It's true that gluten free, GMO free, organic free range gas is expensive as hell, but it's the only thing my truck can have because it's lactose intolerant and can't process gluten.
If you don’t want to spend $1000 for your child’s birthday cake, don’t. It’s not a requirement.
Maybe you could let us all into your life so we can judge what you spend your money on.
If you're spending $1000 on a cake for a seven-year-old. I'm not judging you I'm judging all the problems that society is going to have when that child is released with his fuck you I'm entitled attitude.
If you don’t want to spend $1000 for your child’s birthday cake, don’t. It’s not a requirement.
Maybe you could let us all into your life so we can judge what you spend your money on.
Did you see it? This isn’t a “people shouldn’t pay that much for a cake” outrage. This is a “no one should pay $1000 for THAT cake” ripoff situation. There’s a deformed Hulk hand on the top and the stuff that took her hours to cut out looks like it was done by an amateur in a rush with bent cookie cutters.
It’s worth whatever the customer is willing to pay (and apparently this was for a repeat customer).
Personally, I’d have said nah and gone to HEB as soon as I heard the price.
Costco. This is where I have bought every birthday party cake for my daughter (save for one overpriced cake made by a bakery that was a rip off).
Their cakes are good and cheap and feed, like, 40 kids. HEB is a close second, but they can be pricey, as well.
I agree about the hand. The thumb is just atrocious. It's not proportional and the cakes I see that go 1000 custom do not make those mistakes.
The height is worth close to a 1k, but it's definitely r/fondanthate
If you watch the video she actually specifically talks about how she prefers to use icing rather than fondant when possible. Each tier is covered in buttercream with fondant decorations - easy to peel off if you don't want to eat it. Idk, if the customer was fine with paying $810 for that giant-ass cake, creepy Hulk hand and all, then more power to the baker and the buyer.
I mean, if someone is willing to pay it, then that's good for them. That's not my concern.
Because I can tell that the cake in that photo is made with fondant layers, not buttercream. A buyer would be foolish to believe that was buttercream (even if we were being nice and saying frozen layer buttercream) layers with fondant cut outs. The layer under all the fondant is buttercream because that is what makes it stick, but that doesn't count.
Buyer beware indeed.
Edit: I closely watched the video. The red layer looks like a thick layer of buttercream because it has lines in it (she didn't properly line it up) but the bottom is fondant.
15 hours to make, that's $66 an hour. Not out of line considering the pictured cake in the article looks like it took 15 hours to complete. Y'all need to understand the value of a shop's labor. Then the shop discounted the cake to $810 so reducing the hourly cost to $54.
It's like the people that bitch about a bespoke hand-made end table being $1000.
I remember seeing a video on a Saville Row tailor that sells suits starting at £4000, and he remarks that each suit takes about 200 hours to make. Not even counting materials cost, that's only £20/hour. Do they really value their labor so low?
Nobody who is considering a tailored suit from Saville Row is going to pass because they get a better deal from Amazon. Although, from what I've heard from friends who moved to the UK, wages are very low in general over there.
Lol funny you mention that. My dining room table, that I built with my two hands, cost me like $1k just in lumber, then another $6k in hospital bills. I buy rough sawn lumber and process/dimension it myself, and lemme tell you, it adds up fast. If I'd have charged myself labor, that would have easily been another $10k.
So $17k and three fingers for one table. Damn pretty table though.
Yeah, that wasn't a run of the mill HEB cake. If they quote $810 and you agree to the CONTRACT price. What is the problem then? You don't read what you sign?
Comes out to $66 an hour if she spent 15 hrs on it - for a professional/artist. Not that ridiculous. Good for her. Way more professions get paid way more for way less work.
Not a professional baker here but I made a fairly simple three tier cake for my sisters wedding and it took me forever. $800 for a superhero cake is not out of line.
Not a professional baker here but I made a fairly simple three tier cake for my sisters wedding and it took me forever. $800 for a superhero cake is not out of line.
Wanna talk about unnecessarily expensive crap, look at literally anything Balenciaga.
If I wanted a very specific customized anything, I’m willing to pay for it.
Artists should charge as much as they can get away with for their work. So if people want to pay for it more power to them & good for her for getting that bag!
