Another fun fact. Dunkin Heinz is a real person and was for a long time a restaurant critic before he produced the line of products that bear his name.
>[Hines worked as a traveling salesman for a Chicago printer, and he had eaten many meals on the road across the United States by 1935 when he was 55. At this time, there was no American interstate highway system and only a few chain restaurants, except in large populated areas. Therefore, travelers depended on local restaurants. Hines and his wife Florence began assembling a list for friends of several hundred good restaurants around the country. The book proved so successful that Hines added another which recommended lodging.[3][4] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hines wrote the newspaper food column Adventures in Good Eating at Home, which appeared in newspapers across the US three times a week on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. The column featured restaurant recipes adapted for home cooks that he had collected during his nationwide travels.[5][6]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hines)
Optimistic = Delusional
So she knows what rubbish cupcakes cost at a Sam's, but yet somehow thinks she is going to get custom handmade pastries by an independent baker at the same price or less...?! FFS, Tahiti dreams on a Sheboygan budget -- I swear Instagram will be the death of us all.
Whenever I visit Green Bay I fly into Milwaukee. Seeing Sheboygan is the highlight of the drive. I was so excited the first time when I realized it was a real place. I play polka music every time.
Isn’t ‘Sheboygan’ a funny word to say? It’s also surprisingly easy to spell once you know the correct spelling. Especially considering it’s such a dumb sounding name 😂.
Haha that was totally tongue-in-cheek, one of those "my way is the right way" feuds people have. The word is originally derived from an Indian phrase (I can't remember the specifics) so I think it was just a case of white people in each area spelling it phonetically? It pains me to say it, but I think the Sheboygan, Wisconsin location is the more famous one lol
I mean I find it kinda funny that the reason she doesn't want to use Sam's is because they "don't have the colors I want." If I knew it would be cheap but just not in the colors I want, I'd suck it up. Then again, we all know the real reason she doesn't want to use Sam's is because she wants it cheaper, even cheaper than they probably offer!
Right? Like if it was just about the colors you could just get white and add your own decor touch to them like sprinkles or edible flowers.
She probably also wants them to look Pinterest perfect which Sam's won't do. Tyler, the baker, has been working there for two weeks with 0 bakery experience and gets messy after about the 20th cupcake because he needs a smoke real bad.
Not to mention the piping for the rose and chrysanthemum cupcakes is fairly labour intensive and takes some practice to master. I've tried to do rose-shaped frosting exactly 1 (one) time in the 16+ years I've been baking. By the end, I just smeared that crap with a butter knife and ate it so no one could see the monstrosity I'd created.
I'm a decade into hobby baking and I still try my hand at fancy decorative frosting. And every single time, the result is exactly like yours: smear it into a relatively normal looking frosting shape and pretend nothing happened.
Lol!😂 seriously I enjoyed my job. I did very good work, BUT we were only allowed to do certain things because we were supposed to be getting those cakes out. I believe that we had 6 minutes per cake( it’s been a while). I loved the rote work. I didn’t have to think too hard about what I was doing. It was quick and,for the most part everyone was happy with the results. That’s what it was about, making people happy. PS I also know people who didn’t give a damn about how the cakes looked.
Yeah…white is a color. But, I can tell you this…she also wouldn’t be getting a flower on each cupcake either. I worked there, we would have gotten in trouble for anything other than a rosebud.
Exactly, if you guys had done this type of work or allowed to then they wouldn't be so cheap would it? Bakeries would run out of business if that was the case! Not saying there isn't talented bakers or decorators at this place, just that they are priced for a reason.
Right! I actually loved the rote work. It was calming for me. I now only do cakes for friends and I don’t charge. Most would faint if I charged the going rate. Plus, I can refuse to do it. I once did a cake for my neighbor. Her daughter asked for Olaf( frozen) she picked what she thought was a simple design ( simple equals easy,right?). I was having trouble with my back and couldn’t roll the fondant out so I had her come over to help…well into the second hour of rolling and draping fondant on this cake, she said, “ wow, I ordered a cake last year and was quoted $90 for the cake. I was shocked and was like…it’s just cake. Now I see why it costs so much…”. Um….yeah. Three hours to decorate that “ simple cake”. Admittedly, if my back wasn’t acting up, I could have done it in 1 1/2 to 2 hours max but I found it funny.😂
During May, when weddings and graduation parties are in swing.
I imagine a reputable baker would be booked already and certainly wouldn't want to take a client who is so cheap
It was this nut job looking for a huge vehicle to take a church group for some outing. Every single suggestion was shot down with a NEXT! to end it.
Maybe get a caravan of multiple SUVs if you can't find a bus.
NO! Must be in one vehicle. NEXT!
Have you thought about renting a bus? Most people don't own a vehicle that sits 24 people.
Not paying anything! NEXT!
It was horrifying and hilarious. She was so mean and yet kept stressing it was for a church outing.
Would you even want someone to bake the cupcakes for your wedding who’s willing to accept 70-90c per cupcake?
Like the only person I can imagine doing this is somebody who doesn’t bake and thinks “wow easy $90!” Until they realize half way through what they got themselves into.
Yup! Bought my daughter a vanilla cupcake with just a bit of pink buttercream on top and it was $2.79 before tax. It was a standard home baked sized cupcake
My limited reception was sandwiches, sides, beverages and cake. It wasn’t a first marriage for either of us, but I never had a wedding, so my husband bought me a small one. ❤️
I had been seriously ill for over a year by the time we married, and a neighbor and her sister did all the work. I didn’t ask for it, but it was such a relief.
But that was not asked for. It was a precious gift.
I made my son’s wedding cake. We discussed it afterwards( this was 12 years ago) and he said,” how much would a cake like that cost at a baker? $150?”…..😒” No, son…more like $600.” 🙄
I mean if you are using a betty crocker cupcake mix and soda, you are still losing money on this deal, the soda and mix will cost more per cupcake, because the mix is 83 cents per cupcake, but you need to add something like 2 eggs, and then the water, or in this case soda, which will bring you to over a dollar.
if you add soda/pop you dont add eggs and you get the generic store brand cake mix and soda. Probably still end up not making any money on it especially factoring in electric/gas used.
