Saving money : bake your own birthday cake

Since we have time, and not as much money.. we bake our own birthday cakes.

Cake is two layers of White Cake from All recipes.
Butter, sugar, flour, organic eggs costing me less than usd 2
Butter cream cost around usd 2
A tub of organic strawberry costs usd 1
The fabulous edible image cost me usd 5
And usd 1.5 for the courier to collect the image.
Oh ya... box for transporting the cake is usd 1.
All is usd 12.5

While such cake can easily sell for usd 40

Not bad huh?
And it is easy peasy lemon squeezy.

not bad for the second cake effort huh?

edible Image makes all the difference.

my first cake in May this year super ugly.

this cost even less. Like usd 5 only?

I am planning another birthday by now...