How much would you charge to make a Wilton shaped character cake?

Question

I started making them for my own children and now others are requesting them. I love doing it so I do not mind, but was wondering what reasonable compensation would be for a character shaped cake. Has anyone sold one before?

Answer 1

I used to be in an ROP bakery class and we sold cakes. Character cakes sold for around $20-25. They are very cute when you use a star tip to decorate the top. Good Luck!

Answer 2

You should take some time to figure out how much the ingredients for a character cake generally runs you. Then factor in your time. Also, where you live is a consideration because in some areas you can charge more for a specialty cake. That being said, I charge between $40 & $50.

Answer 3

Yes, but that was ages ago. I used to charge about $25 per caked depending on the amount of work it required. If there was any special piping that needed to be done such as a cake with a hand piped baby crib on it, that would of course cost more. Wedding cakes, in case you need to know, are charged by the slice. If a cake is going to average about 50 slices at $1 a piece, then that cake would cost $50.

Answer 4

Here's an example of a Wilton Elmo cake I made, decorated and sold for fourty US dollars in 2003.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l285/PorcObby/LeilaParty3.jpg

Answer 5

my father owns a bakery and he does shaped cakes 3 dimentional and all that , it always depends on how many people they want to serve and or if they want fresh fruit in it also .
his shaped cake feeding 20 people with no fruit just some thing like bavarian cream or whipped cream inside costs $65.00.
Then from there it goes up because the cake gets bigger .

Answer 6

i used to do all kinds of cakes, character, wedding, specialty birthday, you can do well at it but make sure you charge fairly, i used to charge $20.00 per which is not unreasonable in fact many told me it was too low. it takes a lot of work and creativity...one thing be careful if you're good you will have more work than you can handle, i finally had to quit because i was doing it out of my home and 20 cakes a week ! good luck.

Answer 7

you pay at least fifteen dollars for a boring sheet cake at the grocery store, so for a homemade, hand decorated cake, you should charge at least 25.00 . Of course that depends on how much your ingredients cost, how big/time consuming it is. You should make at least 50 percent profit.

Answer 8

I think that Wilton doesn't "allow" people to sell the character cakes commercially. You might want to check it out.

Answer 9

It depends on the size, how many layers, how many different colors are required for the frosting, how much time you think you're going to spend creating it, etc. I would say roughly $30.

Answer 10

20?