Sometimes cake making is fun. Sometimes it’s full of tears and disappointment. At those times we feel like a failure, and we look to our friends and family to remind us that it’s not that bad, and just to get back on the horse so to speak. But what happens if you decide you don’t…
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Caker Problem #56 – Drop that cake!
We’ve all done it at least once. I’ve dropped them when I’ve gone to rotate them. I’ve dropped cakes while getting them out of the oven. I’ve dropped them trying to flip them over onto the wire rack. I’ve dropped a cake carrying it to the fridge. There’s something about a dropped cake. It smells…
Problems Only Left-Handed Cakers Understand
I’ll be honest. Being a leftie, in a right handed world is fairly okay most of the time. But when it comes to cake decorating, holy crap do we have issues! Where do I even begin? The obvious problem we have is writing on cakes. It’s like writing on paper, except a thousand times harder!…
Caker Problem #33 – Where’s the cake?!
Mild disgust is an understatement. Contempt, confusion, offence, all don’t really go far enough. If I arrive somewhere, and I don’t bring cake, I am officially on the s*#t list. If I am invited to a party, and don’t OFFER to make the cake, things go sour fairly quickly. Sometimes I wonder if I only have…
Caker Problem #53 – You’re late!
If you’ve been caking for a while, you’ll know that customers request some crazy things. Like “Can I order 24 cupcakes, but in six different flavours?”. “I need a cake to feed 200 people, but I only want a two tier, and I don’t like the idea of a kitchen cake”. “Do you think you…
Caker Problem #27 – Client So Cheap
I get it! Custom cakes cost a lot. Or so you think. Most decorators earn close to $5 an hour, work till 2am on a Friday night, don’t eat, stress every second, and are generally thanked with a nice old dig at their prices. We’ve all had at least one client that pushes our buttons….
Caker Problem: No Sick Days For You
As many of you know, I’m sick. The kind of miserable sick, where you’re head aches from the second you wake up, everything tastes weird, and you can’t imagine a 95 year old smoker would sound better than you. But they do. As you may know from being a cake decorator, this is not ideal….
