AIBU to be disappointed in this cake…

[Notwhatiimagined]

I picked up dds cake today and it was not what I expected.

Would you be happy with this cake? I’ve attached two pics below, one was the pic I sent to the cake maker of what I wanted (a family dog) and the other picture is of the cake.

Also his head is made of Rice Krispies as apparently heads are hard to do. I wasn’t aware that it wouldn’t be all sponge.

It’s from a proper cake shop, not someone who does it as a hobby.

What do you all think?

She described that she wanted “like for like” confused as in the cake to be indistinguishable from the real dog.

Indistinguishable? Come on. She asked for a cake that realistically looked like her dog. Like for like. Not a hair by hair depiction.

She knew that the going rate for something realistic was 2-3 times the price and yet still assumed that this baker would do the same job.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. She knew that's what the other quote was. Specifically double checked with the £110 woman that she would be making a like for like dog at that price. The baker said yes. OP didn't assume anything. The baker failed to produce what she agreed with OP.

Tripe.

A baker she trusted said it would be £350. She never showed the new baker a photo. Not a leg to stand on.

A baker she trusted said it would be £350. She never showed the new baker a photo. Not a leg to stand on.

That's right. OP should have thought by going to a professional cake makers shop, that the baker was "untrustworthy" to make her request. Please.

I can't understand why so many people can't grasp the concept.

It doesn't matter that it cost £110. It matters that OP didn't get what she was told she would, double checked that she would, whether it was £110, £140, £190.....

If someone asks me "can you make me xyz" and I say, yes, and my price for that is £110. It matters not if the world and his dog think it's a rip off or far too cheap. It's the price I've said I'll provide what the customer asked for.

If I fail to deliver, I don't get to sit and justify myself by saying "well, other people would charge more, so you should be accepting that I failed to deliver at this price"

There is no professional standard for high street bakers. That's why we rely on reviews and pictures and examples.

The standard varies across different bakers massively.

The OP knew something was off because the price wasn't right and by her own admission the baker she chose specialises in a much simpler form of cake yet she still didn't produce a picture to double check? Please

And yes if I wanted a very specific and specialist type of cake then I would go to someone I trusted to make it.

@TwinsandTrifle

I can't understand why so many people can't grasp the concept.

It doesn't matter that it cost £110. It matters that OP didn't get what she was told she would, double checked that she would, whether it was £110, £140, £190.....

If someone asks me "can you make me xyz" and I say, yes, and my price for that is £110. It matters not if the world and his dog think it's a rip off or far too cheap. It's the price I've said I'll provide what the customer asked for.

If I fail to deliver, I don't get to sit and justify myself by saying "well, other people would charge more, so you should be accepting that I failed to deliver at this price"

I don't get why you can't understand that for some folk the cake the baker made is realistic enough. How was she to know the level of realism unless a picture was produced. Many people, even bakers, wouldn't know the levels of realism In Some examples on this thread were even possible.

@PineappleTart

Were you expecting something like this?

That’s terrifying!

Yours is much nicer OP

There is no professional standard for high street bakers.

But OP should have assumed that a high street business was of poorer quality in comparison to a hobby baker? She would have assumed the opposite.

This is someone who does it for their livelihood, not their spare time. Someone with a professional kitchen, a professional service and product.

And again, OP didn't assume anything. She asked. Double checked. And got something that looks like her (non baker) mate's had a go. That piping is what I do on cakes. And I can't decorate for the life of me. I do it because it's incredibly easy and a quick, cheap way to cover a cake.

Look at the quality of the marginally more expensive dinosaur cake OP posted. The cakes are in the same price bracket. Poles apart in finesse.

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"My dog looks quite like a cake"[/quote]
This thread is surprisingly amusing 🤣

I don't get why you can't understand that for some folk the cake the baker made is realistic enough

It's a cartoon dog. And a joke to be considered the "like for like" the baker told OP she was getting.

@TwinsandTrifle

There is no professional standard for high street bakers.

But OP should have assumed that a high street business was of poorer quality in comparison to a hobby baker? She would have assumed the opposite.

This is someone who does it for their livelihood, not their spare time. Someone with a professional kitchen, a professional service and product.

And again, OP didn't assume anything. She asked. Double checked. And got something that looks like her (non baker) mate's had a go. That piping is what I do on cakes. And I can't decorate for the life of me. I do it because it's incredibly easy and a quick, cheap way to cover a cake.

Look at the quality of the marginally more expensive dinosaur cake OP posted. The cakes are in the same price bracket. Poles apart in finesse.

Well you know what they say about assumption.

Plenty of shit high street bakers and plenty of outstanding hobby bakers.

The cake she wanted was a specialist cake. If I want a specialist item I go to a specialist. If I did go somewhere random then you are damn sure I'd be showing a picture.

@skybluee

At least you didn't get this, lol.

😂

Very good !

OP was careful enough to use pictures to illustrate her meaning on this thread so I'm very, very confused as to why she didn't do this when parting with £110 pounds for a cake.

Rice Krispies normal but the cake isn't great. It just looks like a generic cartoon dog so I can see why you're not happy. I'd expect a little more detail and more realistic looking.

@forfucksakenett

OP was careful enough to use pictures to illustrate her meaning on this thread so I'm very, very confused as to why she didn't do this when parting with £110 pounds for a cake.

This. I also wouldn’t have parted with £110 for a lifelike model cake when I had seen zero evidence of the baker being able to create lifelike model cakes.

The OP needed to show the baker photos of her expectations and ask to see photos of examples that the baker had made previously.

Communication doesn’t seem to have been clear enough. For that I think the OP needs to accept the cake for what it is.

It's ok but I think they were a bit lazy piping buttercream on. It's very easy. I think that royal icing would have been better then scores for the fur.

Party over now…

Cake was cut. The legs were rice krispies as was the head. The rice krispies tasted stale!

The cake was ok but very sweet. The party people who cut up some of the cake for the kids came to me as they were cutting it and told me the cake was weird inside and did i want to have a look at it before it was served out.

There was definitely more rice krispie than cake.

Massive disappointment overall in every aspect of this cake.

How was the cake weird inside?

Coz it was rice krispies?

[quote nokidshere]**@Siriisatwat* That is absolutely amazing*

Thank you. The point is that there's a lot wrong with it (that I can see as the baker) so if I had charged £350 for it the recipient would have been disappointed with it. But because I keep it as a hobby they also think it's amazing lol[/quote]
Fabulous cake!

I mean the £110 that Op paid is only 11hrs labour at £10 an hour!

Having watched a lot of cake programmes I think they used too many rice crispies if the legs were crispies too. Definitely taking the easy way out.

Having watched a lot of cake programmes I think they used too many rice crispies if the legs were crispies too. Definitely taking the easy way out

As long as the main sponge cake served the number required, I don't think there's any problem using Rice Krispies for the legs and head. It's become quite common practice for modelled cakes. Although I do think that the OP should have been told of this in advance.

OP - in what way was the cake weird inside?

@BSideBaby

If your nine-year-old is not happy with this cake I'd say you've got bigger problems to worry about.

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