Cake decorating is more mental than it is physical. Sure, you have to make the cake, but the real trick is managing to keep your sanity at midnight on a Friday when a customer text messages you asking to change the colour of the cake, or worse, to make it round instead of square. Say…
Caker Problems
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 Problems We All Have
If you follow us on social media you’ve probably seen some of these “caker problem” posts I’ve been putting up. This is not the first time I’ve poked fun at my life as a decorator (see The Secret Life of a Cake Decorator series). However, this is really the first time I’ve been able to…
Caker Problem #52 – Re-buying the same crap
There’s always that one ingredient that you rarely use, but can never remember if you have any on hand. So you buy it, and take it home, and put it with the other three bottles, all brand new, never been used. For me, it’s orange essence. I currently have 4 bottles, unopened in the pantry,…
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….
