1 star cakes usually taste better than 5 star cakes. 1 star cakes usually just focus more on how the cake will taste. 5 star cakes focus more on the decoration and not much on the taste That's buisness for ya lol
I'm a baker and yikes... both are flawed. The 5 star one may look more professional to regular folk but from a cake decorators perspective, it should have cost £300 max!
It is kinda weird that he didn’t know what the flavor was. Every bakery is going to ask you what flavor and filling you want. The drips were different on the cakes because the one star was just colored white chocolate and the 5 star was white chocolate ganache which is why it was a lot smoother. Also the one star is all buttercream and the 5 star is fondant which automatically jacks the price up.
Lauren McDonald I was thinking the exact same thing. I also found myself cringing while he tried to cut each tier while it was stacked lol I kept thinking “oh my gosh just separate the tiers!”
@@priscillaochoa56 Lol, but who else but Raphael would cut it like that? I was bracing myself too, but also the child inside me was happy to see someone actually cut it how I've always wanted to see a tiered cake cut XD
My mom made wedding cakes. She always said, “it doesn’t matter if it’s the most beautiful cake in the world, if it tastes bad, no one is going to buy from you.” Fortunately, my mom baked the best cakes and could replicate anything in a book. One time, we had over a thousand royal icing daisies all over our house for a cake. 😂 I don’t care what it looks like, if it tastes bad, you don’t want to eat it. 🤷♀️
My partner's sister has a lady living on her street that does cakes and cupcakes and she orders them for birthdays. They look very nice, but they TASTE LIKE HEAVEN. She made some vegan lemon cupcakes and I could cry at how good they were. I love that woman. Best. Baker. Ever.
So, normally the topper is kept by the bride and groom for their 1 year anniversary. The bottom layer is usually cut for photos during the wedding and the feeding of the cake to each other. The catering company usually then takes the cake and disassembles it and finishes cutting it for guests. I have seen for very large weddings, the topper is real, the bottom is real and the rest is display foam covered in icing- they have a 2nd sheet cake for cutting for guests.
This randomly came up in my suggestions but you know what, I like this dude. I love how he's so respectful to both despite knowing some things aren't great at all.
Idk about everyone else, but I personally would prefer to see the 1 star cake first. That way if it isn't great, we get to see the more fabulous 5 star cake next. Love your videos though! You are fun and charismatic!
To those saying the cakes look bad and don't look like they should have cost that much; The cakes are based off of a custom design. If they were allowed more creative freedom, they probably would have looked more complete and less cluttered. Because he is not a professional cake designer, these cakes do not look professionally done due to them following his design. A custom order is always going to cost more than one they can batch make as well. Therefore, the bakers can only be critiqued on their execution of his design and the overall quality, not the actual design of the cake itself. You don't hate the cakes for how they look - you hate the way he designed the cake.
I’m a cake baker, and the cheapo one - they have put the drip (totally wrong colour) onto a buttercream base... they didn’t even bother to put fondant on the lower base before adding the drip. The macaroons are missing which would be a major complaint by any customer, and the middl layer, which you thought was good is actually badly assembled... I see wrinkles in the covering fondant. The cake assemby of the base part is horrible - wrong sponge used, and the layers are uneven. Also the layers are too thick (but I think that’s an american thing as I’ve seen this before. The Mr & Mrs on top... what the heck are those? You can buy real ones anywhere, literally, so no excuse. Lesson to all brides... you get what you pay for. I always turn down contracts where the couple want the earth and can’t pay for my time. Such a shame about the tast of the expensive one... what were they thinking? A cake is supposed to look like a work of art, and taste divine. To fail on either is to fail your customer.
I love that this guy is talking about how thankful he is to the 1 star place and how they did their best on a budget, and not just trashing the cake for being cheaper.
That’s why theirs stage cakes and sheet cakes. You pay for a stage cake that looks amazing in detail and have one section that you cut into during the reception. Afterwards servers take the stage cake to the kitchen to get “cut into” but theirs actually sheet cakes in the kitchen. This is a tip some wedding planners give to their clients.
It's cheaper, because it's easier to structure foam. You can decorate it in royal icing and it would last forever, so that part can be done in advance too.
Yes, you can freeze a wedding cake. Just wrap it in foil about 2-3 times and then put it in a freezer bag. I eloped in St. Lucia and they gave us the bottom layer to bring home. It survived the trip from the island to NYC.
the 1 star cake is coloured mint green, while you asked for a pink and blue cake. this is a big deal, if you were to make your whole wedding in pink and blue, then you don't want a green cake!
