert on Christmas Day when she visited, and there was no chance of cross contamination.
I paid £20 for it, it was 6 inches and strictly for her.
I refuse to have the stuff in my house otherwise and it’s so disgusting, but I wouldn’t pay more than £10 for one, considering I can easily get one from the WI locally for £8.50.

I think for me it's moistness every time with a cake!

I love a nice moist cake.

Right just looking at my Tesco click n collect for today

£24 just for fruit and the cheapest bottle of brandy I can get! No fruit will be left over and it will only make one cake. I’ll be making brandy cream and butter which is why I’ve got a larger bottle of brandy so not all that £24 is down to the cake but at least £18 of it is. Then I’ve got eggs, flour, sugar, treacle etc on top. I’ll have some of those ingredients left over but there the cheap parts of the cake

I’ve chosen to pay an extra £5 due to being below the minimum basket order so it was over £30 but if I went in I’d buy loads of bits we don’t need 😂. So works out cheaper - girl math!

Surely that isn’t “girl math”(s) - it’s just not very good maths!

You decided to pay £5 extra charge as you’d spend loads of money on other things if you went into the shop - yes, I understand.

But you have paid £5 for nothing at all! When if you bought maybe even just one item that is something that you use all the time to make it up to £30, you could have actual had something for your money and barely spent any more.

eg if you bought £5.75 worth of toilet rolls to make it up to £30 they would only have in effect cost you 75p compared with what you actually spent and you would have eg 9 decent quality toilet rolls (or some chocolate, alcohol, whatever!)