Roll-Back Pricing On Wedding Cakes @ Wal-Mart
Decorating By Redlotusninjagrl Updated 23 Jun 2009 , 2:56am by txnonnie
They bake cake for 200, only serve 75 so they only charge you for 75?
That is exactly what they did. I am not sure if that is their policy or they just gave me a deal. I paid $160 for my cake!
I checked out the wedding cake dummy at our Wal-Mart a couple of weeks ago and I was amazed at how beautiful it was. Cornelli lace, very beautiful swags, and the roses were perfect. I guess it all depends on how much training and experience the decorator has.
It totally depends on that. The wedding cake dummy at my Walmart has cornelli lace, but it's an amateur Walmart cornelli lace. Basically, all they did was hold the frosting bag with a number 5 tip on it a few inches away from the cake and squeeze as hard as they could. The lace overlaps (how true cornelli lace is not supposed to do) and it just irks me that they use such a large tip. It seriously just looks like a bunch of icing slopped on the cake and some gumpaste flowers stuck in it to fancy it up.
Honestly, if you don't care about how it looks, just sell scored kitchen cakes.
My DH and I checked out our Walmart's cake section after I'd taken the Wilton class where you learn the basketweave. They had a wedding cake with that design, so I called my hubby over to look. Sweet hubby says my first basketweave was better than their's on display. An older gentleman behind the counter came over to see if he could wait on us. Turns out he was bragging about the cake he had just decorated, and was sooo proud of. I asked him how long he had been in the business...he said years. My DH whispers to me...Minutes!
It was awful! The sides looked more like a checkerboard, and at one point you could see where he lost his direction and tried to fake it. Nothing was even or consistent. UGHHH! And it had the ugliest un-silk looking flowers on it too!
lol...b/c I already think that Wilton's guides are stingy
I agree, I think Wilton servings are very small. I always make more cake than what the Wilton guides says.
Wal Mart pricing...wow...I guess even brides experiencing hard times in this economy.
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