I just got back from delivering a cake to a wedding venue.
Not in business, but occasionally a friend will ask me to make a cake for an event. Wish I was legal cause I would have wiped the floor with the lady I had to deal with this afternoon.
I'm very careful when I deal with food. Clean my kitchen up royally the night before I make a cake and wear my hair up, we have NO pets and I'm a fanatic about clean hands. ( My son had a compromised immune system last year, and we learned a lot about how germs transfer when the nutritionist trained us how to make his meals.)
Anyway...my friend chose a simple push-pillar cake with flowers between tiers. I asked to to find out from the florist how the flowers would be placed on the cake so I could be sure they wouldn't actually touch the cake, or put supports for a bowl with oasis foam.
Friend got back to me a month later saying that the woman said she would be putting the flowers right on the cake so no need to put in supports. Also that she would be making a flower topper for the top.
Okay.....I'm putting a layer of wax paper on my cake. I don't care how "organic' flowers are in my mind if you can't eat it, then it shouldn't touch your icing.
Fast forward to today..
I get there with my daughter and the florist isn't there. She's left a bucket of flowers behind the cake table so we knew she'd been to the site already and left.
I was fully prepared to place those flowers if she didn't come back. I really wish she hadn't.
She came in, all put upon because she's, "Got three other weddings today."
Hey, I didn't schedule your day. I'm just doing my friend a favor.
I asked her it she minds while I watch since I have five daughters that aren't married and I'm going to need all sorts of skills to pull that off.
She says, "I'd tell them to elope." Charming woman.
We had already put the wax paper on the bottom and middle tiers. The top one didn't have have its on because I wanted to be sure it wouldn't be visible under the 'topper'. I was going to trim the paper once I saw what the florist had made with the letter 'M' that my friend gave her.
All went pretty well, except that I wasn't too happy she was snapping off the heads of the gerbera daisies with her hands and then putting them on the cake.
Everyone knows that when you break the stem of a plant that there is 'sap', no matter how minimal, that leaks out.
Reminded myself that the wax paper would keep that nasty taste way from my luscious
butter cream.
Bottom done, we put on the middle tier and she does the same thing...snap, place, snap, place...add some pine-looking plants that hang over the edge....I felt myself get a bit tight when she got wilder with the flowers.
She steps out to get something so I had my daughter put my cake box in the car. The wax paper was in the a box.
Back comes the Flower-lady with the 'topper'.
All she has is a big, black metal letter M and a couple of feather covered birds. The letter has no spike on it so she walks up and JAMS it into the icing. It starts to fall backwards so she says, "I can fix it."
She grabs a leafy branch and pull off a twig then she PLUNGES it into the cake behind the letter M to act as a brace.
I'm telling you I able came unglued.
Surprise ove came my shyness, "You JUST put that in the cake that people have are going to eat!"
She never missed a beat, "I do this all the time."
"I've been taught that you need to put things in cut drinking straws to keep the cake food-safe."
This woman proceeds to tell me that everything that comes into her shop is washed. "I do this all the time, " she tells me again.
I just stood there and watched her put more PLANTS on the top of the cake, she buried the M so that it wasn't even recognizable. And then she tops it off with those nasty little feathered birds. None of those things have been in packaging so I have NO idea what sorts of heebbie-jeebies were on them.
My daughter had to tell me to take some pictures so we could leave. I was just in shock. What is wrong with that woman. Clueless.
I honestly hope that they don't end up cutting the top tier because I'm sure it isn't going to taste like the rest of the cake.
She pushed that branch into my cake leaves and all....ewww!
I'm not sure I should say some thing to my friend. She should be just about to cut the cake right about now. What to do?
Whoa, wrote a novel there. Sorry.
mommachris
Not in business, but occasionally a friend will ask me to make a cake for an event. Wish I was legal cause I would have wiped the floor with the lady I had to deal with this afternoon.
I'm very careful when I deal with food. Clean my kitchen up royally the night before I make a cake and wear my hair up, we have NO pets and I'm a fanatic about clean hands. ( My son had a compromised immune system last year, and we learned a lot about how germs transfer when the nutritionist trained us how to make his meals.)
