Sweet Paradise Bakes

Sweet Paradise Bakes Celebration cakes, cupcakes & more. Based in Stanford-le-hope, Essex. Fully registered & insured with 5* hygiene

1 more box remaining ✨X2 milk chocolate flake Blondies X2 OG classic chocolate Brownies Get your Sunday fix 🫶🏼
04/10/2026

1 more box remaining ✨

X2 milk chocolate flake Blondies
X2 OG classic chocolate Brownies

Get your Sunday fix 🫶🏼

🐓POSH BIRDS🐓The brief on this one was simply ‘chickens’ and not the KFC style😜Customer sent me a photo of the birthday g...
03/10/2026

🐓POSH BIRDS🐓

The brief on this one was simply ‘chickens’ and not the KFC style😜

Customer sent me a photo of the birthday girls ‘posh chickens’ so I used these images for the cake toppers

Flavours: chocolate & lemon
Toppers: 🤍 A La Card Toppers 🤍

03/10/2026

Fancy a Sunday pick me up?

I’ll have at least 2 boxes available tomorrow… I don’t usually have anything for a Sunday so here goes!

Box 1 & 2
• 2 milk chocolate flake blondies & 2 OG chocolate brownies

I might have one more brownie based box. Tbc

Pics will be up tomorrow morning

If you want something sweet after your Sunday roast?… Sorted

Let me know if you want one

xoxo

Recently I shared a post and asked my followers to guess what I charged for the two cakes I was surprised at how low som...
03/10/2026

Recently I shared a post and asked my followers to guess what I charged for the two cakes

I was surprised at how low some of the guesses were so let’s break down some of the costs involved….

Cake board and box £7.50
Fondant for the cake board £2.00
Ribbon for the edge £1

So for that alone we are already at £10.50….

Ingredients
Eggs £2.50
Butter £8.00
Sugar £1
Flour 60p
Icing sugar £3
Sprinkles £1
Food colouring £1
Vanilla 50p

Now we’re at £28.10

Cake toppers - luckily I make these myself but still come at a cost of supplies + an hour to make them alone. If I was to buy these from someone else they would charge around £18 so let’s call it that

So now we’re up to £46.10

Other costs which are hard to calculate but sure add up

Water
Gas and electricity bill
Cleaning supplies
Insurance
Compliance documents to run a business
The cost of all my equipment I use
Icing bags, all the nozzles and cutters to make the designs. Cling film. Greaseproof paper. Everything adds up right!?
Let’s call all of the above £5 because who knows…

New total £51.50

So on top of the physical money costs we have cleaning time, making the cake mixes, baking the cakes time, making all the buttercream, the toppers, the decorations, the shopping time, ordering supplies online, icing the cakes, delivering the cakes.

So actual working time on all of the above let’s call this 4 hours. Cleaning takes ages alone - and that’s before AND after!

4 hours at national minimum wage would be £50.84

£51.50 + £50.84 is already at £102.34

Every business should make a ‘profit’ so let’s add 10% for arguments sake (which is low!)

That’s now £112.57

For the job that I do I think it’s worth more than minimum wage personally but it’s an example.

My lowest guess for those two cakes was £100.

Who is making a living on £100? Never mind a profit…

So yeah i hope this was a bit of an insight into the making cakes world. Good cakes aren’t cheap. Everything takes time and is made with a lot of love and care. Luckily my prices are never questioned by my clients and I’m grateful for those that support me🫶🏼

PS - no digs at any of the guesses 🩷 this post is just for those interested and I guess now you know how much goes into them it makes more sense for what we as cake makers need to charge in order to succeed

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🦸🏼💥 SUPER FINLEY 💥🦸🏼Superhero traybake for Finley’s 4th Birthday✨Flavour: chocolateToppers: 🤍 A La Card Toppers 🤍
02/10/2026

🦸🏼💥 SUPER FINLEY 💥🦸🏼

Superhero traybake for Finley’s 4th Birthday✨

Flavour: chocolate
Toppers: 🤍 A La Card Toppers 🤍

Engaged 💍🖤✨Popular design choice recently. Classic cream and black bows ✨
02/10/2026

Engaged 💍🖤✨

Popular design choice recently. Classic cream and black bows ✨

What’s new Scooby Doo? 🔎👀🐕🦴Love love love working on a different theme, one that’s not your everyday choice. Loveeeee 🫶🏼...
01/10/2026

What’s new Scooby Doo? 🔎👀🐕🦴

Love love love working on a different theme, one that’s not your everyday choice.

Loveeeee 🫶🏼

Scooby themed number 5 for Frankie✨

Flavour: vanilla funfetti
Toppers: 🤍 A La Card Toppers 🤍

🏌🏽⛳️ HB Josh ⛳️🏌🏽Golf themed bento box 💚These are always a popular choice. 5 inch cake with 5 cupcakes in your choice of...
01/10/2026

🏌🏽⛳️ HB Josh ⛳️🏌🏽

Golf themed bento box 💚

These are always a popular choice. 5 inch cake with 5 cupcakes in your choice of design/style.

Toppers: 🤍 A La Card Toppers 🤍

🩷✨💜 80 💜✨🩷The cutest cupcakes🎀Brief was pink/purple, girly with butterflies. Loved making these With added toppers Mum, ...
30/09/2026

🩷✨💜 80 💜✨🩷

The cutest cupcakes🎀

Brief was pink/purple, girly with butterflies. Loved making these

With added toppers Mum, Nan and 80✨

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