Help! My Customer Is Being So Difficult!
Decorating By DelectableCreations Updated 8 Aug 2007 , 9:04pm by cakequeen50
I'm going completely nuts with this order I have next week. The woman wants a Skydiving theme for her son. First she wanted a cake... then she wanted a small cake and cupcakes... now she only wants cupcakes! Which was FINE.... because I could still do the idea we had agreed upon. I was going to use my airbrush to make a sky scene along with some whipped icing for clouds, and some cute little paratroopers i ordered to put on each cupcake... well now she only wants cupcakes.. but she wants CHOCOLATE icing. I told her that having choc. icing would make it very difficult to create the sky effect since brown + anything = BROWN.but she doesn't seem to get it.
So now.. after all this complaining, i'm asking for some help with all your creative minds on how to fix this disaster. I was thinking that maybe I should put choc icing thin on the top of the cupcake..and then maybe put blue fondant over..and make clouds,etc on top the cupcakes.. but i'm not sure how i think that is going to look (certainly not how i imagined the original idea coming out 
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please please help me think of something creative and nice looking! i'm beyond stressed out and she wants to know a.s.a.p what i came up with... i'm at a total loss!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND ALLOWING ME TO WHINE! 
ALL SUGGESTIONS WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED
Wow, I thought I was in bride hell.
So what about rice paper? can you paint on the rice paper, cut to fit each cupcake and lay each painting on top of the chocolate icing? You could air brush the blue which is cut into a circle, then cut clouds out of it in white, then put your little guys on each one. Or you could still do puffy cloud with whipped icing.
Good luck!
So now.. after all this complaining, i'm asking for some help with all your creative minds on how to fix this disaster. I was thinking that maybe I should put choc icing thin on the top of the cupcake..and then maybe put blue fondant over..and make clouds,etc on top the cupcakes.. but i'm not sure how i think that is going to look (certainly not how i imagined the original idea coming out
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Hmmm I would not even bother with the fondant. I would pipe on clouds in buttercream... Maybe a rainbow standing and your paratrooper. I would could do a sketch for you.
Sorry your client is being so difficult but sometimes you just have to kinda go with the flow....
It will work out. Don't worry....
Hmmm mini- marshmallows for the clouds... hmmmm
could you perhaps fill the cupcakes with the choc then proceed to do the tops in the fashion you had orig planned? Do you think the client would be open to this? I am not real sure why she is not getting that you can not make sky blue out of brown frosting? 
I am wondering if there is some sort of misunderstanding, maybe she just can't picture it? Let us know what you end up doing 
So now.. after all this complaining, i'm asking for some help with all your creative minds on how to fix this disaster. I was thinking that maybe I should put choc icing thin on the top of the cupcake..and then maybe put blue fondant over..and make clouds,etc on top the cupcakes.. but i'm not sure how i think that is going to look (certainly not how i imagined the original idea coming out
)Hmmm I would not even bother with the fondant. I would pipe on clouds in buttercream... Maybe a rainbow standing and your paratrooper. I would could do a sketch for you.
Sorry your client is being so difficult but sometimes you just have to kinda go with the flow....
It will work out. Don't worry....
Hmmm mini- marshmallows for the clouds... hmmmm
Ok ... sketch as promised... I hope this helps a bit.
If she wants it brown...maybe the paratroopers needs toSPLAT on the ground. 
Sorry i can't be of much help. I can't wait to see your finished product. Good Luck
BWT i like the idea about splatting on the ground!
I am reminded of a story that my mother has told me. More than once, I might add.
Back when I was a small child of almost 6, I had a dream. It was a lovely dream of a birthday party 
with all my closest friends. And cake. A Cinderella cake. 
My wonderful mother (WM) shared this dream and we ordered a Cinerella cake from a bakery. WM had a vision of Cinderella in her white gown, with white horses, on a snow white cake. WM's DD had a vision of her own. Chocolate icing. "But Cinderella can't ride in her carriage through the mud," said WM, "she'll get dirty." "I want chocolate icing" argued the spoiled princess, er, me. And so, the WM, being, after all, a WM, sacrificed her vision of a white Cinderella cake so that I might have a Happy Birthday after all.
The End.
The moral of the story is: it could very well be the child insisting on chocolate icing. Bummer for the decorator. Heaven for the child.
Why not White Chocolate Buttercream? Here is a recipe from Recipe Zaar and the comments were wonderful about it.
White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Recipe #1306238 ratings
This is one of my all time favorite frostings!
by KITTENCAL | Edit...My Notes
3 1/2 cups 5 min 5 min prep
1 cup butter, softened (no subs)
2 cups confectioners' sugar
6 ounces white chocolate or white baking bar, melted and cooled
3-5 tablespoons whipping cream or half-and-half
In a large bowl, beat the butter and confectioners sugar at low speed until fluffy.
Add in melted and cooled white chocolate and whipping cream (start with 3 tablespoons and add in more to achieve desired consistancy).
Beat on high speed for 3-4 minutes, scraping the bowl with a spatula.
my suggestion was going to be the same as spongemom's ... fill it with chocolate through a bismark tip 230 and then decorate the tops with white as planned. if she still insists on chocolate on top...i'd let it go...and make it easy on myself...skip the clouds , do a big swirl of chocolate with the 1m tip and then stick the toy on top and call it a day. sometimes i get frustrated when a person wants a stupid design (i'm being honest here) because i want a good picture for my portfolio...but lets be real here. sometimes there are customers who are just NOT worth spending all our time on. i have had people do that, a big cake for forty, then all of the sudden , after haggling like insanity has moved in...decide on a cake for 15 (and me seriously bending over backwards to please them, but~) . go figure. its just not worth it. do the chocolate,stick the toy on top and leave it be. sorry to not offer better advice, but do you really want to keep dealing with that kind of poo?
I am reminded of a story that my mother has told me. More than once, I might add.
Back when I was a small child of almost 6, I had a dream. It was a lovely dream of a birthday party
with all my closest friends. And cake. A Cinderella cake. My wonderful mother (WM) shared this dream and we ordered a Cinerella cake from a bakery. WM had a vision of Cinderella in her white gown, with white horses, on a snow white cake. WM's DD had a vision of her own. Chocolate icing. "But Cinderella can't ride in her carriage through the mud," said WM, "she'll get dirty." "I want chocolate icing" argued the spoiled princess, er, me. And so, the WM, being, after all, a WM, sacrificed her vision of a white Cinderella cake so that I might have a Happy Birthday after all.The End.
The moral of the story is: it could very well be the child insisting on chocolate icing. Bummer for the decorator. Heaven for the child.
a very pleasant way of looking at it!
wow THANK YOU ALL for your wondeful suggestions....
thank you SO VERY MUCH FOR THAT BEAUTIFUL SKETCH.. I just hope that i can be of some help to you guys at some point in time. words can't describe how kind you all have been.. and the thought of taking that time to draw a sketch for me 
) thank you!!
wow THANK YOU ALL for your wondeful suggestions....
thank you SO VERY MUCH FOR THAT BEAUTIFUL SKETCH.. I just hope that i can be of some help to you guys at some point in time. words can't describe how kind you all have been.. and the thought of taking that time to draw a sketch for me
) thank you!!
You're welcome. I can't wait to see your finished product.
I hope you are making ALOT of money on these cupcakes!! Alot of people want cupcakes because they think they will be cheaper. I really hope that is not the case with your client.
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