| Author |
Message |
Homemade-Goodies
Frequent Member
Joined: Mar 08, 2008
Posts: 430
Location: Purmerend, The Netherlands
Birthday: Oct 15
|
 Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:16 am |
  |
|
    |
 |
|
|
|
shisharka
Frequent Member
Joined: Nov 06, 2007
Posts: 315
Location: Irvine, CA
|
| Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:32 am |
|
:ROLF:
What is this cake made out of?! Molten rocks for icing?!
:ROLF: |
|
|
 |
|
|
dg10148
Junior Member
Joined: Dec 05, 2006
Posts: 94
Location: michigan
Birthday: Jul 25
|
| Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:35 am |
|
|
 |
|
|
kayla1505
Frequent Member
Joined: Jun 27, 2007
Posts: 429
Location: Florida
Birthday: Apr 23
Gallery Supporter Member
|
| Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:13 am |
|
lol i think its a cake dummy |
|
|
|
|
|
saracupcake
Regular Member
Joined: Sep 22, 2007
Posts: 126
Location: Stirling, Scotland
|
| Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:28 am |
|
It is a traditional royal iced cake, but I think whoever made it forgot to put glycerine in the icing. You would probably end up breaking a tooth if you tried to eat it!
The sad thing is that it probably took someone days to put all the icing on the cake, traditionally you put 4 layers of the stuff on and you have to do one side at a time and let it dry before moving on to the next side and when you had done all four sides and the top you moved on to the next layer. |
|
|
|
|
|
DoniB
Forum Addict
Joined: May 11, 2007
Posts: 723
Location: Lincolnton, NC
Birthday: Sep 30
Gallery Supporter Member
|
| Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:00 am |
|
| saracupcake wrote: | | It is a traditional royal iced cake, but I think whoever made it forgot to put glycerine in the icing. You would probably end up breaking a tooth if you tried to eat it! |
 But WHY would anyone want to do that to a cake meant for human consumption??? I can see doing it to a dummy cake for display, but NOT for folks to actually eat. Is there an actual reason for it? I'm really curious!
ETA: Missed the 'forgot to add glycerin' part of the explanation. Sorry!  |
|
|
|
|
|
saracupcake
Regular Member
Joined: Sep 22, 2007
Posts: 126
Location: Stirling, Scotland
|
| Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:55 am |
|
I hope it wasn't deliberately made to be "rock" solid and I don't think any cake shop or bakery would have made it. I think it is just a case that whoever made it forgot or didn't know that you should add glycering to royal icing being used to coat a cake. Without the glycerine it dries so hard that it is almost impossible to cut.
It is supposed to be hard, just not that hard. If you notice the top tier is just lifted off the cake, it isn't dowled into the bottom tier, in the 19th century royal icing was developed so that tiered cakes could be made, it had to be hard to support the upper tiers. The icing should form a one fifth off the total height of the cake.
With glycerine added it is edible and can be cut although a lot of people don't particularly like it. It is kind of considered really old fashioned now to have a royal iced cake but some people just like the idea of a really traditional cake. |
|
|
|
|
|
DoniB
Forum Addict
Joined: May 11, 2007
Posts: 723
Location: Lincolnton, NC
Birthday: Sep 30
Gallery Supporter Member
|
| Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:00 am |
|
cool! I actually learned something today. Yay! 
Thanks for explaining... I've always wondered how far back cake decorating goes, as we know it... have to look into that one day. |
|
|
|
|
|
jenlg
Forum Addict
Joined: Jun 30, 2007
Posts: 528
Location: Dalmatia, PA
Birthday: Dec 11
Gallery Supporter Member
|
| Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:08 am |
|
It may have been funny when they were trying to saw it but I'd be upset about the whole thing. Wedding day, everyone there, beautiful cake...little Johnny breaking his teeth trying to eat it. LOL Hopefully she got some type of refund for the mistake. Bet that decorator triple checks everything from now on! Poor thing! |
|
|
 |
|
|
Hippiemama
Forum Addict
Joined: Apr 07, 2007
Posts: 681
Location: Missouri
Birthday: Mar 19
Gallery Supporter Member
|
| Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:46 am |
|
I just feel bad for the bride who just wanted a picture of the cake cutting. Poor girl! |
|
|
|
|
|
bwonderful
Regular Member
Joined: Dec 28, 2007
Posts: 149
Location: Houston, TX
Birthday: Feb 03
Gallery Supporter Member
|
| Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:24 am |
|
my husband would have loved that cake. He would have gone and got some power tool to cut through it and then as he likes to say, "put another notch in his man card". .... |
|
|
|
|
|
KSabatano
Regular Member
Joined: Aug 14, 2007
Posts: 186
Birthday: Nov 20
Gallery Supporter Member
|
| Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:02 pm |
|
The first thing I thought was with the plastic seperators, perhaps there was a plastic seperator plates that they couldnt cut through. |
|
|
|
|
|
vteventrider
Regular Member
Joined: Feb 19, 2008
Posts: 112
Location: Sunny San Diego
Gallery Supporter Member
|
| Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:43 pm |
|
LMAO!
I feel so bad about laughing because it was her special day and here they are sawing the cake! At least she was laughing too so I hope she took it in stride and it will make a great story to tell her kids someday! |
|
|
|
|
|
vickymacd
Forum Fanatic
Joined: Jul 22, 2006
Posts: 1427
Location: Michigan
Birthday: Jul 24
Gallery Supporter Member
|
| Posted:
Sat Apr 19, 2008 4:28 am |
|
I thought the same things: cake dummy, royal icing. But why as well? What a video she will have to share! Poor girl. And did you notice no frosting was on anyones hands while touching it to cut, so obviously it was rock hard frosting. Hope the decorator wasn't a relative! |
|
|
|
|
|
lovetofrost
Frequent Member
Joined: Sep 21, 2007
Posts: 302
Location: Georgia
Gallery Supporter Member
|
| Posted:
Sat Apr 19, 2008 4:50 am |
|
Thanks for posting that "things not to do to your customers" video. I would be so embarrassed. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
