I have to say Sharon, I read your editorial and thought it was spot on. Having worked on many dummy cakes, tis true, no where near the same amount of difficulty as real cake!! Especially getting that smooth undercoat, whether it be buttercream, or ganache. I find myself now looking at some of the posted cakes here and wondering, are they real…all cake…,partial cake?…all dummies…partial dummies and cake? Unless specified, you really can’t know, can you. I like to be up front with my cakes and say if any or all of my cake are are dummies, real cake or combos of both. But, that’s just me. I do belive you are correct that unless you’ve actually covered and decorated a “real cake” , you can’t consider yourself a true " cake decorator". As an FYI…when I got married in the late 70’s, it was all the rage to “Rent” a decorated cake dummy for your wedding cake. All my friends, including me, did it.
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