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Category Archives: Common Complaints
New York Yankees Cake
Be careful when adding a marbilized fondant ball border to your cakes. On this cake the New York Yankees logo is low and the border could almost obscure it. You can always add your border first than add your decorations.
Graduation Cap Cake
Always remember graduation caps are thinner at the top and wider at the bottom.
Wedding Dots Cake
When adding color to a wedding cake, always remember that the color should be spread out evenly over the tiers. On this cake the bottom two tiers have color, but it just looks like the decorator forgot to put color on the top tier. Since this cake has a completely white top tier it looks unfinished and when customers look at this cake they will think so to.
Make My Cake Special
With all of the TV shows on today about cakes we are into everything specialty. Everyone who comes into my bakery, wants something different from the normal supermarket cake. Luckily for them I can supply it. I can do anything if the customer is willing to pay it, most times they are not. So I offer things such as small fondant or piped 3D figures on their cakes. If they get a drawing (since I do it in airbrush) I can accent it with colored icing to make certain things stand out. This way people are not getting the same cake as they got when they were a child and they did not spend a fortune on their cake.
Ace of Cakes I Wonder?
With all of the cake shows currently on TV I wonder how this show has made it? Well at least with Duff being the main focus on the show. I watch pretty much every cake and challenge show but I never see Duff making a cake start to finish. I mean why doesn’t Duff ever make a cake or compete on these challenge shows? To be specific with the challenge shows, they can’t include Bigger, Badder, Fire Breathing Crap. Is it because most of his cakes are inedible or because his decorators have the talent that made him so successful? I think that if most decorators had weeks to make an inedible products and cover it with fondant it to would look cool. However what are artist for than? They are the ones that make inedible works of art and cake decorators make edible ones.
Sugar Prices Rise
Look out, sugar prices are on the rise. It seems to be that India is demanding more sugar. It looks like they have placed large orders for March and July. That means with more in demand the higher the price goes.
You Can’t Decorate But I Can
I am really sick and tired of people telling me how to do my job. I know how to decorate cakes. I know what is going to look good. If I tell you that those two colors do not match, they probably don’t. I follow trends in the industry, flavors of cakes, and decorations. The newest wedding cake style, I know about them too. So it really bugs me when I go into work and one of the owners tells me that I am doing something wrong or not the right way. Do they know how to do this? Nope! Can they even do something as simple as icing a cake? Nope! So just leave me alone.
If I tell you that it is not possible for a picture to be drawn on a cake, believe me. If I tell you that I can not create a tiered cake like the person wants, I can’t. I know my talents and what I can and can not do. I’m just pre warning you that if I say I can’t and you take the order anyway, it may not be just like the customer wanted. That’s your fault.
I am open to hearing suggestions. It may just help me if I’m in a funk. Suggestions are always welcome from anyone and everyone. I do not know everything but I do know a ton more than them. That is why they hired me. So let me do my job and you do yours please.