How Much Does a Cake From Bake Squad Cost?

Last Updated on May 3, 2023
Written by CPA Alec Pow | Content Reviewed by CFA Alexander Popinker

Bake Squad is a Netflix Original show that had its premiere on August 11, 2021. The first season has eight episodes and the second one, which was released on January 20, 2023, has the same number of episodes. This show is presented by Christina Tosi and is about a group of four bakers who compete to prepare desserts for a different customer in each episode, who is usually planning a special event like a celebration, wedding, or birthday party.

The Bake Squad offers a wide variety of frosting, fillings, and flavors you can choose from for your custom-made cake. Also, they are able to accommodate the majority of dietary restrictions.

How Much Does A Cake From Bake Squad Cost?

From our understanding, ‘Bake Squad’ left the casting responsibilities in the hands of Theoldschool. This is an unscripted content studio known for offering a plethora of services. Although the name of the series wasn’t revealed at that point, February 2020 was the date of the first casting call for the show seems.

This announcement asked locals in the Los Angeles, California area to contact the company directly if they needed a sweet treat for a particular event. The Summer of 2020 was the scheduled date for the filming of this initial installment. The only thing you had to do to apply for this unnamed series was to go to Theoldschool website in the casting section.

During the second season of this series, Theoldschools was known as the official partner of ‘Bake Squad,’ and people that wanted to be a part of this show could easily apply on the company’s website. This apparent casting announcement for the show’s second season listed a plethora of events and was scheduled to air around October 2021. The announcement itself explained that you could apply either for your own event or someone else’s celebration.

No other requirements were there for people, not even financial, aside from the fact that they had to be based around L.A. and over the age of 18. Also, when it came to the second installment of the show, all events should have been planed between February and March 2022.

This means that if you are interested in participating in the ‘Bake Squad’ show, you must live close to the Los Angeles area. Of course, you should also prepare an event that would leave an impact on people choosing the final clients, as there is always an impressive number of people wanting to be part of the show.

You can still participate if you’re under the age of 18, but instead of applying for yourself, your legal guardian will have to do this on your behalf. So you can actually get a cake from Bake Squad for free, as long as you’re on the lookout for the next season and apply on the official Theoldschool website.

But if you don’t have the patience to wait for the show to take you in its team, you might still be in luck. You can also get the dessert services of the Cake queen Ashley Holt for your event, through her own brand, Sugar Monster. This means that you can actually hire her to build a beautiful masterpiece by going to her company’s website and filling out her requisite form.

You should expect to spend somewhere between $50 and $200 for a cake made by Sugar Monster, although these prices will depend on factors like the complexity of the cake, its design, and overall size. This price can go even higher depending on the additional features you’re going for, like specialty flavors, multiple tiers, or edible decorations.

What happens to the cakes made in cupcake wars? Are they thrown away?

In general, the cakes from the show which do not necessitate a donation are offered to food banks, shelters, or missions. Also, the winner of Cupcake Wars gets $10,000 in publicity and PR for her/his business. Some other options for the winner would include roles in TV shows, joint ventures with other chefs, or cookbooks.

More than one thousand cupcakes were created during the Cupcake Wars. A person is able to have a cupcake ready in one hour and bake it in 45 minutes. Each cupcake served at this competition was baked by a dedicated group of players and then offered to a worthy charity.

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Television shows have different food waste policies, but usually, the products used in the show are thrown away or consumed by the crew. During the filming, the judges even take some home.

According to other show participants, the rest of the cakes are thrown away into massive trash cans and rolled out by the cleaning staff at the end of the shoot. The shooting took two days and happened in the Down Hall Hotel, which was used as the tent’s base.

The Great British Bake Off contestants are taken from their accommodation at 09:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday to have time to film as much as possible. Fifteen employees are involved in this show and each of them bakes anywhere between twelve and twenty ingredients. The GBBO show is aired on Channel 4 each Tuesday at 08:00 p.m.

In 2010, the pastry chef Val Anne Hielte Welch also competed in the Food Network’s Cake Challenge.

How do the crew of Cake Wars and Bake Squad get their just desserts?

According to one of the senior challenge producers, Mellisa Johnson, who has worked on both of these food network shows, but also at Netflix’s “Nailed It!” and “Sugar Rush”, the rest of one thousand cupcakes are eaten by the hardworking crew and cast or offered to charitable organizations.