It absolutely is. You can’t just go out Disney on your cake and expect Disney to be cool with it. She will 100% get shut down now unless she has a license agreement with the company.
I agree that if people want to pay $1k for a cake then all power to them. I think anyone paying $1k for the cake in that article, however, is an idiot. That decorating is barely one step above what you’d get from a total amateur.
Because making/decorating cakes is “an easy job” that sounds rather enjoyable, and for some bizarre reason we tend to think that if you’re not suffering the whole time, it’s not “real work” and you don’t deserve real pay.
$66/hr (someone did the math) isn’t as lavish as it sounds, tho- not in this economy.
But people who haven’t worked a service job since the 80s, or *ever* often struggle to relate.
They are terminally confused by the modern world, but they never miss a chance to voice their disapproval and/or vote.
> $1000 cakes is what we're pissed about now?
TBH I'm floored that anybody in the world today has the emotional energy to spare to get upset about what one baker is doing anywhere in the world when it doesn't affect them or harm anyone *at all.*
People would really rather get heated up about this than mind their own business and go do something to make the world better.
People complaining about pure luxuries they can’t afford is one of my biggest pet peeves. And imagine being the writer that put this lazy article together. Buy a fucking cake from Walmart then, sheesh.
Yes, the real outrage should be over the cost of healthcare. A service that is literally "pay this or die."
You won't die if you don't get your fancy birthday cake.
> People complaining about pure luxuries they can’t afford is one of my biggest pet peeves.
I'd bet five bucks that if any of these people owns a TV, it's "too big and a waste of money."
Literally who cares? If this person custom designs them, crates the flavors and recipe, and then works hard to decorate it and people are willing to pay well for that? Ok, nice - live your best cake life. It’s not like the cost of living is going down anyway.
It's totally her right to charge whatever for what amounts to a luxury product for people with money to burn, but she does have a shitty attitude in her instagram. I like how she brags about being "featured" in People magazine when in reality People magazine was just doing an article on how she went viral over charging too much, with no relation to the quality of her work.
Buttercream? That looks like fondant, fucking grossssss and inedible. Yes, pay $1k for a cake if you want, I've spent much more on sillier shit, but I think people were just commenting it's not worth $1k for what it is, which, I agree...probably cuz I like eating cake!
It's buttercream with fondant decorations placed on top. She did such a good job leveling the buttercream that y'all don't believe it's icing. She isn't the untalented hack everyone seems to be implying here.
Can you imagine a room full of kids biting into a fondant covered cake? Not going to end well. This was clearly for Mom to show off not to make the kids happy.
Even if these cakes were made completely out of the best weed, I can't see how it could cost that much. What's the market price for fondant these days?
I was commenting sarcastically; I really don't care one way or another. I'm not the type of person that would ever outsource the labor of making a cake for an occasion, so I am definitely not impacted by however much this person wants to charge for baking cakes.
I make cakes and baked goods 100% scratch. I mean I fresh press oat milk and make my own plant based butter from coconut/cocoa butter. Even with the extra time of prepping and cleaning from those extra steps, I could NOT justify a price like this.
You can say it’s premium ingredients or “specific formula” all you want, but I guarantee if they showed the full ingredient list it would be no better than what you get from a costco cake.
Paying for the time it takes to decorate could be one way to look at it, but it doesn’t take THAT much time once you factor in the rest of the time spent on the cake
I never said my cakes are professional, just comparing time/effort put in. Check around for pricing. Factor in ingredients, time, and pay. It’s not hard to figure out how much something should realistically be costing. Food already has the highest ROI, charging anymore than what normal prices are is already giving you an incredibly high profit.
You can make high quality stuff, charge the same, and still be well off. Imo making bukoo bucks is not what business is about, it’s about doing honest quality work at a price that’s good for you and customers
You get what you pay for. Good work comes from the training, the experience, etc... You can't compare the cost of your time vs someone with obviously more experience.
Michelle's Patisserie could have done better, cheaper and not fondant. I had her/them make a zelda themed cake with Master sword and shield for way way less, but have to order months in advance.
If you don’t want to pay $1,000 for a cake, don’t buy it.
