Gold Cupcakes with Platinum Icing! Print
Monday, 15 April 2013 15:22
Mark Moreno - What if your restaurant sold cupcakes made of gold? or how about platinum? Sounds totally ridiculous I know but please hang with me for just a second. Gold costs $1,700 an ounce and the platinum icing for your cupcake would run almost $1,800 an ounce depending on how much shortening you could use. So lets start making cupcakes without a recipe and presume that we would use an ounce of gold in each cupcake and an ounce of platinum icing, If we were  only  off one tenth of an ounce on each cupcake that would change our unit cost by about $360 a cupcake! Continue