Anyway...my friend chose a simple push-pillar cake with flowers between tiers. I asked to to find out from the florist how the flowers would be placed on the cake so I could be sure they wouldn't actually touch the cake, or put supports for a bowl with oasis foam.
Friend got back to me a month later saying that the woman said she would be putting the flowers right on the cake so no need to put in supports. Also that she would be making a flower topper for the top.
Okay.....I'm putting a layer of wax paper on my cake. I don't care how "organic' flowers are in my mind if you can't eat it, then it shouldn't touch your icing.
Fast forward to today..
I get there with my daughter and the florist isn't there. She's left a bucket of flowers behind the cake table so we knew she'd been to the site already and left.
I was fully prepared to place those flowers if she didn't come back. I really wish she hadn't.
She came in, all put upon because she's, "Got three other weddings today."
Hey, I didn't schedule your day. I'm just doing my friend a favor.
I asked her it she minds while I watch since I have five daughters that aren't married and I'm going to need all sorts of skills to pull that off.
She says, "I'd tell them to elope." Charming woman.
We had already put the wax paper on the bottom and middle tiers. The top one didn't have have its on because I wanted to be sure it wouldn't be visible under the 'topper'. I was going to trim the paper once I saw what the florist had made with the letter 'M' that my friend gave her.
All went pretty well, except that I wasn't too happy she was snapping off the heads of the gerbera daisies with her hands and then putting them on the cake.
Everyone knows that when you break the stem of a plant that there is 'sap', no matter how minimal, that leaks out.
Reminded myself that the wax paper would keep that nasty taste way from my luscious
butter cream.Bottom done, we put on the middle tier and she does the same thing...snap, place, snap, place...add some pine-looking plants that hang over the edge....I felt myself get a bit tight when she got wilder with the flowers.
She steps out to get something so I had my daughter put my cake box in the car. The wax paper was in the a box.
Back comes the Flower-lady with the 'topper'.
All she has is a big, black metal letter M and a couple of feather covered birds. The letter has no spike on it so she walks up and JAMS it into the icing. It starts to fall backwards so she says, "I can fix it."
She grabs a leafy branch and pull off a twig then she PLUNGES it into the cake behind the letter M to act as a brace.
I'm telling you I able came unglued.
Surprise ove came my shyness, "You JUST put that in the cake that people have are going to eat!"
She never missed a beat, "I do this all the time."
"I've been taught that you need to put things in cut drinking straws to keep the cake food-safe."
This woman proceeds to tell me that everything that comes into her shop is washed. "I do this all the time, " she tells me again.
I just stood there and watched her put more PLANTS on the top of the cake, she buried the M so that it wasn't even recognizable. And then she tops it off with those nasty little feathered birds. None of those things have been in packaging so I have NO idea what sorts of heebbie-jeebies were on them.
My daughter had to tell me to take some pictures so we could leave. I was just in shock. What is wrong with that woman. Clueless.
I honestly hope that they don't end up cutting the top tier because I'm sure it isn't going to taste like the rest of the cake.
She pushed that branch into my cake leaves and all....ewww!
I'm not sure I should say some thing to my friend. She should be just about to cut the cake right about now. What to do?
Whoa, wrote a novel there. Sorry.
mommachris
wife to David for 23 years
mom to 13 blessings
Nine who are still living at home that range from 21 to 3 years old.
Holly, Amy, Aaron, Evelyn, Zebedee, Melody, William, Melissa and little Tobin
and four more sweet babies in heaven.
mom to 13 blessings
Nine who are still living at home that range from 21 to 3 years old.
Holly, Amy, Aaron, Evelyn, Zebedee, Melody, William, Melissa and little Tobin
and four more sweet babies in heaven.
wife to David for 23 years
mom to 13 blessings
Nine who are still living at home that range from 21 to 3 years old.
Holly, Amy, Aaron, Evelyn, Zebedee, Melody, William, Melissa and little Tobin
and four more sweet babies in heaven.
mom to 13 blessings
Nine who are still living at home that range from 21 to 3 years old.
Holly, Amy, Aaron, Evelyn, Zebedee, Melody, William, Melissa and little Tobin
and four more sweet babies in heaven.
yuck!
