Donation amount does not necessarily reflect ingredient cost and labor in the cakes. Instead, a customized cake is considered a gesture of appreciation for your generosity towards the charities.
It's sometimes perplexing why the ingredients alone of home baked cakes cost much more than the full price of a supermarket bakery cake!
To understand it, let’s take a closer look at the $$$ involved for a cake 9 inches in diameter and 3 inches tall:
Fondant covering the cake and the board: $8-$12 Fondant for decorations? Not sure! Butter cream icing: 1 pound of butter, 12oz cream cheese and 1 pound of confectioner’s sugar
Want something chocolaty? With good quality chocolate, the price goes way up! Cake body: not sure! Out of the box cake mix would be the low cost solution. $2-3? Anything else costs much more.
Cake Flour
Egg
Sugar
Unsalted Butter
Milk
12’ Cake board
Miscellaneous: