What To Do With A Practice Cake?

Decorating By LorenzoRed Updated 19 Jun 2007 , 12:01am by weirkd

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LorenzoRed Posted 16 Jun 2007 , 2:34am
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When you make practice cakes, what do you all do with them? If you don't want to eat them and you don't have any nearby family and very few friends? I was thinking of donating them to firehouses and the like, but do you have to convince them that you're not trying to poison them or give them anthrax? icon_eek.gif I'm not sure how well received it really is and if anyone has any positive or negative stories to share I'm extremely interested!

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smbegg Posted 16 Jun 2007 , 2:45am
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The firehouses will not think that you are trying to poison them! They love getting cakes from the community.


I will take my cakes to teachers or people at my church. Or as you stated, public servants. I believe that homeless shelters will take them too.


Stephanie

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indydebi Posted 16 Jun 2007 , 2:50am
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Your local battered womens' shelter. Can you imagine being a mom and having to take your children to a shelter and one of them always remembering their birthday spent in a shelter? Just having a birthday cake is a touch of "normalcy" in their very hectic lives.

We believe in "giving back" and have chosen this as one of our 'giving back' projects.

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brwntab Posted 17 Jun 2007 , 2:50am
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We don't have a local shelter so mines normally goes to my daughters school and at my mother's office. I got very tired of trying to eat up all the cakes. icon_redface.gif lol lol lol

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LittleLinda Posted 18 Jun 2007 , 1:02pm
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I think the firestation is a great idea! How often do you "practice"? I've never made a cake just to practice.

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GeminiRJ Posted 18 Jun 2007 , 5:55pm
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I used to take my practice cakes to my kids' school. The teachers loved getting free cake, and eventually they hired me to do all the cakes for the teacher birthdays.

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surfergina Posted 18 Jun 2007 , 11:44pm
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Glad you brought this subject up. I'm also doing practice cakes because I plan to have a license home bakery and I need photos for my website, so to make a cake and take picture of it will help me to build my portifolo.

I would like to send it to my church, local businesses, etc. For example, July is Fourth of July holiday so I bring July themed cake to church, along with my business card. It helps me to get clients base. For local business, let's say dentist. I make tooth-shaped cake for them. Stuff like that.

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weirkd Posted 19 Jun 2007 , 12:01am
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I also do a lot of practice cakes but have switched to cake dummies for the techniques. Saves on money that way and the waistline! But the actual cakes I do make I give to neighbors, friends, my husband to bring to work with him, and you can always give them to the local food bank. Im sure they dont get cake at all.

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