As A Cake Decorator What Did U Get For Xmas?? The Goods,bad
Decorating By creations Updated 8 Jan 2006 , 3:09am by BJ
my family knows me for make and decorating cakes so they decided to get me bath products that smells as bake goods, candles looking like pies , cakes, I know its the thought that counts, BUT for next year I'm going to request gift cards from A.C Moor or cakes supplies. NEXT lol
I got a digital cooking scale (wanted), a cooking thermometer (wanted), a chocolate fountain (wanted), a magic blender (wanted)a Bon Appetit magazine in my stocking, and a Companys's Coming book about making gift baskets. All except the CC book was from my BF.
I got a set of petal pans, a silpat, a cake lifter, kitchenaid cover, cake stand, and an apron embroidered with a cake and my name on it! 
I got an airbrush (kopykake airmaster) and a few measuring spoons and stuff.... (I ordered the airbrush and paid for it myself but hey it still counts right? LOL)
I got the large and small Wilton Fondant roller, a candy therm., a chocolate therm., The Cake Mix Dr., Collette Peters The Art of Cake Decorating, 9x13 pan, a snowman recipe card holder, A large round cake carrier, A Pampered Chef Decortator thingy?, and 3 Gift cards to Michael's totaling $80.00.
I got the floral pan set, a sleigh cake pan, a long oblong cake pan, some boxes of Wilton fondant, and a bunch of fondant cut-outs.
.... oh, and sapphire earings and necklace.
My hubby usually strikes out and gets me so- so gifts ( hey anything is ok but he never sees that twinkle in my eye)
So this year he told me that He wanted to get me a KA pro 6qt ....I was like OOOOOHHH really I didnt know i wanted this. I already have a 4.5 and love it. I didnt want to spend a ton so we found a refurbished one in that gun-metal grey.....NOT my favorite color....so I told him that it was ok and didnt need it to save his money. I was so excited he just even thought of this..... Then he suprised me with the one thing that I never thought i would get a pair of Mary-Jane Manolo Blahniks ....If there is one thing that i love more than cakes its shoes.....so I was in heaven. so i never even paid any attention to what else i got.
I got my KA Artisan! The day after Christmas, I went to Target and they were selling mini ceramic baking pans shaped like trees, stockings, and bells 2/$1. I bought some for next Christmas. A few cookbooks, candy thermometer, and recipe cards are some of the other cooking presents I received.
morning everybody, i'm a NEWBIE and this was a nice topic to break the ice
i'm also a newbie to cake decorating, just completed course 2, excited about course 3.
for x-mas i got a new mixer(had only a hand held previously) and the 101 decorating box fm wilton. so it's ok to say i was happy.
I got a beautiful cake silver cake stand with mirror on top.
I actually picked as a gift for my friend who also does cakes, and I told my husband that I would love to have one too... So, he got his sister to buy it for me as a gift! 
My son got me all kinds of Wilton stuff, glitter in every color, Barbie pan w/insert, three gum paste flower arrangements, two different press sets, fondant, gum paste mix, icing sculptor and a 32 piece flower making set. All I really need now is a air brush set, maybe next year. 
Ok ladies are you ready for this one,I know you all are gonna be jealous on this one....NOT!!!! My MIL who took the classes with me and I know that she adores me and she has never messed up on gift giving, got me a bottle of Method dish soap...I am not kidding I swear to God, that is all I got. I put on a big grin and told her I loved it, and her response was " Its in your favorite color and scent". I know it is the thought that counts but come on now there was no thought there. So several hours later hubby and I went home and opened our gifts to each other. And he did so well this year.The only thing that I am puzzled about is in my stocking hubby got me a mortar and pedastal.What the heck am I gonna go with that? So I asked hubby told me so I could do the lemon thing. What he was telling me was to zest the lemons or oranges we both got a big laugh out of that after I told him that you don't zest with that. But he tried. Sorry don't mean to sound ungrateful because I'm really not. But I got nothing for cake decorating.
