Maybe request a new forum for price the cake? It's worth a try....I enjoy it when they are posted with professional style cakes that educate us. It is very helpful actually.
Funny, I just received an email about a cake starting with "I seen one of these cakes...."
Good grief, made me cringe.
Hello from WI, you're right up the road from me :)
I get these a lot. I do the same as the...
Even up here in WI I would charge around $1200.
And the "recreation" if it can be called that- I would be issuing a refund and hanging up my apron if that came out of my kitchen....
Took about 6m-1yr to get full of celebration cakes, and about 2 years to book up every weekend on weddings. I went to mostly weddings and I book up for every year by about March. This year seems a little slower, but that's ok because...
The difference between High Ratio and reg old crisco is flexibility. (not chemically, just performance-wise).
Crisco has changed a lot over the years, and my guess is that putting all those other things aside, you just can't do...
The website looks very well done, but there are not a lot of cakes in the gallery. I would really recommend getting some dummies and getting more cakes on there.
If your goal is weddings, a bride wants to see that you have done...