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AIBU to be disappointed in this cake…

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Notwhatiimagined · 15/10/2021 14:54

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?

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PinkWaferBiscuit · 15/10/2021 15:20

@Notwhatiimagined

It’s not the price I’m querying, it’s more so if the dog looks like the photo and if you gave that photo to a cake maker would you expect that outcome?
Yes I think it's a pretty good cartoon version of your pet. Presumably you want it to resemble the dog not replicate it or you'd risk traumatising a 9 year old who had to then see the cake version of her dog cut into pieces.

Did you not look at other cakes by the baker before ordering to get an insight into their work?

Hopeislost · 15/10/2021 15:20

It's that difficult to make that shape entirely out of cake. You can buy cake moulds in that shape if you're not good at carving. So the rice krispie thing would bother me, if I hadn't been told about it previously.

Lulu2021 · 15/10/2021 15:20

@Notwhatiimagined

It’s not the price I’m querying, it’s more so if the dog looks like the photo and if you gave that photo to a cake maker would you expect that outcome?

If I'm being honest I think I'd have expected something closer to what @PineappleTart has posted. That said, I wouldn't have been necessarily disappointed with the outcome as it is because it is very cute, and for a 9 year old, I think it's perfect. But yes initially I'd have had a moment of woah that's not what I thought it would be 😂

Rainbowheart1 · 15/10/2021 15:20

I think you through it was going to be like a sculpture, that’s unrealistic, for a sculptured cake you need artists and painters and your looking at hundreds.

Cakes are cartooney so that’s why yours is not like a sculpture, because it’s a cake of a dog.

Herecomesthesun70 · 15/10/2021 15:21

@Siriisatwat

For £110, I’d be expecting it to bark and shit gold bricks.
Ha ha gold
TwinsandTrifle · 15/10/2021 15:21

@Notwhatiimagined

I think the dog above from pineapple is abit more what I was expecting.
Yes, as would I.

What you've got is a nice dog cake. I'm crap at arty cakes, but my mum could have made that pretty easily, especially as it's just covered in that generic piping. My bf makes cakes (professionally for 8yrs) and I just sent her your pic. She said it was fine for a child and she'd have charged around £60.

For £110 you should have got better than that. It's not terrible though, and in the scheme of things, it's one birthday cake.

maddening · 15/10/2021 15:22

Watch cake boss, you will see that use of crispies to sculpt parts of cakes like this is v normal.

Getyourownback · 15/10/2021 15:22

They always look like cartoon versions. If you want full realism, you’ll pay hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. I think it’s great.

maddening · 15/10/2021 15:22

And his cakes go for far more.

icedcoffees · 15/10/2021 15:23

I think your expectations are way off.

Your £110 has to cover all the ingredients (probably around £30), the bakers' time (at at least MW per hour), their public liability insurance, the fact that they have food hygiene qualifications, their equipment and their experience etc.

The cake looks fab by the way and I don't think your DD will mind that it's not a carbon copy of your dog!

Immaculatemisconception · 15/10/2021 15:24

I love it.

loopylindi · 15/10/2021 15:24

@Henio £25 for ingredients. Mixing, cooking, shaping, modelling - so that's all labour costs and fuel. Then there's the profit margin. Get real.

I made wedding cakes with realistic modelled flowers on and would take over 150hrs to make - so since I wasn't prepared to work for peanuts I only did commissions for folk who appreciated that

Dixiechickonhols · 15/10/2021 15:24

I think it's amazing. Happy birthday to your daughter I bet she is thrilled.

SirenSays · 15/10/2021 15:24

I think it would have probably looked more realistic in fondant, but the piping will be much nicer to eat!

catzfur · 15/10/2021 15:24

I would expect it to look more like this cake unless I’d asked for a cartoon version which I would class yours as.

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Fbanaan · 15/10/2021 15:24

@Aquamarine1029

It's adorable. What on earth did you want? A cake that looks like a taxidermied dog?
This made me laugh

Whenever I feel fed up my go to cure is to google ‘bad taxidermy’ and it always makes me laugh !!

MintyCedric · 15/10/2021 15:25

Did you see photos of the maker's other cakes before ordering?

I've made cakes as hobby for years and tbf havong just attempted a volcano out of marshmallow crispies for the first time recently they are a bit of a bugger to work with.

catzfur · 15/10/2021 15:25

Forgot to attach photo!

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CharityDingle · 15/10/2021 15:25

I love it. I think I would be a bit freaked out, (as a child that is) if it looked too much like the real dog.

Lulu2021 · 15/10/2021 15:25

@catzfur

I would expect it to look more like this cake unless I’d asked for a cartoon version which I would class yours as.

Yes. Me too. Closer to this.

Noeuf · 15/10/2021 15:25

It’s awful if it’s meant to be your dog. Ears should be longer, tail floofier and eyes a different shape. None of that adds more to the cost just would make a huge difference.

Twinkle19 · 15/10/2021 15:26

I would of expected it to be all proper icing not just butter cream piped on. Proper icing would of looked more realistic and for the price thats what u should of got.

KirstenBlest · 15/10/2021 15:26

YABU. The cake is brilliant.

yoyo1234 · 15/10/2021 15:27

I love it Smile. Adorable and appropriate for a child (or an adult if I had a dog like that Grin).
The pineappletart cake looks like it could be nightmare inducing (I would be very upset to get that).

AryaStarkWolf · 15/10/2021 15:27

@Notwhatiimagined

It’s not the price I’m querying, it’s more so if the dog looks like the photo and if you gave that photo to a cake maker would you expect that outcome?
I'd be happy with it, it's really cute and resembles the dog but it's a cake, how alike were you actually expecting it to be?
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