I finally started editing my London trip photos and found this one taken in NYC (mid-town Manhattan) where I started my journey. I'm posting the price of cake pops sold there because I've made at least 200 cake pops in the past few years (I can make 50 pops with ONE box of cake mix...the highest cost is the Ghirardelli coating). I have given ALL of these cake pops away for events: bake sales, Valentine party for seniors, donation to local homeless shelter, etc. I HONESTLY had NO CLUE what these things cost out in the real world. You know, a world in which a person hands over hard-cold cash to the person who has made the cake pop.
Now I know:
I am currently picking myself up off the floor.
Let's see...16 dozen @ $37.50 = $600, minus cake mix (4 x $1.50) minus can of icing (1 x $2) minus coating (4 x $6) minus 200 sticks ($16) = boy, am I an idiot. By the way, that's a profit of $552 less the cost of preparing/baking 4 cakes.
Now I know:
I am currently picking myself up off the floor.
Let's see...16 dozen @ $37.50 = $600, minus cake mix (4 x $1.50) minus can of icing (1 x $2) minus coating (4 x $6) minus 200 sticks ($16) = boy, am I an idiot. By the way, that's a profit of $552 less the cost of preparing/baking 4 cakes.