How To Price Your Cakes & Cupcakes – How Much Should You Charge to Make Money? - Cake Business

Do you sell your cakes or are you thinking of selling your cakes? I really hope you find this tutorial useful. Is pricing cakes something you struggle with? Let me know below!

Very helpful video! What gets my goat is when I see people posting on Facebook groups, “Can anyone make me this cake for a reasonable price?” Their definition of “reasonable” always means something along the lines of what you pay for a gross discount grocery store cake, and the photos are always of fairly elaborate designs that take hours to make. It bugs me so much that they find it “reasonable” for people like us to work for free!

One should also not compare against supermarket store bought cakes that use wholesale bulk purchase premixes from cakes made from scratch with real ingrediants. My cost price for loaf type chocolate cake is generally double a store bought chocolate cake but tastes way better. Quality must be priced accordingly. So start slow and build up an appreciative clientele over time but beware not to over commit

Such a helpful video. I’ve been so busy but yours is the first I watched when I could get in. You are the best!

Thank you so much for this!! Love from Malawi🇲🇼. Your videos are a life saver!!

You are a very good teacher. Am now having interest in cake making. Thank you.

Hi lynz I have learned a lot from your video and it is helpful which now I will be able to price my cakes slowly but surely.👍

Thank you. It's daunting to even start. Thanks you've been helpful

This was so insightful from listening to your video I think im working for free 😅 moving forward and with confidence I will value my time, skill and worth because everyone will agree its hard work. brilliant video, thank you x

I have been thinking about adding cakes to my repertoire and was wondering how to price them. Thank you for sharing! This helped me quite a bit.

Thanks so much Lyn. Yes I would l love to see more business videos on cupcakes :)

Another great video, thanks Lynz. But I think you forgot the glass of wine at the end of the day. 🤣

This has been very helpful. I bake for my husband's work around holidays and I barely make any money. I usually only profit about $30 for nearly 20 dozen cookies and 25 half-dozen cupcakes. I feel bad charging people a lot for them 😂 I pretty much work for free.

Thankyou so much this was very informative! And super helpful 🙏💕

Hello my dear friend 💖 Thank you so much for choosing the level recipe 🌹💯👏 Love watching your work 😘

Hi! I love your channel! I been making cakes for 2 years and pricing is very hard. I left my job and incrice my price to make some money from the Cakes's, but it didn't work 😔😔 Now I'm back to work and making some cakes when I have the time just for fun 😊

Hi there. We also factor in a profit margin to cover unexpected costs or losses, purchases and improvements. Great video thanks.

Thank you, appreciate the tips. I baked to survive during covid and accounting for all cost, I was baking for free! Now with the cost of ingredients like whipping cream, butter and chocolate escalating, I’ve stopped baking. Plus I hadn’t charged for my time, even at minimum wage 😌 I’m now looking at cake recipes which are quick and affordable.

Really helpful! Would you be able to explain the process of setting yourself up as a business, what are the requirements/ things you need to do to sell food in England?

I loved the business information! But it felt really rushed. You didn’t take a breathe 😂. I’m thinking about starting to sell my cupcakes so this was helpful. I liked that u said to follow the local laws. Do u then have to pay tax? Do u ask for cash when being paid? Venmo ? Check? Do u let people come to your house to collect? If so, doesn’t that seem dangerous? I was wondering how to get the cupcakes into the persons hands snd I’m conflicted. I was thinking maybe it’s easier to sell to restaurants? But there are probably rules about that. Anyway I liked the video thank you! I also like your cupcake decorating and cake ones. I bought those really large tips with the ruffle look- u make it look easier and they do use a lot of frosting. But pretty. I enjoy your enthusiasm -