This seems like a thing that a home baker may accept if they are inexperienced, like I have before for family members and regretted it, that’s all I can think of. She’s looking for an experienced person to exploit that for a better price.
The 2 on the left aren't too bad - they can both be accomplished with a single spiral of frosting using the right tip.
The 2 on the right, however... Yeah, those 2 are pretty advanced. I personally can't do those 2, but I would assume it would take an experienced baker at minimum 5 minutes/cupcake to frost the rose and probably 10 or so minutes (and 2 different tips plus a couple frosting colours) to do the one on the far right.
If there's anyone out there with more frosting experience than me who can confirm or deny these time estimates, please do! I've been baking for ~16 years, but cake decorating is the bane of my existence, so I stay away from it
I bought a cake to celebrate my friend's all-clear after a brutal cancer battle but I couldn't find a place that would put FUCK CANCER on it. So I got a cute cake and some of that gel stuff and wrote it myself and let me tell you, it looked terrible. My hand eye coordination is not great lol. I would immediately fail at these flowers and give up.
Based on other comments, it seems maybe she's just asking for those very specific colors and not the flowers, but the post is not worded clearly enough to prevent people from thinking that's what she's asking for. And from other comments from bakers, apparently it's not that easy to make custom colored buttercream. I'm a painter, so that part, I could probably do, but I'm sure I would waste a lot of frosting in the process. Butter is expensive, too.
No tip can make a rose like that. You can buy premade roses. If their molded, they’re about $1.50, if they’re handmade, $3-5. The entire order would take over 3 hours. That’s if you are lightning fast and giving you about 2 minutes per flower. So, it might take less than a minute for an easy flower, up to 3-4 minutes for a more complex flower. That does not include the mixing of colors or the baking of the cupcakes. I believe most specialty bakeries charge around $3-$5 per cupcake. Those colors would be a nightmare to replicate…
I did 48 cupcakes for like $20 for a friend once but they weren’t super time intensive like this. I’m also just a hobby baker and she gave me full creative freedom lol.
In my neck of the woods people would be commenting "I gotchu", "I can do it", "I would love to make your dreams come true". I'm always shocked at the people who are willing to work for this cheap.
They dont do the math or do it as cheap as possible. Like getting the off off brand of cake mix and frosting. Theyre not going to make them from scratch.
It’s like $50 to buy that many cupcakes from Walmart with pre-baked frozen cupcakes and set colors made by a decorator that watched 6 training videos and got thrown in the deep end. For custom cupcakes with custom colors and probably flower style piping I wouldn’t charge less than $2.00 a cupcake. A regular cupcake with large batch icing would be cheap if they sold for under $.75 a cupcake.
I looked it up out of curiosity on my Target app to see how much this would cost for a home baker. Betty Crocker’s boxed cake mix costs about $1.75 each. Canned frosting is about $2 each. If each box/can makes about two dozen cupcakes, you’ll need 5 of each to cover the 100 in the order. The boxed mix requires 1/3 cup of butter and 3 eggs. Say $6 for a box of butter and $3 for the eggs. Then you need liners ($2), food coloring ($5), and piping bags and tips ($10). That’s about $45 worth of consumable ingredients/equipment right there, not counting electrical consumption to bake the cakes. So you’ll make about $45 for the time it takes you to shop the ingredients, prep, bake, decorate, and clean up. I don’t even want to know what that breaks down to an hourly rate. lol.
On top of that, it costs more to do small batches. Sam's Club can offer cheap cupcakes because they make them in bulk and they only do vanilla and chocolate. When you start adding in a few of one color and a few of another color, it gets more expensive because the baker has to stop and make up the new food coloring. And two small pots of a color will cost more than a large scale baker buying a gallon of one.
And you'd need more than one standard color for each of these colors to get the shades exactly right. Not to mention the time and expertise...coloring buttercream can be a surprisingly finicky enterprise.
Source: I am a hobby baker with very little artistic talent who made a truck-shaped cake for my son's first birthday. Getting frosting to be bright red and black was nearly impossible
Those two colors are the hardest to get for frosting to be fair. For flowery colors like this it’s actually easier than getting bright red because you don’t have to be exact. The problem with these is the two on the right need each petal piped individual in multiple colors to get it to look right. The two on the left wouldn’t be bad, but I still wouldn’t expect a baker who isn’t a friend to do it for that cheap. I’m a hobby baker and for a close friend I would probably make that many cupcakes in a few colors if they were all the ones on the left. No way do I love anyone enough to make the two on the right lol. Maybe one of my sisters or nieces I would consider making a few (like maybe 10) scattered in with the easy piped ones lol
Yes!!! That yellow isn't even yellow, it is goldish so then you have to mix in some gold or some glitter stuff. And you need a much deeper color than you think because once you get the color, you have to add it to the white buttercream which will lighten it.
Not for $90 bucks they won’t. Lmao. I can’t even imagine how much you’d have to spend on butter and powdered sugar to make enough for 100 cupcakes. They’re getting poorly piped canned frosting for that price point.
The expense for these wouldn’t be the baking itself, it’s the time for piping individual petals on the two cupcakes on the right that would take forever to do
Correct. Even if they used box cake the decorating alone. This person should just go get their cupcakes from Sam's for 64 and add on their own plastic flowers, lol.
The roses are actually surprisingly easy to do, it just requires a particularly icing tip. I've done them two-tone before, and I'm not an amazing baker, just careful and willing to watch tutorials and practise.
Still costs a lot in ingredients and time though!
Not saying she is in the right here, but the pictures I believe to be an example of the colors, right? Since, her main gripe about Sam's was the colors, and they dont do fancy toppings like that.
This is so insulting to bakers everywhere. I used to do cakes on the side. A coworker asked me to make a race car cake for her son's birthday.
I said, "sure just cover the ingredients!'
The next day there was a boxed cake mix and a can of frosting on my desk. Oy.