I think it makes sense, since the 5 star bakery did all it could for the cake to look perfect, like a sculpture. In that case, the cake has to be drier and denser, with less filling. The 1 star bakery probably has a standard recipe that is a pretty decent cake, moist and soft, and that in my experience makes it much more difficult to decorate. Cool video. I love cakes. =)
Why is everyone whining that it doesn’t look like a wedding cake? Like guys this video would be so bland I’d he was just comparing two white frilly cakes. There’s a reason that baking shows often have non-traditional baking challenges, because people would get bored otherwise. Just enjoy the damn video
The two bakerys should be working together instead lol, the one star can work on the flavors and the five star can work on the decorating! Then it would be a perfect wedding cake ;D
I feel like that makes much more sense than random people that'd look nothing like the bride and groom. Generic people shapes seems like the smart choice in comparison to me but maybe I'm odd.
@@kioku119 usually you can choose like mine i picked a bride and groom that looked more like my husband and i and the bride had a gun🤣 there was a lot of choices, so many different figurines
I used to be a baker and made lots of wedding cakes and those two cakes were just dreadful! Paying $400+ (pounds) for a small cake is not that expensive and the pillars were very wobbly, I almost thought it would fall. The second tier was crooked which, to me, is unforgivable. Loved the cake topper though. On the $100 (pounds) cake, the bottom was awful. The tiers seemed level enough and the beads on the top tier were a joke. At least they should have put a string of beads and pushed them a little into the cake or sat them in some icing. I won't even talk about the cake topper... Those transparent pillars are push-in and they should have been pushed all the way to the bottom of the cake so that the second tier rests on pillars that are solidly anchored at the base. The third tier pillars should have been pushed in also. Oh and one final note: a wedding cake, after the traditional pictures have been done, should be taken apart before being sliced.
The macaroons are missing on the one star cake too. Your right, they both were off a lot. I am not a profession, but I would not have accepted either of them if it were my wedding or anniversary cakes, They are *sad* looking.
he’s doing this for fun.. why are you so worried about what he wants to do. if he wants to spend that kind of money let him do that, it doesn’t concern you. he wants to do it for the video it’s not supposed to be an actual wedding cake. don’t be a boomer, k?
@@gigi8176 the people above your comment are not talking about him, but the cakes and how they should've been. The problem are the bakeries that made this cakes, that are not properly done. Maybe read twice before feeling offended for someone else...
The tiers being crooked is on him and his friend helping. The baker didn't assemble the cake, and the friend didn't know to push the pillars all the way in. For my wedding cake the baker made a beautiful white cake with dark purple flowers on it that looked a bit like the middle tier of the expensive cake done twice. The flavor was of course the most important, and that baker had a couple flavors that were amazing and a couple that were dry and disappointing. Always do a tasting! He didn't specify a flavor so either the bakers both randomly chose strawberry (one of the really bad flavors from my tasting) or his friend helping him picked it so they would be the same. It is possible, if the bakers knew what the cake was for, that they chose an unpopular flavor because the ingredients were about to go off.
i work at a bakery and honestly the more expensive one looks better(they both are shitty cakes). but hey, you get what you pay for. the cherry blossom tree on both look bad so that’s my dealbreaker. edit: and neither has the right bottom for the pillars. they’re supposed to get special bottoms that “clip-on” with the pillars so they don’t fall off. & you should’ve gotten different flavors for each layer 🥺
Agreed, they were pretty poorly made. I am surprised that they didn't also comment on the design itself being poor for a wedding. You would think they would at least consult him before altering colors/designs considering wedding cakes may be a part of the biggest day of a couples life. Any bridezilla who saw those changes without a heads up may have a complete meltdown.
Professional baker here - a lot of the “tastier” cakes (usually a bit more moist, not as dense, and more flavorful) are not as structurally sound. That is why it didn’t cut as nice. Also, one looks like it had buttercream, one has fondant. Fondant will look nice, but tastes like shite compared to a good buttercream. I’m also curious as to how you decided your stars. The bakery world isn’t divided up in Michelin style stars.
You get what you pay for 🙂 The cost of ingredients for a 3-tiered cake is approximately a $50 -$80. Considering the cost of ingredients and labor, 1-star bakery did a fantastic job that exceeds all expectations! That cake looks not bad considering the price. I have a feeling that they’ve just opened a bakery and don’t have enough experience in decorating and cake texture for tiered cakes.. that’s why they try to sell their product cheaper than supposed to... it’s my guess..
