Tip 95: Bake and decorate your own cakes
It is amazing how expensive it is to buy a decorated cake. It is also amazing how easy and inexpensive it is to make your own cake at home. All you need is a box of cake mix and a few simple ingredients such as eggs, oil, and water. Baking and decorating your own cake costs only a few dollars compared with around $18 to buy a 1/4 sheet decorated cake at the grocery store or bakery.
I would put buying decorated cakes almost up there with buying bottled water as a poor use of money. If you need a lot of cakes for a big event, it might make sense to buy them from a place that has the capacity to make a lot of cakes. But it seems pretty expensive to buy a single cake unless you’ve forgotten an important occasion and need to get a cake quickly.
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