Mine was a while ago I got an email from a bride. She told me they had been to like 3 weddings in the past month and none of the cakes were good and she could not wait until she got to have her wedding cake because my cakes are the best she's ever had. I delivered the cake and the DJ had some and so did his wife and he ordered a cake for his wife's b-day.

Another compliment is when people tell me, "Ugh where were you when I got married?"

For me there are two-one is when I took a cake to our church for a graduation party, and a lot of people actually lined up to take pictures!! Imagine that! (I'm known as the cake lady at church). But, it made my day to think that people felt that way.

The second was the following Sunday during his sermon, the pastor mentioned the 'awesome' orange cake I had made and how it was the best cake he had ever tasted. And several ladies came to me later and asked for recipe. (I used the one on here the wedding cake orange someone posted-Beth I think???) It's great!

my was from a 2 year old....he was HUGELY into monster trucks, so of course they had a monster truck birthday party. he had one that was his favorite....a little hot wheels truck-named fireball. i've done several cakes for the family and his mom wanted to try her hand at cake decorating, so together we made the truck.

he walked in, his eyes lit up, and he said, 'that's my Fireball!'

i wanted to cry....i knew we had achieved our goal!
Sally

Not a comment but a reaction. My co-worker had a son and they were going to celebrate his birthday about a week after his birthday so no cake for him on his actual birthday. I told them he had to have cake on his birthday and made him a cupcake cake with Dorey and Nemo. When he say the cake, he started jumping up and down screaming, "it's my birthday, it's my birthday". He climbed on a chair to see the cake and wanted to eat it right away. They called later and said he wouldn't let anyone eat Dorey. She was FBCT.

i do this as a hobby for family and friends,but i think what i love most,and what i look for most is the first expression on thier faces.when they walk in and see thier cake, i watch thier eyes and thier smile, that always makes me happy!! it also makes me feel good to hear my dh talking about my cakes to his friends. i'll walk by and over hear him on the phone raving about my cakes saying "you should have seen it, it was bad a$$!",and im thinking, it wasnt that great,but he loved it so thats what counts!

for me it was the baby shower cake i made for my sis in law. I just decorate for family and friends right now. Well the head of the downtown business association here in chico,(also a long time friend of the familiy) was there and she just assumed that it came from our local downtown bakery. When she found out that I made it she really pushed me to get legal, and even gave me a lead on a kitchen i can use 2 blocks from my house.!

Oh, this is the best thread! I loved reading everyone's stories--they brought tears to my eyes, but they were happy tears! Thanks to skichic68 for this idea...after the week I have had, it's been so nice to come here to read them!!

Thanks everyone for sharing the happiness. Isn't it funny how it's "just cake" so some people but it can bring so much joy and happiness to others?

I am still very much a novice at this whole cake decorating thing but this complement came when I was truly a beginner! I always tend to dream big and bite off more then I can chew, this story is a great example of that. So the first two cakes that I ever made were for some neighbors that are dear friends of mine. I receive an invitation inviting me to there 25 wedding anniversary party, âCelebrating 25 Years of Wedded Bliss and Blistersâ the invitation read. After thinking about what I could do for them as a gift I decided, get this that I was going to make them two cakes, one of which was going to be on pillars! So I call the daughter and tell her my intentions and not to get any other cakes! (What was I thinking?) Now mind you that this is coming from a girl that has never baked a cake let alone decorates them, never taken a class or anything. (So you ask am I crazy? The correct response to that would be, YES!) So here I go finding out everything I need to know about baking, decorating and stacking a cake. The time comes and I bake the cake with no problems. When it came to decorating I could have shot someone, not because the decorations were very elaborate but because I could not get the icing smooth! (Can Icing) (You see I am a bit OCD when it comes to things like this.) I finally give up and place the very bubbly chocolate bride and grooms on the side of the cake and pipe the words on to the other cake. The time comes for me to take the cake to the party and I kick the âbride and groomâ out of the house. (Please donât think I am a bad person, they just went outside and listened to the surprise band that there kids got them.) Set up was done and I brought them back in to see it. The âbrideâ cried and the âgroomâ tried to suffocate me to death he was hugging me so hard! Everyone at the party (aprox. 75 people) loved the cake and there were only a few pieces left over.

