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Tresta Raber
1028 Harding St Lot 4
Belle Fourche, SD 57717
[email protected]
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1028 Harding St Lot 4
Belle Fourche, SD 57717
[email protected]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Treats-By-Tress/243620582365497?ref=hl
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Please be aware that I am located in Belle Fourche SD and unless you are within reasonable driving distance, I will be unable to ship or deliver a cake.
Contact me for pricing, cake size, and flavors.
Thanks for visiting Treats By Tress! If you have questions about one of my cakes, decorating, or baking, please leave a comment or send me an email
Contact me for pricing, cake size, and flavors.
Thanks for visiting Treats By Tress! If you have questions about one of my cakes, decorating, or baking, please leave a comment or send me an email
Why Custom Cakes Cost More
(I got this from Enchanted Bakery and it is so true.)
This is the most common question when quoting for a custom specialty cake, so I thought I’d go through some of the costs involved in making a cake. A popular response from the person asking for a quote is that they can buy a cake for around 20.00 - 30.00 in a supermarket – which is true. You can get a cheap celebration cake in a supermarket… because it is a supermarket. They make things cheap because they are HUGE, but I’m betting they don’t put in the time and effort of a local cake baker and it won’t be personalised exactly to your specification. And I can pretty much guarantee that it won’t taste anywhere near as good! I recently saw a quote somewhere (sorry, I can’t remember where or I would have credited them) that said “Good cake isn’t cheap, cheap cake isn’t good” – I think that sums it up pretty well.
I am the first to admit that there are some cake makers who charge extortionate prices, with cupcakes starting at 4.00 each and price hikes once they know the cake is for a wedding. However, this is not the norm for most custom cake makers and I for one, never add anything extra onto a wedding quote. If anything, I often undercharge for my cakes.
Those of you who bake a lot will know that good quality ingredients aren’t that cheap and recently there have been huge price hikes in the supermarkets. To make a 2 tier cake, for example, with 8″ and 6″ tiers you are looking at quite a lot of ingredients – a dozen eggs, couple of packs of butter, half a bag of flour, half a bag of sugar, flavourings….
Then you have the decoration materials:
Fondant to cover the cakes (around 40.00 for a 10 pound bucket)
Buttercream to fill the cake and stick the icing on
A cake drum for the base (approx 5.00 for a 10″ round drum if using a drum)
A cake box
Thin cake card for each cake that is going to be stacked to sit on (otherwise the supports will squish into the cake above and disaster will ensue.
Dowelling rods – 3 or 4 per tier (these are vital if you are stacking cakes otherwise the whole thing will collapse
Then you have extras such as shimmer dusts, colorings, edible images, edible inks, modelling materials (I could go on and on) and not forgetting electricity/gas to bake the cakes.
All in all, for a 2 tier cake you are probably looking at 30-40.00 worth of materials and ingredients before you take into consideration my time. If you are wanting a 3D carved cake the cost to build the structure can sometimes go up to as much as 100.00 alone. To make a sugar model you are looking at a good few hours work, depending on how intricate the model is. Decorating a cake is a time consuming task and very often I am working for less than the minimum wage. This is not meant to be negative and you may ask why I’m doing it, and the simple answer is because I love it. I love being creative and I love seeing the look on a customer’s face when they collect their cake. It’s all worth it!
So please remember, if you ask a custom cake maker for a quote, you are not going to get it for supermarket prices – but it will look and taste an awful lot better. Promise!
This is the most common question when quoting for a custom specialty cake, so I thought I’d go through some of the costs involved in making a cake. A popular response from the person asking for a quote is that they can buy a cake for around 20.00 - 30.00 in a supermarket – which is true. You can get a cheap celebration cake in a supermarket… because it is a supermarket. They make things cheap because they are HUGE, but I’m betting they don’t put in the time and effort of a local cake baker and it won’t be personalised exactly to your specification. And I can pretty much guarantee that it won’t taste anywhere near as good! I recently saw a quote somewhere (sorry, I can’t remember where or I would have credited them) that said “Good cake isn’t cheap, cheap cake isn’t good” – I think that sums it up pretty well.
I am the first to admit that there are some cake makers who charge extortionate prices, with cupcakes starting at 4.00 each and price hikes once they know the cake is for a wedding. However, this is not the norm for most custom cake makers and I for one, never add anything extra onto a wedding quote. If anything, I often undercharge for my cakes.
Those of you who bake a lot will know that good quality ingredients aren’t that cheap and recently there have been huge price hikes in the supermarkets. To make a 2 tier cake, for example, with 8″ and 6″ tiers you are looking at quite a lot of ingredients – a dozen eggs, couple of packs of butter, half a bag of flour, half a bag of sugar, flavourings….
Then you have the decoration materials:
Fondant to cover the cakes (around 40.00 for a 10 pound bucket)
Buttercream to fill the cake and stick the icing on
A cake drum for the base (approx 5.00 for a 10″ round drum if using a drum)
A cake box
Thin cake card for each cake that is going to be stacked to sit on (otherwise the supports will squish into the cake above and disaster will ensue.
Dowelling rods – 3 or 4 per tier (these are vital if you are stacking cakes otherwise the whole thing will collapse
Then you have extras such as shimmer dusts, colorings, edible images, edible inks, modelling materials (I could go on and on) and not forgetting electricity/gas to bake the cakes.
All in all, for a 2 tier cake you are probably looking at 30-40.00 worth of materials and ingredients before you take into consideration my time. If you are wanting a 3D carved cake the cost to build the structure can sometimes go up to as much as 100.00 alone. To make a sugar model you are looking at a good few hours work, depending on how intricate the model is. Decorating a cake is a time consuming task and very often I am working for less than the minimum wage. This is not meant to be negative and you may ask why I’m doing it, and the simple answer is because I love it. I love being creative and I love seeing the look on a customer’s face when they collect their cake. It’s all worth it!
So please remember, if you ask a custom cake maker for a quote, you are not going to get it for supermarket prices – but it will look and taste an awful lot better. Promise!