Cake and cookie pricing seems to be a very popular topic on these forums and rightly so. It takes a lot of thought to determine how much someone would and should pay for our baked goods, especially since we put so much time and expense into making them.
When someone asks how much they should charge for an XYZ cake, responses from other forum members should be taken with a grain of salt unless they live in the same area. I live 90 minutes away from New York City. An XYZ cake in my town would be 30% less than an XYZ cake made in NYC. XYZ cakes in the town next to mine are even cheaper because they were hit harder by the recession and unemployment and in the wealthy suburbs nearby, they would charge more. If I were to give pricing advice to someone on this forum who lives in Los Angeles or Hawaii and they followed it, they would probably be undercutting their sale since those two locations have a higher cost of living and bakeries charge more. Location matters and prices vary from city to city, state to state, and country to country.
For those here who have concerns about what to charge for a cake my advice would be to check other bakeries nearby and see what their price scale is.
When someone asks how much they should charge for an XYZ cake, responses from other forum members should be taken with a grain of salt unless they live in the same area. I live 90 minutes away from New York City. An XYZ cake in my town would be 30% less than an XYZ cake made in NYC. XYZ cakes in the town next to mine are even cheaper because they were hit harder by the recession and unemployment and in the wealthy suburbs nearby, they would charge more. If I were to give pricing advice to someone on this forum who lives in Los Angeles or Hawaii and they followed it, they would probably be undercutting their sale since those two locations have a higher cost of living and bakeries charge more. Location matters and prices vary from city to city, state to state, and country to country.
For those here who have concerns about what to charge for a cake my advice would be to check other bakeries nearby and see what their price scale is.