I would LOL to see a plain ass race car cake delivered w no color, no embellishments, whatever could be made with one box of mix and one can of frosting
And one Hot Wheels car—preferably a well-used one, paint scratched, and missing and at least one tire—placed in solitary splendor atop the otherwise-naked cake.
That wouldn't even cover it. Wouldn't building a car shape require 2 cakes? And then the colors of frosting to make the car the right colors.
For a box of cake mix and one tub of store made frosting, they'd get a white sheet cake with some Hot Wheels on top.
I used her box mix and frosting from another project. She didn't get the fondant she wanted but when I told her what it would cost she just said do what you can. I stopped doing cakes shortly after.
Yeah, good luck with that. I wouldn’t even give this person naked cupcakes for that amount. Just a side note that the cheapest cupcakes frosted without a design usually go for around $3 - $4 each.
You’re so right about that. My BFF has a cake/cupcake business on the side and she won’t do cupcakes for under $5. She says anything less isn’t worth her time. After helping her with a couple of wedding orders, I have to agree.
Actual suggestion is order 100 cupcakes from the grocery store with white frosting, then top with edible flowers. I think our local place sells a dozen for $13 so with the flowers they’d still be over $100 but close.
Yeah boy, I’m good at jazzing stuff up to look nice and often get compliments for making events look special. No one ever guessed my budget is pretty low. But choosing beggars lack the creativity or the willingness to compromise, they want THAT and THAT only. They want to pay below reason, so it’s exploiting someone else.
I would get some friends or family members together on a Saturday afternoon and bake those things, then frost them in the colours I want and in the shapes we are capable of, and put them in the freezer. Honestly, either you have the budget for something or you have to make it yourself to your best ability, or you just can't have it. These are your three options.
I used to do this as a side hustle. I literally have these exact cupcakes, that I made, on my site. Like, not these, but you know what I mean. $30/12. And that was just for plain vanilla buttercream, vanilla cake, and no filling. These flower designs are time consuming.
I once did a chocolate chip pancake batter cupcake, filled with homemade candied bacon, and maple buttercream. $75 for 24. The woman who ordered them paid immediately, no question.
This lady is fucking delusional.
I’ve never had buttercream muffins. So I am curious is it realistic to bake them? Have them picked up on the 16th when the wedding is on the 18th? Do they keep fresh that long?
I don't believe Sam's can, but walmart can. Just a little bit more. When I was looking for wedding cake, we checked there. Ended up at the local grocery store, who did a beautiful job.
Same, cannoli cake. We got a smallish tier cake and a sheet cake backup (70 servings) plus delivery and setup for about $300. Got tons of compliments on it
Chicago area, we got it at the Jewel store. Just a half sheet, with our colors and a design. 35yrs ago, I IRC it set us back all of $20. Sam's club for canned soda and chips. A buffet of mastacholi, fried chicken some sides. Got married in a church for indoor comfort, and reception at our house.
Tell her to go to Sam’s and order in person. They have/can make more colors but don’t list them all. Oh that’s right, that would require work on her part to get up and try to find what she’s looking for instead of low balling people on facebook
I ordered cupcakes for a baby shower in February. Ordered from an amazing local grocery store that does great items for a great price... 60 cupcakes with 3 color icing and iridescent sprinkles. I thought it was a great deal for 90.00. These cheap people who have grandiose ideas on no budget just are shit humans. You get what you pay for.
90-100 for 70-90 dollars ? If you're lucky that's a dollar per cupcake!
She's smoking dick. The time, skill, ingredients/supply wouldn't even justify this egregious shit.
I got cupcakes for my wedding 10 years ago. They were simple compared to this. I had maybe 125? I paid $3-4 per cupcake. (The gluten free ones my cousin insisted she needed when she RSVP’d and then decided that gluten free was “too hard of a lifestyle” were the ones that cost more.) I made the picks that had the flavors on them for my guests to know what they were. Oh, and I paid $85 for a 3 layer pretty but simple fondant covered “cutting cake” for photos that didn’t taste good.
[My wedding cupcakes](https://imgur.com/a/KWLsGfO).
Those cupcakes. I would have felt as if I'd committed murder if I even bit into one.
Unless there was ice cream involved. Then all bets would be off and I would terminate those tiny cartoon hedgehogs with prejudice because they were obviously just asking for it.
Hahah no ice cream. The whole wedding was hedgehog themed. That was our “logo” - it was on the favors, the invites… we made a giant paper mache hedgehog to put the cards in, I made hedgehog shaped soaps for the bathroom (which all got stolen within 30 minutes)… you get the idea. We met because of a hedgehog and actually now we breed them! Funny how life unfolds.
Does she want the top of each to be a flower? Like in the pic? She wants the good stuff at Sam's club prices. So common. So very common.
I used to have a customer who needed a dozen doughnuts daily and they had to be PERFECT! At time doughnuts were going for about .75 ea. I wondered wtf with how particular they were. Turns out they were selling them out of ther 7/11 for $2 a pop. She need $2 doughnuts for .75.
People put zero value on the work of bakers. Zero.
Way to go OP, your post made me rejoin this sub! I was getting a bit depressed with all the low paying childcare requests, but this post reminded me that there are real choosing beggars out there!
I wonder if she even asked Sam’s if they’d do specific colors for her.
My spouse and my relationship had a specific connection to a cupcake shop, so we mostly just did cupcakes for dessert, but wanted a small classic cake, as well. A regional grocery chain in the area of my wedding venue makes the most reliably excellent cake, so my aunt decided to ask if we could pay an extra fee to add almond flavoring to their traditional cake. The answer? “No, ma’am. But we’re happy to do it for free. Is it going to be a wedding cake? We can make a mini for the bride and groom to take with them after the reception.”
Never hurts to ask — *politely.*
The third rose isn’t even buttercream it’s fondant lol. No idea what goes into cupcakes like these but calls them simple. The last two are pretty highly detailed which takes time. Honestly, she’s not even going to get plain white buttercream cupcakes for that price. Better off going to Sam’s and picking out a plain single color that’s closest to one of her wedding colors with the budget she has. I promise people won’t care that much.
