This client smh! Rant - Page 3  

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Originally Posted by LovelyCakes4Us 

30 dozen eggs 40.00

67 cake mixes 70.00

1 bottle oil 8.00

3 big sour creams 30.00

35lb bag sugar 51.00

35lb bag flour 25.51

salt free

2 gals of milk 5.00

vanilla 8.75

15.00 15 bags marsh mellows

24.00 powder sugar

Must be typos... no way you'd use 67 cake mixes and 30 dozen eggs.  And if you used 6-7 mixes, they wouldn't cost $70.  Why would you use any sugar and flour at all along with mixes, much less 35 lbs. of each?  (I see you list powdered sugar separately for icing, so 35 lbs. of sugar wouldn't be an icing ingredient.)  Are you providing 2 gallons of milk to be consumed by the guests to wash down their slice?  Dowels are much cheaper, and sour cream at Sam's is nearly half that.  You should figure your cost by what is actually used... if you charge one customer for all sugar and flour that you choose to buy in 35 lb. bags, does it mean the next customer gets it at no charge because you've already been reimbursed for it?

That list had me flummoxed.

Yeah, those ingredients and costs didn't make much sense to me either.  But . . . getting back to the original post.

Run.

That cake, with delivery is $1200 easy.  Seriously.

Nothing you will make for $500 will look remotely like that picture.  And then he will be disappointed.  And trash you.

Say this over and over.  "His budget is not my problem."

If he wants that cake, he will find the money for it.

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Originally Posted by CWR41 

Must be typos... no way you'd use 67 cake mixes and 30 dozen eggs.  And if you used 6-7 mixes, they wouldn't cost $70.  Why would you use any sugar and flour at all along with mixes, much less 35 lbs. of each?  (I see you list powdered sugar separately for icing, so 35 lbs. of sugar wouldn't be an icing ingredient.)  Are you providing 2 gallons of milk to be consumed by the guests to wash down their slice?  Dowels are much cheaper, and sour cream at Sam's is nearly half that.  You should figure your cost by what is actually used... if you charge one customer for all sugar and flour that you choose to buy in 35 lb. bags, does it mean the next customer gets it at no charge because you've already been reimbursed for it?

It sounds like she uses the White Almond Sour Cream Cake recipe, which calls for extra sugar, flour, sour cream along with mixes...But I agree, even then the list sounds off, even though the list she posted was servings for 300.

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Originally Posted by leah_s 

Yeah, those ingredients and costs didn't make much sense to me either.  But . . . getting back to the original post.

 

Run.

 

That cake, with delivery is $1200 easy.  Seriously.

 

Nothing you will make for $500 will look remotely like that picture.  And then he will be disappointed.  And trash you.

 

Say this over and over.  "His budget is not my problem."

 

If he wants that cake, he will find the money for it.

^^^YES!  This cake would have started at $1000 for me.  Add on the details and it would easily top $1200-1500. 

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Originally Posted by jason_kraft 


$475 is way too high for ingredients and supplies for a 250 serving cake.

Can you post a breakout of how you got to this number? It might help determine where you are overpaying.

Yes I agree with Jason. That seems a bit much for ingredients only.

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Originally Posted by jason_kraft 


$475 is way too high for ingredients and supplies for a 250 serving cake.

Can you post a breakout of how you got to this number? It might help determine where you are overpaying.

i was also thinking this...i guess i don;t see how the ingredients/boards/dowels for a cake this size could cost $475.... i'm curious to hear the breakdown here

If the whole cake is to be one flavor, the most mixes you will need is 22, figuring 14 serving for mix, and if you are adding sugar and flour, you'll need even less. 

I'd love to know how 67 boxes of cake mix makes 67 cups of batter. Especially when made with 360 eggs. 

I am pretty sure she posted the wrong list. Looks more like an inventory list, or a list of what is needed for a bunch of projects. Maybe?

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Originally Posted by kikiandkyle 

I'd love to know how 67 boxes of cake mix makes 67 cups of batter. Especially when made with 360 eggs. 

Well, with the wasc recipe it is 4 eggs per mix, which would be 268 eggs. But she would only need 22 mixes... 

Send him to the grocery store!