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Have you ever forgot to do a cake????

post #1 of 39
10/25/08 at 3:36pm
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icon_cry.gificon_cry.gificon_cry.gif I just did!!!!! I feel so bad.

I made one birthday cake and I was cleaning my kitchen when I heard the door bell ring, I opened the door and a lady said, that she was here to pick up a babyshower cake and I said icon_surprised.gificon_eek.gificon_redface.gif what cake?, and she said the one I ordered this week and I said icon_redface.gificon_redface.gif I am so sorry but I forgot to make it.

I am so mad icon_mad.gif at myself and I just want to cry icon_cry.gif
The clock is my worse enemy, see ya, I am running late for my next cake delivery.
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post #2 of 39
10/25/08 at 3:49pm
I haven't forgotten to make a cake but I can imagine how horribly upset you are. I did make one a week ahead once. I was so mad that I had to go rebuy the ingredients.
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post #3 of 39
10/25/08 at 3:51pm
I haven't forgotten to make a cake but I had the date wrong..I was just finishing the cake on a Saturday morning thinking the cake was due for the next day..Sunday...The doorbell rang also and when she came in and said I am here to pick up the cake for Blah Blah..I just about died....I quickly asked her if she could give me about another hour and she was fine with that!!She left and I scurried to finish..I almost died...I had it written down as the sunday...here I was even debating doing it that early on the Saturday....I did check and re check in several different places that I mark my orders down and I had the same date in a ll places so I think the lady gave me the wrong date...At any rate I had it finished and she came back and loved it...but talk about almost having a heart attack!!
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Busy Bakin Kakes For Kids!!!

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post #4 of 39
10/25/08 at 3:54pm
I haven't yet but I have nightmares about it!
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."- Mahatma Gandhi

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post #5 of 39
10/25/08 at 3:56pm
No, thank goodness! I usually double check everything on Mondays-look through my schedule book and all my emails, to double check dates.

Sorry this happened! I think everyone is afraid of that!
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post #6 of 39
10/25/08 at 4:10pm
I couldn't if I tried. I have 4x6 cards on a cork board, a dry erase board with the weekly schedule, my calendar online and a daytimer, and a file for each cake. Overkill? Maybe. But I feel safer with it.

Sorry that happened to you sweetie, I know I would feel awful.

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post #7 of 39
10/25/08 at 4:29pm
were you able to help her out still? just curious.
i worry about this. it could happen to anyof us.
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post #8 of 39
10/25/08 at 4:42pm
Only in my sleep I've forgotten one.

Sorry to hear about the missed cake.
If it is to be, it's up to me!
Pura Vida!
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If it is to be, it's up to me!
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post #9 of 39
10/25/08 at 5:33pm
Oh my gosh, I can't even imagine how you must feel right now! I'd be ready to crawl under the bed and hide for a week. That's one of my biggest fears, total cake collapse is my first of course! So I always check and recheck all my info.. even as I'm walking out the door on deliveries, I'm in my calendar checking time and address, even cake order. It's obsessive!
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post #10 of 39
10/25/08 at 5:41pm
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Originally Posted by qtcakes

were you able to help her out still? just curious.
i worry about this. it could happen to anyof us.



No I couldn't because the cake suposed to be a three milk cake and those take at least 6 hours in advance just to bake them, cool them, add the milk and put them back in the fridge for about an hour and then decorate it.
The clock is my worse enemy, see ya, I am running late for my next cake delivery.
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post #11 of 39
10/25/08 at 6:00pm
Well, I have forgot!!! But have since learned that I do not take cake orders in the grocery store, at work, at church or anywhere. If I run into someone in public and they want to order a cake I talk to them and sometimes give a price but I always say "If you really want this cake on that date call me at home where I have a order pad and a pen, or you can email me at home. If I don't get it on paper at house I am not responsible anymore. In this small town,where everyone knows me, it has not been unusual for me to run into several different people who want to order a cake. I have written cake orders on scratch paper or a envelope and the day a cake was due find it and near about panic.
I have parents tell their children to come to me at school where I WORK and order their own Bday cakes. That is a definite NO. Tell your Mom to call me at Home. Any way I know how you feel --been there, done that. And in the past 23 years it was more than once but not more that 3 times. icon_redface.gif
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post #12 of 39
10/25/08 at 7:20pm
I have forgotten one before. It was for a co-worker. She had spoken to me about it a couple weeks earlier at my lunch break and I forgot to write it in my cake appointment book when I got back to my desk. I saw her early the morning it was due and she asked me how it looked (since she left all the decorating up to me). As soon as she asked me I remembered it and realized what had happened. I just confidently said, "Oh, you're gonna love it!" Then I made a bee-line to my desk to call my grandmother, who is an excellent baker. She baked it for me (which I have never done before or since) and I went home on my lunch break to decorate. I had a few extra flowers already made up and so I used them. Luckily for me it was only a 2-layer 8 inch round. I brought it back to work and she picked it up around 3:30 when she left for the day....none the wiser. That was the only time I have forgotten one and I hope it never happens again. I can certainly relate to you on this one.
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post #13 of 39
10/25/08 at 7:47pm
I have not forgotten a cake but an order of cookies. I was at home, it was a rainy day, I was not doing anything really important when the doorbell rang..........when I opened the door I just looked at the lady, "Yes?" after a long paused that seemed like an hour she said that she was here for her cookie favors order for her son's birthday party. Suddenly all sounds went away, I got tunnel vision and I am sure all the blood drained out of my head and heart to my feet. I couldn't say a word, I just stood there with the door in my hand with visions of my calendar running through my head - what's this lady's name - when did she place the order, did I write it down, what did she order and then it hit me........... train cookies. She knew immediately that I forgot and said, "You forgot?". I was about in tears and she was comforting me for forgetting. I felt so bad, apologized from the bottom of my heart, offered to make it up to her but she said that it was ok as she ran out into the rain to her car empty handed. I slinked back inside and just cried. Of course, I never heard from her again.

Thank God this has not happened since!! I learned my lessson and never ever want to experience that again.

With all that being said I know how you feel. Keep your chin up and we are human right? and we learn from our mistakes.

Sending a big understanding hug,
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post #14 of 39
10/26/08 at 4:36am
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Originally Posted by linda2530

Well, I have forgot!!! But have since learned that I do not take cake orders in the grocery store, at work, at church or anywhere.



I was driving from work to home when I took this order, so I learned my lesson no more orders taken while I am driving or like you said no orders in the grocery store, at work, at church or ANYWHERE
The clock is my worse enemy, see ya, I am running late for my next cake delivery.
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post #15 of 39
10/26/08 at 4:44am
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Originally Posted by bjfranco

I have not forgotten a cake but an order of cookies. I was at home, it was a rainy day, I was not doing anything really important when the doorbell rang..........when I opened the door I just looked at the lady, "Yes?" after a long paused that seemed like an hour she said that she was here for her cookie favors order for her son's birthday party. Suddenly all sounds went away, I got tunnel vision and I am sure all the blood drained out of my head and heart to my feet. I couldn't say a word, I just stood there with the door in my hand with visions of my calendar running through my head - what's this lady's name - when did she place the order, did I write it down, what did she order and then it hit me........... train cookies.



That is exactly how I was feeling icon_redface.gif
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