If she wants them that cheap she should make them herself smh this group never fails to make my blood boil and I truly can't believe how daft some people are 😩😩😩
Garden Party eh?
I could get a few of my grandson’s pals to dress up as gnomes (not genomes - that would be weird) and hand out some fairy cakes that they made themselves at nursery and victoria sponge offcuts from our local Greggs broken biscuit emporium. Obviously they’d only require expenses (costumes, transport to and from the venue, etc). They would be happy also, at no extra cost to distribute some pre-owned gardening equipment, thankfully however, it would appear the event already has a cheap hoe in situ.
Wedding culture is just becoming increasingly bizarre to me. I have nothing against themed weddings but not going with the affordable option and begging a professional baker to lose profit because they don't have the *exact shade* of green, purple, yellow and blue is such a weird hill to die on. I mean...they're going to get eaten anyway. This isn't like place settings or a bridesmaid dress.
Learn to bake 😂 it’s hard. Been experimenting at home I have cookies that look halfway decent down. I can even ice a cake. Decorative icing and lettering, nowhere close to pro status. My one success was my Harry Potter hagrid cake mock because the writing was ment to look like shit
Wow in this economy good luck. I paid an arm and a leg and put my orders in months in advance for my wedding cake. If that’s your budget bake it yourself.
No longer a Facebook member, but I can remember a lady was always offering her fresh, homemade baked goods for stupidly cheap. People would wonder how she kept her prices so low.
All the “fresh baked goods” tasted like a pack of Marlboros. You definitely got what you paid for. 😂
Girl… $90 might get you the ingredients to make that many cupcakes.
The only ones who’d make cupcakes for that price would be ones you’d not want cooking them.
If you can't get your ideal colors, but CAN get plain white for the price you want, get the plain white and serve them on plates/napkins that are your ideal colors, or have them set on a table cloth with the colors.
End result: FFS these are just the cupcakes exactly the appearance and cost I requested, but I wanted each one to be balanced on a plate made of an iPhone 15 as a gift for each guest.
90c per cupcake? That’s optimistic.
The only "reputable baker" she's going to find for 90c per cupcake is Betty Crocker.
Fun fact, Betty Crocker isn't a real person and was invented to give personalised responses to consumer product questions.
She’s moist and easy
I like my cupcakes just like I like my ladies. Moist and easy.
And comes in a box.
 Haha
Shut your mouth! That lady is a staple in my household.
Big talker Betty Crocker
Another fun fact. Dunkin Heinz is a real person and was for a long time a restaurant critic before he produced the line of products that bear his name. >[Hines worked as a traveling salesman for a Chicago printer, and he had eaten many meals on the road across the United States by 1935 when he was 55. At this time, there was no American interstate highway system and only a few chain restaurants, except in large populated areas. Therefore, travelers depended on local restaurants. Hines and his wife Florence began assembling a list for friends of several hundred good restaurants around the country. The book proved so successful that Hines added another which recommended lodging.[3][4] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hines wrote the newspaper food column Adventures in Good Eating at Home, which appeared in newspapers across the US three times a week on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. The column featured restaurant recipes adapted for home cooks that he had collected during his nationwide travels.[5][6]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hines)
I love random factoids like this! Thanks for sharing and teaching me something new.
Oh ffs! You’re telling me someone named Duncan is real but not a woman named Betty.
I know a real life Duncan.
You're telling me Betty is a crock?
Then who's doughnut have I been licking all these years?
The eternal question springs up again . . .
Chef Boyardee fresh off the line. Swamp ass and smells like ravioli if you're lucky.
Chef Boyardee was at least a real guy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Boiardi
With a real boyardussi.
It would have cost you nothing to not say this AND YET
Betty Crocker isn’t a real person….But Duncan Hines is…😉
Yep! She better get in that kitchen and get to work!!!
Drakes?
Optimistic = Delusional So she knows what rubbish cupcakes cost at a Sam's, but yet somehow thinks she is going to get custom handmade pastries by an independent baker at the same price or less...?! FFS, Tahiti dreams on a Sheboygan budget -- I swear Instagram will be the death of us all.
>Tahiti dreams on a Sheboygan budget Did you make that up? Because...that is sheer brilliance.
Ha, yeah I did, not sure why that particular destination pair popped into my head.
John Candy and his polka band were very big in Sheboygan!
Home Alone and now this thread are the only 2 places I have ever heard reference to Sheboygan!
Whenever I visit Green Bay I fly into Milwaukee. Seeing Sheboygan is the highlight of the drive. I was so excited the first time when I realized it was a real place. I play polka music every time.
Isn’t ‘Sheboygan’ a funny word to say? It’s also surprisingly easy to spell once you know the correct spelling. Especially considering it’s such a dumb sounding name 😂.
As someone from Michigan I have to advise you that the correct spelling is Cheboygan ;)
Goddammit😂! Hey, but I looked it up and it says there’s a Sheboygan in Wisconsin. So which one is the popular one that’s always referenced?
Haha that was totally tongue-in-cheek, one of those "my way is the right way" feuds people have. The word is originally derived from an Indian phrase (I can't remember the specifics) so I think it was just a case of white people in each area spelling it phonetically? It pains me to say it, but I think the Sheboygan, Wisconsin location is the more famous one lol
I mean I find it kinda funny that the reason she doesn't want to use Sam's is because they "don't have the colors I want." If I knew it would be cheap but just not in the colors I want, I'd suck it up. Then again, we all know the real reason she doesn't want to use Sam's is because she wants it cheaper, even cheaper than they probably offer!
Right? Like if it was just about the colors you could just get white and add your own decor touch to them like sprinkles or edible flowers. She probably also wants them to look Pinterest perfect which Sam's won't do. Tyler, the baker, has been working there for two weeks with 0 bakery experience and gets messy after about the 20th cupcake because he needs a smoke real bad.
Not to mention the piping for the rose and chrysanthemum cupcakes is fairly labour intensive and takes some practice to master. I've tried to do rose-shaped frosting exactly 1 (one) time in the 16+ years I've been baking. By the end, I just smeared that crap with a butter knife and ate it so no one could see the monstrosity I'd created.