It likely tastes bad because it's easier to decorate frozen, but that makes the butter cream icing taste bad. A lot of people care more about the look of their cake than the taste, which is why so many expensive wedding cakes have the reputation of tasting bad.
Yes! And most recipes for expensive cakes (especially when unspecified) will taste horrendous as they're just trying to get a nice, strong base for the aesthetic décor
Well this nightmare design is exactly what I would have expected if my husband ordered our cake. And 120 bucks for a three tier cake is unbelievably cheap for a wedding cake. That bakery is killing it, one star or not.
the 5 star one, they probably freeze sponges in bulk because they are high in demand, and froze it next to food or in a freezer that hasn't been left to defrost for a while. but that is unacceptable, i would complain when paying £400
As a baker and cake artist...this is one of the reasons why I strive to make a beautiful cake that tastes better than it looks and that includes making everything from scratch. Most people say that you get what you pay for, but in this situation, you paid for the look only...but received bad quality cake and vice versa.
I agree. I would never be happy with a bad tasting cake, no matter how good it looked. The one star definitely has some technical errors, but considering it's icing and not fondant.. you're automatically going to have a less-clean look. My biggest problem with it, other than it falling apart, is the green drip color.. when someone asks for a certain color, you can't just change it. Ugly or not. I was impressed with how the five star managed to make it work though. Good luck with your business!
I would hope that most bakers would think so but I've only ever I had one wedding cake that tasted good and it wasn't beautiful. The more beautiful the cake, the most I cringe because it seems like a law that you have to give up taste for beauty. I'm also curious if you think $400 for the 5-star cake is expensive. I was actually thinking that was on the cheaper side.
@@mortimerbrewster3671 For me, everything is about quality, because I've had great looking, not-so-great tasting cakes and I strive to make my clients come back and refer others to me. I have integrity in my work both inside and outside of my desserts. And yes, I do think that 400 is on the cheaper side for that wedding cake.
Have to be careful with fondant. If you don't use homemade you can really run into issues with taste. I'm guessing that's the problem he ran into for the 5* cake. Commercial fondant tastes like shit.
My small wedding cake was strawberry and it was A-maZing! And yes, there were real strawberries in it. The baker worked full-time at a retirement home, but did wedding cakes on the side. His cake will always be my benchmark for a strawberry cake. Absolute perfection!
dee ford right... it’s a traditional thing that people do this. As long as it’s wrapped up really good and stays frozen it’s stayed for along time and it won’t make you sick it’s cake. But it will be done. Many people do this. Everyone in my family had done this and every wedding that I have been to they all keep the top and on the first wedding anniversary it’s tradition to take a bite of the cake as you done on your wedding day.
Idk why people hate on his videos so harshly. I’ve been following Raphael for years now and he has to be one of thee nicest youtubers. People will hate on any and everything now a days and it’s honestly just sad and pathetic. Like live your lives without all the bitterness, I’m sure it’d be much better.if only people took the criticism they use on others and used it to better themselves maybe the world wouldn’t be sooo... eh😃
@@manya1839 it’s becoming such a harsh world.. maybe it was this way before but now that we have advanced technology we are able to see it more first hand. Idk😢 it’s just disheartening really.
I bake decorative cakes and honestly you shouldn’t have paid that much for the first cake. Maybe its because your drawing was technically basic but you should have looked into real technical cake challenges instead of things like drip cakes that always pop up on Instagram.
@@diamondstudley6642 So...you are saying that they're not talking about the oxidation of improperly packaged food (or food that you just leave waaaay too long in the refrigerator), which ends up absorbing all the aromas that get evaporated from all the other things in the fridge because the aromas then re-condenses with the water every time your fridge defrosts (or you open it) and then falls back into your food, so that your food now tastes like the fridge? Because that is the mechanics and definition for the taste of freezer burn. Because a lot of bakeries freeze their baked goods and then defrosts them for sale, as there is not enough time or hands in the day to make all that.
Taste is definitely more important I feel. You want for people to eat it and to not have a ton left over. The outside matters, but people need to enjoy the flavor.
I love how appreciative you are of the details and craftsmanship that the bakers put into the cakes when they are finally revealed. This video made me so happy. Though.. the one star cake really does look.. one star 😂
These two places should work together, the one that baked the cake for the one star place should bake the cake and the one that decorated the cake for the five star place should decorate the cake.. that would make the perfect cake haha
The 1*'s recreation of his little stick people is my absolute favourite part of either cake Interesting that they both saw his wavy blue part as drips and that's what he seemed to expect. He probably described it to them when ordering
6:51 if you think about it, it could mean the time as a child at the bottom (that you already met and loved as a child) then the wedding in the middle and the family tree at the top, which stands for a future with children. lol
As a professional wedding cake decorator myself, I’m kind of cringing at the one star cake, only kind of impressed by the five star cake (the tree could be better...), and appalled at both cakes’ tiering and lack of supports between tiers??? Like wut....
