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Texas baker charging $1,000 for kid's birthday cakes defends hefty price tag due to "specific formula"

Colorful fondant birthday cake with three tiers and birthday candles
Colorful fondant birthday cake with three tiers and birthday candles
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A baker from Texas has been put on the defensive from folks criticizing the hefty price tag for one of her cakes.

Pamela Wooten, owner of PamCakes Bakery in Liberty Hill, Texas, recently posted a video of a birthday cake she recently made for a child's 7th birthday, that ringed in at an astonishing $1,000!


According to PEOPLE, Wooten faced criticism for the cake with many commentators saying the cake was "absolutely not" worth $1,000, but Wooten cited the "effort, time and materials" that went into baking the confection.

Wooten said the cake took 15 hours to complete, explaining, "This includes the time spent on drafting the client contract, shopping for the ingredients and materials, baking the cakes, making fillings and buttercream, icing all the tiers, sculpting the 3D pieces and adding final decorations."

"Not a lot of people are aware of the time it actually takes to put these types of custom cakes together," she says. "It takes forever."

Though the cake normally would've cost $1,000, Wooten only charged the parent $810 because she was a "repeat customer."

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