Well Baking friends,
I got absoluetly nothing. I have the 2006 wilton yearbook and keep telling my husband that one day I will be able to decorate a cake when I get some supplies. I would have been happy with course one class and kit but no. I guess thats what happens when you are a mom and wife. Maybe for valentines day. lol...DOUBT IT!!!
jmcakes- sorry to hear about that...at least now lots of stuff is marked down...go teach hubby a lesson! lol
TMM2001- dish soap? That's a new one....I HAD to have a mortar ad pestle...I use it sometimes to crush spices with it, and nuts too. BF and I spent Christmas in the Dominican and somehow I got a large (foot tall) wooden mortar and pestle as well...BF thinks I will be hand grinding coffee with it, like they do down there! (also got a huge bottle of clear vanilla, over a litre for $5 US)
I got money from my brother so I got a 9x13 pan with straight edges and then 2 9" square and 2 7" square pans. I also got pampered chef cookies cutters. My b-day is Feb 1 but I already got my presents. From my mom a KA ice cream maker and from DH and my MIL I got the 9 cup KA food processor. It is beautiful. I also got a crepe pan from my other brother. I also starte Wilton's Course III last night.
The only cake related things I got were two books on my wishlist - Debbie Brown's Naughty Cakes and The Complete Book of Cake Decorating with Sugarpaste by Sylvia Coward. I love them both! I also got a christmas cake plate and server but it will probably be better as a cookie plate (it curves up on the edges). My DH didn't get me anything cake related but he did soooo good (as always!). He got me all clothes from New York & Co. and a necklace from there too. I don't know how he does it but everytime that man buys me jeans no matter what style even from a catalog, they fit me perfect! I try to go out and buy jeans and I can't find a single pair. He must have the magic touch. He keeps saying he should be a personal shopper!
Heather
TMM2001-
If it makes you feel any better, I got handtowels from my MIL. I love her and FIL dearly, but they always gripe about the fact that I don't keep handtowels for them when they come over. I came home one day when she was babysitting and what was hanging in my guest bath? handtowels. What did I get for Christmas? Handtowels. (Plus some other stuff, including a $50 Hobby Lobby gift certificate.) It was one of those "I'm laughing because I'm planning my revenge for next year" sort of things.
Besides that, I got two Debbie Brown cake books, ( love her!) and my husband took me to NYC to see "Phantom" on Broadway. Not a lot of cake stuff, but certainly a very good christmas... with the exception of the handtowels.
I'm a newbie but I'm spoiled to bits by DH and his family...and my mom helped quite a bit too.
From my father in law, who was my secret santa, I got a bunch of cake pans, a sifter, spatulas ( can you believe I didn't have a decent one to scrape bowls with) more tips and bags and my mom gave me a book that wasn't a gift really to her but free to me...one of those deals. It's a book about the holidays and it has cakes, cake decorating tips and homemade Xmas gift ideas because she knows I love that. Dh gets the prize, he bought me a Waterford cake stand and 2 Waterford ornaments that have nothing to do with cakes and a Thomas Blackshear ornament as well. My mom also bought me more spatulas and FIl also picked up a wonderful whisk. How crazy is it to get excited over spatulas, cake knives and whisks? I am though.
I can't recall everything because I've already mixed it in with everything else but Dh was also kind enough to let me go a bit bonkers on Ebay for a few weeks with cake stuff. I ended up with 2 of Collette's books and 2 others as well from a gift cert that BIL and SIL ( brother in law and sister in law) gave me because they weren't sure what to buy from my Amazon list and about 10 new cake pans. I think I hear UPS outside with another set of goodies. Actually, FIl also bought me a Tupperware cake carrier so now I have two, and that's awesome because I was worried about trying to transport the cakes to holiday dinners. My FIL ended up buying me a huge tote bag so that I could cart my stuff from classes to home and elsewhere and DH also surprised me with cake boxes.
