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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.

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! :)

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)

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. =)

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!

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 :(

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!

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

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

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!!!

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!

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.

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.

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!!!!

Least favorite is the CLEANUP AFTERWARDS! My favorite has to be seeing the end result.

For me I would have to say like so many others that the clean up is by far my least favorite. I do love thinking about the design and doing the actual decorating once it is covered in bc or fondant.

I hate making buttercream – soooooo messy !!!! ~(will never have black kitchen worktops again !!) and leveling the cake – favourite has to be assembling all the creations onto the cake and adding the details. I also dread showing the customer as Im always worried they wont like it – but its never happended yet !

I love every part of the whole process except the clean up. I really wish there was such a thing as kitchen fairies that come and do the work while you are sleeping! ;)

Oh yes, I would love to have a kitchen fairy. Most time my cakes are not finished until 2 or 3 in the morning, and by then I’m too exhausted to even think about cleaning up. It would be wonderful to wake up to a clean kitchen!!! LOL

My most dreaded part of the whole process is baking! I guess it’s because I’ve never been a great cook and I always stress about the cake tasting as good as it looks. My favorite part is seeing the smile on people’s faces when they see the cake. Once its cut, I can breathe a sigh of relief!

I just joined this site and I absolutely LOVE IT!! So Many Amazing Bakers/Decorators!!!

My least favorite part of caking is covering the cake with fondant!!! I get so stressed and anxious because I want it to look smooth and tear free. My two favorite parts of cake making is the detail work (I get lost in making flowers and adding the final touches). And the look on my customers faces when I present them with the cakes I make! It’s such a fulfilling feeling!

I’m so glad other people hate covering the cake! I’m yet to find a icing that I enjoy working with!

I love practising my flowers, I go online and read up on blogs and tutorials and practise the different techniques – I could (and do) spend hours doing it!