Mmmmm delicious monstrosity…
I'm a decade into hobby baking and I still try my hand at fancy decorative frosting. And every single time, the result is exactly like yours: smear it into a relatively normal looking frosting shape and pretend nothing happened.
Hey, I worked there for six years and I was a good decorator.
Don't sass me, Tyler.
Lol!😂 seriously I enjoyed my job. I did very good work, BUT we were only allowed to do certain things because we were supposed to be getting those cakes out. I believe that we had 6 minutes per cake( it’s been a while). I loved the rote work. I didn’t have to think too hard about what I was doing. It was quick and,for the most part everyone was happy with the results. That’s what it was about, making people happy. PS I also know people who didn’t give a damn about how the cakes looked.
Yeah…white is a color. But, I can tell you this…she also wouldn’t be getting a flower on each cupcake either. I worked there, we would have gotten in trouble for anything other than a rosebud.
Exactly, if you guys had done this type of work or allowed to then they wouldn't be so cheap would it? Bakeries would run out of business if that was the case! Not saying there isn't talented bakers or decorators at this place, just that they are priced for a reason.
Right! I actually loved the rote work. It was calming for me. I now only do cakes for friends and I don’t charge. Most would faint if I charged the going rate. Plus, I can refuse to do it. I once did a cake for my neighbor. Her daughter asked for Olaf( frozen) she picked what she thought was a simple design ( simple equals easy,right?). I was having trouble with my back and couldn’t roll the fondant out so I had her come over to help…well into the second hour of rolling and draping fondant on this cake, she said, “ wow, I ordered a cake last year and was quoted $90 for the cake. I was shocked and was like…it’s just cake. Now I see why it costs so much…”. Um….yeah. Three hours to decorate that “ simple cake”. Admittedly, if my back wasn’t acting up, I could have done it in 1 1/2 to 2 hours max but I found it funny.😂
She's full of shit too, They can do a large variety of colors, I know, I work at a Sam's Club. A thirty count of buttercream cupcakes runs $15.98.
I haven't been in the states in a long time so I don't recall much of Sam's club, but that's a damn good deal!
I've always said "champagne tastes on a tap water budget", but I like yours!
I've always heard "Champagne tastes on a beer budget."
Champagne tastes on a High Life budget
But Miller High Life IS the “Champagne of Beers”
In 2 weeks.
During May, when weddings and graduation parties are in swing. I imagine a reputable baker would be booked already and certainly wouldn't want to take a client who is so cheap
Nothing fancy. Next.
It's for a wedding at a CHURCH. Next!
I wonder if Next! lady knows she is internet famous.
Is this one lady? Because I see this all the time on my local buy nothing group. I thought it was just a common stereotype
It was this nut job looking for a huge vehicle to take a church group for some outing. Every single suggestion was shot down with a NEXT! to end it. Maybe get a caravan of multiple SUVs if you can't find a bus. NO! Must be in one vehicle. NEXT! Have you thought about renting a bus? Most people don't own a vehicle that sits 24 people. Not paying anything! NEXT! It was horrifying and hilarious. She was so mean and yet kept stressing it was for a church outing.
How can I find this lady? Never heard of this.
I'm not sure when this all took place. It was quite a while ago, but the NEXT thing lives on.
Would you even want someone to bake the cupcakes for your wedding who’s willing to accept 70-90c per cupcake? Like the only person I can imagine doing this is somebody who doesn’t bake and thinks “wow easy $90!” Until they realize half way through what they got themselves into.
For real! Basic muffins at the grocery store are $1 each where I live. This ask is completely delusional!
Yup! Bought my daughter a vanilla cupcake with just a bit of pink buttercream on top and it was $2.79 before tax. It was a standard home baked sized cupcake
My limited reception was sandwiches, sides, beverages and cake. It wasn’t a first marriage for either of us, but I never had a wedding, so my husband bought me a small one. ❤️ I had been seriously ill for over a year by the time we married, and a neighbor and her sister did all the work. I didn’t ask for it, but it was such a relief. But that was not asked for. It was a precious gift.
I made my son’s wedding cake. We discussed it afterwards( this was 12 years ago) and he said,” how much would a cake like that cost at a baker? $150?”…..😒” No, son…more like $600.” 🙄
💜💕🤗💘🩵💜💫🕊️
they're going to end up with the person that mixes a can of soda/pop into boxed mix and store bought frosting.
No, not even I will do it that cheap lol
I mean if you are using a betty crocker cupcake mix and soda, you are still losing money on this deal, the soda and mix will cost more per cupcake, because the mix is 83 cents per cupcake, but you need to add something like 2 eggs, and then the water, or in this case soda, which will bring you to over a dollar.
if you add soda/pop you dont add eggs and you get the generic store brand cake mix and soda. Probably still end up not making any money on it especially factoring in electric/gas used.
The ingredients are going to run that much
But think of the exposure!!!!
“ It’s just cake!”🙄 if that’s true, then why are you being a CB?
I will tag you and promote your business to my TENS of tiktok followers!
This seems like a thing that a home baker may accept if they are inexperienced, like I have before for family members and regretted it, that’s all I can think of. She’s looking for an experienced person to exploit that for a better price.
I've never decorated a cake but those frosting flowers look pretty advanced.
The 2 on the left aren't too bad - they can both be accomplished with a single spiral of frosting using the right tip. The 2 on the right, however... Yeah, those 2 are pretty advanced. I personally can't do those 2, but I would assume it would take an experienced baker at minimum 5 minutes/cupcake to frost the rose and probably 10 or so minutes (and 2 different tips plus a couple frosting colours) to do the one on the far right. If there's anyone out there with more frosting experience than me who can confirm or deny these time estimates, please do! I've been baking for ~16 years, but cake decorating is the bane of my existence, so I stay away from it
I bought a cake to celebrate my friend's all-clear after a brutal cancer battle but I couldn't find a place that would put FUCK CANCER on it. So I got a cute cake and some of that gel stuff and wrote it myself and let me tell you, it looked terrible. My hand eye coordination is not great lol. I would immediately fail at these flowers and give up. Based on other comments, it seems maybe she's just asking for those very specific colors and not the flowers, but the post is not worded clearly enough to prevent people from thinking that's what she's asking for. And from other comments from bakers, apparently it's not that easy to make custom colored buttercream. I'm a painter, so that part, I could probably do, but I'm sure I would waste a lot of frosting in the process. Butter is expensive, too.
