Allright I'll have to try that! And then sell them on ebay! ooh and I could ingrain signs that say "lift this up and poke this cake - you will die!" or be cursed with a horrible disease!

This was a silent auction with bid sheets laying on the table beside the items. I was not at the auction. My boss put it on a front table where she could purposely watch it. Our blue blood lady didn't want anyone to outbid her because it was getting alot of comments and bids. The whole auction brought in almost $10,000 dollars. It was very successful. Next year if I contribute I will have to think of some way to avoid such a problem. Maybe just offer a gift certificate for a Christmas cake of my choosing. It is true that people just don't pay high prices for cakes down here. We have Krogers, Walmart and Publix to compete with although they don't do fondant accents like I do. I did think it would go for $60.00 though. It had alot of love in it's making. Pam from Bama

wespam - I hermetically sealed my charity auction cake. And a good thing too. It was one of my steak cakes on a butchers tray wrapped in cellophane. Tons of men oohhhd and ahhhd it while poking away even though I had a big sign that stated do not touch.

I guess nothing really helps, because people can't read, follow rules or in your case have manners......

Maybe we should make a cake voodoo doll and do some pokin' ourselves.

Yes, the workmanship on this item was very striking. Your work should have not been touched, but both you and your boss will know next time that rich old ladies can equal spoiled little kids and the appropriate measures can be taken.

I do like the idea of the sign indicating that touchers will be required to pay DOUBLE the final bid if caught. I doubt that will stop some people, but you can always hope.

Don't you just wish you could have been standing behind the silent auction table with a flyswatter in your hand so you could have swatted the old blue-hair's hand away? Now THAT would have felt real good!! teeheehee

And, finally, please don't feel badly. Some people in this world are just absolute CLODS. She obviously didn't get rich by throwing her $$ away, but by finding a way to hold on to it while getting just what she wanted. No, rich doesn't = class, but one would think that a "pillar of the community" would know better. She'll get her comuppance ... and with luck you'll be able to witness it. For now, rest assured all of us here @ CC love the cake you did and are very impressed with the incredible amount of restraint you must be showing to NOT go to the offending person's home and throw molasses and feathers on her!!!

Happier Baking Results to you,

Odessa

What a beautiful cake!!! I like your idea for next year of offering a gift certificate. That would eliminate the "blue haired" types from touching it. The nerve of some people!! Sorry that happened to you!!!

ooh along with the gift certificate you could display some pictures of the Christmas cakes you will do - like 3 examples or something that people can choose from for THAT price..... that'll eliminate people trying to come in and get some $500 cake for the $40 you donate or whatever (not that you'd give them that expensive cake for that price - but that they would have all these ideas in their heads and come in and just be a pain).

Well maybe everyone at her "event" she bought the cake for will notice her nasty little fingerprint and won't want to eat it! Hah! That would serve her right, huh?? She spent $40 on a dessert no one will eat b/c SHE poked her nasty little finger in it!

Oh btw - love the Egyptian curse idea too funny.

Your cake is amazing! WAY more than $40 bucks could have been raised. This has to be the worst cake related story in the history of CC!

Shame on her!

You are so very kind to do this cake for a good cause only to be spoiled by a illmannered adult. Your cake is fabulous and should have sold for much more $$$$. I think I would write a letter to the newspaper covering the event and including that if anyone would have like to have owned the cake that was spoiled by the person that bought the cake, they could contact the organization with a donation of $_______ and still receive a perfectly delicious identical cake. This way your business gets more exposure and the lady gets her bad performance acknowledged in the paper for all to see. Then next year offer a couple of pictures of what you are willing to do with a minimum bid. Anyway, that's what I would do.

I think you should get her email, pm it to me and I will get the rest of your money!!!!! lol. Or just post her email and we can all email our opinion to her. But again, someone that ignorant wouldn't get it anyway!!!
But it would be fun tying up her email!!!!

Your cake was absolutely beautiful and God is saying " this is my daughter with whom I am well pleased!!!!!!" He saw what you did and he
saw what she did!!!! We are all proud of you!!!!

Lu

aobodessa has a good point - so maybe you could bring FAKE cakes there - and mention that the winner will be able to choose from 3 flavors or something - then if anyone pokes their stupid finger in it - it's okay - that's not the cake people will eat! I still like surrounding it in a cake dome or something though too to protect it.

You have a beautiful cake. You should be proud of what you did with it. That lady should not have gotten the cake, and she should have paid to have a new one made to be auctioned off again. Then she should have to donate twice what was the highest bid.

Wow!!! That is such a shame. She should just give the organization $100 out of embarrassment!!!

This is a really sad story. The cake is beautiful & should have brought in at least $100.00 +.
What can I say except, what goes around comes around. It was for such a good cause & I wish people would stop to think. Bless You.
June

The cake was beautiful.
Maybe next year if you decide to enter something again, run by a sports memorbilia shop and pick up their helmet case. Size your cake accordingly to the size of the case. That way it will be protected until the winning bidder takes it home.

Your cake is absolutely gorgeous. What a witch!!

That is revolting!
And you'd think she'd know better. Oh, of course she did. She knew EXACTLY what she was up to.
The sort of woman who you just want to (as my granny used to say) 'give 'em a clip 'round their ear'ole' .
Personally, I agree with the saying of '..... unless you touch, in which case it will cost you the highest bid PLUS $ 70 ...'
And no further discussion.
It was a BEAUTIFUL cake, worth at least $ 100 at auction, especially for charity.
SOME PEOPLE !!!!!