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Layer Cake

Fail

Buyers convert on only 0.7% of searches, so Layer Cake is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Top 45% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +1 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$78K/yr315K searches / yr
90-day growth
-20.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
11%top-5 click share · 30 brands · 99 sellers

Flapen Score

Layer Cake against its category

The dotted line is the Arts, Crafts & Sewing average. Past it, Layer Cake is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Layer Cake market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Layer Cake 315K times last year and spent an estimated $78K. The top 5 brands take 88% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 315K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -20.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $78K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
315K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-20.1%
Conversion, latest week
0.7%
Market size, estimated
$78Ka year
Peak month
January2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
riley blake fabric93K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $35.87.

Listings sell for $35.87 on average, from $3.30 to $157.19. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $35.87 that is $0 to $4K a year per listing.

Average price
$35.87inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.30–$157.19
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$4K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

30% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 92% ship with Prime. On an average day, 28.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #7,088 within Fabric. It carries 199 reviews at 4.72 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
30%
Prime listings
92%
Out of stock, average day
28.8%
Average rank
#7,088in Fabric
Average rating
4.72 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
199per listing
Listings tracked
217

04 · Newcomers

17 of last year's 77 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

77 products launched here in the last 12 months. 17 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 48 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
77
Successful launches
17Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
48 months

Products

Top Layer Cake products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 17, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 11% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$781$2K$2K$3K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)1 product missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

30 rising

Sellers

99

Est. top-5 brand share

88%

Top 20: 99%

Est. top-5 click share

11%

Top 20: 33%

Open market

11%

  • Riley Blake Designs54%
  • Generic11%
  • The Original Cakerie10%
  • Moda Fabrics10%
  • Nodsaw2%
  • Maywood Studio2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (24 brands, 11%)

Demand

Layer Cake search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

15K10KSpike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Layer Cake search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • riley blake fabric93K/yr
  • layer cake36K/yr
  • riley blake designs28K/yr
  • riley blake25K/yr
  • the original cakerie18K/yr
  • riley blake charm pack14K/yr
  • riley blake fabric by the yard15K/yr
  • riley blake clearance12K/yr
  • layer cakes11K/yr
  • moda layer cake fabric10K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Layer Cake

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

17%of positive reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
9%of negative reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
0.2%of orders come back
“No taste”
A buyer, on “Taste-Overall”9% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Layer Cake questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data