Magical Cake Hatred

[XCashier]

This is exactly what she was doing. She wanted them to hire a friend of hers as the decorator. I was a cake/pastry decorator for several companies and while I love to do it for fun now, I probably couldn't ever make it my career again. People like her burnt me out.

I'm sorry to hear that. Cake decorating takes a lot of talent, a rare talent to decorate with such a tricky medium, and it's sad when the artist gets burned out. Even sadder to see the results of a talented decorator wasted with SCs who don't appreciate art when they see it.

Have you ever seen the CakeWrecks site? It's fun to laugh at the bad cakes and ooh and aah over the Sunday Sweets cakes, drooling with sheer envy of the talent required to make such beautiful things. I can draw, but pencil/pen and paper is one thing, working with frosting on cake is quite another, and I can't quite get a grasp on that. I salute you.

[CaptainJillian]

I love the CakeWrecks site!
The funny thing is, I cannot draw very well with pencils, etc, plus my handwriting is horrible...but then you give me a bag of frosting and it's really good!! It is so weird.

[Kristev]

It's your gift. And what a way to quit a bad job.

[Gravekeeper]

I'm still trying to work past the "edible image" part. "Edible" seems debatable when working from a "Let's eat grandma's face" angle. >.>

That would have driven me insane though. There are few things in this world I hate more than being accused of something I didn't do.

[Marmalady]

I was a cake/pastry decorator for several companies and while I love to do it for fun now, I probably couldn't ever make it my career again. People like her burnt me out.

Uh huh. My mother makes beautiful cakes for weddings etc but only for family / friends / families of friends. She always said that if she had made it her career, she would have had to do it for people she didn't like and then she wouldn't have enjoyed it. And if you've got someone like that making your life difficult as well, I should think it's very easy to get jaded and 'burnt out'.

[Jester]

I sat down at my station and decorated a beautiful cake that said "I Quit." Then I put it on a stand, took off my apron, walked out and was the happiest person around!!!

You, madame, have style!

...the message could easily be scraped off and rewritten, I did it on purpose that way so it didn't ruin the product.

And you also have class.

I'm still trying to work past the "edible image" part. "Edible" seems debatable when working from a "Let's eat grandma's face" angle. >.>

Dude, have you not been in a supermarket or bakery in the last 10-20 years? Such things are pretty common. Hell, you can bring in a photograph, and they will get that exact image on a cake in edible...something. (Hell if I know what.) It's impressive...but not exactly new.

That would have driven me insane though. There are few things in this world I hate more than being accused of something I didn't do.

And what are those few things? This I've GOT to hear!

Uh huh. My mother makes beautiful cakes for weddings etc but only for family / friends / families of friends. She always said that if she had made it her career, she would have had to do it for people she didn't like and then she wouldn't have enjoyed it.

Which is one of many reasons why I cook for fun, but not professionally.

[EricKei]

they will get that exact image on a cake in edible...something. (Hell if I know what.) It's impressive...but not exactly new.

It's my understanding that the "edible photocopies" are sugar-based.

[Pagan]

I'm still trying to work past the "edible image" part. "Edible" seems debatable when working from a "Let's eat grandma's face" angle. >.>

Dude, have you not been in a supermarket or bakery in the last 10-20 years? Such things are pretty common. Hell, you can bring in a photograph, and they will get that exact image on a cake in edible...something. (Hell if I know what.) It's impressive...but not exactly new.

It's my understanding that the "edible photocopies" are sugar-based.

I think he means more the creepiness factor of eating someone's face. Especially a family member that's still alive.

And they use rice paper.

[Imogene]

Hell, you can bring in a photograph, and they will get that exact image on a cake in edible...something. (Hell if I know what.) It's impressive...but not exactly new.

Rice paper, I think, with edible inks for the picture...

[Jester]

I think he means more the creepiness factor of eating someone's face. Especially a family member that's still alive.

Oh, I know what he meant. But again, it's not new, people have been doing it for a while, and it's vaguely amusing. I wouldn't want MY face on a cake, but that's only because cakes are supposed to make you hungry, not nauseous.

[Kristev]

Yes. The paper used for those is rice paper and edible ink. For my birthday, I gathered pictures of all fourteen Clue suspects (I'm a major Clue fan) and printed them out together. Then I gave the image to Wal-Mart's bakery, and they gave me a rice paper copy, which I was to install on top of the cake myself and bake. I have pictures if you want to see them.

[Andara Bledin]

I'm still trying to work past the "edible image" part. "Edible" seems debatable when working from a "Let's eat grandma's face" angle. >.>

From the afore-mentioned Cake Wrecks site, may I present this lovely work:

A slice of dead Lenin, anyone?

^-.-^

[42_42_42]

Welcome, Capt'n Jillian. I, too, am a former grocery store cake decorator. Seems like the more talented and intelligent you are, the more the dept. managers have it in for you (my dept. manager was a total asswipe).

Of course, this means now only my friends and family get my cakey goodness! Making wedding and grooms cake for hubby's cousin wedding this weekend, cake, frosting, and fillings all from scratch, of course! The wedding cake is going to be 4 layers of cake, 2 each of dark chocolate cake and white chocolate cake, with 2 layers of raspberry-chambord filling and 1 of dark chocolate ganache all iced in white chocolate Italian meringue buttercream before being covered in fondant and then decorated with icing brush-embroidery. The groom's cake is two layers of vanilla butter cake with fresh strawberry filling and iced in whipped cream. Yum!

[Jester]

The wedding cake is going to be 4 layers of cake, 2 each of dark chocolate cake and white chocolate cake, with 2 layers of raspberry-chambord filling and 1 of dark chocolate ganache all iced in white chocolate Italian meringue buttercream before being covered in fondant and then decorated with icing brush-embroidery. The groom's cake is two layers of vanilla butter cake with fresh strawberry filling and iced in whipped cream.

[XCashier]

Making wedding and grooms cake for hubby's cousin wedding this weekend, cake, frosting, and fillings all from scratch, of course! The wedding cake is going to be 4 layers of cake, 2 each of dark chocolate cake and white chocolate cake, with 2 layers of raspberry-chambord filling and 1 of dark chocolate ganache all iced in white chocolate Italian meringue buttercream before being covered in fondant and then decorated with icing brush-embroidery. The groom's cake is two layers of vanilla butter cake with fresh strawberry filling and iced in whipped cream. Yum!

Post pics, please?