Mission Impossible:CAKE IMPOSSIBLE!

When did it become okay to order a cake at last minute? Did I miss the memo?!?! In the past 3 days I have completed nine last minute cake orders.. most of them to be completed within 10-20 minutes. I almost feel like Robert Irvine in "Dinner Impossible" when he's trying to complete an amazing event in an impossible amount of time.

I've had customers ask for a few rediculous cake orders, one for example was a customer who wanted a 3-tier Fairytopia cake and they wanted the cake in 2 hours.  Even if I didn't have that much to do, I still would have told the customer no, and in fact I did tell the customer no.  I hate to turn down the extra money, but I just can't decorate under intense pressure like that.  In my last blog I talked about my ability to decorate cakes fast, but those cakes are just so basic that even 4-5 minutes for a basic double layer cake isn't unheard of.

Now for the icing on the cake (so to speak):

I had a customer come in yesterday asking me to make a double layer chocolate cake filled with mint chocolate chip ice cream, and they wanted this cake to be completed in 20 minutes.  I just looked at the customer with the "are you serious" face?

I know the blog is short, but this was definitely my time to rant about the customers.  The basic cakes I definitely don't mind making because they are exactly that, basic.  Take the cake decorator's advice and always place your cake orders more than 24 hours in advance!!