Since I'm just learning and he really, really doesn't want all the cakes in the house because it's not really a food group and I have young kids, so I got cake boxes and cake boards too.
It was a great Xmas. Just reassured me that my family supported my most recent obsession...though many have mentioned the calories. I keep telling them cake is fat free as long as you skip dinner but no one believes me. I've lost 4 pounds on that diet so far. LOL!
P.S. I asked Santa for the spatulas and sifter and they came up with the rest.
It's good to be the Queen, says Caribou! LOL!
Ok ladies are you ready for this one,I know you all are gonna be jealous on this one....NOT!!!! My MIL who took the classes with me and I know that she adores me and she has never messed up on gift giving, got me a bottle of Method dish soap...I am not kidding I swear to God, that is all I got. I put on a big grin and told her I loved it, and her response was " Its in your favorite color and scent". I know it is the thought that counts but come on now there was no thought there. So several hours later hubby and I went home and opened our gifts to each other. And he did so well this year.The only thing that I am puzzled about is in my stocking hubby got me a mortar and pedastal.What the heck am I gonna go with that? So I asked hubby told me so I could do the lemon thing. What he was telling me was to zest the lemons or oranges we both got a big laugh out of that after I told him that you don't zest with that. But he tried. Sorry don't mean to sound ungrateful because I'm really not. But I got nothing for cake decorating.
Ahh, don't feel bad. My FIL gets all of us AOL freebie discs that he must walk around apartment buildings and stealing and he actually wraps them. We also get post it notes and pens from whatever company he is working for at the time. They used to be real gifts until we all started joking about them a few years ago. This year, we each still got one. I told him I'm going to use them and paint them and make coasters and give them back to him one year. Gosh, after 12 years in the family, that's a ton of coasters.
LOL about the Method soap. I've given soap before too, but it was from France and most people really enjoyed it and it wasn't the ONLY thing I got for them. Had to note that one year I bought DH a mortar and pestel for his bday along with other items. It's still unused but he was the one that went gaga over it on a food tv show so I thought he would use it. In truth, after using them for years, they are like cast iron skillets in that they are "seasoned" and you can hand them down for generations because of that. Seriously. I would love one if I didn't still have the ones that Dh never used.
You can use the mortar and pestel to make your own lemon or vanilla extracts of sorts for cakes and I'm telling you, you will have a unique flavoring that can't be duplicated. Try a bunch of things with it. Mint. Spices. Fruit zests. Just mix and enjoy the aroma.
Everyone knew I wanted cake decorating supplies but didn't know for sure what to get so I got gift cards to Michaels and Walmart. I also got a Barnes & Noble gift card so I can buy a couple books! MIL did get me a few fondant supplies, the cutter/embosser, the ribon cutter, and the decorative punch. So not too bad! With the giftcards I've already gotten a 12 x 18 pan, the three tier square pan set and a new turntable. Hooray for Michael's coupons!!
My hubby did well this year - He got me the square pans set, fondant embossers and punches and books by Collette Peters and Toba Garret. He did not think it was very exciting gifts but I was rocking with it. Last year he got me the KA 11 quart food processor and the year before I got my KA Mixer - so he is a very good listener!! I have an airbrush on my birthday list!!
My MIL on the other hand - Pajamas - which is not as bad a soap though 
LOL What is Method soap? I like dish towels Martha Stewart has some cute ones that look like bandanas. I use to buy my sister dish towels for the same reason because she never had any out.
I got a KA pro 6qt and set of baking pans ( cake related ). DH really out did any other Christmas and I even did better than DS this year. Every year he buys me a coat and jewelry and a watch. 
i got a new kitchen aid mixer....RED i love it...i was afraid to use it because it was so nice and i loved it so much...so i just looked at it for like 2 weeks...then i made a 3 tier cake! yay! MMF is so much easier (understatement) when it's not by hand...
after making all the cakes and mixes, i couldn't get away from the sugar smell fast enough...i went to wash my hands and the only soap was vanilla sugar scent...and i was like NOOOOOOOO.
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