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Question

My son's birthday party is on Sunday and we are having a friend of ours make the cakes for us. She is making 2 sheet cakes. Each one feeds about 40 people. One will have a race track on it, and the other will be pretty plain with "Happy Birthday Atreyu" on it. Then she is going to make a cake shaped like Lightening McQueen specially for my son to smash. She didn't give us a price for all this and said to just give her what we wanted. I do not know what cakes cost these days. What do you think we should give her?

Answer 1

keep $100.  Cakes that size are not cheap.

Answer 2

I would have to say like between 30 and 40 dollars.But if you want cheap it would be 20 dollars..

Answer 3

Call a local bakery and ask them the price for 2 sheet cakes to feed 80 people and a cake to smash.  

Answer 4

I would give her about $100, figuring about just over 30 dollars a cake. You dont want to do less that 25 dollars, otherwise you might come across as cheap, and you dont want that.

Answer 5

Never quite understood the whole "smashing" cake thing but what ever floats your boat.

2 cakes feeding 80 people is a lot, plus the third, I would think you're looking at 60-75 bucks.

Answer 6

I charge $40-50 for each of larger cakes.  But Sam's club and Costco charges $18 for each of the larger ones.

Cost wise, it costs me about $20 to make.