I think I started a thread awhile back similar but I thought it would be fun to do it again.
You know you are addicted to cake decorating when....
*Over half of your kitchen cupboards contain cake pans and supplies
*You spend your Christmas money on new cake toys instead of clothes and shoes
*When your kids think that all the pictures in all your magazines are pictures of potential cakes
*Instead of getting your kids pictures developed you end up with a Walmart envelope full of cake photos
*You do good on your diet...until the weekend.
kitagrl that is so true....
You know you are addicted when someone mention'
s a party and you are already planning how you would do the cake.
You know you're addicted when.....
Windo shopping means snooping at bakeries instaed of a trip to the mall!
Every conversation eventually gets turned to cakes.
(that's also really annoying to husbands....)
You know you're addicted when you get ABSOLUTELY GIDDY when you walk into the cake decorating supply store!!!
(I'm actually getting giddy just thinking about the store!! LOL!!)
Everyone buys you cake supplies or gift certificates to buy cake supplies for your birthday/Christmas.
Your young children know what fondant is, how to make mmf & many other cake terms.
Oooh another one-you keep a sketch pad by the bed for when you dream about a cake and need to sketch it lol.
Oh and another sketch pad in the car & diaper bag lol.
I'm right there with you ladies
you know you are addicited when the first place you go in the grocery store is the bakery.........to see how they do there roses.
and thinking to yourself... I can do a better job then that.....I can't believe they would sell that....
when you look at a treat sent home from school and think "what was this mom thinking?". What I can do to send something cuter and better made so the kids aren't scarred for life--lol.
I am telling you one parent sent home a cookie where the edges were not even cut right with a cutter and slapped on a dollop of hard icing. Like she he stood from the opposite side of the room and flung icing in the direction of the cookies.
I am soo bad! Let the mommy baking wars begin!!!
Oh, Marksgirl, I do that! I walk straight into a bakery or restaurant that has display stuff and immediately start scrutinizing and criticizing....I'm so bad
Mine are: You always smell like buttercream. Every where you go people ask "Where's the cake"? Your children start picking out next year's cake the day after their party!
If you're like me, I don't get much work done (my regular day job) b/c I'm tuned in to CC all day. I sit at my desk reading the posts, looking at the pics & day-dreaming about what kind of cake I should bake when I get home.
You know you're addicted when you wake up in the middle of the night and the first thing you do is head to the computer and click on Cake Central to see the most recent uploads and forum posts.........Boy, am I addicted..........
Oh, and I agree with EVERYTHING everyone else has said, especially walking by a bakery or shop window and critiquing their work, thinking....I could do so much better or....what were they thinking!
When your kids (3&7) can tell you more than most adults know about cake decorating.
When the guys your husband works with finance your practice cakes, they give me money to make cake so they can have a snack but they don't get to pick what I make.
When you have folders in your computer with more than 3000 pictures of cakes and you keep adding thinking " I have to make that one" Can you imagine? may be a life time wouln't be enough!
Or even worse...you have more cake pictures in your Ipod than songs!
when you tell the kids you will have something for them after a nap and they say yeah cake (and you were thinking about just making them some pudding and cutting up fresh fruit)............so you tell them no cake today and they immediately say yeah cupcakes....again, no cupcakes and they look at up at you with hope in their eyes...cookies????
This just happened yesterday and I realized probably too much baking has been going on.
Okay I have a few.
You know you're addicted when...
you look at "anything" a tree, an add in a magazine, a piece of clothing and say "I'd use this pan and this tip and turn it this way to make it this size of a cake"
You can no longer squeeze toothpaste, or spray whipped cream without forming a design or shape.
Your 5 yr old refuses to eat cake unless it's "pretty".
Your husband comes home from work and says there will be a nasty violent fight if you don't send in more practice and soon.
Your grocery list is split into two parts. Basics (1/3 of the page) Baking ingredients (what's left of the page and the back and margines too)
HAHAHA, LOL, ROFL, this thread is too funny! And, sadly, TRUE!
I am guilty of all of the above, just spent my birthday money from my parents ordering cake stuff that I *might* need soon!
My 3 year old knows the term fondant (and LOVES MMF!) and loves to look through cake books and ask me to bake her those cakes. She even pulls out our aprons (we having matching mother/daughter ones) when she sees me start to take out baking stuff.
I can definitely relate to taking home a big pack of digital prints from Target and rushing to take out all of the cake ones before my husband realizes there are 15 of cakes and 5 of our daughter.
And don't even get me started on how much time I spend here....
Oh, speaking of cupcakes......you know you're addicted when you have more frozen cupcakes in your freezer from leftover batter than you have frozen food items.
I used to throw away leftover batter, now I make cupcakes and throw them in a ziplock bag for anyone in the house who has a sweet tooth. Nuke for 15 seconds.......warm, fresh out the oven taste!!!!!
You know you're addicted when....
Every package you receive contains cake supplies.
If your at your real job seems to consist of surfing the web for more cake decorating information instead of the actual job you were hired for.
ProjectQueen, I think me and you could be separated at birth; we're both ADDICTED to cake decorating and TARGET!!!!
I looked at my checkbook last week; most of my money went to Target and the cake decorating supply store!!
AMEN BakeQueen.....as I sit here at my "real job" trying to leave for my lunchhour, I should be using this time I am on the computer as my lunchhour! That is addiction!!!!!
I have a few more:
when you go to the store and the first place you go to is the bakery and your children and hubby in tow tell you "You could do so much better than that" loudly and unashamed.
when you look at your library and see only the family bible and hundreds of cake books and magazines lined up. Ans you still think/know you need more.
when you child calls from England and asks for you to come over to do his childs birthday cake and your husband sends you to get you out of the house.
when your children can decorate better than the bakery in town and they are only 6 and 10.
when your kitchen is way to small for the cake pans you "have to" have run into several other rooms.
You know you are addicted when you have two basic cookbooks and 20 baking and decorating books. Two binders full of recipes for cakes and icing from the internet, along with hints and tips.
I have a few more:
when you go to the store and the first place you go to is the bakery and your children and hubby in tow tell you "You could do so much better than that" loudly and unashamed.
when you look at your library and see only the family bible and hundreds of cake books and magazines lined up. Ans you still think/know you need more.
when you child calls from England and asks for you to come over to do his childs birthday cake and your husband sends you to get you out of the house.
when your children can decorate better than the bakery in town and they are only 6 and 10.
when your kitchen is way to small for the cake pans you "have to" have run into several other rooms.
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