Cake made me pass out!

I hear ya Boston. Unfortunately, the price sounds right to me. My friend has a catering biz and is providing our cake as a wedding gift. The cost for 150 people is a little under 2,000.

OK... I am passing out with you!!! There is no way I am paying that much for something the guests may or may not eat. My cake is going to cost me right at 400.00 and it is buttercream , yellow butter cake and lemon filling ( 3 tiered) it wil feed 100p. I was quoted a crazy price as well and I have to tell you that the expensive place did not look or taste any better than the bakery I ended up going with. My best advice is to check with different bakeries to see if you can get a more reasonable price. Sadly there are so many wedding vendors that will try to charge ridiculous and outrageous prices...

I'm passing out with you girl! My wedding cake was a gift from my daughter's godmother. Have you tried places like Walmart or Publix -- I hear they have good cakes at very reasonable prices. Just a thought.

Okay so I just picked myself off the floor!!!! $1000 for a cake!! WHOA....we are paying $450 for a 4 tiered cake....there is NO WAY I'm paying that much! I think maybe you should shop around a little bit more. If you have the money to put that into a cake then by all means go ahead, but if you are on a budget like me that is absolutely too much. Don't have me break out the Duncan Hines box and some frosting and make it myself! lol...

Good looking out Rhony! I so totally agree with the under utilized supermarket bakery. Oh my GOD have you SEEn Harris Teeter cakes? I wonder if the designers are recent graduates of culinary school who can't afford their own bakery yet? Cakes can be over $15,000. It just depends on the kind of budget you have or the guests. I would get a cake for show, then serve cheesecake or something less expensive. The cake usually gets cut in the back anyway!

Hey Ms. Boston,
Unfortunately the ladies are right. These are the prices they offer so they can get the most money. $3-5/slice is about average (if not below) Sylvia Weinstock (which is probably the best cakemaker out there in NY) has all cakes for 10.00/slice. So you get the picture. Check out her website! She ships her cakes AROUND the world! But the way its shipped is interesting: You have to buy a plane ticket for her employee to take it there and put it together AND a ticket for the cake cause it needs its own seat. Nothing is shipped in cargo because they are so intricate....So truth be told, thats why the vendors hesitated, because it really does depend on the final number of people and since its so pricey, they should have been upfront about the $$/slice without hesitation. Like Sylvia does.
Anyhoo. Check out your local supermarkets and try their cakes like Rhony said! Talk to the bakery manager and see. You can save a lot of $$ that way, and because they are a business, they are pretty reliable. They will even deliver it and put it together for you for a fee. Publix charges 40.00 to do this and so our total is like less than 400.00 for his cake and mine plus delivery.

Another money saving tip: You can order like 4-5 round cakes individually to add up to as many as you need, go to a craft store and buy the tiers and have the supermarket put it together that way too.
My Grooms cake is actually a birthday cake (less $$) but they will decorate it with the design for the GM's cake I posted a few weeks ago. The price for wedding cakes are higher because the cake is richer than the birthday cakes they sell-but people don't know that. So instead of paying 35.00 for a 10-inch round....we are paying 14.99 for the same size cake in the same design:)

MsB, I was cracking up reading your posts. When I first started getting quotes, they were around that same price at bakeries. However, I then found out my favorite place where I always get places from also do cakes - ShopRite!!!! I almost went crazy when I found out. And the cakes cost about $2.00 per slice.

Now, it is known that everyone does not eat cake. So, when ordering reduce your count by 10. Your venue will be able to slice the cake for the amount of people that actually want cake.

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!!I wanted a 3 tier heart shaped cake. Enough to feed 100-150 people. Let me first begin w/yes they charge by the slice. but think about it when you order a birthday cake they ask you how many people so they know the size of the cake. Every bakery insisted for a cake for that many people I needed 4 tiers. They then charged btwn $4-10 a slice and an extra $25 per tier bcuz i wanted them shaped like a heart! Is that crazy or what. I finally called my venue and they advsd they wld do whatever I wanted for $2 a slice. Prior to that I went to shoprite and stop and shop who both make excellent cakes and pies and they were like $200 or less for the same thing except they do nt do heart shapes. So they are definitly a great option

[quote="MsBoston"]Musik- you go girl, that cake better have some encrusted dimonds or something up in there...for real. You and DR. are fortunate to have gotten/to be getting yours as a gift.[/quote]

I agree with everybody's comments. My cake will be custom-made by young woman who's cakes are shown at art galleries so the situation is different. That being said, before i found out about the gift, the masses were going to be be digging into some Safeway sheet cake. Holla!

Musik, girl I like your style!!!! Too funny -- but very smart!

Thats right ya'll...You gotta shop around. My coordinator told us to order enough cake for only the 100 out of the 150 people. Thats because every wedding she's done or been to, only 75-85% of the guests actually eat cake. Thats because some just don't want any (diabetes, your wedding favor was something sweet, not their favorite flavor, etc), others leave the reception early, or if you're already serving dessert on the menu, they may pass on the cake.

What will you do with the leftover cake? Throw it away or give it away. And she said unless its already prepared to go in a nice wrapped box, no one really wants a big hunk of extra wedding cake. So thats $50+ gone.

Remember, you can order a small 2-3 tier and then serve the rest of the guests from a sheet cake (from the kitchen) for a lot less money.

We are bringing cute boxes with ribbon to slice up the extra and try to give away first in a fun game we want to try and then any extra we will give to guests as an "extra" thank you...

A friend of mine lives in tenn. and at first she was against the whole publix thing, but once she saw how much cakes cost and went on publix website and saw how they can design those cakes she quickly changed her mind.

Yes we plan to keep our top tier. My coordinator who also got a publix cake said it was still delicious a year later. But I think because they wrapped it in plastic AND THEN boxed it.... but another friend of mine who ordered from a specialty baker said it tasted like the box a year later. So they may not have wrapped it in anything before putting it in the box.

I meant to add in an earlier post: The bakers actually base the amount of cake you need on your number submitted. So if your numbers are like 150 persons they will bake enough so that all the bottom tiers (not the top tier) will serve that amount. So its like getting the top tier as a gift from the bakers.

I know I'm late but $1,000 for a cake?? Wow! Rosie,I haven't checked Harris Teeter. I think there's one in Jacksonville Beach. I agree with the other ladies, I would check out Publix. You can go to the web site (www.publix.com) and check out some pics of their cakes.

I also plan on keeping my top layer for my anniversary.

I am saving my top layer. I did last time and it was delicious even though my ex did not want to participate.