I recently just had my second baby and had to quit a job that I had for 8 years. Now I am a stay at home mom and as much as that is challenging and keeps me busy: I just knew I had to do something else the keep me even busier! So I found the art of cake decorating. My mom used to do a little of it with her friends when I was younger and I think that is how I got interested in it. So I started decorating cakes and realized it is a lot harder than it looks and can get a little frustrating when it isn't going right. I am a perfectionist and can get upset when I can't do something the first time! Well, my DH is so supportive.....he tells me to keep trying and is always buying me new supplies. He even bought me a kitchenaid mixer for valentines day.......which he just took back and upgraded it to a pro! If I need help he is always there and willing, and he even watches the kids for me while I am doing a cake. He even likes to try some of the decorating himself just to see how hard it actually is! So I am just wondering........is he the only one or does anyone else have a DH as helpful as he is?

My dh is my partner in our cake business. He has a great eye for color and does all our airbrushing.

I am very lucky, my DH does the same. Although he doesn't try to make any thing he likes tasting everything. He takes care of the kids and lets me consentrate on my cakes. I stopped working when my daughter was born almost 8mo. ago and doing cakes has been my hobby. It keeps me linked to the outside world. I don't just do it for that, I love, love , love baking and decorating, it is my passion. I can't even describe it in words. I am pretty sure there are more hubby's out there like your husband. Ain't it grand?

My hubby is very supportive as well, he says he can not wait until I open a bakery! I am not so sure of that but he loves it when I bake and he helps out any way he can! He is always encouraging me to take more classes and to get more things!
We all sound like we are very lucky!!
Tracy

Mine is a little TOO supportive. He's great but he's an engineer and always wants to improve everything, including my ways of decorating. He sits there and watches me work and says things like "you should do this, I think if you put that there than this would work easier....." Then he just takes whatever i'm working on and shows me, even when I tell him "no thanks, I'm fine, I like doing it like this....." Then when I finally snap he gets upset and all "I'm just trying to help" He's great and really does help, like when I was making cookie cutters yesterday, he took me to the hardware store told me what I needed to get, went in the garage, found all the tools, cut out everything, drilled the holes. But then when my cake is finished and I want everyone to come admire it with me (I truely am my biggest fan) he comes and says "Its really good, but I think you should have put that like this, or used that instead of that." Then I get crushed because it's obviously a piece of garbage (haha i'm a little emotional and don't take criticism very good after working on a cake for 3 days and stressed out of my mind)

But he's very supportive and thinks i'm very talented but sometimes I wish he would keep his "helpful tips" to himself.

wow that was way to long

Also, when I hate something I do he's always the first want to tell me how amazing it is and reminds me that no ones gonna notice the flaws. So I guess I would rather he be TOO helpful than not helpful at all

I too am blessed with a VERY supportive DH. He chuckles softly to himself when I have my traditional panic attack half way thru a cake and when I'm contemplating doing something half a$$ed he doesn't criticize but he has that look, like 'you're better than that'. He keeps the kids out from under foot and recently I caught him going thru my cake photos admiring and telling me how far I've come. He also bought me a KA for Mothers Day last year and keeps asking me if I've been researching airbrushes.

Good idea for a thread. For as crazy as I swear he can make me it's good to remember all the little reasons I Love him.

My DH is a blessing.He is very supportive and always encourages me to try new hobbies.Im a staying home mom for now so he wants me to be busy.When I started decorating cakes he bought me all my stuff and he is the official cake and icing tester,mostly because my son (4 yr old) doesnt like frosting or cake a lot (weird uh! ) He is my biggest fan,I thank God for him.

I'm in the blessed category too as far as support goes. My DH is so supportive he is even helping me look for places to become legal (or maybe he really just wants me to get all my baking crap out of the house ) He tells eveyone that he meets, my wife does cakes. Yeah, I guess I am lucky

I too am lucky that my hubby is very supportive of my cake decorating. He is also much more artistic than I am , so alot of times he will draw things for me or make suggestions for color combos or positions of deco. on the cake. He is also may taste tester ( although he says I am trying to make him fat. )

LOL my dh is the on that decorates the cakes. I do the business side of it and share in the baking/making the frosting/mixing colors/finding pictures. He is the one that does all the hard parts. His artistic ability is the reason we do it. I try very hard to do as much as I can to make it easier on him.

Mine is amazing. He is always helping me come up with ideas or improve the ones that I have. I couldn't do this without him!

My DH has always allowed me to explore any avenue of interest that I have, including cakes. BUT, only recently (if you have a day or two read my post The Cake from He--! LOL) did I come to realize how good he thinks I am at cakes. During that period he was constantly reminding me that I COULD do it....and also "YOU are the one that lets people take you for granted!" He also made the lighted cake stand in my photos and we had a BLAST consulting on them!

