Cooking For Profit

[Bluebell72]

I have made wedding cakes in the past - the most I've charged was £250, and it was photographed for a wedding magazine. With hindsight, I could have asked for more, but I had no idea, when I took it on, how flashy it was going to be.
As another poster has said, the time taken didn't really equate to the money made - it took eight hours to make all the chocolate fondant roses, which is mind-numbing and fiddly.

I think I'm going to make a couple of cakes for them, and see how it goes.

 

[User482]

In situations like that its really opportunity cost rather than actual cost you need to think about. I doubt very much the ingredients and cooking would have cost anywhere near £75/100. So the question is what other money making activity would she have done if she hadn't been baking cakes? If she is getting something for that time by baking cakes its better than getting nothing for it. People often fail to realise that people's time has zero shelf life. As soon as its passed its worth nothing. So as long as it cover the variable costs in those circumstances getting something for it is better than getting nothing.

You'd be surprised how much the ingredients cost for a three tier wedding cake. And if you need to buy extra kitchen equipment...cake stand? Larger mixing bowl? Cake tins?