How much would you pay for a large cupcake at a Community Centre fair?

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Not sure where to put this...but I'm very broke just now and a friend suggested I sell my cupcakes as they're very fancy (much bigger than the pretty fairy cakes I do, purists).

The community centre fair is like an indoor car boot sale, I've checked there's tables left and the woman who runs it seems to think it's okay to sell home bakes without a food cert.

The cakes are large and I think I could make 100 for the fair.

I've never baked on this scale before, done birthdays and things but never sold any.

How much would you pay, £1 a cake 4 for £3?? Is that too much, or too little?

Also if you've done this before, how many do you usually make?

I was thinking a £1.

If there cheap enough you'll sell out in no time, too pricey and you will have wasteage.

No idea about food certs though.

I have paid more, but I think £1 is a good price and if they were £3 for 4 I'd buy them :)

Good Luck!! :)

Do you watch Cupcake Wars?? They make 1000 in 1hr45mins!!

Can you work out how much they are going to cost you to make, just the ingredients and the cases? I run a cafe and do this then times what they cost by 3 so 1/3 is cost 1/3 electricity and things,then 1/3 profit!!
But I think a £1.00 sounds good and if you know how much they cost if you have still got some left at the end you know what you can go down to without losing money at the end!!

I would pay up to £2 for something homemade and good quality .
I don't get much fun in life so can afford to splurge on cupcakes !

I was at a food festival at the weekend and bought 4 cupcakes for £5, they were very large and fancy ones. Although they looked better than they tasted tbh, was a bit disappointed but felt the pricing at the time was right.

Start off at £2 each, or 4 for £6 (essentially one free) then you can reduce the price if they don't sell, and you're quids in if they do. Good luck with it.

If they are large, iced ones I'd pay £1.50 each. I have a friend who makes cupcakes for her business and charges minimum 1.75 each and is very busy.
Super trendy now so people willing to pay out-esp if well iced/decorated

I wouldn't pay more than £1 for one at a carboot/fayre. I would pay up to £2 for a cupcake from a bakery/cafe/cupcake shop.

I think £1.50 and maybe an offer of 4 for £5.

I'd check with the council about needing licences etc though, saw a programme a few weeks back where EHOs were going around carboots and telling people selling food they needed registering on something or other.

Do you have boxes to sell them in? Or are you expecting people to eat then and there. I would be much more attracted to ones i can takeaway so I think it would be worth finding boxes - even just for selling sets of 4. Ebay sell them.

The fairs around here sell cupcakes for 20pence, and they are usually nicely decorated too.

How about also baking a really nice looking chocolate tray bake?

But I am not sure you will recuperate the cost of ingredients!

I would pay £2

good luck

Thank you all for the replies, really helpful.

I'm making big cupcakes, with muffin ingredients as when I've made them for parties and things people seem to like fruity bits I put in them.

I've worked out 50p a cupcake to make using as much organic ingredients as I can and decorated with wafer butterflies, sweets etc (depends on recipe). Oh and yes to boxes for 4 and paper wraps for singles. I'm using silver cases and pick flags so they look special too.

The stall is £12 for the morning, so I need to make that back as well.

From your replies I think I'll go for £1.50 each or 4 for £5, but I can put that down if they're not shifting.

As far as permits go, the woman who's running it seems to think it's okay, so if somebody questions me I can point to the organiser and scream in bodysnatcher fashion and run away.

£1.75 - £2 I'd pay but I guess it depends on the venue you are selling in and the type of people there.
Craft type fairs seem to sell them for higher than car boot sales.

We recently did a cake sale for our children's centre and charged £1 for (fancy) cupcakes and 4 for £3. They all sold. We probably could have done them for £1.50 to be honest.

Why not price them at £1.50 each and have a few with just icing and cake cut up into tiny sample pieces.
Especially if your recipies are unusaul, it will inspire people to try something new. If it's not to their taste they haven't wasted £1.50.

scream in bodysnatcher fashion- demonstration needed. I'm likeing the analogy.