I am blessed and Thank God every day that he is M-I-N-E!!

Beth in KY

My DH is the best too! He is always there to watch the kids when I have a cake to do and he always has suggestions when I need it. He's the first one to tell me how good the cake looks and also the first in line to test it out. Just the other night I had a mishap in the oven - my 3d teddy bear cake spilled all over the oven. I was soo pissed off about it, but my husband swooped in before I could even think and started cleaning it up for me. He is awesome like that! I love him dearly.

Well, I don't have a DH , but my parents are somewhat supportive. They don't care as long as I don't make a mess. They also don't like that I take on tiered cakes. . .

They don't like that when I take a stacked cake, that I make each cake a different flavor; they say I put too much on my plate.

I don't have a DH but my BF is great. He mixed custom colors for a large paint co for years (car paint); I can always ask him how to get the color I want, what to add, etc.

He always jokes and say "hu, you made that? no, you bought that" (or when I was in class he saw my cake final and said "you must have swaped with the instructor")

Although, I just made a generic "present cake" for a friend at work, I made it with all butter cream, and tried to make a butter cream bow in pink. He said it looked like a flamingo flew by and pooped on it.....Super honest, but that's why I love him, support when I need it and critism when it will help me get better.

My DH is very supportive. He is my biggest fan and tells me how happy he is that I like to bake/decorate cake. Of course he also loves to eat what I make

I am so glad that so many of you have supportive and wonderful people around you like I do. It is funny to hear all of the stories. My DH also loves to be my taste tester.....he actually doesn't like that he can't eat ALL of the cakes. He also has stayed up with me until 2 in the morning helping me finish a cake! He cuts boards for me and also likes to cut the dowels and insert them in my tiered cakes. He takes me to Michaels every weekend so I can get some new tool or supplies and keeps talking me into trying new things. He also wants me to try airbrushing so he has been researching them for me. It's interesting to hear that we all have so much in common this way!

My DH is truly my best friend and we do everything together. I have always known that my Prince Charming would come and whisk me off my feet and we would live happily ever after. And, he did - 35 years ago! He's always been very supportive of anything I wish to do, and vice versa. He helps me with all of my cakes, and my candies as well. He's my hero, and I thank God every day that he's mine!!!

yes im dh is bery supportive. he helps me deilverand set up when i do wedding cakes. and now hes started to help me wih the bake and some of the basic decorating. although he does complain that my pan collection is getting to large and is threatning to make them disappear.

I have a very supportive husband. For me, this is still a hobby for now (ie kids' birthdays, holidays, friends' occassions, etc), but he loves it when I make cakes. One of his coworkers is getting married in August and when we all went out to lunch the other day, he told her I could make her wedding cake. Never done one before, but that's what he told her. (Luckily, we're moving out of state before the wedding ). Anyway, he has more confidence in me than I have in myself, but sometimes it can get me into trouble.

My husband is supportive of me too, but he is cautious about my hobby too, but only because we have bills. But he is very proud of the cakes that I do- both in taste and in looks.

While I don't have a DH anymore (he would not have been supportive) I recently gained a BF who has been more supportive than I could have ever imagined. He always tells me how impressed he is with my finished products and he always reminds me to price my cakes at what they are truly worth.

He was a little too supportive a couple of weeks ago with a Superman cake that I did, but it was in a very funny way. He LOVES Superman, and when I say LOVES, I mean that he even has Superman sheets on his bed! He always tells me that HE is the real Superman, he's the one that all the shows and movies are based on.
I told him that I was asked to do a Superman cake for a co-workers birthday and he says to me, "Do you need me to pose for pictures so that you have something to go by?" God love him.

My husband is great! He supports me everytime I make a cake. He will even help me whenever I ask & not help if I don't He's great I think I'll keep him around

Well, it looks like I am the only person with a DH who complains everytime I'm about to bake (especially if it's for someone else). BUT, he is happy to eat everything I make and ask for it again (only to complain once I start to bake the next time round).

Oh well, I have a DD and a DS who love to encourage me and ask me to make them cook cakes / desserts and that's fine by me.

I must say though that my DH has never stopped me from doing anything that I have wanted to do so he is more quietly supportive if that makes sense!!

My husband loves that I do cakes. HE just doesn't like it when I ask him to help cuz I get mean when he doesn't follow my directions to the T, even if my directions suck.

LOL

Rachel

It depends on his mood. My DH brags about me to other people and will pass out my cards but as soon as I turn the oven on and start mixing he starts complaining. He wants me to stop doing this all together---yeah right honey go watch tv and leave me alone to decorate. Yet, he wants to buy an airbrush as soon as we can and likes to come up with designs. He can't make up his mind wheather to be supportive or not.

It's a hobby for me right now. But, yes, my DH is very supportive of this. He wants me to open a bakery, also. He encourages me when I'm feeling bad.