I just found this cake in "Brides Receptions" magazine... OMG!!! $60/ slice...

It's pretty and a lot of work... but wow... wish I could charge $6/serving LOL

While that's a beautiful cake and obviously had a lot of hard work put into it, I can't figure out what makes it so special that it's $60/svng??? Did it say what kind of cake it is?

$60 a slice, wow you would need one heck of a wedding budget!

if all those flowers are gum paste, and all the pearls fondant w/ luster dust and then strips on bottom tier some kind of original tranfer or hand painted....

then yep, can see why it's $60/slice.

those flowers alone would be worth $5 each, if not more.

WOW...no..not here! WHile I agree it is a a stunning cake...I dont see it as being 60.00 per. worth of stunning.

Nope...no flavour description (or # of servings) listed... maybe that designer can command those prices... Nhora de la Pava @ Nemacolin Woodlands Resort... I guess resort life is a good business to be in!

A HUGE budget... that cake looks like it could probably serve at least two hundred!... doing the math... holy cow... that would be a $12,000 cake!!!!

Looks like they don't have a problem underselling themselves.

Those flowers MUST take forever to make.

The cake is truly gorgeous!!!! Even if I could duplicate that cake perfectly...the people I bake for would laugh me right out of town if I said 60.00 per slice!!!!! It seems that the people in my area never want to pay that much!!!!!

I'm sure the price has something to do with the reputation of the baker as well. I've watched even local cake artists prices go way up as they win awards and gain experience and reputations. II am guessing that bakery is somewhere on the East Coast?

Here is a link to her page at the resort site...

http://nemacolin.com/nem_cms.asp?sectionID=33

It's beautiful, But not THAT beautiful!

Well, this is the cake that Nhora featured at the Cakewalk held at GCS in NYC last March. I completely fell inlove with it the moment I saw it...I actually voted for the cake! I ended up meeting her and her son and husband and some other family members...She is a doll! Very sweet, and kind...She's an incredible artist. Her cakes are also featured on Satinice...those precious moments figures and the little mice...the hand painted flower vines...that's her...

However, she is the official artist for Nemacolin and not the owner of her own shop. She was actually moved from Florida to PA by the owner of the resort, that's how good she is! But look at the resort, what kind of people you think has their wedding catered there? $$$$$...I'm thinking it's a typo, probably meant $16 $60 is outrageous anyways!

just took a look at lodging costs...cheapest was $300 A NIGHT! and one section of resort was in the "if you have to ask, you can't afford" category.

so, ya, could be it actually is $60/slice

It looks like this resort is near Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater... maybe there's a big artist community there? STILL.......$60????

Nice cake, but I don't love my family or friends enough to pay $60 a slice. Especially the ones that would mooch a few extra pieces and tell me, $60???? NO WAY! They wouldn't appreciate it at all.

I don't want to bite into fondant and gumpaste for $60 a slice....not worth it no matter who makes it, IMHO!

True enough Zamode.

WOW That resort is about 45 minutes from my house, and no I haven't driven up there for a slice of cake. LOL

If you check out the prices of lodging, etc. for this place, $60 a slice for cake is a minor detail. I'll stay at Super 8 and eat Hostess Twinkies.

Diane

Haha, funny thread, I must say, I would like to be paid $60 a slice, haven't you ever slaved over a cake for weeks worth of work with the flowers etc and felt like even at $60 a slice, it would be a steal? Don't know about you folks, but when I am making a difficult cake we tend to eat a lot of take-out or heat and serve and it gets expensive.
It is a beautiful cake. I find that cakes at resorts and better hotels are priced fairly high.
Hugs Squirrelly

My point exactly Squirrelly... it is gorgeous, and obviously a ton of work with all of those flowers. If they had been charging the $15-25 I've seen other "designer" cakes go for, I'd have just thought... "I wish I could charge THAT" ('cause I certainly put enough time into my cakes to charge that) adn moved on to the next one! BUT it still blows my mind that even the stinking rich would pay $12,000 for a cake! LOL

Oh well... I guess if they've got the clientel who are willing/able to pay that, then good for them for not undercharging!!

We didn't pay 12000 for our entire wedding! And that was for 80 people, full sit-down dinner and complete open bar!

But I looked on the lodging part of that website, and you can rent the one estate, for up to 14 adults, at the chump change price of $3000 a night Thats not including tax or tips of course! (or dinner or anything extra) If you can stay a week at a place for $21,000 then $12,000 for a cake is nothing.
That cake is worth 14 mortgage payments for us!! (and I agree, for that price, I couldn't care less about the outside, the inside better be the the most mouth watering thing I have ever put in my mouth, with chocolate that was imported from the mountains of Switzerland, cream from the happiest cows in the world and all of which were blessed by monks!)

I've heard of celebrities paying $20,000 for a wedding cake. I can believe it.

JamesSweetie--Swiss chocolate, yuuuummmmmmmmm!!

People will pay what they can afford and if they can afford to pay $60 per slice and they think it's worth it that i think it's great.

What's upsetting is some of the comments about the cake in question 'being beautiful but not that beautiful' or 'not seeing it as as being $60 worth of stunning'. Makes me wonder if the people with the negative comments would make them if the designer was a Cake Central member (who knows perhaps she might be). Reminds me of a thread on another site where Colette Peters was criticized and she popped up and posted.

Ok this is my goal for the new year! I will make a $60.00 per slice cake and sell it!!! LOL I wish

Lazy_Susan

Hmm...once again, everyone is entitled to their opinion. I guess to most of us it would just seem very far outside our budget to pay such a price for a cake. I am not saying that someone shouldn't pay that amount if they so choose, just that as far as that cake went.....I personally would NEVER pay that sum for a cake. I wouldn't change my post or feel differently if Colette.. plus the maker of said cake and the pope all disagreed..but then again..just my 2 cents worth. I guess a certain amount is envy because ...I guess some of us are so underpaid for what we do it is hard to believe that some are worth that much more than some of the awesome work I see here.

well, here is my 2cents on the issue. I think it is a ridiculous price. Even if she took 3 weeks to make it at 10 hours a day, it would not be worth 12, 000 dollars. ( you would be making around 57 dollars an hour ) The whole attitude of "if someone is willing to pay it charge it" drives me crazy! Not when there are more people in the world who can't afford a place to live and a meal to eat, then people in the world who can. Of course people deserve to be paid for their hard work, but crazy is just crazy. Just like no place to lay your head down is worth what lots of places charge. Just cuz one can and people are willing to pay it doesn't mean that either one should. But again, that is just my 2 cents. =)