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Notwhatiimagined · 2021-10-15T13:54:31+00:00

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?

Luckytattie · 16/10/2021 20:12

@daisychain01

£110! You must have money to burn!

You could have got a really nice one from Marks or Waitrose for around £40.

It all goes down the same way.

I don't understand comments like this. People gave various levels of disposable income. I personally spend £100+ on cakes and don't see it as a big deal. Who cares if you can get one for £40? It's all relative.

LouH1981 · 16/10/2021 20:13

I think it’s awesome!

Harmonypuss · 16/10/2021 20:13

Thank you to those who admitted my son's Bertie Bassett cake.

I totally agree with @SnotZinwords, I've watched my son built most of his creations and they really do take an awfully long time.

The Teddy and Shrek shown here each took in excess of 9hrs start to finish, whereas the 2 Me To You bears took almost 19hrs!

Harmonypuss · 16/10/2021 20:15

Admired, not admitted 😳

Grilledaubergines · 16/10/2021 20:24

@Harmonypuss

Thank you to those who admitted my son's Bertie Bassett cake.

I totally agree with @SnotZinwords, I've watched my son built most of his creations and they really do take an awfully long time.

The Teddy and Shrek shown here each took in excess of 9hrs start to finish, whereas the 2 Me To You bears took almost 19hrs!

They’re fantastic and yet someone will come along and say they’d pay no more than £25 or post a pic of a basic supermarket cake to compare!

GreyhoundG1rl · 16/10/2021 20:30

@Harmonypuss

Thank you to those who admitted my son's Bertie Bassett cake.

I totally agree with @SnotZinwords, I've watched my son built most of his creations and they really do take an awfully long time.

The Teddy and Shrek shown here each took in excess of 9hrs start to finish, whereas the 2 Me To You bears took almost 19hrs!

They are awesome!

nitsandwormsdodger · 16/10/2021 20:31

Can you link a picture of the cake makers previous dog cakes ?
If yours is worse than those than you have reason to complain

Also , unless your child has a life limiting condition or some such reason for outrageously spoiling them you are raising a child to expect a £110 cake every birthday!? What the hell are you going to do for his 18th.? Honestly I know it’s your money / your child. But it’s parents like you doing shit like this that raises kids expectations and we end up with Kardashian’s style birthdays as the norm it’s bonkers , my mum put some icing and sprinkles on a couple of Swiss rolls and everyone loved it

GreyhoundG1rl · 16/10/2021 20:32

@Jaem23

I had this cake bought for me by my brother last year! It was a similar price to yours but we do live in the South West! The head was also made of rice crispies due to being able to use for sculpting!

I think your cake is lovely, did you send them a style you wanted the cake to be made in?

God, that is amazing...

Mygirlruby · 16/10/2021 20:39

£110?? That's steep but I suppose it depends where you live. Other than that, it looks like a decent birthday cake for a child. Did Devon like it, that's the main thing surely, unless it was to impress the parents...

rosyAndMoo · 16/10/2021 20:45

She would have explained that in order to do what the OP wanted in sponge would have changed the shape of the cake and given better representation of what was possible. This would have meant the OP would have had a better idea of what she was paying for and what was possible.

Requestit · 16/10/2021 20:51

Fabulous cake!! Yabu

Roxy69 · 16/10/2021 20:51

It's a good cake, better than I could have done. Who is Devon the dog or the child?

TwinsandTrifle · 16/10/2021 20:53

I’d reiterate that people really don’t understand how much a decent artistic cake costs. You’ve got the ingredients, the equipment, the utilities and the artistic skill of the baker.

I think the point is we do understand this. And if we hand £110 over to a set up as you described, and the baker within that professional set up says they're going to provide you with a realistic "like for like" cake of your dog, then you expect them to do that.

The cake OP got is not a decent artistic cake. The cake OP got looks like my mum's had a go.

GlomOfNit · 16/10/2021 20:53

Sorry, I've not even attempted to read all 37 pages but I did see where the OP says it was £110. Which is batshit crazy. I bloody well hope it tasted nice, at least (apart from the crappy rice crispie bit). I've never paid anything for a novelty birthday cake because I'm actually reasonably good at them myself and enjoy the challenge (I've never attempted a portrait of a specific dog though, and wouldn't be any good at that), but however much you have to spend on a special occasion cake, that seems like an awful lot if you're going to get what looks like a moderately small, cartoonish cake that bears very little resemblance to the photo. For that money I'd expect something a bit less childish and more of a cake sculpture. They're out there, they cost a lot, because they're hard to do. I would have been a bit paying half of that for this cake.

