When mother’s get it all wrong

When mothers get it wrong, we’re in big trouble. Especially if it’s the birthday cake for your 8yr old son. We received an email 2 weeks ago for an order for a zip lining theme cake. The mother was adamant that the cake must have an icing figure zip lining from tree to tree. We played around with a few ideas that could work taking gravity into account and the weight of an icing figure…

Friday morning the cake is delivered, later in the morning we get a call from the mother with a child in the background clearly distressed. There is a big problem with the cake! Possibly the worst call to receive, your mind races through all the cakes that were delivered that day and what possibly could have gone wrong. Did the bird on the top of the 3^rd tier fall off and take out all the other decorations? Did the fairies head fall off? You start to panic inside but try and stay as calm as possible to find out which cake and what happened?

Oh the cake is stunning she says, its just, she got the wrong theme!! Her son is having a tobogganing party and the cake should have a child in a toboggan cart coming down a ramp. Her son is distraught and can we please change the cake, now, she’s on her way? We could have made such a great toboggan theme cake and so much less stressful as well.

I think overall we did good in the adaptation from zip lining to toboggan but it could have been so different. Mum’s and Dad’s, you have got to get the basic theme right to begin with, then, and only then is it safe to leave it up to us to make the best possible cake!!

Cakes for corn snakes

For a while I have been looking for a new display unit for the cakes on display in the shop. People really enjoy coming into the shop and actually seeing the cakes that we make as opposed to just looking at the photo albums. We have always had some cakes on display but they get grubby pretty quickly and of course there is the problem of them being touched often and broken. I eventually found a company that makes up shop displays and received their quote with a picture of the new unit. Besides that it was very expensive, I was concerned that it wouldn’t actually suit the style of shop. Make no mistake it was a stunning unit, very neat and clean lines with a light fitted to showcase the cakes even better. It was just too neat and modern for our style shop.

 I had shown the girls the new display and we were discussing it when Peta says “that actually looks like a vivarium”. For anyone else who doesn’t know what a vivarium is, it’s a glass front reptile house that looks like a display unit. We found one for sale on Gumtree in the area – comes with UV light, snake log, suitable for corn snake, fortunately did not include snake. Added bonus; less than a third of the price. We gave the unit a good clean and left a container of vanilla essence inside for a while to get rid of the reptile smell while we got busy on the new cakes. I always knew bicarb removed odours but vanilla essence is far more efficient. We replaced the UV light with a florescent light and filled the new display unit with our cakes.    

 It looks amazing! The display cakes are stunning and kept dust free. We have tried to make a variety of designs to showcase just how creative we can be and for you to actually see the attention to detail. I hope when you next come into the shop to order a cake these cakes will inspire and delight you.