No, we haven’t fallen off the edge of the earth! Usually the client work drops off by early December; this year it picked up considerably. Such is the life of freelancers!
Here’s a fun website that I’ve been reading for a few months, to tide you over until we have something interesting in our lives to blog about: Cake Wrecks, which features disastrously-decorated cakes (done by so-called professional cake decorators, though admittedly a lot of them are of Safeway- or Walmart-caliber quality.)
The following cake wreck made me snort, though. (Both photos from Cake Wrecks.)
This is what the bride requested:
What she ended up with:
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Pamela Cook says:
December 23, 2008 at 10:45 am (UTC 0)
Yikes Funny how it looks like it been drop a couple of times. It looks better if you put the the bride or groom face in it. Lol
Diane K. says:
December 24, 2008 at 6:05 pm (UTC 0)
You guys never saw my wedding cake, did you. I’ll have to email you a photo sometime. And perhaps I will send it to the website also. We’ve been married twelve years and I’m still laughing at how it came out.
Peter Cook says:
December 24, 2008 at 8:03 pm (UTC 0)
Diane, you should. But I think I speak for all of us when I say that you have a moral obligation to post it here first. If you need don’t have a Flickr account or some such, email the image to one of us, post your commentary, and we’ll add it to your post.
Diane K. says:
December 26, 2008 at 2:10 pm (UTC 0)
Okay, you asked for it…
We had a casual, somewhat offbeat wedding, but we wanted a nice cake. We went to a bakery recommended by a friend, who had had a beautiful wedding cake, and asked for a single layer with cream-coloured icing and basket-weave sides. Instead of a bride and groom on top, we wanted an outline of a mouse (representing my husband, who worked with mice) and a rabbit (representing me, the bunny lady), nose to nose. I gave them a sketch of the design we wanted — little stylized images — and directed that they be in the same cream icing so it was just a subtle silhouette outlined on top of the cake. Tastefully silly was the goal.
We asked a family member to swing by and pick up the cake on the way down to the ceremony, which was at my grandmother’s, so we didn’t see it until a couple of minutes before the wedding. On the up side, we got a lot of what we asked for: the cream icing, the basket-weave sides — but apparently the instructions for the image on top got lost in translation.
As you can see, someone seems to have decided that what we wanted was a bit TOO subtle, so they redrew it in full-colour cartoon style. The rabbit looms menacingly over the mouse and they appear to be… boxing? It wasn’t quite the message we wanted.
Oh, well. At least the cake was tasty. And we are still married.
Eliyahu says:
December 28, 2008 at 8:03 pm (UTC 0)
That top one is unbelievable! The only thing I can imagine is that the decorator was feeling tired and decided to let her 6-year-old do the job after giving the kid four cups of coffee and a whole bowl of icing to eat…