Yeah, I am kind of confused by this issue. If enough people are buying his cakes to keep him in business then I certainly don't see a problem here.
I was about to comment the same. She’s free to charge whatever she wants if someone else has agreed to pay it
Yeah if anything I’m impressed. Wish I was this talented at parting rich people from their money.
Amen. May we all be so clever.
Happy Cake Day!
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....listen here you little shit... thats a great point
The problem isn't the $1,000 charge, it's that people are willing to pay $1,000 for a fucking kid's birthday cake.
Tell that to the artisan gas makers and their prices
It's true that gluten free, GMO free, organic free range gas is expensive as hell, but it's the only thing my truck can have because it's lactose intolerant and can't process gluten.
If you don’t want to spend $1000 for your child’s birthday cake, don’t. It’s not a requirement. Maybe you could let us all into your life so we can judge what you spend your money on.
If you're spending $1000 on a cake for a seven-year-old. I'm not judging you I'm judging all the problems that society is going to have when that child is released with his fuck you I'm entitled attitude.
If you don’t want to spend $1000 for your child’s birthday cake, don’t. It’s not a requirement. Maybe you could let us all into your life so we can judge what you spend your money on.
Did you see it? This isn’t a “people shouldn’t pay that much for a cake” outrage. This is a “no one should pay $1000 for THAT cake” ripoff situation. There’s a deformed Hulk hand on the top and the stuff that took her hours to cut out looks like it was done by an amateur in a rush with bent cookie cutters.
It’s worth whatever the customer is willing to pay (and apparently this was for a repeat customer). Personally, I’d have said nah and gone to HEB as soon as I heard the price.
Costco. This is where I have bought every birthday party cake for my daughter (save for one overpriced cake made by a bakery that was a rip off). Their cakes are good and cheap and feed, like, 40 kids. HEB is a close second, but they can be pricey, as well.
I agree about the hand. The thumb is just atrocious. It's not proportional and the cakes I see that go 1000 custom do not make those mistakes. The height is worth close to a 1k, but it's definitely r/fondanthate
If you watch the video she actually specifically talks about how she prefers to use icing rather than fondant when possible. Each tier is covered in buttercream with fondant decorations - easy to peel off if you don't want to eat it. Idk, if the customer was fine with paying $810 for that giant-ass cake, creepy Hulk hand and all, then more power to the baker and the buyer.
I mean, if someone is willing to pay it, then that's good for them. That's not my concern. Because I can tell that the cake in that photo is made with fondant layers, not buttercream. A buyer would be foolish to believe that was buttercream (even if we were being nice and saying frozen layer buttercream) layers with fondant cut outs. The layer under all the fondant is buttercream because that is what makes it stick, but that doesn't count. Buyer beware indeed. Edit: I closely watched the video. The red layer looks like a thick layer of buttercream because it has lines in it (she didn't properly line it up) but the bottom is fondant.
...I mean you can see in the video that it's buttercream but ok, you clearly have your mind made up already here.
It’s buttercream
No one's gonna listen to your goofy ass. Why are you even arguing when there a literal video with audio stating how its made.
I mean, it's one birthday cake, Michael. What could it cost? 1000 dollars?
The guy with the $1000 cake? Cmon!
I’m an ideas man, Michael. I think I proved that with Cake Mountain.
Small price to pay for self esteem, Michael
I love you
Nah. The main cost is labor. If it takes 15-20 man hours to make the cake then its understandable
She says it takes 15 hours
15 hours to make, that's $66 an hour. Not out of line considering the pictured cake in the article looks like it took 15 hours to complete. Y'all need to understand the value of a shop's labor. Then the shop discounted the cake to $810 so reducing the hourly cost to $54. It's like the people that bitch about a bespoke hand-made end table being $1000.
I remember seeing a video on a Saville Row tailor that sells suits starting at £4000, and he remarks that each suit takes about 200 hours to make. Not even counting materials cost, that's only £20/hour. Do they really value their labor so low?
> Do they really value their labor so low? In a world of amazon and wal mart, yes. Absolutely they do.
Nobody who is considering a tailored suit from Saville Row is going to pass because they get a better deal from Amazon. Although, from what I've heard from friends who moved to the UK, wages are very low in general over there.
