re: How do you deal with family who orders novelty cakes from another person?

Sometimes people don’t ask becuase they feel embarrassed to. They don’t want to ask too much of you or to expect that you will make their cake for them. I have some friends who ask and some who don’t. I’m sure they don’t mean anything by it. have a quiet word and say “I would love to make his cake next year, it would mean a lot to me”