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post #31 of 106
9/23/09 at 4:35pm
Oh yeah, there are some AWESOME sheet cakes around these parts, works of art handsdown!
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post #32 of 106
9/23/09 at 5:02pm
Laurel stated in her OP she does them because sheetcakes=$$$. From what I read in many forums there are a lot of people out there feeling the cake slump... IMHO If it puts butter on your bread then why fight it? There are just some things in this world people won't change their minds about, and sheet cakes for birthdays seems to be one of them. icon_lol.gif
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They were in charge of the bread set out on the table, the flour for the grain offerings, the unleavened wafers, the baking and the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.
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1 Chronicles 23:29
They were in charge of the bread set out on the table, the flour for the grain offerings, the unleavened wafers, the baking and the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.
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post #33 of 106
9/23/09 at 5:48pm
i'll do sheetcakes -- why not?

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so --- something to consider:

and what if Renoir, VanGough, Monet, Manet, Seurat, DaVinci, El Greco, Picasso, Dali, et al had said --

NOPE won't do a flat white rectangular canvas -- it has to be a 3d sculpture!!!!

(and then there's that sculptor -- what if Michelangelo had refused to do ceilings?!!!!)

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we're only limited by our own built in mental roadblocks.

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the sheet cake is a canvas -- create!

can we say ThanhThanh??
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Keep on cakin'!
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post #34 of 106
9/23/09 at 5:49pm
I never really felt one way or another about sheet cakes...LOL!
Now you all have me thinking...I hate thinking...ugh!
Anyhow I do remember a certain someone, whispering so she doesn't hear.... Jamie who's avatar actually used to say something to the matter of "me no make sheet cakes"??!! LOL!!!
Than again almost anything Jamie does cracks me up, sooo ...
~Teri
Be kind, dance because you can, call your parents, & grandparents, tell a joke, laugh at a childs joke, eat chocolate, make a cake & share it, kiss a baby, tell a teenager your proud of them...have a fun in life, and help someone else do the same~
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~Teri
Be kind, dance because you can, call your parents, & grandparents, tell a joke, laugh at a childs joke, eat chocolate, make a cake & share it, kiss a baby, tell a teenager your proud of them...have a fun in life, and help someone else do the same~
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post #35 of 106
9/23/09 at 5:57pm
The standard sheet cake from a grocery store is just a 1 layer cake with frosting. They do, do them with fillings if you ask. But seriously, why do people request sheet cakes, it's a cost thing. They feel that they can get a custom made cake cheaper, cause it's a sheet cake. I'll do them, but I'm still going to charge by the serving, not by the cake size and I still have a $100 minimum. That tends to make people want to go ahead and get something more "custom" looking. And yes, there are customers who will apy big bucks on an eleborate sheet cake. Just like someone said earlier, people have hired party planners for a 1 year old's birthday and they ain't millionaires either.
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post #36 of 106
9/23/09 at 6:05pm
Lol! Thanks!

And Doug, I know ya mean well, but I consider myself a highly creative person who does not in the slightest bit feel like I've constructed a mental roadblock for myself by passing up on requests for sheetcakes. And yep, I'll say it again, I see awesome sheetcakes out there. Just not something I'm interested in marketing at all. There are 4 Walmarts in my relatively small town. And another 10 grocery stores. They can have the sheetcakes (whatever they look like) and I'll stick to custom work. Nuttin wrong with that, and it hinders not my creative abilities. icon_smile.gif
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post #37 of 106
9/23/09 at 6:09pm
I never had a tiered cake except at a wedding either, but all of that was before cable, before Food Network, before Duff Goldman.

It's education time, folks. People order sheets because they are USED to ordering sheets. Like when they ask for a "half sheet" to feed 10 people. They use the terms because it's habit. It's what they've always done. It's all they know.

My non-wedding sheets are cheaper because I dont' deliver them. I don't have to close the store; I don't have to drive anywhere. I'll happily do them because they help pay the rent.

I'm not rich enough to be particularly snooty about the shape of the cake I decorate. icon_lol.gif
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post #38 of 106
9/23/09 at 6:15pm
And for me, I just can't afford to make sheet cakes. It's just not cost effective. I'm just a humble, lil' ol' sweet, stay at home mom/housewife. icon_wink.gif
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post #39 of 106
9/23/09 at 6:20pm
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Originally Posted by LaBellaFlor

I'm just a humble, lil' ol' sweet, stay at home mom/housewife. icon_wink.gif



Oh come on now!!!! icon_razz.gif
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post #40 of 106
9/23/09 at 6:24pm
I'm hurt... icon_cry.gif very hurt... icon_cry.gif ...that you don't believe me! icon_cry.gificon_cry.gificon_cry.gif

Okay, so I thought it sounded better then "I'm just too good to make them"! icon_razz.gif

And everybody I'm just joking, okay!
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post #41 of 106
9/23/09 at 6:28pm
Yeah, and I see nothing wrong with offering what some of us have done successfully, to the OP who is having a problem, and that is to put a nix or limit on particular styles.
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post #42 of 106
9/23/09 at 6:28pm
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Originally Posted by LaBellaFlor


Okay, so I thought it sounded better then "I'm just too good to make them"! icon_razz.gif


There are not enough laughing icons for me on THAT one! Good one! icon_lol.gif
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post #43 of 106
9/23/09 at 6:44pm
Yup money is money....you want square, round, rectangular whatever as long as you pay me the green stuff.

I do torte and fill my sheets and they are the same price per serving, just a different shape.....no biggy.


Speaking of money, I saw a hilarious slogan on the back of a Septic Cleaning company truck the other day......"Your $hit is our Bread and Butter". icon_lol.gificon_lol.gif

Ya just gotta laugh at that icon_biggrin.gif
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post #44 of 106
9/23/09 at 6:59pm
I actually had someone ask me if I ever do the "cheapy grocery store type sheet cakes or only the Duff type cakes" UGH! I smiled patiently, ok, I hope it looked like a smile, and said, I do make sheet cakes, they start at $50. I don't think that was the "cheapy" she was thinking about. But I mean, come on, she had one of my flyers in her hand that has the photos of my cakes and the prices ON IT!

I don't really mind doing sheet cakes all that much but to me, honestly, they are a bit boring. I prefer to get a whole lot more creative.

Glad to hear others here feel the same way.

Cat
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post #45 of 106
9/23/09 at 7:01pm
Why would sheet cakes not be cost effective? You just charge enough to make them so.

Or did I miss a joke?
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