I’m sure it’s a lovely tasting cake but doesn’t look like it was made in a professional setting/by a professional Baker?
If that is the case then I probably would not pay for it, but would cover food costs if it was made by a friend!
J_hc
I’d have to taste before saying I’d spend a ton on a cake. TBH, the piping work and star (or something besides a star) needs a bit of improvement before expecting to sell regularly.
tillywhacks
I probably wouldn’t to be honest. The decorations are uneven and look ready to tip off the edge, the cake looks crooked, and the cake layers are too thick to me when ratioed against the icing layers. If I’m willing to pay for a cake I’d want something cleaner.
I’d eat the hell out of it though LOL It’s very cute and you should keep working!
IDontUseSleeves
One thing I haven’t seen anyone else mention, so maybe it’s just me: the mix of gold and colors is sort of off-putting to me. Just colors would be great, just gold would be great, but the mix of colored sprinkles and gold crystals looks… off.
folgersbadger
Looks delicious, but the finishing is not professional so I probably would not pay for it unless it was from a trusted friend.
halliwell24
To properly answer how much something is worth, you’d need to know where you are, what the market is like there, what flavour the cake is, what materials were used, how big it is, where you were planning on selling it, what your credentials were.
What someone would pay in Wisconsin is different to what they’d pay in Cardiff, never mind if it’s 16 inches tall or 24, if it’s made with high quality butter, if it was being sold at a school bake sale or in a professional bakery…
DancingMaenad
I wouldn’t. This is not a professional job. Keep practicing if your goal is selling.
Now if I made this or someone I knew who wasn’t a professional made this for a party or something, I’d be pretty pleased with it.
nyssanotnicer
As someone who runs a cake business it’s not really at a sellable level. A couple suggestions to level up: you need more buttercream, it shouldn’t be 1:1 with the cake but you do need more. You should have equal amounts of buttercream for each layer. Thicker buttercream on top. If you got rid of the piped edge it would also look more modern.
If selling is your goal you’ve just gotta stick with it, we all start somewhere.
FaithlessnessWeak800
Your frosting layers (top/sides too) are too thin.
stuckhere-throwaway
no offense, but I wouldn’t. it looks homemade. the icing is lumpy and far too thin on the top and sides. if one of my friends made and gifted me this cake I would give them the biggest hug ever! but I wouldn’t pay for it.
chocolatemilkncoffee
Sorry, but I wouldn’t pay more than the cost of ingredients. As one home baker to another, that coat of buttercream you have on should be your crumb coat. I can see the cake through it. Put that layer on, stick it in the freezer 20-30 minutes, then add another, thicker layer (your cake to frosting ratio is off). As others have mentioned, don’t mix sprinkles and sugar together, pick one (you can never go wrong with sprinkles.)
Unlucky_Mammoth_2947
Hundreds and thousands
No-Oil2849
5$ because I’m nice I could’ve made that with 2 boxes of funfetti cake mix , one thing of mixed sprinkles and 2 jars of icing (beingcheap)
eatpant96
nothing. It is not pretty.
Yomamamancer
I thought this sub was getting away from these types of posts?
ReasonableBeep
$15 max. It looks like boxed mix funfetti decorated with all the leftover sprinkles.
TheDocHolliday
I wouldn’t.
mandawynz
I think the layers of frosting in between are too thin, and the bleeding sprinkles in the batter don’t make it look too appetizing. If you used the sprinkles that look like little rods it typically tends to do that. I have done this before with the tiny bead sprinkles and they do not bleed into the cake. I think all in all, amazing effort because this is a very uniform cake and the cake layers are nice and even. But I would practice some more before making a business with this!
PattyNChips
It definitely looks homemade. I would pay the cost of ingredients if a friend made this for me, but I wouldn’t pay a professional for something like this.
You are so close, though. It’s literally just an issue of technique. Practice your decorating a bit, that’s all (and a bit more frosting). If you struggle with smoothing the frosting or the thickness, some acrylic frosting disks could be a really good idea. Also, personally, I would leave the vanilla bean out of the decorative layer of frosting. I don’t find it really aesthetically pleasing, but that’s just me. Put it in your crumbcoat and your filling and it’ll still be delicious.
