I Ordered WEDDING Cakes from 1 vs. 5 STAR BAKERY! 

Geode cake?

A geode cake

Pies!

Hiiiiiii love u so early

A geode cake

Totally agree...beautiful hand painted design

My thoughts exactly. It seems like a more personal and caring touch than printing out a piece of paper and slapping it on a cake.

Yes. That first cake is impressive. I would be very pleased. I got more than my money's worth. 😃 It looks like a wedding cake. The second one looks like a friend made it and tried their best. 😭

Yes. I found it weird her mentions of that. I think it’s implied you won’t get the exact same as the picture when ordering. And I’d be so happy - much much rather have a hand painted design, who cares if it’s a bit different, I’d expect that anyways!

Agreed, it was gorgeous and done with someone’s hands, skill, artistic ability, and mindfulness. I can definitely see why they’re 5 star!! She should give them a shout out, I think many ppl would hire them based on this!

Yes, but if they handpainted one doesn't look like the image I want then I would be more disappointes than someone using an edible image that looks like my image. Imagine you are sitting in an exam and the task is to write a summary of the text. Instead you do a full on perfect analysis of the text. It is objectively the better work and very impressive but simply not what was asked.

Yep, I think it looks way better too. Why want a picture when you can have the painted stuff!?

Oooh, that's a good idea!

OH MY GOD!Yes!

Love this idea!!

Yes!

The price is usually factored by work hours and difficulty of decoration. So a more elaborately decorated cake will always cost more; size is also a factor.

Refund

I've seen fake flowers on a wedding cake before and BELIEVE me they looked nothing like this one. In fact I was shocked when I realized they were fake. The flowers were fake but the leaves and vines were made from sugar and fondant. I was blown away. Because they used fake flowers, they gave the couple a discount on the cake. Everyone was impressed with how the cake turned out, nobody could tell the flowers were fake. In the end it was a good faith gesture on the part of the caterers/bakers. 💒🍰💗

Same, and I'm pretty damn easy to please, I'm not picky, I'm very cheap, etc. lol Like, I really would rather have a grocery store cake than that thing though, seriously. It's insulting to pay $350 for a cake where the picture around it looks like bad wallpaper and is patchy and falling off, has dollar store flowers when I paid extra for sugar flowers, etc. I'd literally rather have a $50 grocery store cake than that.

You aren’t being too harsh. My goodness. I would have sent the second cake back, if it were for $100.00, let alone $350.!!! That’s crazy!

Those both sound disappointing.

People will do anything to increase that runtime

What do you mean? I haven't seen this. I adore her as well

YES

I agree I was taken back when it started so fast!

Maybe everyone here has had a phase where they binge watched all her videos 😂

Same here!

Oh I thought the hand painted flowers were far superior to the edible image! The cake looked excellent.

I felt this way too.

Completely agree and edible image taste like 💩

@@rjcjme you know. I was wondering how it tasted. Like.... how can it taste good???

Oooh I love this idea

I used to be a catering chef so I have eaten a lot of wedding cake. The best cake I had was this company that had all these unique flavors and they tasted great. They went out of business 😒

@@chroniclesofashlee951 great idea

I love that idea!!!

The 1 star bakery kind of did that, “ hey im giving you this obscure flavor that nobody likes” 😂

That is very wise because often people want exact replicas rather than works of unique art.

I always tell people to give me a theme or show me a general picture. And then turn me loose. I will always make it unique and they can't wait to see what I come up with.

Especially if I bit into it and it tasted like soap. I'm not usually one to complain but SOAP. I would get my money back. Hopefully they offer samples beforehand

How do you even go about fixing that though? You already paid for the cake, they deliver a bad cake that's just what you have now.

@@thetiniestpirate actually you can take it to small claims court if they're not willing to make things right. Personally, that cake wouldn't make it to the wedding. I would take one look and demand a refund on the spot.

@@colleendarley9019 that's good to know, thanks!

@@colleendarley9019 what if u had a wedding planner and they ordered it? Anything different?

🤣🤣 Right On!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ikr 😂😂😂

Ikr 😂😂😂

🤣🤣🤣 totally

Both cakes! It was strange

Yeah, both cakes seemed to. Not sure why

Yes I did notice.

Was looking for this comment!

Yeah, it was the first thing I noticed, & then I couldn't stop looking at it!

That's a great idea

YES!!! I would LOVE to see this too!

This would be interesting

Would love to see this!

That's such a good idea. I would love to see this

Side by side always hits differently! It's crazy to see the difference especially the height!

Me 2 lol

It looked like the 5 star cake was made with 3 cakes cut into layers and the 1 star was made with just 2. They should know better; those super-tall cakes are *really* popular.

The size, height of the 1st cake would be one of the reasons why it cost more. Although the flowers don’t look exactly like the picture, they are hand painted and has different flowers as opposed to the roses only cake. The sugar flowers make a huge difference in appearance and would also run the cost up a bit more than dollar store flowers. I can totally understand the difference in prices and can appreciate the time and effort of the 1st cake.

