wedding cake at cost price?

cazjones99

how much would u expect to pay? we are having 3 tier, large sponge, medium fruit and small choc and have been told 300, i have no idea if this is good or not? they said they would charge only for the ingridients

sweetilemon

Have they been iced and decorated? Cost price would just be the ingredients so eggs flour sugar etc so obviously that wont add up to £300 but if its a good quality decorated cake its an adverage price certainly not cost.

iamana1ias

sweetilemon wrote: »

Have they been iced and decorated? Cost price would just be the ingredients so eggs flour sugar etc so obviously that wont add up to £300 but if its a good quality decorated cake its an adverage price certainly not cost.

Depending on the sizes it could easily be cost price. I spent £80 on ingredients and £25 on decorations for a 12" square fruitcake for someone's birthday. Don't forget there will be a cost to baking it too.

xtinkersx

I make cakes and try and do as cheap as possible. £300 is over for "cost price" BUT its alot cheaper then most people. i know people who are paying £500+ for their cake!
Im doing my own as i cant pay someone to do something that i know cost no where near that much. yes i will be stressed lol but prob still to cupcakes as will only take an hour to do 100.

sarah_elton

We had a three tier cake, gluten-free choc sponge on top, then lemon sponge, then choc sponge. Whole thing was decorated which chocolate scrolls. Pic below. We paid £250 including delivery and set-up. £300 doesn't sound like a particularly cut-price deal, but it depends how complex and time-consuming your chosen decoration is.



(We paid our florist for the flowers that are on the cake so they were extra on the £250 cost)

cazjones99

its 8", 10" and 12" and will have buttercream icing. i am buying the decorations myself. my friend is paying for it as a present, but she offered back when we thought it would be about 100, not 300. she knows the people doing it and thats why its cost, i feel so bad that its costing so much but shes insisted she will stil pay for it, i cant afford to even pay half so i offered to just get myu own from m&s arghhhhh im so cross

sarah_elton

I really think that's OTT for cost price. Ours was probably a similar size to yours (might have been more like 6", 8" and 10") and, as I said, we paid £250 which included full normal profit for the cake lady as we didn't haggle. We had a gluten-free layer and gluten-free ingredients are more expensive than regular.

You are having a fruit layer which we didn't - I guess the fruit is relatively expensive. But I still can't believe the costs are £300.

sarah_elton

iamana1ias wrote: »

Depending on the sizes it could easily be cost price. I spent £80 on ingredients and £25 on decorations for a 12" square fruitcake for someone's birthday. Don't forget there will be a cost to baking it too.

But if they're a cake company they won't be paying as much as you did for ingredients because they won't be buying from the supermarket....

cazjones99

sarah_elton wrote: »

But if they're a cake company they won't be paying as much as you did for ingredients because they won't be buying from the supermarket....

their not a company, but they domake alot of cakes for occasions if u get me! thing is their lovely people, honest church going type, but im finding it really hard to belive it will cost 300!

steph3008

i think thats over cost price too im having a 12, 10, 8 an 6 inch square all sponge but 8 inch fruit an its costing me £90 but i'm supplying deco i'd shop around if i was you

cazjones99

steph3008 wrote: »

i think thats over cost price too im having a 12, 10, 8 an 6 inch square all sponge but 8 inch fruit an its costing me £90 but i'm supplying deco i'd shop around if i was you

i dont feel as if i can shop around now as shes already told them to go ahead