If you only post your picture to get compliments then that is not really a good reason to post them. It does not matter weather the cake is good or bad when you fish for comments then people will tell you what you want to hear.
You yourself will know how the recipiant reacted to the cake and that is really all that matters. the customer is the person with the most important comments.
I have cakes that have no comments and I don't care a jot, I post them to share ideas.

Go by the number of saved not comments.
Think about how many pictures on here that don't have comments, your not the only one and getting picked on. Your cake was for a good cause and the girl loved it so that should be reward enough.


I have received only 1 comment on a recent cake and I'm fine with that. It was one of my better cakes too, but I don't care. All the comments I need came from the party and from my real cake friends.

It looks like you received lots of comments now on it by starting this thread so you should be good to go now.
For everyone else who feels this way, make sure to comment on others photos whenever you click on it so that way something like this is less likely to happen.

I don't ever go to the photos on here, to tell the truth.

And Mkolmar, I love your signature. Jello creeps me out. A totally grotesque substance, if you ask me.

I must be in the minority, because I don't even go into my own gallery unless I need to post a link or something like that.

Hearing good things about our work from our peers (people that actually get this whole "cake thing")...is especially nice, it validates the job we did. That's why I enjoy hearing things about my cakes not just from my clients...but from CC members. Who doesn't like a little praise?

Costume -- I hate jello and always have. My mother tells people if you ever want to gag my daughter out hand her jello. Once in the service I was told to eat everything on my plate. I refused to eat the Jello. The told me to eat the jello or some of the sand. I scooped up some sand and popped it in my mouth. They were shocked but I could care less. I wasn't touching that wobbly funky colored stuff. Yep, I'd rather eat sand than jello even with a higher ranking Marine breathing down my neck.

A compliment is great when unsolicited.

What about the bows? Can you eat a Jello bow?

I don't even buy the stuff cownsj, but if someone pulls a joke on me and gives me boxes of jello I'll send them your way.

cammy - I don't think you can, but then again I didn't know you could make jello into a bow or other shapes. I know you can with a cookie cutter though or a mold. How could you form jello into a bow? Think I'll google it for the answer, don't want to waste peoples time on here asking. I'm sure it will tell me there. Interesting concept, but I still wouldn't want to eat it, or touch it. Yeah, I have jello issues.

I was thining the same thing earlier about my cakes. I guess I am just unsure of my caking abilities and the compliments make me feel better! LOL, especially when I see a lot of people viewed them, in some cases over 500 times and not one comment. It does make me feel a little bad, but what can you do, right? Your cakes are awesome though! Great work!

Just did a quick google. Love to google--so easy to find answers.

Snowborder--your probably right. I think I'd rather have a chocolate bow myself. Now that I could eat in a few seconds flat.

A pure chocolate bow would be delicious, so long as I didn't have to make it. I've made candy clay bows before, but they taste like tootsie rolls and I was never really a fan of the tootsie roll.

Have you all seen the pictures of jello desserts that are made to look like fish bowls and things like that with stuff inside the jello mold? There was a picture of one somewhere recently that was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. What would you bother to do that for? Yuck!

Now if there was a jello section in the galleries I might take the time to look at that just for the sheer horror factor!

i just clicked on your cake link and you have lots of comments!! I don't know if that was done after you posted or what!! I would love to have that many comments!!!!

I am happy if the client likes it.. I love to hear them say how much they enjoyed the cake, etc !!!! I post on here (Which I haven't in a while) so that I can share.. don't really look for comments.. it's all good!!!

I noticed that too. All but a couple were posted AFTER this thread.

Jello is just down right wrong. Yucky ugly stuff that people try to make look creepy.

i have just starting visiting the forums and i see A LOT of people whining about not getting views or comments on cakes... aren't we all adults here?? stop making it about your ego.. its about making wonderful cakes that you enjoy doing.. not how many comments and favorites you get on the cakes..

Hi Madge,
I looked at your cake and I think it's so cute! I love the movie poster....did you paint all that on it?

I can appreciate that not having anyone comment on your cakes can make one feel that their work is sub-par. It makes you question your own abilities and whether you should even be doing cakes. I've felt that way a time or two myself, however, as others have already said....if your cake recipient is happy with it and you keep getting requests for your cakes then you must be doing something right! ....right?? Keep doin what you do and know that you do good work!!

I have to admit that I haven't viewed many cakes in the last few months... I have not been able to get to the home page of CC for quite some time now, and even when I could it was so time consuming to try and look at the pics since the daily gallery format was changed. With all the new members and all the cakes being uploaded in a given day I can certainly see why the change was needed though. Now that I'm aware of how to view and stay where I was it will make surfing the cake pics much more fun! Also, thanks to the poster who suggested going to a different section of the gallery each day and view a specific kind of cake.. That's a great idea!!

Your right chrissypie. It's nice to get comments. However, I would hope someone would get at least 1 comment on their work. Hopefully from the person who it was for, and that's truly the only one that matters. If that doesn't happen during at least a few month span I would ? why they where doing it in the first place. I understand doing something as a hobby to make you feel good but if you have to rely on others to make you feel better than that persons self esteem comes into ?. It's all about that persons out look of themselves, no amount of comments will change that.