Pretty!

Man, that's perfect.

Ali, do you mind if I ask how much you charged for a cake like that? I'm just curious, you don't have to answer.

At the bakery near us, the 8 inch cakes are around $40, but a specialty cake like this would have a "design fee" of $10-$20 per serving, depending on complexity. So if it has 10 slices, that could be a $200 design fee on top of the $40 cake. Of course, wedding cakes are bigger than that. You'd probably have 50 servings or more in a wedding cake, so that could be $1,000 for the design fee on a fancy cake.

They aren't cheap.

I'd imagine that just starting out, you would want to have your prices be low to attract customers. But then how do you raise your prices after that?

Damn, that's expensive.

Most special cakes end up being in the $200-$400 range at this bakery. You can go to the link and watch the slideshow with the price information for each cake.

I am only charging $50 for this cake because its a favour to Adens gf, but normally around $100 for something like this. I try to pay myself $20/hour. Thats the going rate for skilled labour here. This cake took about 3 hours labour, plus ingredients and baking 'fees'.

A rule of thumb here is $100/tier depending on the intricacy. This cake was fairly simple really.

I just finished this cake off this morning.

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Cool. :thumb:

Wow! Nice job!

Geez, when I was a kid, all I got was a lopsided Betty Crocker cake. *pout*

My Mum always made cakes for us. Usually novelty cakes from kids birthday cake books. They were pretty cool. Mum got into cake decorating as a real thing when I was probably around 10yrs old and I used to help her out. The cakes started getting better after Mum had some classes. :) She was always a fantastic baker though.

So now, I'm carrying on and growing her legacy. It makes me proud to be able to put out nice cakes and things that people love to look at, and then find they taste as good, or even better. I think she would be proud of me. :)

What a sweet legacy for your mother! I'm sure she'd be proud, too! :)

Are those the Wiggles? Kids still like them ?

Yep, Wiggles, and apparently they do.