XaetherX
I’m a baker/cake decorator and I think you’ve gotten lots of good insight here, but I’ll still add in my thoughts. Reevaluate your buttercream recipe. I mix my buttercream in my stand mixer for about 25 minutes. It makes a huge difference. Then another 5 on low speed to knock out some bubbles. Clean your cake drum of frosting and loose sprinkles. The sprinkle mix you have isn’t suitable for a full cake cover. Try to pipe any borders with even spacing. You could make them higher, connect it to a rope, or use a different type of star/ flower tip. To give you an idea of pricing, If I made this type of cake, I would sell a 6” cake for $80, with cost going up for any specialty flavors or fillings. You can check my post history to see my level of proficiency. I’m not an expect but would classify myself as intermediate/advanced.
Just keep practicing, watching lots of videos of cake decorating, invest in good tools if you can, and you’ll get there!!
LostLemurKing
The cake the filling ratio is off a bit. Needs more filling imo
-UnicornFart
Nothing. I would not buy this cake.
WumboDoctorate
Good as a gift, not good to sell in a bakery. It doesn’t look professional to sell. Colors of sprinkles looks off together and you need to work on frosting distribution.
Continue practicing.
Aggressive-Mall6879
I would probably choke eating this, not willing to pay anything🙏🏻
CandyHeartFarts
Honestly it’s not a finished look in any regard. Icing & composition look inexperienced and the cake appears to be a box mix?
chickynugnugs4lyfe
You trolling?
Rainbow_in_the_sky
Realistically, this is something you bring to a potluck at work and everyone is happy. To me, that an unGodly amount of sprinkles on the side.
So, I wouldn’t pay to order this but it’s good for informal events.
Yo_dog-
$10-12
catsweedcoffee
Not professional enough to purchase, though I would eat it were it at a party.
cancat918
It’s messy, and I guess the decorations are overdone to try to hide that the frosting texture is off and looks slightly curdled. The batter had far too many sprinkles as well. A well decorated 3 layer cake in my area would be in the $65-110 range, on average, depending on the number of servings and level of decoration, etc. I’d say this cake would be on the low end of that range.
athennna
I wouldn’t. This looks like a homemade cake.
februarytide-
I require significantly more frosting and filling to even enjoy this, TBH.
Soggy-Jellyfish77
How many times are you going to post the same exact photo of this very mediocre cake? I’ll pay you to stop posting pictures of it, honestly.
Inactive-Ingredient
I mean this in the most gentle and constructive way possible: I would not pay for this unless it was being sold at a charity event or by a school bake sale
Hi_Jynx
Nothing. It looks good, but it looks so very homemade and I am capable of making a decent looking and good tasting cake. I feel like if I’m buying one I’d go for cheap grocery store cake or very beautiful professional looking bakery cake. Yours is probably prettier than one I’d make, but not enough so to justify spending money versus getting the joy of having a personally homemade one.
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I’m sure it’s a lovely tasting cake but doesn’t look like it was made in a professional setting/by a professional Baker?
If that is the case then I probably would not pay for it, but would cover food costs if it was made by a friend!
I’d have to taste before saying I’d spend a ton on a cake.
TBH, the piping work and star (or something besides a star) needs a bit of improvement before expecting to sell regularly.
I probably wouldn’t to be honest. The decorations are uneven and look ready to tip off the edge, the cake looks crooked, and the cake layers are too thick to me when ratioed against the icing layers. If I’m willing to pay for a cake I’d want something cleaner.
I’d eat the hell out of it though LOL It’s very cute and you should keep working!
One thing I haven’t seen anyone else mention, so maybe it’s just me: the mix of gold and colors is sort of off-putting to me. Just colors would be great, just gold would be great, but the mix of colored sprinkles and gold crystals looks… off.
Looks delicious, but the finishing is not professional so I probably would not pay for it unless it was from a trusted friend.
To properly answer how much something is worth, you’d need to know where you are, what the market is like there, what flavour the cake is, what materials were used, how big it is, where you were planning on selling it, what your credentials were.
What someone would pay in Wisconsin is different to what they’d pay in Cardiff, never mind if it’s 16 inches tall or 24, if it’s made with high quality butter, if it was being sold at a school bake sale or in a professional bakery…
I wouldn’t. This is not a professional job. Keep practicing if your goal is selling.
Now if I made this or someone I knew who wasn’t a professional made this for a party or something, I’d be pretty pleased with it.
As someone who runs a cake business it’s not really at a sellable level. A couple suggestions to level up: you need more buttercream, it shouldn’t be 1:1 with the cake but you do need more. You should have equal amounts of buttercream for each layer. Thicker buttercream on top. If you got rid of the piped edge it would also look more modern.
If selling is your goal you’ve just gotta stick with it, we all start somewhere.
