Favorite & Least Favorite Part of Making a Cake

My favorite is when it’s time to take pictures of the cake and I’m so happy I’m done and can stand back and admire my work for a few minutes. Followed right away by my least favorite part when I turn around and look back into the kitchen and realize I got about a hour of clean up in the kitchen before I’m actually done.

-- Jessica, Kodiak Alaska http://www.facebook.com/ConceptualConfections

Have to be honest, covering the cake with fondant is still the most stressful part for me – I just want it to be perfect – know that it’s the blank canvas that everything else will go on! My favorite part is detail work – I could sit for hours doing that stuff! :)

-- Becky, North Carolina, http://www.cakesbybecky.blogspot.com

My least favorite part is the shopping for ingredients, supplies, boards, boxes, etc…
My favorite part is just after covering the cake in fondant….I feel like all the hard work is done and now it’s playtime!!! :o)

-- Loren, http://www.thebakingsheet.blogspot.com, https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Baking-Sheet/210664827961

My favorite parts are coming up with the design and like Loren said, right after it’s covered (either in icing or fondant). Once they’re stacked and ready to decorate is when I have the most fun. Least favorite part is not always having the time to put in to each cake that I wish I had. With a very rambunctious 2 year old running around, it gets stressful at times. I can always tell when looking back on my cakes when I had the time to focus and when I didn’t. Something I have been working on the past few months to make sure doesn’t happen any more. =)

-- Tiff - MA www.facebook.com/sweetbeecakery

My least favorite parts are the baking and the cleaning! My favorite parts are the planning, decorating and taking the photos!

My favorite part is the shopping, planning and most of all the detail work. My least favorite by far is the clean up!

-- Tara, Nova Scotia, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Valleys-kool-cakes/131353476890032

My favorite part is seeing the customer’s reactions :D My least favorite part is trying to work on 2 or 3 cakes at once in my tiny kitchen :(

-- Denise, Deltona, FL, http://www.facebook.com/thecakediva386

I truly enjoy decorating the cake, but I’m very stressed covering the cake with fondant – if it tears, it can bring me to tears – isn’t the English language funny?

Seeing the final product makes it all worthwhile – it’s like going through 9 months of pregnancy – when you see the baby in your arms, you completely forget everything else! Happy baking!

-- DJ - Funfetticakes

I hate the covering a cake in fondant or trying to ice a buttercream only cake.

-- Monica Stay Sweet!! www.facebook.com/sweetsbymonica , www.sweetsbymonica.com

I’m with Jessica…I literally LOL’d because that was EXACTLY what I was gonna say…altho, my messes usually take closer to 2 hours to clean…lol

-- Crystal Memories in the Baking

I’m with you Loren, I hate the shopping, too! I love the “blank canvas”! of a fresh piece of fondant. As a painter, it’s just like the sky is the limit! Clean up is NO fun!!!

-- Janiepie from GA - Find me on Facebook Cake Studio J

i have to say..the baking and covering of the cake are my most terrifying…once that is all done i feel its party time!!the designing shopping prep work and putting it all together is a blast…i dont even mind the clean up that much!

-- zahra, http://www.facebook.com/TheCakeStop, TX

My favorite part of making a cake is piping on the cake and making the designs. My least favorite is leveling a cake, i can never get it even so when I stack it it looks neet.

-- sweettooth - www.facebook.com/cakesbykhandra

I love day dreaming and researching for all the design possibilities. The baking, not so much. It’s okay, but my favorite part is the actual decorating. Getting my hands in stuff!
I have to agree with Conceptual Confections also: Stepping back, taking a sigh of relief that the work is all done and admiring the work is very rewarding.

Clean up…not so much. :) Good tunes in the background help.

-- Psalm 127:1 Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain.

My least favorite part is delivery, I don’t breath till it’s on the display table!! My favorite is the actual decorating,once the covering is on the fun begins!!!!