I'm not even a professional, but my mom decorates cakes for people and even I could tell that these were subpar. And he obviously knows nothing about wedding cakes. The way he gasped over the pillars that are pretty much industry standard, and how he liked the middle layer of the one-star cake better made me cringe.
Both of these cakes are pretty bad. I’m shocked by how unstable the “expensive” one was. All the things he likes (like the columns and topper) are just plastic store bought crap. Honestly with those design ideas the cake would never be very good. A great high end bakery ( which would cost quite a bit more than 400) would take the time to sit down and come up with a more cohesive overall design. Really disappointed they couldn’t make it AT LEAST taste good.
Also I think his design was more to showcase common and popular designs that bakeries should have mastered. Drips, drapes, and fondant work. Also, you do what a customer asks for. You can try to convince them but I have made some ugly cakes because a customer demanded it so.. I did. You can't always make something pretty.
Mephala Le Triste yeah it’s not easy. I’ve turned down work or told people I won’t do a certain style. Can be awkward but it’s just not enjoyable to make. Nothing worse than the felling of you hoping a costumer won’t tell their friends/guests who made their cake.
Does anybody else want to order a wedding cake just so you can eat it? Yes, I am willing to pay 400 pounds to get a cake. That 1 star cake looks so good. By ‘just so you can eat it’ I mean that by just eating it with your hands. Like a little child and a smash cake. I will do it. I’m gonna do it. I’m doing it
Right!? It's weird that were all watching & commenting at the same time! Must've hit the algorithm & put into everyone's recommended at the same time, lol.
Besides drawing them, you also need to describe your drawing. If you can't draw them as detailed as possible, you have to write your expectation for it because designers wouldn't understand unless you explained them.
@@cloudy_st0rm312 If he really did, then the lack of macaroons and that figure stick figurines are completely 1 star bakery's mistake. To me the 5 star tree is ugly though 🤣
I feel as though the cakes could have just been done with buttercream instead of fondant and still look really good. Fondant is just so gross and is basically just barely edible play dough
Haven't searched for wedding.. Haven't searched for cake and this is what I get in my recommendations.. 😬 And me being typical me watches it anyways.. 😂
can you do a 5 star vs a 5 star and see how they both make the same cake. Give them more creative liberty and see the differences !!
YES.....!!!!!
YEAAAH I would love that!💖
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Ooh I like that!!
Finally I found a comment which is not of today lol😂😂
I think it's pretty cute how the 1 star place did the figures exactly how you drew them
1 star cakes usually taste better than 5 star cakes.
1 star cakes usually just focus more on how the cake will taste.
5 star cakes focus more on the decoration and not much on the taste
That's buisness for ya lol
Eren Pastel and the advice is to buy 3* cake :D
Are you really focusing on the taste for your wedding though?
I'm a baker and yikes... both are flawed. The 5 star one may look more professional to regular folk but from a cake decorators perspective, it should have cost £300 max!
That 5 star one is uneven!!!! It is killing me lmao
So everyone got this video in their recommendations like this past hour.
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It is kinda weird that he didn’t know what the flavor was. Every bakery is going to ask you what flavor and filling you want. The drips were different on the cakes because the one star was just colored white chocolate and the 5 star was white chocolate ganache which is why it was a lot smoother. Also the one star is all buttercream and the 5 star is fondant which automatically jacks the price up.
Lauren McDonald I was thinking the exact same thing. I also found myself cringing while he tried to cut each tier while it was stacked lol I kept thinking “oh my gosh just separate the tiers!”
@@priscillaochoa56 Lol, but who else but Raphael would cut it like that? I was bracing myself too, but also the child inside me was happy to see someone actually cut it how I've always wanted to see a tiered cake cut XD
My mom made wedding cakes. She always said, “it doesn’t matter if it’s the most beautiful cake in the world, if it tastes bad, no one is going to buy from you.” Fortunately, my mom baked the best cakes and could replicate anything in a book. One time, we had over a thousand royal icing daisies all over our house for a cake. 😂 I don’t care what it looks like, if it tastes bad, you don’t want to eat it. 🤷♀️
I wanted to started my own bakery, but i decided against. Everyone says my cakes taste delicious but looks like shit lmao.
