Would you pay over $1000 for this seven-year-old’s birthday cake? One mum and did, and the baker who created it says it was worth every cent.

Pamela Wooten, owner of PamCakes Bakery in Texas, shared a TikTok of herself making the cake, and revealed it cost close to US$1000.

“This is a repeat client of mine, she always orders big, extravagant cakes. She only cares about the looks and doesn’t care about the cost. She usually gives me a theme and gives me full creative freedom.”

The three tiered, 12 layered Avengers themed cake included a cookies and cream cake filled with cookies and cream buttercream, chocolate ganache and crushed Oreos, a Funfetti cake filled with strawberry buttercream and a marble cake with chocolate buttercream.

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Pamela says she spent hours researching the cake, and then a further 15 hours to create the sweet masterpiece.

“This includes the time spent on drafting the client contract, shopping for the ingredients and materials, baking the cakes, making fillings and buttercream, icing all the tiers, sculpting the 3D pieces and adding final decorations,” Pamela told PEOPLE.

The video quickly went viral on TikTok, with many people commenting they thought the cake was too expensive.

“I can’t stop staring at the unfinished edge of the Spiderman tier,” one person said. “If I was paying that much for a cake, then I would hate for the edges to look like that. I also was raised by a cake decorator.”

“I’d prob value this at $350,” said another.

“The final result underwhelmed me. Especially for CLOSE TO $1000.”

But other defended the price tag, saying the cost of ingredients and the hours of work all add up.

Pamela explained she has a formula for working out how much to charge for her cake creations. She adds the cost of materials and ingredients, then adds 30% for labour.

“This gives me the least amount I should charge for my cakes. I then round up that final number.”

Would you pay $1500 for this cake? Let us know in the comments below. 

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