Your frosting layers (top/sides too) are too thin.
no offense, but I wouldn’t. it looks homemade. the icing is lumpy and far too thin on the top and sides. if one of my friends made and gifted me this cake I would give them the biggest hug ever! but I wouldn’t pay for it.
Sorry, but I wouldn’t pay more than the cost of ingredients. As one home baker to another, that coat of buttercream you have on should be your crumb coat. I can see the cake through it. Put that layer on, stick it in the freezer 20-30 minutes, then add another, thicker layer (your cake to frosting ratio is off). As others have mentioned, don’t mix sprinkles and sugar together, pick one (you can never go wrong with sprinkles.)
Hundreds and thousands
5$ because I’m nice I could’ve made that with 2 boxes of funfetti cake mix , one thing of mixed sprinkles and 2 jars of icing (beingcheap)
nothing. It is not pretty.
I thought this sub was getting away from these types of posts?
$15 max. It looks like boxed mix funfetti decorated with all the leftover sprinkles.
I wouldn’t.
I think the layers of frosting in between are too thin, and the bleeding sprinkles in the batter don’t make it look too appetizing. If you used the sprinkles that look like little rods it typically tends to do that. I have done this before with the tiny bead sprinkles and they do not bleed into the cake. I think all in all, amazing effort because this is a very uniform cake and the cake layers are nice and even. But I would practice some more before making a business with this!
It definitely looks homemade. I would pay the cost of ingredients if a friend made this for me, but I wouldn’t pay a professional for something like this.
You are so close, though. It’s literally just an issue of technique. Practice your decorating a bit, that’s all (and a bit more frosting). If you struggle with smoothing the frosting or the thickness, some acrylic frosting disks could be a really good idea. Also, personally, I would leave the vanilla bean out of the decorative layer of frosting. I don’t find it really aesthetically pleasing, but that’s just me. Put it in your crumbcoat and your filling and it’ll still be delicious.
I’m a baker/cake decorator and I think you’ve gotten lots of good insight here, but I’ll still add in my thoughts. Reevaluate your buttercream recipe. I mix my buttercream in my stand mixer for about 25 minutes. It makes a huge difference. Then another 5 on low speed to knock out some bubbles. Clean your cake drum of frosting and loose sprinkles. The sprinkle mix you have isn’t suitable for a full cake cover. Try to pipe any borders with even spacing. You could make them higher, connect it to a rope, or use a different type of star/ flower tip. To give you an idea of pricing, If I made this type of cake, I would sell a 6” cake for $80, with cost going up for any specialty flavors or fillings. You can check my post history to see my level of proficiency. I’m not an expect but would classify myself as intermediate/advanced.
Just keep practicing, watching lots of videos of cake decorating, invest in good tools if you can, and you’ll get there!!
The cake the filling ratio is off a bit. Needs more filling imo
Nothing. I would not buy this cake.
Good as a gift, not good to sell in a bakery. It doesn’t look professional to sell. Colors of sprinkles looks off together and you need to work on frosting distribution.
Continue practicing.
I would probably choke eating this, not willing to pay anything🙏🏻
Honestly it’s not a finished look in any regard. Icing & composition look inexperienced and the cake appears to be a box mix?
You trolling?
Realistically, this is something you bring to a potluck at work and everyone is happy. To me, that an unGodly amount of sprinkles on the side.
So, I wouldn’t pay to order this but it’s good for informal events.
$10-12
Not professional enough to purchase, though I would eat it were it at a party.
It’s messy, and I guess the decorations are overdone to try to hide that the frosting texture is off and looks slightly curdled. The batter had far too many sprinkles as well. A well decorated 3 layer cake in my area would be in the $65-110 range, on average, depending on the number of servings and level of decoration, etc. I’d say this cake would be on the low end of that range.
I wouldn’t. This looks like a homemade cake.
I require significantly more frosting and filling to even enjoy this, TBH.
How many times are you going to post the same exact photo of this very mediocre cake? I’ll pay you to stop posting pictures of it, honestly.
I mean this in the most gentle and constructive way possible: I would not pay for this unless it was being sold at a charity event or by a school bake sale
Nothing. It looks good, but it looks so very homemade and I am capable of making a decent looking and good tasting cake. I feel like if I’m buying one I’d go for cheap grocery store cake or very beautiful professional looking bakery cake. Yours is probably prettier than one I’d make, but not enough so to justify spending money versus getting the joy of having a personally homemade one.