I had 2 cakes due today one i did was my first topsy turvy and I was stressing trying to get that done then I was stressing because I'm always wondering if something is going to happen to the cakes. I was so stressed about the iopst turvy til I bake another set of cakes because I was so scared that the cake was going to fall over which it didnt. Then when i delivered the cakes everyone was well pleased, and then I think about all that stress and everything turned out ok. But at one point it was so bad i said I'm not doing cakes anymore, does anyone else go through this besides me? Here is the picture of my first topsy turvy made some mistakes but will practice til I get it right

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Is this the cake you were trying to post. I turned out great. there is a reason you stressed out, because you like your work to turn out beautiful and it did. Once you do it a couple more times, you think its easy!
You do wonderful with cakes keep on doing it.
I get stressed when i am over tired. so i stop a good stopping point and do something else like watch tv, go for a walk, take a nap. then i have a fresh perspective on it when i come back. I have days when i say what the heck am i doing this for. then i remember i hated my last job of counting merchandise, and sexist bosses, and the job before that i did for 7 + years and would have anxiety when walking up the stairs to enter work.

This is a thousand times better and now i am really in it because i now have a really pretty frog piping a cake in the form of a tattoo on my ankle. It is my only tattoo, and i have been thinking about it for i think 2 years. Ha ha! Don't worry most people stress out on the stuff they really care about because its important to them.

Do I get stressed over cakes? Heck Yes! Every wedding cake I make, I swear will be the last and I've been making wedding cakes for 20 years!
But, after the cake is delivered, and look at the pictures of the cake, within the next day or so I think, It wasn't that bad.
I think perfectionists like us, tend to always find something we dislike about our work, we are our own worst critics.

I agree with momvarden, you need to keep at it.
I've peeked at your cake photos you do gorgeous work, and you need to keep doing it, if it that's makes you happy.

Pacing yourself, taking brakes and doing as much prep work as you can, should help out with stress. Walks are great stress reducers!

One thing I always keep in the back of my head when I beat myself up for not making the perfect cake: There is nothing perfect under God!

I hope this helps! Have a great weekend!

tokazodo thanks to you also for the encouragement, it is what I love to do and I have a passion to do, so I need to just learn as you both have said to take breaks and walk away and come back to it with a fresh look, but this is what I truly love to do so I will have to do what I need to do to make it work!!!

Okay, so yes, I have sworn to NEVER make a cake again. at 3am on Thursday night was the last time. that shoe almost killed me. LOL

Yes, at least once a weekend I swear I will never do it again. I am only doing whats on the books (booked months in advance) and then I quit. and I'm taking NO new orders... THEN they love the cake, they put it on FB, they tell everyone , they cry, they hug me- whatever, and it makes it all worthwhile. Do I ever have the ability to look at my cakes through someone elses eyes and see the beauty and not the imperfections? NOPE. will I? honestly, I hope not. I NEED to see those mistakes, so I dont make them again.

Yes! This very weekend I had three cake orders and things weren't going smoothly and I said that I was done. I was worried about whether or not the customer was going to like it and they all did! Like tokazodo said we are our own worst critics. I also know that I have a long way to go to get to where I want to be. But I'm so glad that you posted this because I swore that I was the only one that thought this way. It's good to know that I'm in good company.

Your cake is absolutely beautiful, by the way!

Thank You ladies and it is good to know that you are not alone!!!!

I've been telling myself this for the past year. I've had so many problems with my health, and then they cause cake problems. I was diagnosed with MS this year and have had a lot of memory loss which leaves me up late the night before a cake is due because I baked the wrong flavor or delivered the cake 6 days early (not even the right day of the week - at least it wasnt late). I even had to deliver a cake a few weeks ago with an IV in the back of my hand. Things are much better with my health now and I'm so glad I took those orders or I wouldn't have been able to pay those medical bills, but boy was it stressful. I keep thinking I should stop taking orders until I get back to normal energy levels, but I love it so much, I always take the order again.

However, I have cut back and I'm not taking all the party cake orders from friends. I'm sticking to just cake orders that are bigger and pay more. It's just not worth messing up my kitchen for those small orders.

Did you use the Cricut for that? I think I have the same cartridge

The cake looks great!!!

I think the more you do of something, the less stress it creates. But, heck yes, we all get stressed out at one time or another in this business.

Jennifer

Hi, I too have had a lot of stress with making cakes. I also have some
chronic health problems and because of that and feeling so stressed out knowing that I have a cake order. I have had to quit taking orders.Your cake was very pretty; you did a great job.

Thanks Everyone for the compliments and encouragement!!!!!!

Yes, girl...me too! I did a wedding cake this weekend and I hated it. I kept working and kept working on it because I thought there was NO way I could deliver it like it was. I added a flower topper, took it off. Added a basket topper, took it off. Finally, I went to bed. Woke up at 5 AM, decided to keep it simple and basically put it back the way it started. I said to my hubby "I am going insane. This cake sucks" LOL...but, no. I am doing another this weekend

Your cake looks really cute!

I just checked out a cake decorating book from the library and it had some great advice: "The more you bake, the better you will become; and when you are stuck, remember that it is only food and you are smarter than food."

Everytime I finish deliverying a cake it feels like I just took off my ice skates and I can walk normal again. It gets easier over time.

I get stressed before ,doing and after the ones that gives me a lot of trouble I really stress about . Then I think something happens to the cake. or they didn't like it. A lot do not call oneway or the other should I call them? and see how they liked the cake? do any one else feel like these way! about hearing from them.