i know those cakes are super expensive like thousands of dollar's for the specialty cakes, but for all the money people pay i have noticed now that most of the "cake" is made of rice krispie treats? i bet those people are upset and shocked after they cut in to cereal an not cake lol for a 1,000-6,000+ cake they pay for i want 90 percent cake 10 percent cereal if anything.
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OMG, I was watching and wondering...where's the cake? Oh, the round building that fell was cake. But as far as I know, that was the only cake that I saw!
the only thing that bothers me about using all the rice krispies is that its like they are cheating people outta money. people that go to buy cake should be getting CAKE lol.
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Rice Krispie Treats are a good way to form a sturdy cake which includes buildings and larger cakes. I would rather pay for that than a cake that looks like they scraped it off the floor and just threw it together.
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If people just wanted cake, it wouldn't cost that much. They're paying primarily for the design - that's what makes the price so high. Obviously there is enough cake for the party that they have to feed. But you can't use solely cake and sculpt the things people ask for.
shareAnd the really expensive ones, would actually be the wedding cakes. And the wedding cakes he makes the traditional, all cake ones. They are beautifully decorated, no matter what anyone says, he and his team do make beautiful hand made sugar flowers. The photo shoot he did for that magazine, with the black and white cakes, were really well done. And for those who complain about fondant, if you have ever been to a wedding ever, the cake has fondant on it. All wedding cakes have fondant on them, they are smooth and seemless, you can't get the same affect from normal icing.
sharell wedding cakes do not have fondant. I still see cakes in San Diego without fondant. Fondant is a relatively new innovation in the last 30 years or later. I was married in 1975 and fondant was nowhere to be found. If I ever in a demented state decided to get married again there would not be an ounce of fondant in sight at the wedding or anywhere else in my life.
shareAwwww, don't hate on the fondant - LOL. If used in moderation & made well, I think it's actually quite tasty. My sister's wedding cake had a cookies & cream buttercream frosting, covered by a thin layer of white chocolate fondant... OMG, I can practically still taste it now, and that was almost 6 years ago! Yuuummmmmy.
shareAre you confused at what fondant is? I have seen wedding cakes from the 40's which had fondant on it. It is the only thing which gives the smooth perfect edges to it. You try doing that with icing, it will look like some cheap birthday cake.
shareI agree that all wedding cakes don't have to have fondant. I was married in September 2010 and our cake didn't have fondant but was still amazingly beautiful.
But if you want a smooth finish, fondant would have to be used. You just can't get that degree of smoothness with buttercream.
Another poster mentioned that rice krispie treats are used for structure building. An example would be the toilet bowl episode (which was weird)...I'm pretty sure that whole thing was made of Rice Krispie treats, and it held really well. But the base (the tile floor that the seat was sitting on) was made of several layers of cake and buttercream.
Chances are, if your parents never had kids, neither will you.
The cakes he makes almost need the krispie treats, otherwise they wouldn't be quite so faboulous! I have enough problems just keeping a 2 layer 9" round cake from not sliding after frosted, I can't imaging trying to keep his creations in one piece if they were made from nothing but cake. Cake isn't very strong, and his designs are so elaborate sometimes...like the "Shark Cake" how on earth would you keep that cake from breaking apart if it were entirely made from cake? I'm pretty sure that when he makes his designs (he probably draws them up and lets the person who ordered see the drawn out plan and they give their ok) he probably informs them which parts will be cake and which will be rice krispie treats, they probably just don't show that part on TV.
shareSome structurally need the treats, but for many it's just a time/materials saver. There are many design elements that could effectivey be made from cake, but it's more work, and you have to trim a lot off which means more waste. Whether it's structural concerns or economy, it makes little difference. The pieces that consist predominantly of rice crispy treats or modeling chocolate do not deserve to be called cakes. They are edible sculptures that include cake.
They're still pretty awesome. They're just not cake.
Stars my ass. Shoot for the moon & miss & you burn up on reentry in a fiery painful death.
No. all wedding cakes do not have fondant on them. mine didn't. But you are right, lazy people use fondant. Yup.. that statement was just as stupid as yours.
shareI don't know how people pay thousands of dollars for some rice krispie treats covered in frosting LOL. But I guess I'm just cheap.
First things first, I'll eat ya brains!
Name change to Rice Krispie Boss
shareThere is so much more that you have to pay for with cakes. Do you see his staff? You have to pay for labor! Do you see all of the different materials they use? Gum paste, fondant, chocolate mold, etc. You have to pay for ingredient costs! That stuff isn't cheap. They make so many flowers for one cake sometimes. You're acting like this kind of stuff is easy to make because if it was easy to make, people would be making it home and NOT spending thousands of dollars on these cakes.
It's not like they're not factoring in the Rice Krispie treats in the cost either. They have to be conscious of the stuff they're making people pay for to buffer up these kinds of things. Sometimes folks undermine the talent and the skills that go into this kind of work with silly questions (ex: gloves and materials used)... These kinds of thought processes confuse me. XD
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I have worked in a cake store making these big fancy cakes, and what we used to do was make the "show cake" and work out how many portions of actual cake there were, then make a matching large slab cake to cut into pieces out of sight for all the others. So we charged per serving but the actual cake you saw wasn't necessarily all you got. There was always plenty of structural pieces that were inedible, but also enough cake for everyone.
Plus there is the labor and skill, and the "brand" reputation of being able to say oh I got my cake from Carlo's or where ever. All add to the price.
Sorry, I didn't read through all of the posts, but don't you usually pay for a cake by how many slices you need? So it's not like they're not going to give you enough cake, they're just also going to use rice krispie treats for the extra parts.
shareagreed. but hahahahah. they don't use gloves. Although, they would need to use shoulder length gloves on some of these cakes. LOL
shareTypically all their cakes follow the same design... a base "platform" of real cake, and then all the artistic stuff that sits on the cake is made of rice krispie treats. Buddy usually tries to make the artistic stuff from cake whenever possible, but the real "cake" that gets cut up and served is usually the base.
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