rotflmao....... I am having a double birthday sleepover this weekend and if a cocktail doesn't make it's appearance at least once, I will lose what little sanity I have left!

OMG I just watched this with my 13 year old daughter and all she could say when Sandra was decorating the ice cream cone top was that is wrong on so many levels. I happen to agree that cake was really bad.

I don't think it was bad at all. It looked better than a LOT of my firsts!

......... I don't have an outside job, I'm a stay-at-home-homeschooling-mom that is quite crafty and cooks/bakes from scratch mostly (except for the WASC, my favorite cake!) Hey wait, the WASC cake is 'semi-homemade'!.......

Oooooooohhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! How can you say that?????????
hehehe I was waiting for someone to come up with that comment

Ok, Sandra Lee=me, like a year ago. I would produce these hideous (but delicious) cakes and wonder why no one was asking me to make a cake for them. I never supported the tiers, used the canned frosting, sprinkles, the whole sha-bang. But then I found cc and discovered why no one was placing an order with me! I can tell you, the first 'real' cake I made I was button-bursting proud of.
And of course I would have followed her advice back in the day, not knowing that I could do better. That's what's aggravating about what she did, she's on a major network showing how to make an unstable, poorly decorated cake. But *sigh* I don't have a tv show, I have to resort to the net and hope to help out these poor people who watch (and believe) her show!!
Oh, and a little off-topic, but I've been asked to make my first baby shower cake

What have I been missing (I don't watch FN unless there's a challenge or Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives on)?

You mean to tell me that she wasn't doing one of her 1001 things to do with a pair of stacked angel food cakes?

Theresa

I thought it was just me and my lack of experience. I,m so glad I was wrong! Cakes are seriously not her thing.

I think my favorite quote about boxed cake mixes came from my grandmother. "If someone else was kind enough to measure everything out for me, why shouldn't I use it!?" Some cakes I only do from scratch, others start life in a box, but they are all mine. I generally don't watch SL, mostly because I don't have TV, but from what I have seen lately, between the cookie cake, the Kwanzaa cake and this masterpiece, she needs to step away from the cake. Some of her ideas are good, but the execution could be better, especially if she is trying to teach others how to do it. You can still do "semi-homemade" and use dowels!!

I will never again feel horrible if my icing is not glass..........it could be worse!!!


ha ha ha I like how she was paying "attention to detail"...........ha!

She reminds me so much of the woman you see on those shows The Real Housewives of Orange County. She is definetly one of those woman that had too much time on her hands that thought because she had some money that she could do whatever she wanted. Not saying that there is anything wrong with it but sometimes they try to be something their not and because their husbands/sugar daddies have connections they get away with it.
She trys to make her stuff look trendy and appeal to people that have no talent for cooking or baking. So ofcourse not everyone can bake or cook so she has a following.
So for people like us that see her show we cant understand how or why she appeals to people. Just remember there are people out there that think making a box cake is too much work so when they see her show they think "Oh, thats a great idea!" But it also gives people the notion that what we do (bake from scratch and decorate a cake that looks professional) is simple and that we ask too much money for what we do. I remember getting a call for a castle cake for a princess party. The woman wanted it to feed 50 people and be all edible. When I quoted her my price she came back with that her and her mother could make it. So I said Good Luck! Well needless to say, they found out that it looked easier than it was and came crawling back. I was already booked and told them I was sorry, that I could no longer do it. So Im sure she learned her lesson!

Yah, I really had to hold back the giggle! Ofcourse I did the "I told you so" dance that Graces mom used to do to her on Will and Grace!

I am so glad to see this post. I thought my daughter and I were the only ones who found Sandra Lee's show a total waste of air space! I have tried to watch it because I thought her little curtain invention was pretty clever but I am sorry, her show is horrible. The tiered cake is just a prime example. I also take personal offense by anyone who shows such overwhelming excitement about making an alcoholic cocktail to finish off each segment. The show with the tiered cake, which I did watch, also went into detail about making the "kiddies" their own cocktails. I'm sorry, but I find it distasteful for someone to encourage children to have their own cocktails. Also, as others mentioned, her cake was definitely leaning and any inexperienced baker who tries this cake will, in all likelihood, fail. Now. can anyone honestly find that fair to the people who do watch her and attempt to recreate her "works of art?" (Yes, I'm using "work of art" satrically.)