Is that what they are doing now?! Kinda weird, but the cheapskate in me is thinking "Genius!" lol 😂! Though for real that is pretty smart, and saving you money on your wedding day.

My mother used to do wedding cakes in the 70s and 80s and people would order up to ten tiers, sometimes going straight up, other times some were connected sideways by bridges and waterfalls. Occasionally a huge, multitiered cake would be ordered for a small wedding, so most of the cakes would be polystyrene, with the real ones subtly marked so the couple and their caterers knew which to cut.

@@TheMeloettaful When I was learning cake decorating, that was one of the tips for when someone wants a big cake but doesn't have a lot of guests. You have to be really careful about the weight distribution, though, so it's not top-heavy.

Beautiful even with the big fake dollar store flowers?

The first cake is the one with sugar flowers

@@michella6 🤦‍♀️

Interesting perspective, makes perfect sense.

I have seen a lot of debate about this issue recently, I had found that the bakers who make the more intricate cakes justify using boxed cake because they claim nobody can tell the difference and others that people go to them for the design and not the taste. Which could be if the person has tasted your cake priorly. The one I find the weirdest is the one who claim nobody can taste the difference, boxed cake has a very distinctive taste that a lot of people enjoy because is very nostalgic. Also the crumb and texture is very unique to the box cake. Making a scratch cake is a science and there is so many ways to screw it up, some people just don't want to take the time to perfect it. Ever since I started baking from scratch I haven't gone back, but that's because flavor is the most important part of the cake for me and i love the researching and planning cake flavors. I don't care how pretty it looks if it does not taste good.

I have a feeling this trend is because of quarantine, lots of people were learning new hobbies/skills to satisfy their boredom. Heck, there was even a sewing machine shortage during it.

I've wondered if people aren't too fussed about the flavour because they know the cake is usually served towards the end of the wedding, by which time most people have had a good few glasses of bubbly and probably won't care about the taste!

@@FRT2 If the frosting is really good, or if it Italian/ swiss meringue (has to be a good one), then I would let them slide with box cake. IMO frosting are way harder then crumb cake. If you give me box frosting, simple frost, and box cake then I am never coming back. No effort what so ever even if the cake look 1 million dollar. Taste matter.

i burst out laughing at that part too! your facial expressions are perfect haha

I'm pretty sure that's the wallpaper my grandma had in the 90s

I was going to say it looks like a sofa cover my mom used to have... lol

Wallpaper in a cheap motel bathroom :(

this does make sense, but part of me also thinks, the cake should represent the couples taste, it's the most expensive dessert I'll ever buy, I want all of it to be flavours I love, if Grandma doesn't like salted caramel or whatever, we'll be sure to have a sweet treat she does like available, but the couple shouldn't have to compromise on the most important food item. hopefully my guests will like the cake too, but I think it should be acceptable for a couple to be a little bit selfish, they are already paying for your meal (usually)

@@stevencgr well, the bakery should give the couple what they ordered, but it depends on what the instructions are. Also if I understand correctly, there’s often a sheet cake available at larger weddings that could be a more standard flavor. That said, and never having been married I can’t say for sure, but friends of mine who have suggest that the wedding is more for the guests than the couple. It comes down then to your philosophy.

Totally agree.

Totally agree!! I mean it’s not like they had a cake consultation…they replicated the cake well (even better than the inspiration pic) despite only being given a photo!! And many of us baker won’t completely copy another artist’s work.

@@chareeceburton4175 yes! The hand painted flowers were gorgeous! And I would never copy anyone’s exact work either. I think that as bakers we all know not to do that. Her interpretation was absolutely beautiful & honestly for all that work on a wedding cake im surprised it wasn’t $500+

Exactly!! Home baker is not inferior in any way.

Complaining about a seam when she left a more noticeable one on her edible image cake🤪

What grocery store did your cake?

@@kaybonette Kennies Market in Pennsylvania

Very accurate xD (she doesn't know buuut) At my sisters wedding it was like "oh yeah, the cake you couldn't eat because half of it was fondant 🤔" lol

SAME!! I had a home baker do mine and it still ranks as the best cake I've ever eaten (that I've purchased). :)

🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️ makes absolutely no sense.

That's exactly what I thought.

Especially when you've asked for their most popular flavours!

Exactly what I thought. For me that alone would have meant zero points - it's a freaking wedding! It's the one cake everybody has to eat a slice of.

I did a Costco cheese cake for ours.

Please do enlighten me on this one because I'm genuinely curious as to why a venue would not approve of serving the home baker one? I'm living in Asia so I don't know if there are any terms in regards to having a home-baker-made cake in the west.

@@labyrinthminds_ food safety rules ~ the venue requires food that has been prepared by a certified professional. The store she ended up buying from has the certification (required for mass production) but it is unlikely a home baker has the same certification. Most venues would not care because the food safety liability would be on the caterer/customer, but this venue feels that they could be liable if someone where to get sick so they put in place stricter requirements. Not sure why they feel they would be liable, that's just the reason they would require the certification.

That’s insane

What the hell? Like, I would understand if a venue only did in house catering, like they have their own kitchen etc, but to ban anything that isn't an official shop is ridiculous.

