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What does everyone charge for cupcakes???

post #1 of 12
7/18/05 at 8:53pm
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Hi! I have seen lots of cupcake posts lately and now it has got me thinking! What do most of you charge for a dozen regularly decorated cupcakes??? I get orders from time to time and do not know what the going rate would be. I think I usually end up going to cheap! Thanks!
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7/29/05 at 12:02pm
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post #3 of 12
7/29/05 at 12:10pm
24 cupcakes are $25. Cupcake cakes are more expensive based on the number of cupcakes and the design.
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post #4 of 12
7/29/05 at 1:11pm
$2.25 Canadian each, WITH A MINIMUM order of 24...why bother baking less than a batch of 2 dozen. Not profitable at all!
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post #5 of 12
8/8/05 at 1:15pm
Wow, I guess I am majorly undercharging. I was charging $10/dozen. Hmmm....
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post #6 of 12
8/8/05 at 1:18pm
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Hi ElleC! That's about what I charge as well! However...it might be a good idea to check what local bakeries charge.
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post #7 of 12
8/8/05 at 3:11pm
I agree.. I think $25 for 24 cupcakes is fair. The cupcakes I did yesterday took WAY longer then most average size cakes that I make.
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post #8 of 12
8/8/05 at 4:01pm
I am having this same debate myself. All the bakeries here in my town do cupcakes for .50 or less. But then again those cupcake are just iced with a swirl on top and are no where near the way I would decorate them. I would have to charge at least $1 to make up for my time and supplies on the ones I have done.

MrsMissey, your cupcakes are so adorable. Would or did you charge $1 for those. They look like they really took a lot of time.
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post #9 of 12
8/8/05 at 4:07pm
Thank you smileyface...those little things took all day yesterday to make!! I didn't charge anything for them, they were just a little gift to my DH's secretary.....I just saw those in the 2006 Wilton Yearbook and wanted to make them! I think I would have had to charge about $ 1.50 each...there was a lot of fondant involved in each one.
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post #10 of 12
8/8/05 at 4:14pm
Your welcome, MrsMissey. I imagine the flesh color on the white pillow was just fine in person. Sometimes the camera doesn't take the actual picture and either helps or hurts our cake projects. So $52.50 for an all day project and all those supplies. I have been playing with the pricing matrix and it always shock me what it says I should charge. Before starting to make my own things I would have thought $1.50 a cupcake was a lot but now I know it is nothing when you compare the time and freshness of our items.
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post #11 of 12
8/24/05 at 9:22pm
Hi -- I live in NYC and charge $2.50 per cupcake. That seems to be the going rate here.
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post #12 of 12
8/29/05 at 7:56pm
I once charged $20 for 24 cc and the lady was shocked and felt overcharged. These were even filled with raspberry! I also debate over this all of the time.

I think for now, for me in Ohio, I will charge at least $10 for every cake mix I use and go up from there depending on the amount of decorating or filling involved.
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