I ordered ONE OF MY CAKES from 1 vs. 5 STAR BAKERY 

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You are really hardworking😊😊

What about a garden themed cake? 💕

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The difference between working at a bakery because you enjoy baking and creating things and working at a bakery because it's a job.

Lol

HmMmM I guess...?

Imagine the 1 star bakery did an animal cake😳

True

Yes, great idea!

Yes-absolutely. Knowing in advance absolutely can influence the outcome.

YES!! Blind study, much more reliable 🙂

The RU-vidr she references to at the beginning does that!!

@@tinyshawn1991 what?

THE ENTIRE SHEET😂

@@jen2202 SHEET CAKE

Lmfaooooo

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@@angelita2213 it really is a *sheet* cake tho!

No you're not. She should send her video to each of those bakeries so they can have a tutorial of how to properly decorate that cake!

@@jayceekarencoxe6983 I’m glad I’m not)

Def not the only one!

@@jayceekarencoxe6983 she so should

Not the only one

I was thinking the same thing. It would have looked so much better!

Agreed!

Yep

Yup

Yes. I think so, as well.

Would LOVE to hear / see their reactions.. I'm a self taught baker and I'm super annoyed with both cakes in the same way Laurie is 😂

The only reason I know about buttercream logo thing being possible was because I once watched the making of Hatsune Miku frosted cake as a kid.

I would be pissed if that was my cake for that much money.

Yes i agree haha I feel they both should have been better... Of course. But i feel like some people who work in bakeries who decorate cakes like this don't want to improve their skill or learn more say things like oh that's no possible or i have never heard that before. It erks me but i always try to give the benefit of the doubt. One thing i learned in culinary school and from my mom was your always learning in this type of work and to always except and want to learn from other people who have more knowledge or different ways of doing the same thing. I wish everyone knew that because it applies to more than this profession.

@@mw25893 Well said🙂

YES SOMEONE GET HER ON NAILED IT

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Ikr

Among us kid

Yeeees

The texture was on the 1 star bakery cake. The 1 star cake also tasted better (according to her).

@@debbielockhart7762 the texture was on 5 star bakery cake . the 1 star cake tasted better but not much, kind of like " If you really need an answer, it's...uhm...maybe...this one".

The edible image alone probably cost $10-$20. I'm surprised they just slapped the whole thing on. If I was running short on time, cutting out the logo from the edible image and sticking them to an already fondant covered cake would've looked much better than one big sheet of printed image. Also, the sheer size of the 1 star cake can feed much more than 10 people.

Dude, sure it could have been better, but it’s just a cake. It goes in your mouth and stomach. Your mouth doesn’t care what it looks like at the end of the day.

Lunamoon 23 Bruh yeah but that’s the problem. You’re paying for the look.

@@khmerchef they aren't that expensive

@@Marshie_12237 if I'm buying a cake for the taste I would just make it at home

that’s very probable.

This is why business owners need to set pride aside and say no from time to time. Also teach their employees too. A customer will respect you more for understanding your limits than trying to do something and fail.

I work at a bakery and our manager doesn't allow us to say no to cake orders because saying no to a customer is considered rude or bad. 😑

@@ChickenPermission617 it's definitely owners. At jobs I've had is have owners what were just like whatever the customer wants they want they get. I myself, try to be realistic.

Elizabeth Taylor did that once. The movie studio called her bluff and now we have Cleopatra

it made it feel more handcrafted, I wouldnt mind haha its adorable overall

Same, I feel like it was a design choice

I liked it, too!

I just kept thinking "They used an actual paper towel?" 😯😖

I thought it was cute too hahah just not realistic for a crayon box ig

Haha that’s so true

Well that’s why it’s 1 Star I guess

Right!? They could have at least lined it up & trimmed it properly. So whack they went the easy route AND did it so sloppily! If you're going to take a shortcut (even if it's understandable to do so) do it right!!

Exactly

And it’s very lazy of them. Not only for doing the edible image in the first place but just the placement of it on the cake. Definitely should not have been $190 lol

They were soooo lazyyy

Same, my jaw completely dropped lol

😂😂😂😂😂

as someone who took 3 years of cake making I cried

but the inside was good

I would put that 1 star rated bakery cake in someone's frikin head🙄🙄🙄🙄

I know!!! Like three options, 1. cut the whole edible image the exact size of the cake and don't lay it OVER fondant details LOL. 2. Cut it the size of the cake, and cut off the corners. 3. cut the edible image around the logo and text only.... like so many better options lol!

So true i am not a professional baker but i know how to cook and bake since 10 years old and learned from my mistakes but its not that its called being lazy bc they r in it for the money instead of the love of baking n making cakes

I agree, I am 12 and I feel I could do a better job than them and that says alot

@@blakemorris5517 same but I'm not 12 😂✌I love baking tho

All they had to do was cut the bottom green corners off and I thought it would have a pretty good looking cake.

