08/29/2026
Hey y’all! Comfort & Joy checking in. ❤️
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about balance—and about making sure this little business stays something I LOVE doing.
After calling around to bakeries in the Upstate and comparing prices, I realized something: I am significantly undercharging for highly decorated custom cakes. 😂
And listen, I don’t want to price gouge anybody. Ever. But I also don’t want to spend 4–5+ hours designing, baking, making chocolate decorations, shopping for specialty pieces, decorating and obsessing over every tiny detail of a cake…and quietly resent the fact that I charged $65 for it.
So, going forward, there will be a difference between a dessert cake and a custom decorated cake.
A dessert cake will still be BEAUTIFUL. Buttercream, drips, pretty finishing touches—and YES, I will write Happy Birthday on your cake without nickel-and-diming you. Don’t be silly. 😂
But themed designs, flowers, edible images, burn-away cakes, specialty chocolate work, trinkets, elaborate decorations, etc. will come with an additional charge based on what you’re asking me to create.
I don't want to stop making your crazy cakes. I just need the crazy cakes to make sense. 😂
Because when I tell you I make things with love, I mean it. I make my pistachio butter from scratch. I make fillings and toppings myself. I check recalls and ingredients. I shop around when necessary to make sure I'm comfortable with what I'm feeding you. I don't like taking the half-assed route—and I genuinely believe you can taste the difference.
Ingredients, packaging, gas and groceries have all gotten more expensive, but my time and skill have value too. I'm finally learning to account for that.
So I'm not going anywhere, and I'm not giving up elaborate cakes. ❤️ I'm just trying to build Comfort & Joy in a way that lets me keep giving you the quality and love you've come to expect without running myself into the ground to do it.
Thank you for trusting me with your birthdays, celebrations, cravings and weird-ass cake ideas. Please keep the weird ones coming.
Just know I'm finally gonna charge you appropriately for them. 😂❤️
— Comfort & Joy