Do you ever do a cake and then think, that is the ugliest thing I have ever done? Are you embarassed to say that you did that cake? I did a cake for a friends daughter. It was Hannah Montana, and I was so embarrassed, I did not want to claim that cake. Have any of you ever felt that way. I didnt even post it on here, I was so embarrassed! LOL, I am a dork! I have very low confidence, everyone loved the cake, but my eye sees so much more than what they saw!!!
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11/6/08 at 2:45pm
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When I got to OSSAS, I didn't want to take my elephant out of the box (it's in my photos). I see all of the these gorgeous and I have a 30" tall ELEPHANT! What was I thinking?! 
Edited to add: Many years ago when I first started making cakes, a co-worker asked me to make a cake for her dad with dynamite on it (he was an explosives expert). We didn't work with fondant or gumpaste then and I couldn't think of what to do so I drew this sad looking firecracker that was popping on the front. I could do soooo much better now. Even though that was probably 17 years ago, I would love to make her a new cake now and it would be soooo much better.
Edited to add: Many years ago when I first started making cakes, a co-worker asked me to make a cake for her dad with dynamite on it (he was an explosives expert). We didn't work with fondant or gumpaste then and I couldn't think of what to do so I drew this sad looking firecracker that was popping on the front. I could do soooo much better now. Even though that was probably 17 years ago, I would love to make her a new cake now and it would be soooo much better.
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Yes. My niece-to-be's wedding shower. It was a simple sheet cake and I forgot to put the decorative foil on the cake board (how the heck do you forget that!!!
) So you can see a big grease stain going all the way around the cake! 
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Yes! and those are always the people that really really want to see their cake on your website!
The bad thing is, the more well known you are- the harder it becomes. People expect "WOW" cakes from you, then when you do one lousy cake- or even just an OK cake that was exactly what the customer ordered, and they are sooo dissappointed. It's horrifying!
That reminds me- I need to go take some old cakes off my site- they really embarass me!
The bad thing is, the more well known you are- the harder it becomes. People expect "WOW" cakes from you, then when you do one lousy cake- or even just an OK cake that was exactly what the customer ordered, and they are sooo dissappointed. It's horrifying!
That reminds me- I need to go take some old cakes off my site- they really embarass me!
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This happened to me once as the result of my first (and so far only--knock on wood) cake disaster. I was up working late on a wedding cake for a friend of a friend... short version is I dropped all four tiers at about 2:30am the morning of the wedding. I had to re-bake and decorate the entire cake at 3am... as we all know baking and decorating (4 tiers, no less) in one day (in a few hours, to boot) is never a formula for success. I didn't even take a picture it was so bad. The bride loved it, she just sent me a pic of it and has referred a ton of people my way... I will NEVER show anyone that picture. It's horrendous.
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<---wonders if anyone uses REAL ingredients anymore--sugar fruit nuts, cream, butter etc--instead of flavoring chemical cream from a bucket with pudding & jello and calling it "mousse"
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<---wonders if anyone uses REAL ingredients anymore--sugar fruit nuts, cream, butter etc--instead of flavoring chemical cream from a bucket with pudding & jello and calling it "mousse"
<---wonders if anyone uses REAL ingredients anymore--sugar fruit nuts, cream, butter etc--instead of flavoring chemical cream from a bucket with pudding & jello and calling it "mousse"
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Hahaha I did a Barney cake a couple of months ago from a bear pan (the customer had brought in an exactly desired picture) and tho I trimmed some... he just looked very strange. I had insisted on fondant but later realized the old wilton star method probably would have been better. I made my barista hand it to the customer... and the child with the customer laughed and said "Barney looks retarded!" lol well... you can't win em all. Wish I would have taken a pic for cakewrecks!
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I have several photos that have been removed from my site or portfolio. Its so funny because when I made them, I was so proud
I'm sure after another 10-15 years of doing this I'll look back on my cakes from this year and cringe.
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... short version is I dropped all four tiers at about 2:30am the morning of the wedding.
... short version is I dropped all four tiers at about 2:30am the morning of the wedding.
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Yeah I have a few cakes that I would rather have not claimed as my own. I have to admit that the farther along in my pregnancy I get, the worse my cakes are starting to look! Only family stuff till after he arrives.
The last cake I did, I hated, was EMBARRASSED! They loved it. My DH says I am way to hard on myself. But I still want a do over!!!!
The last cake I did, I hated, was EMBARRASSED! They loved it. My DH says I am way to hard on myself. But I still want a do over!!!!
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I am so with you all! I look back at some cakes I did a few years ago and cringe.
Sometimes after Im done with a cake, I look at it like "what on earth is that". Other people think they look nice but all I see are flaws, flaws, flaws!
I think thats pretty normal though.
You are your own biggest critic.
Sometimes after Im done with a cake, I look at it like "what on earth is that". Other people think they look nice but all I see are flaws, flaws, flaws!
I think thats pretty normal though.
You are your own biggest critic.
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I did one that I hated while I was doing it. My wishy-washy client didn't know what she wanted, so at my last resort I said "what does your napkins and plates look like maybe we can replicate". She went to the dollar store and found the ugliest...tackiest napkins she could find for her sons 1st birthday party. So by then, she wanted to do the napkin idea.
Basically it was a napkin with a number 1 in all these funky colors and patterns from top to bottom, and I had to replicate this in a 2-d #1 cake.
I was so horrified and wanted to change the design when I was decorating but kept saying to myself "this is what the client wants". I did 24 cupcakes for free with a yellow/green swirl to make the whole display look better.
I hate..HATED that cake and got rid of ALL the evidence.

Basically it was a napkin with a number 1 in all these funky colors and patterns from top to bottom, and I had to replicate this in a 2-d #1 cake.
I was so horrified and wanted to change the design when I was decorating but kept saying to myself "this is what the client wants". I did 24 cupcakes for free with a yellow/green swirl to make the whole display look better.
I hate..HATED that cake and got rid of ALL the evidence.
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