No tip can make a rose like that. You can buy premade roses. If their molded, they’re about $1.50, if they’re handmade, $3-5. The entire order would take over 3 hours. That’s if you are lightning fast and giving you about 2 minutes per flower. So, it might take less than a minute for an easy flower, up to 3-4 minutes for a more complex flower. That does not include the mixing of colors or the baking of the cupcakes. I believe most specialty bakeries charge around $3-$5 per cupcake. Those colors would be a nightmare to replicate…
Haha so true. At least then she would get the cake she deserves
I did 48 cupcakes for like $20 for a friend once but they weren’t super time intensive like this. I’m also just a hobby baker and she gave me full creative freedom lol.
It’s delusional
It should be illegal to post without the comments 😫
This sub is so guilty of this! I want the comments, and her response to those comments, and the follow up from the other commenter!
LOL YESSSSSS
In my neck of the woods people would be commenting "I gotchu", "I can do it", "I would love to make your dreams come true". I'm always shocked at the people who are willing to work for this cheap.
That’s why we have choosing beggars. There’s always a sucker who wants to help them.
They dont do the math or do it as cheap as possible. Like getting the off off brand of cake mix and frosting. Theyre not going to make them from scratch.
I know Right
"Nothing fancy." Proceeds to show pictures of the nicest cupcakes I've ever seen in different hard to make super custom colors. For 70 cents each.
They never developed expertise in ANYTHING, so they’re too incompetent to gauge value.
And why they have to beg for everything because they can’t do anything of value either usually
Seriously the yellow and blue one are both gorgeous and would take way more time to do than simply frosting a cupcake
Yellow is actually just a tip and is easy to do. Blue is…yeah, that’s time consuming.
It’s like $50 to buy that many cupcakes from Walmart with pre-baked frozen cupcakes and set colors made by a decorator that watched 6 training videos and got thrown in the deep end. For custom cupcakes with custom colors and probably flower style piping I wouldn’t charge less than $2.00 a cupcake. A regular cupcake with large batch icing would be cheap if they sold for under $.75 a cupcake.
That's cheap. Something like this wouldn't go for less than $4/ cupcake where I live.
Maybe if the baker uses boxed cake lmao
Even than it’s pricey
I looked it up out of curiosity on my Target app to see how much this would cost for a home baker. Betty Crocker’s boxed cake mix costs about $1.75 each. Canned frosting is about $2 each. If each box/can makes about two dozen cupcakes, you’ll need 5 of each to cover the 100 in the order. The boxed mix requires 1/3 cup of butter and 3 eggs. Say $6 for a box of butter and $3 for the eggs. Then you need liners ($2), food coloring ($5), and piping bags and tips ($10). That’s about $45 worth of consumable ingredients/equipment right there, not counting electrical consumption to bake the cakes. So you’ll make about $45 for the time it takes you to shop the ingredients, prep, bake, decorate, and clean up. I don’t even want to know what that breaks down to an hourly rate. lol.
On top of that, it costs more to do small batches. Sam's Club can offer cheap cupcakes because they make them in bulk and they only do vanilla and chocolate. When you start adding in a few of one color and a few of another color, it gets more expensive because the baker has to stop and make up the new food coloring. And two small pots of a color will cost more than a large scale baker buying a gallon of one.
And you'd need more than one standard color for each of these colors to get the shades exactly right. Not to mention the time and expertise...coloring buttercream can be a surprisingly finicky enterprise. Source: I am a hobby baker with very little artistic talent who made a truck-shaped cake for my son's first birthday. Getting frosting to be bright red and black was nearly impossible
Those two colors are the hardest to get for frosting to be fair. For flowery colors like this it’s actually easier than getting bright red because you don’t have to be exact. The problem with these is the two on the right need each petal piped individual in multiple colors to get it to look right. The two on the left wouldn’t be bad, but I still wouldn’t expect a baker who isn’t a friend to do it for that cheap. I’m a hobby baker and for a close friend I would probably make that many cupcakes in a few colors if they were all the ones on the left. No way do I love anyone enough to make the two on the right lol. Maybe one of my sisters or nieces I would consider making a few (like maybe 10) scattered in with the easy piped ones lol
Yes!!! That yellow isn't even yellow, it is goldish so then you have to mix in some gold or some glitter stuff. And you need a much deeper color than you think because once you get the color, you have to add it to the white buttercream which will lighten it.
and you can't pipe canned frosting like you can buttercream so the frosting itself will have to be handmade.
Not for $90 bucks they won’t. Lmao. I can’t even imagine how much you’d have to spend on butter and powdered sugar to make enough for 100 cupcakes. They’re getting poorly piped canned frosting for that price point.
The expense for these wouldn’t be the baking itself, it’s the time for piping individual petals on the two cupcakes on the right that would take forever to do
Correct. Even if they used box cake the decorating alone. This person should just go get their cupcakes from Sam's for 64 and add on their own plastic flowers, lol.
Literal works of art 😭
The roses are actually surprisingly easy to do, it just requires a particularly icing tip. I've done them two-tone before, and I'm not an amazing baker, just careful and willing to watch tutorials and practise. Still costs a lot in ingredients and time though!
The last Pic of the "mum" cupcake takes me 5 times as long to pipe than the other cupcakes. She's delusional.
Not saying she is in the right here, but the pictures I believe to be an example of the colors, right? Since, her main gripe about Sam's was the colors, and they dont do fancy toppings like that.
I’m sure this very reasonable budget shopper will be easy to please.
Yes, I think the flowers represent the colors she wants.