I was so happy that I had pleased them so much and that the whole thing was not a complete disaster that I deiced to make them more often, although I donât make them as much as I would like to.

P.S. The cakes are in my photos.

Not really a compliment, but my grad cap cake showed up on the Popular Graduation cakes this spring. I couldn't believe it was my cake right there on the home page. That made me so happy I had to call DH at work to tell him!

When I was setting up a wedding cake yesterday, the groom was the only one at the reception hall besides me. I was almost finished with it when he walked in, stopped as soon as he saw it, and got out his phone. I was a little nervous because he didn't say anything....does he like it....maybe he thinks it is ugly...what's the deal? He took a picture and sent it to the bride because he thought it was "so beautiful" as he put it. She sent back a text that she loved it! That made me so happy.

Hi guys... new day, new coffee!

I think this is one of the few threads I keep checking back on during the day. I love reading these stories and anecdotes! When I read how proud you all are of yourself, I'm proud of you too!

I actually just had a little something happen yesterday. A woman here in town has ordered a cake for her daughter's September birthday ~ Hannah Montana theme.

She loved my pics, and so without telling me, she told the party destination place about me, gave them my website addy and they want brochures and business cards to give to their customers when they book a party! She emailed me last night to tell me.

It certainly gave me a boost of confidence to know that not only my customer likes my work, but that a public party place likes it enough to advertise me to their clients!

(But, my son's SAHM comment is still the proudest moment that makes me misty when I think of it!)

okay, wait! i just thought of another one....

i once baked a cake for a fella...and he took one bite and kissed me, right on the cheek!

he later wrote me a note that said 'the only thing sweeter than your cake is your cheek!'

his name? Alton Brown.
i felt SO validated.....i adore the man and his expression had me riding on clouds for months. it probably didn';t hurt that he was working....doing a book signing. he said he hadn't eaten all day and that my cake was going to be his breakfast and lunch.....

a very gracious man!
Sally

Were you commissioned for the cake or you just brought one?

This is a great thread. I have two that come to mind.

My nephew has been a Star Wars fan since the age of 3. For his 4th bd I made a Darth Vader cake. (wilton pan, darth's head) Well this past April, he turned 30 , his GF was planning a surprise party and called my sister to see if Aunt Ginny would make the same cake that I made for that 4th bd. It seems she had heard the story of that cake more times than she could count Of course, I didn't dare say no and it was a big hit.

This one is about cookies. We have an OLD family recipe for italian knot cookies (we have always just called them "the balls") These cookies were usually only made at christmas time, and only by my grandmother. My aunt had written down the recipe and had been making them for a while and I decided it was time to try my hand at them. There was to be a "milestone" (can't remember which one) birthday party for my uncle. I told my mom that I would make the cookies for him (his favorites). I made the cookies and took them to the party. His reaction... and I quote..
"Ginny, these are better than my mother's.. good job! ) Now that's a compliment.

nope, not commissioned, just went to a book signing and felt i had to show up with something....
he had been doing various things in austin and the book signing was at the end of a long day....i was sooooo nervous and felt silly....he shakes your hand and introduces himself like you don't know who he is....and then he chats with you like you are the only one there.....
he really goes out of his way to make you feel special. and he waited until EVERY body had a turn....

sally

I have three great compliments that keep me going when I want to throw it all in!

"You're better than I ever was or could ever hope to be!" My Mom...who taught me everything I know!!

"Nothing you do surprises me anymore...amazes me, yes, but not surprises." My Wife whom I frequently wake up at 3am to show her a cake I just finished!!

"Daddy...I want to bake cake like you when I'm bigger!" My Son Jacob who, like me when I was his age, watches every move I make while I'm decorating!