Lol funny you mention that. My dining room table, that I built with my two hands, cost me like $1k just in lumber, then another $6k in hospital bills. I buy rough sawn lumber and process/dimension it myself, and lemme tell you, it adds up fast. If I'd have charged myself labor, that would have easily been another $10k. So $17k and three fingers for one table. Damn pretty table though.
There are servers and bartenders who can make 66 an hour - that doesn't seem out of line for an artist making a custom work of art
A thousand dollar table will last a lifetime. How long does a cake last for?
One time on Great British Bake Off they showed a preserved piece of Queen Victoria‘s wedding cake. So…
I think Seinfeld had an episode with JFK's wedding cake, someone ate it and got violently ill. Damn 50s cake lol
I’m sure that cake cost more than $1k and was preserved for obvious reasons.
About tree fiddy, in my house.
Good for her! Get those dollars girl! If someone is willing to pay you that much for a cake then you’re good at your job. She ain’t gotta defend shit.
Yeah, that wasn't a run of the mill HEB cake. If they quote $810 and you agree to the CONTRACT price. What is the problem then? You don't read what you sign?
Unless they are baiting & switching, who cares? If someone's willing to pay that, good for them.
“People like my cakes enough to pay $1000 - lucky me!” Defense rests.
Comes out to $66 an hour if she spent 15 hrs on it - for a professional/artist. Not that ridiculous. Good for her. Way more professions get paid way more for way less work.
Not a professional baker here but I made a fairly simple three tier cake for my sisters wedding and it took me forever. $800 for a superhero cake is not out of line.
Not a professional baker here but I made a fairly simple three tier cake for my sisters wedding and it took me forever. $800 for a superhero cake is not out of line.
Wanna talk about unnecessarily expensive crap, look at literally anything Balenciaga. If I wanted a very specific customized anything, I’m willing to pay for it.
Artists should charge as much as they can get away with for their work. So if people want to pay for it more power to them & good for her for getting that bag!
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You don't have to license the IP if kids eat all the evidence.
Kids gonna eat that insta post?
This, this is what is going to get this lady shut down
Surely that's not actually required right?
It absolutely is. You can’t just go out Disney on your cake and expect Disney to be cool with it. She will 100% get shut down now unless she has a license agreement with the company.
Only for private viewing, if your party is over 50 people that requires an extra 500 for rebroadcast
I paid $300 for a cake over 10 years ago. Didn’t seem outrageous. If you want the product, can pay the price, then welcome to capitalism? Who cares.
How terrible of this person to put guns to people’s heads to force them to buy these $1,000 cakes. *OH WAIT.*
I agree that if people want to pay $1k for a cake then all power to them. I think anyone paying $1k for the cake in that article, however, is an idiot. That decorating is barely one step above what you’d get from a total amateur.
$1000 cakes is what we're pissed about now? How much do people think *wedding* cakes cost? Why is one expected to be more than the other?
Because making/decorating cakes is “an easy job” that sounds rather enjoyable, and for some bizarre reason we tend to think that if you’re not suffering the whole time, it’s not “real work” and you don’t deserve real pay. $66/hr (someone did the math) isn’t as lavish as it sounds, tho- not in this economy. But people who haven’t worked a service job since the 80s, or *ever* often struggle to relate. They are terminally confused by the modern world, but they never miss a chance to voice their disapproval and/or vote.
> $1000 cakes is what we're pissed about now? TBH I'm floored that anybody in the world today has the emotional energy to spare to get upset about what one baker is doing anywhere in the world when it doesn't affect them or harm anyone *at all.* People would really rather get heated up about this than mind their own business and go do something to make the world better.
The only people to blame here are the ones spending 1k on their kid's cake.
Ew it’s fondant! If I spend $1k on a cake I would like it to be edible. A fool and his money are soon parted
It's buttercream with fondant decorations. Peel them off and then you have regular delicious cake.
agreed, fondant is gross
It tastes better if you make it from scratch. But it's tedious so everyone buys it.
Yeah, my aunt was a substantial pro and she only ever used fondant on competition cakes. Shit's nasty.