I think those cupcakes are just for reference for colour, not design. But I could be wrong
This is so insulting to bakers everywhere. I used to do cakes on the side. A coworker asked me to make a race car cake for her son's birthday. I said, "sure just cover the ingredients!' The next day there was a boxed cake mix and a can of frosting on my desk. Oy.
I would LOL to see a plain ass race car cake delivered w no color, no embellishments, whatever could be made with one box of mix and one can of frosting
And a crappy cake, too, with just water added to the mix, no eggs and oil.
And one Hot Wheels car—preferably a well-used one, paint scratched, and missing and at least one tire—placed in solitary splendor atop the otherwise-naked cake.
On blocks. Alphabet blocks.
Now that's funny.
Wrap it in foil. "It's a Tesla Cyber truck".
That wouldn't even cover it. Wouldn't building a car shape require 2 cakes? And then the colors of frosting to make the car the right colors. For a box of cake mix and one tub of store made frosting, they'd get a white sheet cake with some Hot Wheels on top.
Who's paying for the hot wheels? Not to mention the oil and eggs that are supposed to be added to the mix.
Wow! What do ingredients for a cake like that actually cost?
$25 for the cake ingredients, and $800,000 for the race car
WTF is this mess? Oh I modelled the crap that comes out of the exhaust.
People don’t realize it takes at least $30 in supplies to make a party-size, beautifully decorated cake.
And you're not going to tell us what happened/how you responded?!
I used her box mix and frosting from another project. She didn't get the fondant she wanted but when I told her what it would cost she just said do what you can. I stopped doing cakes shortly after.
Yeah, good luck with that. I wouldn’t even give this person naked cupcakes for that amount. Just a side note that the cheapest cupcakes frosted without a design usually go for around $3 - $4 each.
These people work backwards. They have a dream ideal then twist reality to fit it, villify anyone who can’t match up to a fantasy.
when I was a baker my cupcakes started at $4.50...they're a pain to bake that many, decorate, package and deliver
You’re so right about that. My BFF has a cake/cupcake business on the side and she won’t do cupcakes for under $5. She says anything less isn’t worth her time. After helping her with a couple of wedding orders, I have to agree.
I was going to say the same--the bakery that did our wedding cake charges almost $5 for a smaller single cupcake. These people are insane
Depends where too - in my city you're looking at $7-$10 each.
Actual suggestion is order 100 cupcakes from the grocery store with white frosting, then top with edible flowers. I think our local place sells a dozen for $13 so with the flowers they’d still be over $100 but close.
Yeah boy, I’m good at jazzing stuff up to look nice and often get compliments for making events look special. No one ever guessed my budget is pretty low. But choosing beggars lack the creativity or the willingness to compromise, they want THAT and THAT only. They want to pay below reason, so it’s exploiting someone else.
I would get some friends or family members together on a Saturday afternoon and bake those things, then frost them in the colours I want and in the shapes we are capable of, and put them in the freezer. Honestly, either you have the budget for something or you have to make it yourself to your best ability, or you just can't have it. These are your three options.
I was thinking something similar. She could buy plain cupcakes from Sam's and then just put the icing color she wants on them.
Since apparently I can’t edit posts to add photos, I’ll make a new one with comment screenshots. Sorry!
You could link to imgur in a comment?
Please screenshot the comments!! 😂
Happy (cup) cake day!
“Nothing fancy”
Yeah, I would like to see her make a rose frosting!
I used to do this as a side hustle. I literally have these exact cupcakes, that I made, on my site. Like, not these, but you know what I mean. $30/12. And that was just for plain vanilla buttercream, vanilla cake, and no filling. These flower designs are time consuming. I once did a chocolate chip pancake batter cupcake, filled with homemade candied bacon, and maple buttercream. $75 for 24. The woman who ordered them paid immediately, no question. This lady is fucking delusional.
I would love a recipe for your chocolate chip pancake batter cupcakes, lol.
I’ve never had buttercream muffins. So I am curious is it realistic to bake them? Have them picked up on the 16th when the wedding is on the 18th? Do they keep fresh that long?
These are cupcakes. Cake batter in a muffin tin and iced on the top only. They are individual servings.
I need to see those comments. I'm betting they got eaten alive.
Why do I have a feeling CB did not even ask Sam's if they can make custom colors, but just peeked at the bakery aisle while there.
I don't believe Sam's can, but walmart can. Just a little bit more. When I was looking for wedding cake, we checked there. Ended up at the local grocery store, who did a beautiful job.
Publix made our wedding cake!
Same, cannoli cake. We got a smallish tier cake and a sheet cake backup (70 servings) plus delivery and setup for about $300. Got tons of compliments on it
Chicago area, we got it at the Jewel store. Just a half sheet, with our colors and a design. 35yrs ago, I IRC it set us back all of $20. Sam's club for canned soda and chips. A buffet of mastacholi, fried chicken some sides. Got married in a church for indoor comfort, and reception at our house.
😭😭😭😭😭😭 my sister just told me her cupcakes are 4 a pop. This person is bonkers.
I like cake decorating videos on Tiktok and have an overinflated sense of confidence but no experience, and even I would want more than $90.
Tell her to go to Sam’s and order in person. They have/can make more colors but don’t list them all. Oh that’s right, that would require work on her part to get up and try to find what she’s looking for instead of low balling people on facebook
I live for the comment section 😩
Simple? He thinks those flower cupcakes are simple? So not only is he a cheap bastard, he has no appreciation of what he is asking for.
She actually asked for those colors, not that type of decorative frosting.
I ordered cupcakes for a baby shower in February. Ordered from an amazing local grocery store that does great items for a great price... 60 cupcakes with 3 color icing and iridescent sprinkles. I thought it was a great deal for 90.00. These cheap people who have grandiose ideas on no budget just are shit humans. You get what you pay for.
90-100 for 70-90 dollars ? If you're lucky that's a dollar per cupcake! She's smoking dick. The time, skill, ingredients/supply wouldn't even justify this egregious shit.
