How much would it cost to make this cake? - Page 2

Yes, my base price would be $150 for a taller-tiered, filled baked-from-scratch cake with ganache and coloured fondant. A figurine is $70. The edible images to make those two labels would cost me $30 to source. The other gumpaste moulding, around $40 probably.

Its not so much the materials, but the amount of time it takes to make, design and build your custom cake.

If you wanted you could commission a sugar artist to make a few dentist-inspired gumpaste items (like toothpaste and brush) and just bung it yourself on a costco cake. You could probably do that for under $100.

Hope that helps!

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Originally Posted by -K8memphis 

Bake it yourself maybe. You could do a 9x13 and cut it in the shape of a tooth--kinda round the sides and make two 'legs'--pretty easy. Then if it was me I'd ice it all white then put a dab of chocolate somewhere for a cavity and write the "calling Dr. Whoever"

 

just a thought

 

Not exactly the same effect as the $200 one but diy works sometimes.

Omg I'm sucha dunce I din even see you chose a link to a tooth cake!!! DO IT!!! You KNOW you can do it!!!

~~shop one day,

~~then get you cake board ready--it needs to be unflexible (reynolds wrapped foamcore works or heavy cardboard) or your cake will crack--

~~bake on another day, get your cake on it's board--I suggest that you flip it twice so it sits on the board the way it sat in the oven bottom side down--

~~and decorate on the next day.

That way you go crazy in installments not all at once.

I know you can do this and she will love that homely thing better than one that any amount of money could ever buy.

For real!

If you want a custom cake, be prepared to pony up the money.   Please, don't waste bakers' time getting quotes on high-end cakes unless you have a suitable budget to pay for such a cake to begin with.

Another option: to really save money, go to Wal-Mart...buy toothpaste, toothbrushes, dental floss, and a travel-size bottle of Listerine...then swing by their bakery and pick up a cake.  Stick the dental hygiene items on the cake and voila!  Cake done and wallet only lightened by about $20.  Then she can use the items you bought after eating the sugary cake.  Problem solved.  LOL