At least you didn’t charge someone $190 for it 😂

@@adrienneburnett3423 you don't know that!

Ye a couple of cakes ago I accidentally mixed in pancake mix instead of flour 💀💀💀 took ages to clean the oven

@@cat_clawz9473 I don't mean to sound mean, but how on earth did you do that? Do you keep the flour and pan cake mix un similar containers?

@@lilithcrow6675 yes they are in the exact same containers with no labels, but you can tell from the color, since its slightly different. However my uncle was visiting and pulled the wrong one out when I asked him for flour and I didnt notice until after we mixed the second batch xD

if they had done it on purpose, maybe, but it was definitely an accident that they just didn't know how to recover from, you know? because it wasn't in the original design either.

I agree with you. When I first saw it, I didn’t realise it was a paper towel pattern, I just saw a cute fun pattern. And I think the decorator might have thought the same as you and me, and left the pattern entirely on purpose because to them it looked nice, not knowing most people wouldn’t like it.

Hael Otny I think it’s more like it seems like she suggested they use the paper towel technique to smooth out the buttercream and they misunderstood and used a patterned paper towel. Or at least that’s what I understood by what she said but I’m not sure

Bunny Lacy Tbf that’s probably just what they had and they weren’t about to special buy a roll of paper towels

DeathnoteBB I mean sure. Makes enough sense but I’ll just explaining what I believe she is talking about and technically using textured paper towel takes away from the whole technique she suggested. But anyway, I thought it was kind of fun.

Analese Pierre It wasn’t bad considering they probably only have 25 minutes to decorate a cake 😊

Ha Vy Khanh Nguyen professional bakeries have much longer than that. If they don’t then that’s a management problem and they need to raise prices and not take as many orders. There is no excuse for the shitty fondant job on those corners. It was a mistake I noticed immediately as someone else who decorates cakes.

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Analese Pierre 190$but still true m very disappointing

I agree, I thought the 5 star one looked pretty shoddy too tbh. I would be annoyed paying that amount for it with the crayons looking all flat and those green box sides were terrible, as was the obvious kitchen paper pattern. And it didn’t even taste good. Hell no

*bakeries ;)

I hate when people do this! Had many people tell me this at work - that something was absolutely unquestionably impossible when I was able to do exactly what I’d asked myself

The texture absolutely adds to the cake for me!

Same! It’s cute

it would be a cute texture if it wasn't so obviously the texture of a paper towel.

I agree!!

@@rachael4408 I didnt even realize it was from a paper towel at first. Just thought it was so cute!

Haha that would probably be their explanation / excuse for it. 😁

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Right 🤣 only excuse I could think of lol

I was thinking they should've made it a 64 pack of crayons instead of staying with the 20.

I think it looks like those frozen sheets of cake restraints order.

omg fellow louie

LOL 🤣🤣

Is that what they did? I had no idea.

Louies unite!

that would be interesting, but i think it is a 1 star bakery, because the price doesn't justify.

Off topic but as a hairstylist would you be bothered if someone wanted you to look at a video haircut you'd like instead of a still photo?

I love watching videos for my clients- it lets me see the back abd sides and how they blend.

maybe they didnt care, one star bakery sure didnt lol

Researching new ideas can really help, but if the cakes are not assembled by dedicated bakers, its not gonna get the same attention.

@@puggirl415 I wouldn’t! To be honest I think it’s better

I disagree, I think the swirls offer a touch of whimsy.

@@TahtahmesDiary Same here! When I saw the paper towel marks I was just like: "Wow! They even took the time to make sure that it was smooth and that the design didn't overlap!" But then I heard what she was talking about and just knew immediately that my opinion wouldn't be very popular XD

Lol seriously

*EVIL CACKLE*

That one star bakery is not going to comment if I made that cake I would not want people to know

I'd hope they would both be embarassed enough not to comment if they did see this! I know if it were me in that situation, I would not want to invite that kind of attention to such subpar work. I love how despite the work you were given, you were still gracious and looked for the positives. You're a classy lady :-)

Hahaha. Well they should work on the errors.

She just has to believe in herself because she is really good.

IKR, her cake was the best out of the 3 by far.

So I agreed here, but uh, also it's a bakery and like she mentioned the time limits for them. She also has basically unlimited time to come up with ideas and hash out how she will do the details, then very likely at least an entire day to actually decorate.

@@angelwales9138 right. Cakes take time especially if from scratch!! She only had 1 cake to work on. The bakery might have had 10 or more decorated cakes to push out that day

@@denisela3403 exactly! Its not really fair to expect the bakery to figure out how all colors were in every slice and the icecream cone crayons

Girl Just Gaming sameee 😔

Me to

Same

Same!!! She makes cakes look sooooo good

Me too 😫...lol I got all excited when she was cutting the cakes, like I was going to a piece.