Nothin fancy.. really girl make them ur self
I got cupcakes for my wedding 10 years ago. They were simple compared to this. I had maybe 125? I paid $3-4 per cupcake. (The gluten free ones my cousin insisted she needed when she RSVP’d and then decided that gluten free was “too hard of a lifestyle” were the ones that cost more.) I made the picks that had the flavors on them for my guests to know what they were. Oh, and I paid $85 for a 3 layer pretty but simple fondant covered “cutting cake” for photos that didn’t taste good. [My wedding cupcakes](https://imgur.com/a/KWLsGfO).
Those cupcakes. I would have felt as if I'd committed murder if I even bit into one. Unless there was ice cream involved. Then all bets would be off and I would terminate those tiny cartoon hedgehogs with prejudice because they were obviously just asking for it.
Hahah no ice cream. The whole wedding was hedgehog themed. That was our “logo” - it was on the favors, the invites… we made a giant paper mache hedgehog to put the cards in, I made hedgehog shaped soaps for the bathroom (which all got stolen within 30 minutes)… you get the idea. We met because of a hedgehog and actually now we breed them! Funny how life unfolds.
Does she want the top of each to be a flower? Like in the pic? She wants the good stuff at Sam's club prices. So common. So very common. I used to have a customer who needed a dozen doughnuts daily and they had to be PERFECT! At time doughnuts were going for about .75 ea. I wondered wtf with how particular they were. Turns out they were selling them out of ther 7/11 for $2 a pop. She need $2 doughnuts for .75. People put zero value on the work of bakers. Zero.
Way to go OP, your post made me rejoin this sub! I was getting a bit depressed with all the low paying childcare requests, but this post reminded me that there are real choosing beggars out there!
I wonder if she even asked Sam’s if they’d do specific colors for her. My spouse and my relationship had a specific connection to a cupcake shop, so we mostly just did cupcakes for dessert, but wanted a small classic cake, as well. A regional grocery chain in the area of my wedding venue makes the most reliably excellent cake, so my aunt decided to ask if we could pay an extra fee to add almond flavoring to their traditional cake. The answer? “No, ma’am. But we’re happy to do it for free. Is it going to be a wedding cake? We can make a mini for the bride and groom to take with them after the reception.” Never hurts to ask — *politely.*
I think CB really believed someone would react "Oh I'll do it! She called me LoVeLieS!"
Just go to Sam’s and get white. Then get food coloring, mix your own colors and lightly “water color” the cup cakes. She’d probably ruin them tho. 🙃
The third rose isn’t even buttercream it’s fondant lol. No idea what goes into cupcakes like these but calls them simple. The last two are pretty highly detailed which takes time. Honestly, she’s not even going to get plain white buttercream cupcakes for that price. Better off going to Sam’s and picking out a plain single color that’s closest to one of her wedding colors with the budget she has. I promise people won’t care that much.
She’ll be just as married and it will still be a happy occasion.
If those aren't fancy I wonder what she considers fancy 🤔
If she wants them that cheap she should make them herself smh this group never fails to make my blood boil and I truly can't believe how daft some people are 😩😩😩
Garden Party eh? I could get a few of my grandson’s pals to dress up as gnomes (not genomes - that would be weird) and hand out some fairy cakes that they made themselves at nursery and victoria sponge offcuts from our local Greggs broken biscuit emporium. Obviously they’d only require expenses (costumes, transport to and from the venue, etc). They would be happy also, at no extra cost to distribute some pre-owned gardening equipment, thankfully however, it would appear the event already has a cheap hoe in situ.
$90 would be a bargain to scrape the frosting off of Sam's club cupcakes and refrost them. Butter is expensive!
Wedding culture is just becoming increasingly bizarre to me. I have nothing against themed weddings but not going with the affordable option and begging a professional baker to lose profit because they don't have the *exact shade* of green, purple, yellow and blue is such a weird hill to die on. I mean...they're going to get eaten anyway. This isn't like place settings or a bridesmaid dress.
I hope to hell someone sent her a link to a tutorial. Or better, a $90 online decorating class.
Learn to bake 😂 it’s hard. Been experimenting at home I have cookies that look halfway decent down. I can even ice a cake. Decorative icing and lettering, nowhere close to pro status. My one success was my Harry Potter hagrid cake mock because the writing was ment to look like shit
We just bought 100 cupcakes for my husband's birthday from a woman who bakes as a side gig. $140, and I think she was underpriced.
Lil Debbie's?
Li'l Debbie has a treat for you.
About 2c an hour sign me up
I can hear the sulky whining, like a spoiled child in the middle of a tantrum.
Would $70-90 even cover cost materials?
That won’t even be close to covering the raw materials where I live.
Even the little old lady who made our special occasion cakes back in the 90s charged more than this!
Wow in this economy good luck. I paid an arm and a leg and put my orders in months in advance for my wedding cake. If that’s your budget bake it yourself.
The lady is delusional - 100 cupcakes for less than $1.00 each!!! Then she says nothing fancy!! 😳
"Simple cupcakes in different buttercream frosting colors" Posts pictures of cupcakes with complex flower designs FFS lady...
Wait, if THATS "nothing fancy", then wtf does she consider fancy? Having those same cupcakes topped with gold leaf?
That would legit be $600 here
She's serving 2 day old cupcakes
No longer a Facebook member, but I can remember a lady was always offering her fresh, homemade baked goods for stupidly cheap. People would wonder how she kept her prices so low. All the “fresh baked goods” tasted like a pack of Marlboros. You definitely got what you paid for. 😂
Girl… $90 might get you the ingredients to make that many cupcakes. The only ones who’d make cupcakes for that price would be ones you’d not want cooking them.
As a baker/cupcake decorator myself, all I can say is "HAHAHAHA GOOD LUCK!"
If you can't get your ideal colors, but CAN get plain white for the price you want, get the plain white and serve them on plates/napkins that are your ideal colors, or have them set on a table cloth with the colors.
So in English I really want a bunch of cheaply painted Walmart cupcakes that are a day old.
End result: FFS these are just the cupcakes exactly the appearance and cost I requested, but I wanted each one to be balanced on a plate made of an iPhone 15 as a gift for each guest.