Help W/pricing Rice Paper Butterflies
Decorating By VonVon Updated 28 Jun 2007 , 12:17am by justfrosting
Hello Everyone!
I have been asked by a friend to decorate a wedding cheesecake that her husband will be making for friends of theirs. They do cheesecakes but don't know how to decorate cakes. I have 2 questions....#1 what should i "cover the cheesecakes with? whipped cream? buttercream?
#2 The bride wants the rice paper butterflies. Anyone have an idea on how to price them?? Do I charge per butterfly? If so, how much? I need to also know how I should charge for doing this cake since I'm only doing the decorating??? Guess that's 3 questions!!!
If anyone can help I'd gladly appreciate it!!!
THANKS!
i would ice it in cream cheese buttercream. there are some great recipe on this site, and the cake bible has a great white chocolate cream cheese buttercream recipe. i've made those butterflies and they were a lot of work! so i will definitely be charging between $2-3 per butterfly. they look beautiful though, so well worth the effort involved. and for question 3, im not sure, but since decorating is most of the work in making a wedding cake, i'd charge a lot. i would do it per serving, and maybe 50 cents less a serving than what you normally charge? im interested to see what other people say. good luck!
I charge $3 per butterfly. If you're running them off on a food safe printer then cutting them out and attaching the wings to the royal icing body, they're actually not very difficult.
And I don't do cheesecake for wedding cakes because I can't understand how they would be foodsafe sitting out on display for so long.
I charge $3 per butterfly. If you're running them off on a food safe printer then cutting them out and attaching the wings to the royal icing body, they're actually not very difficult.
thats the difference, i don't have a copykake printer and ink, so i did mine by hand! very time consuming with non toxic markers, coloring in all the little lines in different colors! im not a food safety expert, but i know that many many people do cheesecake weddings very successfully. there is a place up here in cincy whos specialty is cheesecake wedding cakes, thats almost all she does. maybe there's a secret she knows about it, or maybe they're just fine if you make sure they are well chilled beforehand?
You do know that the food safe printer is just a new Canon that has never had regular ink run through it? Generally less than $100. Then a set of food safe inks (I like PhotoFrost) and a set of head cleaners, plus rice paper and/or icing sheets. If you run this stuff very often it can pay for itself.
Otherwise buy the preprinted butterfly sheets from www.sugarcraft.com and just gel and cut them out! They're just a couple of dollars a sheet I think. And if you follow the instructions on their website, they will "ship" them in an envelope so you get reduced shipping. But they are very persnickety about following those mailing instructions exactly.
You do know that the food safe printer is just a new Canon that has never had regular ink run through it? Generally less than $100. Then a set of food safe inks (I like PhotoFrost) and a set of head cleaners, plus rice paper and/or icing sheets. If you run this stuff very often it can pay for itself.
Otherwise buy the preprinted butterfly sheets from www.sugarcraft.com and just gel and cut them out! They're just a couple of dollars a sheet I think. And if you follow the instructions on their website, they will "ship" them in an envelope so you get reduced shipping. But they are very persnickety about following those mailing instructions exactly.
You do know that the food safe printer is just a new Canon that has never had regular ink run through it? Generally less than $100. Then a set of food safe inks (I like PhotoFrost) and a set of head cleaners, plus rice paper and/or icing sheets. If you run this stuff very often it can pay for itself.
yes i realize that, but i just started my biz about 1 month ago, and i can't justify any purchases that i don't use often. and i rarely have the need for the printer, these butterflies were the first and only time i could have used one. thats a great tip about buying them printed on sheets. next time i'll look into that.
agbay, stress free support system, and then airbrush. thats my list of next to buy items! im actually from louisville, just moved to cincy two years ago. before that i had lived in louisville for 20 years, i still have a lot of family there. its a great city, i think someday i'll want to move back.
SPS? what does that stand for, am i having a blonde moment? LOL
SPS = Single Plate System. It's from BakeryCrafts. It's the internal plate and column system for stacked cakes that holds it up from the inside. The SPS completely eliminates the need to cut dowels. I havne't used or cut a dowe in years. You can also deliver your cakes at least partially stacked--depending on how much you can lift. The cake will be stable.
Here's the link for the Agbay cake leveler: http://www.agbayproducts.com/index.html
It works really well so definitely worth the investment. I can't think of torting cakes without it 
A lady on martha stewart charges 15.00 PER FLY! Absolutely fair!
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