It comes down to what the agreement was, and does this cake maker advertise cakes that purport to look very like their subjects? If she or he said they could make you a cake that 'looks just like your dog' then I'd be pissed off, because that's achievable if you have the skill, and if you do then (I suppose) charging £110 for a few hours' work and the ingredients is fair enough.

GlomOfNit · 16/10/2021 20:56

at all the posters saying YABU because it's a nice cake 'and they couldn't do that'. This is NOT THE POINT The point is that someone purporting to be a professional has supplied something a reasonably talented amateur could manage, not that it's better than whatever you could do. If someone did you a fairly shit haircut, and charged you three figures for it, would you shrug and say 'oh well, fair enough, I couldn't do that'?

GreyGoose1980 · 16/10/2021 20:57

I know where you are coming from OP. However I think the style is influenced by the fact your DD is nine and it has a cartoon like quality to it. Also I find the more life like ones a bit off putting.

Itsbeen84yearss · 16/10/2021 21:00

I don’t really think it looks like the right sort of dog even in a cartoonish way and I don’t think it’s worth £110 but depends where you are I guess.
I had a cake made recently and was disappointed but when I went back and looked at her character work I should have known she didn’t have the skill set

Lotusmonster · 16/10/2021 21:00

Yeah👍 Nice cake 🎂

chickywoo · 16/10/2021 21:01

It’s really cute, obviously you couldn’t Make a cake that looks like an actual photo of a dog so not quite sure what else you were expecting? They must have told you the price when you order it though? Why on earth did you agree to pay £110 for a cake

TwinsandTrifle · 16/10/2021 21:03

@Jaem23 got a proper cake, to fit that narrative, for the same price.

OPs is seriously poor in comparison. Just look at the difference. And for a cake baker not to be aware that's the kind of thing OP was wanting? She'll have seen hundreds of cakes from her competition and in general research, to know what a realistic cake meant. OP even checked and double checked this. To hand over a cartoon dog with the piping that amateurs do on their cupcakes, and try and pass that off as "like for like". And it turned out to be a lot of stale cereal. You should let the shop know.

RosesandPumpkins · 16/10/2021 21:03

£110! I’d expect better tbh

50sock · 16/10/2021 21:04

It is a cute cake, but doesn't look like the dog, no. If it didn't taste very nice either then YANBU.

forfucksakenett · 16/10/2021 21:10

[quote TwinsandTrifle]**@Jaem23 got a proper cake, to fit that narrative, for the same price.

OPs is seriously poor in comparison. Just look at the difference. And for a cake baker not to be aware that's the kind of thing OP was wanting? She'll have seen hundreds of cakes from her competition and in general research, to know what a realistic cake meant. OP even checked and double checked this. To hand over a cartoon dog with the piping that amateurs do on their cupcakes, and try and pass that off as "like for like". And it turned out to be a lot of stale cereal. You should let the shop know.[/quote]
You're assuming a lot here. I'm 40ish, live in a fairly big city and have never seen a genuinely realistic cake like the lovely cake @Jaem23 has posted. It's not really a thing where I am. I could well believe that your average high street baker 1. Might not have seen one either 2. Certainly wouldn't think that someone walking in off the street with £110 would be expecting something so obviously specialist.

Still refusing to engage with the fact that realism in baking is subjective for the reasons that I've stated above and the OP had looked through the bakers work and seen absolutely nothing like what she wanted and DIDN'T OFFER A PICTURE

LoisLane66 · 16/10/2021 21:11

£30 for Ingredients? You're joking. 6 eggs, 3 lbs real butter and 4 boxes of icing sugar plus a box of rice krispies, flour and maybe a jar of jam for filling along with buttercream.
£2 + 6 + 5 + 1.50 + 1.50 + 2 = £18 max. That's if proper butter was used and if the other ingredients were bought at store and not commercial prices.
Much better to look on YouTube for DIY ideas.

TwinsandTrifle · 16/10/2021 21:20

You're assuming a lot here. I'm 40ish, live in a fairly big city and have never seen a genuinely realistic cake like the lovely cake @Jaem23 has posted

They're really not uncommon. If they've passed you by, fair enough. But it's pretty easy to find a cake maker who can make fabulous cakes of that standard (realistic cakes being just one type) on Facebook.