And, various others from clients, but those three are the only ones I've ever committed to memory!

The best one for me so far...

it didn't send my confidence into the stratosphere but my mood sure wound up there ...

was a 4 year old little boy who squealed....and kept repeating...." dat's dir popem at! dat's dir popem at! Hey, look! dat's dir popem at!" Then, he turned and ran to me with his arms outreached to give me a hug. It was a well received response too.

He had never seen me before nor I, him. It makes me smile and think of him every time I see the pics of his cake.

I got two emails from brides from last year, just this past week, that I couldn't have written better if I'd paid someone to praise me...

One said she was "looking forward to her anniversary cake more than her actual anniversary" and called me a "hero to a sugar lover" and that her cake was "equally as important to her as her dress". She spent more on the cake than anything for her wedding, bought 100 extra servings because they're "cake people", and actually said they were going to have a "moment of silence" at the reception for everyone to file past and observe the cake before they cut it--talk about a true fan!

The other one sent a sweet letter about how people "to this day" still comment on her amazing cake and that it "was one of the most memorable things about the day."

Those two...really made my week!

I delivered a cake this weekend to a venue that I did a cake for a couple weeks ago. The lady in charge of everything came out & told me what a great job I did last time. She said that the groom came in before the ceremony, took one look at the cake & started crying because it was exactly what they wanted & it was going to make the day perfect for his bride! I've never heard of a groom crying over a cake before, but I'm sure he was already an emotional mess & very sensitive to everything! Either way, I took it as a huge compliment! I can see my new tag line now....."Cakes that will make grooms cry!". Just kidding...some people might get the wrong idea!

Mine of course came from my Mom....she lives in AZ while I'm in Michigan. I always send her pics of the cakes I 'play' with and make. She always used to say "I wish you could make me a cake for this or that". Well, last year for her birthday, I took the challenge and made a cake and sent it to her! I took a picture of the cake and turned it into a card as well. it cost me a living fortune to send it overnight and she cried and cried with excitement and happiness of how surprised and wonderful it was and how she told everyone about it, etc.

Well, my dad sent me a picture of my mom with the cake....it was all tilted and smooshed!!!!!

When I told her how awful the cake looked, she said it was beautiful to her!

That comment surpassed any comment I could have gotten on any other cake I've ever done!

It's the end of another long day and I'm sitting here reading the post and my eyes are tearing up at some of the really nice coments everyone has gotten on their cakes. I grab a napkin to wipe my eyes and have to laugh, there is a sketch of the waterfall cake I made on it.
Anyway just thought I'd share that.

I got two real nice reactions to cakes I made in the last few days. One was on the waterfall cake I made for the dule boy/girl birthday. They had the party at a near by park, and everyone kept coming up looking at the cake. The lady said the kids loved it and were braging about what part of the cake was theirs. The adults all kept asking her how I did the waterfall. She knew that I used gel but she just smiled and told everyone that I was good.

The other compliment I got was from a friend who I made a lighthouse cake for. She is in her late 30s and said it was the best birthday cake she has ever had and she wouldn't let anyone cut it.

2 moments that gave a major high, within a week of each other I got cake orders from the bosses wives, one from hubby's work and one from my moms. I felt like I had arrived!
Oh, and a woman called to 'book' me, I had to turn her down because I already had a huge order so she wanted to make sure-2 months in advance-that she got her order in!

I did a birthday cake (Ponce de Leon) for a friends mother who is a decorator and when she saw the cake, she cried. That is the ULTIMATE compliment!!

Everyone who sees me right now still has to wear sunglasses! LOL!!!! I did a cake yesterday for my cousin's shower (in my pics its the one with the roses) and everyone loved it! I heard someone say is that a REAL cake? About 25 people must have askesd me for my card, it was a great cake day!

My customers tell me how much they like the cakes, but sometimes I feel like the are saying it out of obligation. I feel the most complimented when they reorder and refer friends. That's when I know the genuinely liked what I made for them.