That's a really fair point!!

And moreover the home baker painted the flowers so it might have took more time

@@preetig6373 Not to mention that they made those amazing sugar flowers, instead of slapping on the fake ones.

Also professional bakeries get their ingredients cheaper and can drop the price bc of the large numbers of cakes/goods they produce daily. Home bakers usually can't do that and buy from regular supermarkets etc. So to me, apart from all the extra time for the handpainting and the sugar flowers, it makes sense to me this cake costs more anyway. Also it's way prettier and obviously "nice but weird" tastes better than "soapy and disgusting". 😅💜

Nope they better make that cake again or I’m just not paying I’ll get Safeway cupcakes 🤣

Called off the wedding because of a crappy cake? Dramatic much 🙄

@@glykera ikr. I can understand being angry with the cake, but calling off the whole wedding because of it?

You would call off a whole wedding just because of a cake..? Ew...

@@glykera it was a joke, but why did you get so butthurt about a random stranger saying they would call off their wedding? Lol

This should get more votes!

I wonder that everytime I watch her videos

I was thinking the same thing. 😄

I was thinking that too, and I wondered if any of them ever reach out to TIA afterwords.

in the halloween video, people tagged the 5 star Baker so they ended up finding out! Also for the crayon cake video I saw the background and found out who it was too lol

I wouldn't think so to not skew the results

I'll take a buttercream over basically inedible fondant any day of the week.

@@Casinogirl56 That makes me feel very reassured considering the shop I work in uses almost exclusively butter cream and doesn’t really do fondant unless a bride specifically asks for it (some people actually like the stuff lol)

@@ameliabedelia129 haha I cannot stand buttercream (any cream is too sweet and makes me feel sick) but I LOVE fondant, literally I obsess over it, its my fave part of the cake 🫣

Thank you RU-vid gods for suggesting my video!!! 🙌😅

@@TheIcingArtist Perfect timing! Was waiting for your video! ♥️♥️😁

I thought the same! Except it was an old family friend in my world who had the wallpaper that looked exactly like the 5 star print. And I remember the awful dark evergreen colored trim around it all. I remember my Ma just loving it and saying it was so pretty. I was like, what? LOL We then ended up with some awful wallpaper growing up in our house. Ahhh, the good ol' days - just now in the form of a wedding cake! 😂

Same! I don’t usually follow this type of content, but her personality keeps me clicking. 👍

omg...!!!🤣⚰️

I know u can do it 😂

.... thought the same thing.... ☺

Yes please

@@TheIcingArtist do it I dare you

I mean I guess so, but I don't know if this applies to cake. It is a wedding cake after all, so when someone comes with a request for their special day you'd probably want to really deliver on that specific request and not play around with your own take on the idea. I'd get it when it's a birthday cake, there it makes more sense to have more freedom, right? And another thing is, you don't always have the option to reach out to the original artist with a baker. With a painting or a sculpture etc. You can order it from across the world and maybe have some careful delivery done, what if the baker is from Hong Kong and your wedding is in the US? It wouldn't make sense to go out of your way and get that baker to do it. Maybe it's not such an insensitive thing to blatantly copy a cake.

Joshua John Russel has a vanilla cake recipe that everyone seems to love. I’ve had people tell me that they don’t like cake but they loved that one

100%%!!!! I LOVE that some bakeries are now refusing to copy other cake artist designs exactly! But, then you need to state that to the customer and elaborate on how they will be different so everyone is on the same level with expectations.

@@TheIcingArtist I totally agree. Bakeries, whether b & m or home based, need to communicate…EVERYTHING. When I sold, I did. From size, colours, cake flavour, ribbon on the board, and and everything in between. And most importantly…design/look of cake. All written down (gotta cover your A$$), in black and white (or 20th century email 🙃). This way there’s no discrepancies, misunderstandings in expectations. Most especially that cake WILL NOT be a 100% copy of photo, but your representation. And it’s agreed upon by purchaser and decorator. 👍

100% agreed!! I refuse to copy another bakers work and always say to my customers that I can do a variation of that theme, obviously because of copyright. I have seen SO many posts about this on Instagram, with people getting ticked off that their hard work is being copied and not credited. I honestly thought the home Baker did an amazing job, and her hand painted tier was gorgeous ❤️

@@fionajohnson4315 Yes, I was blown away actually with the hand painted tier. Of done some painting on fondant, and mine wasn’t anywhere near as good as this. I would take the painted tier over and edible image any day!!!

I thought this when she said it wasn’t exact. I was a floral designer for years. When people asked for “that bouquet” all photos are taken as inspiration not as copies. I cannot and will not make an “exact duplicate.” I will do my best to incorporate anything you give me / show me to make your overall vision from true.

Technically, they're edible, but they don't taste good.

I have absolutely no interest in cake decorating but I am watching this anyway.

I think she already did that with her crayon box cake.

Agreed!

Me too!!! They're SO fun to make and have quickly become my favorite series to film!

And they're just jammed into the cake with no thought about the design.