Quote Originally Posted by joycenalex
i found that wedding cakes from bakeries are beyond awful expensive....$2 a slice? and i have to pay for a 1 inch by 1 inch taste piece? b/c it was a wedding cake? rip offs in my opinion. i called around to several grocery stores that had bakeries....krogers, meijers, andersons and giant eagle locally, asked for and got tastes (when i was there at the store ) and got a huge sheet cake from giant eagle for just $45. it served the 100 people who were at the party, and the decorations were fine, the taste was great and i'd use that bakery again in a second.
It's important to note that most grocery store bakeries' cakes are made from box mixes and frozen weeks in advance and their "buttercream" is made from shortening, which is why it has that nasty, greasy flavor (or lack of). Please consider that if you do order from a bakery, chances are that a) your cake most likely wasn't frozen (depending on the standards of that particular bakery), b) that it's made from scratch, no boxes and c) that they use higher quality ingredients, i.e., butter rather than shortening. And that's just talking about the product itself, not labor. I charge more than $2 a slice and hardly feel like I'm ripping people off because of what I just mentioned. I know budget needs to be taken into consideration, I just felt the need to justify the costs. Actually, $2 a slice is a steal. JMO