The reluctance by some to put down the extra cash for custom-made cakes is causing Basant Paradis to permanently close the doors of her downtown Bangor bakery.
“Bangor can’t handle the prices that I need to be charging for my products,” Paradis, the owner of Cake Concoctions at 6 Water St., told the Bangor Daily News. “A lot of people want custom cakes, but they just don’t want to pay for the labor.”
Paradis said that her made-from-scratch cakes with hand-sketched drawings are labor intensive and can take upwards of five hours to create, which means the price can be close to $400, according to the BDN.
In addition to custom cakes, Paradis also sold cookies, scones, cupcakes and offered cake decorating parties, according to Cake Concoctions’ website.
