Custom cake pricing gets messy when every order is a little different.
A better starting point is to separate your quote into five parts: ingredients, packaging, labor, overhead, and profit. Once those numbers are visible, you can adjust complexity and margin without losing track of whether the order still makes sense.
That is the core idea behind Cake Baker's Caddy. The calculator is not there to replace your judgment. It gives you a repeatable way to use your judgment faster.
For most bakers, the biggest misses happen in labor and overhead. Ingredient pricing is visible. Time is slipperier. Delivery, cleanup, messaging, design revisions, and setup all quietly eat margin.
If you are still quoting from memory, start building a habit of logging the real time spent on each order. That one change tends to improve pricing quality faster than almost anything else.