Originally Posted by Tasha View Post
Speaking of making your own cake

Eggs. $7
Box mix. $5
Frosting, $4
Oil. $6

$22 for an entire cake using the box mix.

If you're making the cake from scratch with no box mix and homemade frosting.

$3 for all purpose flour
$6 for eggs
$6 for butter
$5 for sugar
$6 for oil
$5 for Cocoa powder
$5 for heavy cream.

$36 for a from scratch cake using no box mix and homemade frosting.


My original $9 estimate was if you use just the box mix and frosting.
Tasha those prices are ridiculously high. But assuming prices are higher in South Florida, which I am not going to research, you don't need a dozen eggs to make a cake. You need 2 for a box and 2-3 for scratch. You don't use a pound of butter, nor a bottle of oil, nor a whole bag of flour. So unless you are using 2-3 eggs and throwing the other 9 away, throwing the remaining 3 sticks of butter and the remaining oil away, the actual cost is a fraction of what you claim.

Anyone who buys a premade cake from a store is basically putting poison in your body with all the sugar and preservative and chemicals. And for what? Doesn't even taste that good.

A box cake mix made at home, a little better. (a little less poison) tastes a little better.

best choice is to make it yourself by far. Will taste better and be better for you. And when I say "better for you" remember we are talking about cake, sugar and carbs. I am saying better than these other choices.

That said, almost finished my cases of TastyKakes.