Adult dogs who have never touched a cake before can mess up your cakes, too!
I am posting this not as the cake-maker but, as the bride
(though it was a long time ago now, I am just new to the forum!)
My best friend is a cake artist and made many cakes over the years. She had never had a problem making the cakes the day before and leaving them on her dining room table. Her dog was well trained, knew better than to go anywhere near the table top and had never gotten into a cake before - we're talking hundreds of cakes.
Of course, she was doing my wedding cake - she was also a bridesmaid and her two girls were jr. bridesmaid and flower girl (in retrospect, I *may* have put a little too much on her
). My wedding cake was a three tier cascade of vanilla, chocolate, and carrot with white fondant draped and piped to look like an embroidered handkerchief.
She finished the cake the night before, left it on the table as per usual.
Woke up the morning of the wedding to a scene that would make you want to run away with the circus. The dog had consumed almost the entire cake - every layer of the cake was ruined, and to add insult to injury, it made the dog sick and there was cakey dog puke piles EVERYWHERE.
My wonderful friend.. she was a champion, though, to this day I have no idea how she did it. She made a new cake. She showed up to the wedding looking amazing with her two amazingly beautiful daughters in tow as well.
Admittedly.. the cake was um.. slightly underdone.
The middle was a little... soggy, as I recall. But it LOOKED fantastic and I still don't know how she managed it. She's my superhero! She didn't tell me until she had already made a new one, or I would have told her not to bother and just stop by the grocery store or something
Anyway just thought I would share.. no matter how well behaved your dog is, no matter how well you have him/her trained. Sometimes temptation just might get the better of them.. you might consider putting the cake behind a closed door for those high-profile, time sensitive cakes
I am posting this not as the cake-maker but, as the bride
(though it was a long time ago now, I am just new to the forum!)My best friend is a cake artist and made many cakes over the years. She had never had a problem making the cakes the day before and leaving them on her dining room table. Her dog was well trained, knew better than to go anywhere near the table top and had never gotten into a cake before - we're talking hundreds of cakes.
Of course, she was doing my wedding cake - she was also a bridesmaid and her two girls were jr. bridesmaid and flower girl (in retrospect, I *may* have put a little too much on her
). My wedding cake was a three tier cascade of vanilla, chocolate, and carrot with white fondant draped and piped to look like an embroidered handkerchief.She finished the cake the night before, left it on the table as per usual.
Woke up the morning of the wedding to a scene that would make you want to run away with the circus. The dog had consumed almost the entire cake - every layer of the cake was ruined, and to add insult to injury, it made the dog sick and there was cakey dog puke piles EVERYWHERE.
My wonderful friend.. she was a champion, though, to this day I have no idea how she did it. She made a new cake. She showed up to the wedding looking amazing with her two amazingly beautiful daughters in tow as well.
Admittedly.. the cake was um.. slightly underdone.
The middle was a little... soggy, as I recall. But it LOOKED fantastic and I still don't know how she managed it. She's my superhero! She didn't tell me until she had already made a new one, or I would have told her not to bother and just stop by the grocery store or something Anyway just thought I would share.. no matter how well behaved your dog is, no matter how well you have him/her trained. Sometimes temptation just might get the better of them.. you might consider putting the cake behind a closed door for those high-profile, time sensitive cakes
, it is just how I feel. I've just discovered this forum and it is totally addictive!! I think it is good that in the US, there is such strict regulations against home bakers setting up shop in their home kitchens. I think the rules are much more relaxed in Australia (which is where I'm from) and I believe many 'baking from home' bakers got the 'ok' from councils and the like to set up a cake decorating business from their home kitchens. It is unfortunate though that nothing much seems to be done to regulate hygiene during the preparation of cakes for sale. I know so many have pets in the house and are mums with young children and the thought of pet hair and saliva slicked fingers in cakes meant for customers gives me the shudders 
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. Love them lots but strange that I don't normally have much of an appetite when being served food at these homes 
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