Really!? I had a cake boss cake (just a basic birthday cake, no fondant) and it was the most delicious cake I’ve ever had!

@@EmmaGranger99 I’d love to know what cake you were tasting cause I was stupid underwhelmed

@@SerenityM16 I've heard a lot of people say similar things. You order his cakes because they look cool, but if you want them to taste good you should probably go somewhere else lol

@@EmmaGranger99 Also, unless it was a custom cake he had to make, chances are that was previously frozen cake

@@SerenityM16 okay? Good for you. I enjoyed it. And I don’t really care if it was previously frozen cuz it tasted good. I bake too but I’m not so petty that I can’t enjoy a good cake when I have one 😂 It was vanilla with chocolate ganache filling

Wasn’t that all of us when we baked with cake mix 😭😭

I mean my kitchen my master pieces are with cake mix and sometimes a rare piece of hair like All might 😂

@@TheRealJuniForlife well do you get one for all if you eat the cake with hair?

@@Mob-tq7gv technically we will never know because my parents threw it away so we will never know🙄

If I remember correctly, I heard that a lot of bakeries actually have boxed cake mixes that they use, except I think more customized. A lot of it is just decorating, which is amazing and costs a lot of time

YUP!! So right! I think these bakeries just cram in the orders, then can't spend the time to do them right.

Seriously it would have looked better if they had even just cut the green corners off the edible image instead of putting it right over the top of the green fondant.

Wut? In a way it is HAHAHAHHAA

Same! I was inspired by this, like using bubble wrap to make honeycomb patterns.

Same

Nightshade Kelly yeah I think it may have been intentional, it’s kind of cute

I agree it's an ineresting technique, and they used her technique technically, so points for that. But crayon boxes dont have that technique so point down.

@@heatherjohnson7982 yea it wants the design she asked for but it is still an awesome idea

Yesss I'd love to see this challenge in a video!

Agreed. I would love to see a video showing what she can do in 20 minutes. She's very creative and precise.

I'm sure she could still do better than either of these.

Yes, that’s a challenge!

Or the people could just read the reviews before going to a bakery

Totally!

Absolutely

Yes!!

Yes for sure!

Now she just has to believe it

Same! Because for me, the taste of the cake is far more important than the look of the icing! I can always improve my decorating skills, but I would hate for someone to say my cakes tasted 'off'!

Same, I've gotten really good at making chocolate cake and I made one for my daughter's birthday last weekend and my sister said it tastes like a box cake ( in a good way). Making a cake is more fun and personal than buying one anyway

I had SOOO much fun filming this one! I found it all so interesting and I can't wait to do it again!

I truly mean no offense by this,, but as a cake decorator for 40+ years, if I didn't want to do a project (in my case, a cake), I would just be honest and tell them no. To just jack up the price because it's one you don't want to do seems . . . well, not really ethical. But if it's one that would require a lot more time, work and skill, then it would be perfectly acceptable to up the price.

@@joycegallowayparker9652 You'd be surprised how many people do increase the prices when it's things they don't want to do/don't have the time to do. My father in law owned his own business as a builder, gained a fantastic reputation but ended up having too much work and his health was suffering. Rather than turning work away, he quoted a massively high price. As a business owner with a really good reputation, he always said it's better business sense to crank the price up than to turn away work. If they are still happy to pay, then at least you are being fully compensated for killing yourself to get the project done! That being said, that 1 star bakery doesn't have a great reputation and so does not justify the high price tag. As a hobby cake decorator myself, the ONLY reason I can see why they charged that much is because of the amount of hours that would have to go into making the cake. Many a time I have spent so much time and money making/decorating a cake and never make any real money out of it because if I did, I would have to charge a hell of a lot more money for the cake and nobody would ask me to make them as I am only a hobby baker, it is not a business (regardless of how effective the cakes look at the end of it). Never would I ever hand over a cake that looked that terrible though. If someone paid me that much for that cake, I would be getting the ruler out and making sure it was a fully scaled up replica!

@@joycegallowayparker9652 I don't see how it's unethical, there are other cake shops that they can get quotes from and they're allowed to take their business there is they so wish. It's really not that umcommon of a practice in many fields. For instance, I've known a mechanic who told me that he always quotes a higher price for specific makes/models of cars (specifically Subarus and Mercedes) because they're a bigger pain to work on. I don't see that as unethical, it takes more time, knowledge, and effort to complete the project. It's also a common practice is freelance programming and web design too as the OP mentioned. As with anything that doesn't come off of an assembly line, it's all subject to human emotion.

Honestly, thats kind of funny. Theoretically of course.

