Something Baked by Tercia

19/06/2026

As much as I will always advocate for customers to pay bakers fairly without complaining and for bakers to charge fairly for their work, we as bakers also need to take our customers seriously.

If you know you still struggle with decorating cakes or consistently delivering quality work then be realistic with your pricing. Consider reducing your labour charge or profit percentage to match the level of your work until your skills improve ❤️.

Fair pricing should work both ways ,customers deserve value and bakers deserve to be paid fairly for the quality they deliver.

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19/06/2026

Do you do deliveries in your bakery?

If not why? And if you do how much do you charge?or what determines how much you charge?

I do deliveries sometimes when l am not too busy and I charge according to uber prices x2 but wanted to know how you guys do it.

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19/06/2026

Hmmm but even shoprite is feeling it R85 used to get us almost the height of that container

Some options if you think home bakers are expensive 🫣🫣🫣
Imagine wanting a personalised cake for R200 ,and I’m mixing ingredients from scratch,not using premix,and you want some nice filling 🥹🥹🥹 

As a baker I need to cover
-all ingredients costs
-electricity
-my labour
And a profit.
So personalised cakes come at a price,
It’s not about how big the cake is
💕💕💕💕💕💕
We are not fighting

18/06/2026

Prices 😍😍😍😍🙌🏾

18/06/2026

The cake: “I cost R1550”

The baker: “Best I can do is R950.” 🙈🙈

Meanwhile the customer was ready to pay the full price and is now wondering why the cake was so cheap 😂

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18/06/2026

Deep down I wanted to reject this order because of my handwriting 😂 the way the customer screamed upon collection shocked me as well because I was expecting her to be worried about the handwriting ,she was so impressed lol 🙈🙈l tried to apologise for my handwriting she wasn’t even interested in that 😂

How did I do? Inspo on the first pic, the rest is my work.

This 6inch 2 layers start from R650

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18/06/2026

APPRECIATION POST ❤️

I’m not even sure if she knows me because I’ve never told her my name, but I can count the many times I’ve reached out to her for business-related advice and she has always gone out of her way to assist me willingly.

It really shows how humble some people are. You don’t need to know someone personally in order to help them.

Thank you so much, Kea Marcia ,for everything. 🙏🏾

God truly does not make a mistake when He blesses people; He also looks at the heart. ❤️
Please tag her 🙏🏾

18/06/2026

I was just thinking after buying a 200 g pack of shortbread for R41 in the shops. It got me wondering how many of those packs would fit into a 5 L bucket and I realised it is roughly 10–13 packs depending on how its packed.

That basically means a 5 L bucket could be worth around R410 to R530 if you look at retail pricing. But then I noticed another cheaper in-house brand still comes to around R350 -R380 per 5 L and yet you still see some home bakers selling similar 5 L short bread for about R200.It just made me realise how important costing really is.

The ingredients for shortbread are similar if not the same but big brands take their costing very seriously and buy in bulk so their prices work differently. Home bakers also shouldn’t undercharge because they don’t produce in large quantities like big companies so their costs per item are higher and they still put in all the labour.

In business if you dont understand your costing properly, you can easily end up underpricing your product without even realising it.

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17/06/2026

How many of you have ever completed an order,worked for hours,baked, decorated, delivered the cake and then at the end of the day you sat down and thought:

‘Where did all the money go?’

If that has ever happened to you, show yourself in the comments..

17/06/2026

😂😂Tell me about those” NEVER AGAIN” clients ,what did they do to you? 😂😂

Someone said she changed a client’s name to “NEVER AGAIN” why? I know people can be difficult to work with but to this extent?😂