I am really having to re-examine my pricing as I am getting licensed and will have more expenses. Just want some feedback on this, any opinion or policy is great. Thanks!

I have a min. order on cookies, cupcakes and petit fours. Mine is min. 1 dozen per flavour/design.

Hope that helps!

I have 2 dozen on cookies, 1 dozen on brownies, 1 dozen on pastries, 4 dozen on peti fors, 2 dozen on hor derves, filled puff pastry, minimum of 20 on a catering.

I have a $30 minimum on cakes. People call me up and just want a "small" birthday cake to serve 10-15 for a child's party. It's just not worth my time to shop, bake, decorate, and clean up for less than $30. Most of those people say they'll call back but never do. Why did they even bother calling me if they didn't want to spend $30 on a cake? Let them go to the grocery store for their $15 cake.

I do chocolate items and cakes, so my rule of thumb for minimums is this:
1 dozen chocolate items (truffles; strawberries; bonbons; lollipops)
$20 cake
$80 wedding cake
$45 gift basket
1 dozen brownies
2 dozen cookies

Good luck with everything!

Thank you! That gives me a good starting point.

My minimum order is $25 or $30, frankly depending on my mood that day. At that price, I'm not making much, doing it for minimum, and I don't expect to stay at this minimum much longer, either. I'm thinking seriously of going up to a $40 minimum, just because of the time it takes once you get the pans out.

My small cake is $17. (9x11). I charge $25 for the 11x15 and encourage them to settle for that one because they get more bang for their buck. Some still only want a small. I find the small cakes very easy to do. If they want something that has a lot of detail, I tell them I can't fit it onto that small cake.

I don't have a business and I've only sold a few cakes here and there. I way undersold myself on my first ones. I don't think that I would charge less than $30 for an 8inch cake. I might not charge much more for a 10 inch, but so much of the cost is just baking and making the icing. it doesn't take much more time to make a 10 inch than an 8. If people don't like it, then they can go elsewhere. My time is too valuable.

If I ran a business it's hard to say what I'd do though. If it's your livelyhood you may run things differently. You just need to weigh you time and labor versus how much you get out of a small order. I'm sure a lot depends on where you live and what people want to!

Thanks, this helps me too

I don't do a cake for less than £50 (I guess this is about $80?) I work as a teacher so I dont have the time to spend on smaller orders. I also don't do children's birthday cakes as these tend to be the smaller orders and they tend to want respresentations of characters etc, and I don't enjoy doing them. It's important to me to keep enjoying my cake decorating and making sure I don't feel like I'm being underpaid is something that's fairly important. there's nothing worse than spending ages on a cake you don't like and getting peanuts for it at the end.