things NOT to ask/say to a baker! - Page 22

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Originally Posted by crushed 

I love it when they use "Clean" as an adjective for food. It's like they think last years brides were clamoring for dirty, messy cakes. aka RUSTIC.

Fixed that for ya.

If I have to do another vintage/rustic/shabby chic cake I'll spew.

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Originally Posted by Godot 

Yup- rough-iced with one big peony. Fast and furious and a great hourly wage. I did several hundred of those last year - thus the urge to yuk.

I haven't done that many of them yet, so I'm not quite at yuk at this point! The "great hourly wage" part still outweighs the gag reflex. I do gag at the pearls and swirls, I've done way too many of those.

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Originally Posted by Brayan 

I always get asked "I've ordered with you before, will my cake be cheaper?"
Uhhh.... NO! Just because buy sugar at the supermarket doeant mean its cheaper for me when ever i go back to buy more.
Or "This cake is cheaper at Staderbros."
Then why dont you go and get it there.

Brayan~~Think I'll try this tactic with my plumber the next time I call. 

Its is quite stunning just what people think they should pay for a custom cake, ive been ''told'' before that making a cake cant be that hard and it doesn't cost that much..... ohhh really well why dont you make it then ;) lol - Answer becuase you cant and that why you need to pay for it to be made for you. 

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Originally Posted by costumeczar 

Wow...RUDE! Definitely a no cake for you list recipient. What drives me crazy is when my husband takes a day off from work when I'm working, and decides that he wants to come into the kitchen and have a conversation. I've told him that it doesn't look like I'm doing anything, but I'm always either counting or concentrating on something, depending if I'm baking or decorating. He used to work from home too, so that was worse, at least now he goes to the office and I can have some silence while I'm concentrating!

You're lucky.  My husband is retired and I have to wait until late at night to work on my cakes.  He scoffs at me when I tell him I'm concentrating and can't have a conversation.  Drives me crazy. 
 

Although she should be thankful you are bringing a dessert, most people I know do not like fondant--so I would not be offended if someone made that request.

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Originally Posted by vgcea 

Fixed that for ya.

Oh, vcgea, whatever would I do without you.

What a great thread, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it!!

It left me with a clean and modern, yet moist and fluffy glow!

Just wanted to let you know it was so much fun I had to join to say so... even if I didn't get the first post either.. seemed like a reasonable question to me... must have missed something.

Rant:

I told a friend I would be testing out a design on a dummy cake. She goes, "what's that?" I tell her it's a styrofoam 'cake' that cakers use to practice designs and stuff. She goes, "you mean all those big display cakes in the cake boutiques are not real? I'm no longer impressed."

REALLY? I didn't know where to begin with her. Do people really expect their baker to have multiple 4-tier mounds of rotting cake sitting in the store as displays? I couldn't even be bothered to explain to her that it takes just as much skill to decorate a dummy as a real cake. #lostcause