Been Asked To Make "the" Divorce Cake!
Decorating By SweetResults Updated 6 Mar 2007 , 2:50pm by Katskakes
You've seen it - the one with the groom in a puddle of blood at the bottom of the cake - search here for a thread with a link.
I have been asked to make this for the 19th - do I really want to?
How would I do/make/get the bride and groom?
They are open to other divorce options - not time right now to Google, leaving on a trip. Maybe when I get back Thursday you folks will have some ideas/solutions for me?
TIA!
I make it a rule that if I'm not comfortable with a cake, I won't make it. I think we should be able to choose the work we take on. For example, I wouldn't feel comfortable about making a person in a pool of blood, for a divorce cake or any other cake, it's just not my thing.
If they are open to other options how about the one with the heart split into 2 and one side says 'His' and the other side says 'Was His"
http://forum.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=51303&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=divorce&&start=45
I'm personally not a big fan of the divorce cake. I do, however, like the "his" and "was his" cake.
HA! Although it is rather morbid, it's what the client wants, isn't it? I totally agree that if you aren't comfortable doing it, then don't, but it's all tongue in cheek, right?
If it makes someone feel better after a messy split to have pushed their former groom from the top tier, then maybe it's ok... ?
Personally, I think a request for something like this would be really funny. Anything to help the client get through such a hard time!
I think you need to stick with what makes you comfortable. I also think that the customer asking for the blood cake gives you a pretty good idea about their sense of humor. Perhaps a cake where instead of the groom sitting in a puddle of blood, the bride is sitting on a pile of money with a "Sven" and "Thor" on either side.
I think the 'His' and 'Was his' is funny... albeit a little tragic. If you are not comfortable with the blood thing, and I know it is a little morbid, perhaps something like him at the bottom of the cake looking sad with a suitcase and rumpled clothing. He doesn't have to be dead or maimed... just on his way out. I think that's what the 'ex-bride' is looking for. Something to symbolize her independence. Perhaps he can be left off the cake entirely! Do something that puts her up on a pedestal!! A woman on top of the cake with a couple of Chippendale's!! 
Wooo-hoooo!! I'd love a cake like that ANY day!! 
Good luck, and don't do anything you are not comfortable with.
Yeah, I don't get why anyone would want a divorce cake . . . kind of like having a funeral cake. Who wants to 'celebrate' those events with cake????
Actually as far as the funeral cake goes... I make those. There is never an occasion where cake isn't appropriate, is there? Haha! 
But they are just 'non-decorated'. Like the one in my pics with pirouettes and ribbon around it, that was a dessert for a funeral. But I wouldn't make one with a fondant coffin and corpse or something, so I totally knew what you meant by that!!
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