@@shelbyb9965 It is unethical if someone deliberately jacks their price up to a crazy amount just because they don't want to do the job. And if you go back and read my last sentence, you will see where I even said "if it's one that would require a lot more time, work and skill, then it would be perfectly acceptable to up the price." But when I wrote that, I thought people who read it would realize I meant mechanics, carpenters, web designers, cake decorators - people in all fields of work. But if you consider being fair and honest as "human emotion", then so be it.

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@@arethasimmonds6322 EXACTLY!!!

You should always expect this especially in today’s world. As a maker your product IS your reputation. Don’t put out a crappy product and you won’t be worried about it! 🤷🏼‍♀️

But no names we’re given, so those 2 bakeries got off easy.........for the $$$ on the one cake? Ridiculous.

Exactly... it's just poor taste

When they quoted it I was SOOO shocked!!

The Icing Artist your cake was amazing in detail and quality. The first store cake was better in appearance but the crayons looked used, lol . I could never let a customer take the 2nd cake home for that price and the sloppy detail. Those bubbles!

Ananya Wahi I thought she did it from home but I could be wrong.

Ananya Wahi yep, I didn’t know if she tried this with that cake.

@@TheIcingArtist the look on your face when you opened that box. The disappointment and shock were palpable. I was disappointed for you.

THIS! No one understands this

I worked in a supermarket "Bakery Department" whilst I was at university and a lot of customers would want a "high end" decoration for a supermarket price. I am now a high school teacher and one of my teaching subjects is Food Technology. At the moment, my students are learning basic cake decorating and last week they learned levelling a cake, crumb coat, applying buttercream, a drip with ganache and then some buttercream swirls. All of them said "This is not as easy as I thought it would be" and "It takes so long". I told them that now they know why decorated cakes cost so much. Both my mother and sister were cake decorators (mostly fondant decorated wedding cakes) so I know how long cakes take to do and most people don't appreciate the time involved.

@@christinebarrett9217 I can understand why cake decorating costs money. I don't understand why it gets marked up as soon as it's labeled as a wedding cake though. The same care should be taken into a product someone sells regardless of the event. And wedding cakes aren't necessarily more ornate or detailed than non-wedding cakes, it just depends on what the customer wants. So out of curiosity, do you know why there's immediately an upcharge on wedding cakes, independent of their design?

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I feel the Same :/

I have chaired a high end dessert auction committee - I guarantee that your cake would have been auctioned off at a minimum $500 - $700 and in this area most people would be willing to pay up to $250 - $350 for such a beautifully crafted cake. The others? This is what I would expect from a somewhat skilled home baker.

I've never heard of a high end dessert auction. I'm so intrigued! Where is it? What kind of people usually enter? Is it for charity or profit? I'm so CURIOUS!!! Tell me EVERYTHING!!! ❤

@@TheIcingArtist So I'm in Canada and this was for a very big choir organization fund raiser. We used to hold it every year at out world class performing arts facility (where the symphony performs) in the rotunda area. In between performances we would auction off high end baked good - cakes like yours done by professionals and home bakers (some of them were at your level). At the beginning of the evening we display everything - then guests pick their top 3 desserts - we then would cull down to about 10 for live auction by a professional auctioneer. And the prices were anywhere for $300 - $800 each over the years. Once you win we provide you with serve ware for your table to enjoy your dessert or packaging to take it home. Remaining desserts (non-live auction) are put into our silent auction and we close them off at various points in the evening so everyone can enjoy a treat. We also auctioned off things like hockey tickets, travel packages, wine etc. We also have a cash wine bar, complimentary crackers, cheese, fruit, and non alcoholic beverages and door prizes too! The last one we did was for our 2oth anniversary, our profit - over $12000.00 and the majority was from dessert sales. Hope that helps!

June Austin that’s exactly what I told my partner: the two “professional” cakes looked like homemade amateurs! The $200 especially looked like a beginner baker who did it for free for a friend’s kids party or something...and if that had been the case then it would have been a great effort. But from a PRO who charged at all, esp $200?!? No ma’am. I’m not taking that cake. That’s an embarrassment!

@June Austin Thanks so much for all the info! Do you think there is likely to be another one in the future? This gives me an idea for a video! ❤😊

bawhahhahah!! yes!!

That would be so interesting!

I got my wedding cake made by a local grocery store and it was amazing. Honestly I shopped around all the expensive bakeries and the grocery store cake not only tasted better and looked just as good, but it was WAY cheaper.

@@shannaandersonzongo8128 I had a family friend make mine as my wedding gift, they weren't super ornate or anything but super delicious. You don't always have to spend a lot to get quality.

Shanna Anderson Zongo I did the same with my parents’ 50th anniversary cake. The bakery wanted $500!!! For a very small cake! Went to the grocery store and told them what I wanted. The cake was less than $50 and delicious!

Go watch Raphael Gomes videos too, this is who she got the idea from.

What does tbh mean????