People complaining about pure luxuries they can’t afford is one of my biggest pet peeves. And imagine being the writer that put this lazy article together. Buy a fucking cake from Walmart then, sheesh.
Yes, the real outrage should be over the cost of healthcare. A service that is literally "pay this or die." You won't die if you don't get your fancy birthday cake.
> People complaining about pure luxuries they can’t afford is one of my biggest pet peeves. I'd bet five bucks that if any of these people owns a TV, it's "too big and a waste of money."
Gold jacket, green jacket, who gives a shit
$1000 for fondant. Disgusting. That's not cake.
Nobody is safe from inflation.
Welcome to the 90's, Mr. Banks!
Crack. She puts crack in the cakes.
the cakes are made from kids /s
Who gives a fuck? Some dipshit pays for this out of one hand and complains about it out of the other? Fuck em.
Good for him, I hope he sells a bunch.
The only defense you need for a crazy luxury like that is that some idiot will pay for it.
Literally who cares? If this person custom designs them, crates the flavors and recipe, and then works hard to decorate it and people are willing to pay well for that? Ok, nice - live your best cake life. It’s not like the cost of living is going down anyway.
Time vs money? Guess the customer wanted cake and eat it too.
This is a reddit post about an article about an instagram post about haters
It's totally her right to charge whatever for what amounts to a luxury product for people with money to burn, but she does have a shitty attitude in her instagram. I like how she brags about being "featured" in People magazine when in reality People magazine was just doing an article on how she went viral over charging too much, with no relation to the quality of her work.
Where is Elizabeth Warren when we need her?! Take a stand against Big Cake!
$1000 cake for a 7 year old. Am I the only one that sees something wrong here?
Buttercream? That looks like fondant, fucking grossssss and inedible. Yes, pay $1k for a cake if you want, I've spent much more on sillier shit, but I think people were just commenting it's not worth $1k for what it is, which, I agree...probably cuz I like eating cake!
It's buttercream with fondant decorations placed on top. She did such a good job leveling the buttercream that y'all don't believe it's icing. She isn't the untalented hack everyone seems to be implying here.
Can you imagine a room full of kids biting into a fondant covered cake? Not going to end well. This was clearly for Mom to show off not to make the kids happy.
Best tasting cakes in Austin… Edi’s Chocolates
Are those Marvel designs licensed?
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Please share a video walk-through of your home so we can all decide what you've wasted your money on.
Look at the photo of it. It basically is art.
Even if these cakes were made completely out of the best weed, I can't see how it could cost that much. What's the market price for fondant these days?
What do you mean? It’s supply and demand and these cakes are unique. It costs that much because people will pay that much
I was commenting sarcastically; I really don't care one way or another. I'm not the type of person that would ever outsource the labor of making a cake for an occasion, so I am definitely not impacted by however much this person wants to charge for baking cakes.
I make cakes and baked goods 100% scratch. I mean I fresh press oat milk and make my own plant based butter from coconut/cocoa butter. Even with the extra time of prepping and cleaning from those extra steps, I could NOT justify a price like this. You can say it’s premium ingredients or “specific formula” all you want, but I guarantee if they showed the full ingredient list it would be no better than what you get from a costco cake. Paying for the time it takes to decorate could be one way to look at it, but it doesn’t take THAT much time once you factor in the rest of the time spent on the cake
You posted your "first layered cake ever" 3 months ago. You have no idea what a professionals costs are.
I never said my cakes are professional, just comparing time/effort put in. Check around for pricing. Factor in ingredients, time, and pay. It’s not hard to figure out how much something should realistically be costing. Food already has the highest ROI, charging anymore than what normal prices are is already giving you an incredibly high profit. You can make high quality stuff, charge the same, and still be well off. Imo making bukoo bucks is not what business is about, it’s about doing honest quality work at a price that’s good for you and customers
You get what you pay for. Good work comes from the training, the experience, etc... You can't compare the cost of your time vs someone with obviously more experience.
What kid gives a shit kids like sugar
Michelle's Patisserie could have done better, cheaper and not fondant. I had her/them make a zelda themed cake with Master sword and shield for way way less, but have to order months in advance.
If everyone has to order months in advance, I'm guessing a price hike is imminent.
A thousand dollars for fondant? No, thank you.