And I'm sorry to those of you who disagree with speaking frankly about Ms. Lee. if we can't freely express our opinions on this site which is dedicated to open communication while working to improve our skills then where can we say what we feel?

I had dinner with my mom tonight, and could resist telling her about this thread. I said "I was on my cake website last night, and we were all making fun of Sandra Lee."
Her eyes got huge, and she said "Oooooooh, why? She is such a neat lady."
Gag. I tried to tell her about the Kwanzaa cake, but to no avail. She still defended her. -sigh-

Hahaha, are you kidding me?, makes me look and feel like a cake genius, gotta love her!!!!

I do watch Sandra lee, and she does anoy me sometimes. Alot of the stars on the food network kind of grate on you after a while. I think I watch too much. I do understand her niche though. She is appealing to the cooks that don't have time to do everything from scratch. There are plenty of other chef's that do that. So it is kind of nice that there is at least one show for the basic cook. I know its hard to watch when you see how incorrectly she is doing something, but its just because we know better. Its all in good fun to point out the mistakes she makes, but I still watch.

Ok I couldn't stop laughing after she kept calling the corn nuts on the Kwanza cake Acorns! Oh my gosh, tears, I couldn't stop I don't care what you think about her that was hillarious!

According to her biography (on her website) "Lee then attended the world's leading culinary art institute, Le Cordon Bleu." WTF??!! http://www.semihomemade.com/sandra-lee/biography.htm

I understand using shortcuts to cook; I don't think there's anything wrong with that... but what gets me is that some of her "recipes/ flavor combinations" are just so dang ODD.

And I drink alcoholic beverages, but just not with every meal. Plus I'm really tired of everything being a "tini." Appletini, Capputini, etc.

hahah from Wikipedia.

Amanda Hesser in The New York Times writes, Lee "...seems more intent on encouraging people to create excuses for not cooking than on encouraging them to cook wholesome simple foods," concluding that "...she has produced two books in which she encourages a dislike for cooking, and gives people an excuse for feeding themselves and their families mediocre food filled with preservatives."

The Food Network seems to be moving in the Sandra Lee direction and relying more on personalities that they think people want to see than on real chefs. I'll defend Giada, though, because her recipes actually use real food and taste good, as opposed to a can of cream of mushroom soup, frozen breaded chicken patties and tater tots. I think it's funny that her cleavage is what gets the most attantion, but she said in some interview once that she knows she's busty, and if she wears high necklines it makes her look really blocky, so she wears the v-necks. Big deal, at least you can eat her food and enjoy it.

Having said that, Sandra Lee should stick to the tater tots and leave the cakes to someone who has a clue.

Maybe a lot of us are on the wrong site.

Since when is calling someone you don't know a "drunk"...celebrity or not...right? Was she drinking at the time? Did she drink around kids and knock over something?? Seriously...who has the right to call someone a drunk when they were just giving cooking/entertaining tips?

Are we all professionals or striving to be professionals? THen half the comments on this thread go way beyond unprofessional to just downright mean.

She is human. She found people who wanted to hear what she had to say, and others who would listen. Is everyone who doesn't make cakes like us so wretched?? Isn't that why some of us have decided to teach? Isn't that the reason some of us are PAID to do what we do?

The video speaks for itself. She is not a great cake decorator. Period. Why did this whole thread have to get so ugly?

Sorry, but I glanced back through this thread and the only "drunk" comment I see is from Cakemom777. Did I miss something or was there a loose interpretation of our comments?

I do like the way Giada cooks and have made many of her recipes. She is very talented at what she does and she is beautiful.