Cake stall tips

malibusami86

until you know what sells well - i'd do a real mixture of sponge cakes, carrot cake, chocolate cake and coffee cake and then mix your quantities in terms of popularity once you get a feel for what your customers want.

katiecake_2

Ok so these cakepops - how much would you pay? I'm going to do simple ones, coated in chocolate with edible glitter or sprinkles etc, probably just round. The only online prices I can find are american but they are all charging $2 for a round one, from $3 and up for the fancy ones!!! I was thinking 50p until I saw that, is that too cheap??

sethsgran

I think about 75p for a cake pop

zippybungle

ooh, I had never heard of Cake Pops before, they look great! will have to try and have a go at them one day

Zippy x

katiecake_2

I made some cakepops, posted a pic on my facebook page, and sold 30 within minutes!! They're here if you want to see!! http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Durham/Cakes-by-Katie-Adams/327234659865?ajaxpipe=1&__a=25

They taste great too! Thanks again for your help everyone :T

moonpenny

Hi katiecake
Looked at your cakepops on facebook - they are fantastic! So glad they worked out for you.
Hope you sell loads!!

sethsgran

fabulous cakepops is the chocolate easy enough to colour?

katiecake_2

sethsgran wrote: »

fabulous cakepops is the chocolate easy enough to colour?

Yes but I used powder colour - chocolate goes horribly wrong if water is added so I wouldn't use normal food colouring (come to think of it I don't know if that applies to white chocolate or just proper chocolate). You could probably get away with using gel colours I'd have thought, but the powders were easy to use, just took a fair bit of stirring!

Thanks for the compliments both of you

midnightraven3

these are my favourite cake pops
and i dont think they would be too difficult to make

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2728/4088576874_f99c97e6bc.jpg

katiecake_2

midnightraven3 wrote: »

these are my favourite cake pops
and i dont think they would be too difficult to make

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2728/4088576874_f99c97e6bc.jpg

Yeah I love those too - be a lot easier with candy melts though, you'd need a lot of colouring in chocolate to get it that strong!