My partner's sister has a lady living on her street that does cakes and cupcakes and she orders them for birthdays. They look very nice, but they TASTE LIKE HEAVEN. She made some vegan lemon cupcakes and I could cry at how good they were. I love that woman. Best. Baker. Ever.
5 star is an artist. 1 star is a baker.
So, normally the topper is kept by the bride and groom for their 1 year anniversary. The bottom layer is usually cut for photos during the wedding and the feeding of the cake to each other. The catering company usually then takes the cake and disassembles it and finishes cutting it for guests. I have seen for very large weddings, the topper is real, the bottom is real and the rest is display foam covered in icing- they have a 2nd sheet cake for cutting for guests.
This randomly came up in my suggestions but you know what, I like this dude. I love how he's so respectful to both despite knowing some things aren't great at all.
Idk about everyone else, but I personally would prefer to see the 1 star cake first. That way if it isn't great, we get to see the more fabulous 5 star cake next. Love your videos though! You are fun and charismatic!
To those saying the cakes look bad and don't look like they should have cost that much;
The cakes are based off of a custom design. If they were allowed more creative freedom, they probably would have looked more complete and less cluttered. Because he is not a professional cake designer, these cakes do not look professionally done due to them following his design. A custom order is always going to cost more than one they can batch make as well.
Therefore, the bakers can only be critiqued on their execution of his design and the overall quality, not the actual design of the cake itself. You don't hate the cakes for how they look - you hate the way he designed the cake.
Exactly!!
I’m a cake baker, and the cheapo one - they have put the drip (totally wrong colour) onto a buttercream base... they didn’t even bother to put fondant on the lower base before adding the drip. The macaroons are missing which would be a major complaint by any customer, and the middl layer, which you thought was good is actually badly assembled... I see wrinkles in the covering fondant. The cake assemby of the base part is horrible - wrong sponge used, and the layers are uneven. Also the layers are too thick (but I think that’s an american thing as I’ve seen this before. The Mr & Mrs on top... what the heck are those? You can buy real ones anywhere, literally, so no excuse. Lesson to all brides... you get what you pay for. I always turn down contracts where the couple want the earth and can’t pay for my time. Such a shame about the tast of the expensive one... what were they thinking? A cake is supposed to look like a work of art, and taste divine. To fail on either is to fail your customer.
For the Mr. and Mrs. on top on the 1-star cake, he was saying maybe they copied his drawing. But then again, they could have clarified with him.
Wishing many blessings and success to your business✨🎂
All I can picture is the 1 star baker finding this and just feeling terrible about themselves & it breaks my heart.
This
Not if he watched to the end 😂
I mean, it was an honest review where both cakes had pros and cons, I don't think anyone would really feel terrible about it
I love that this guy is talking about how thankful he is to the 1 star place and how they did their best on a budget, and not just trashing the cake for being cheaper.
That’s why theirs stage cakes and sheet cakes. You pay for a stage cake that looks amazing in detail and have one section that you cut into during the reception. Afterwards servers take the stage cake to the kitchen to get “cut into” but theirs actually sheet cakes in the kitchen. This is a tip some wedding planners give to their clients.
It's cheaper, because it's easier to structure foam. You can decorate it in royal icing and it would last forever, so that part can be done in advance too.
Whoah, that fells like cheating somehow 😅
The fact they included the “stick figures” in the one star instead of putting actual figurines 😂😂
Angelica Lopez ikr
That’s what he wanted lol
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Hahaha. I had so much laugh when I saw that. Like the baker literally copied the one from the drawing 🤣
Frrr 😭🤡
Yes, you can freeze a wedding cake. Just wrap it in foil about 2-3 times and then put it in a freezer bag. I eloped in St. Lucia and they gave us the bottom layer to bring home. It survived the trip from the island to NYC.
the 1 star cake is coloured mint green, while you asked for a pink and blue cake.
this is a big deal, if you were to make your whole wedding in pink and blue, then you don't want a green cake!
Very much this
Facts
Based on his other videos I think he's colour blind? Probably couldn't tell
This was my biggest objection to the one star cake.
He’s colorblind so he wouldn’t know lol
I think it makes sense, since the 5 star bakery did all it could for the cake to look perfect, like a sculpture. In that case, the cake has to be drier and denser, with less filling. The 1 star bakery probably has a standard recipe that is a pretty decent cake, moist and soft, and that in my experience makes it much more difficult to decorate. Cool video. I love cakes. =)
Why is everyone whining that it doesn’t look like a wedding cake? Like guys this video would be so bland I’d he was just comparing two white frilly cakes. There’s a reason that baking shows often have non-traditional baking challenges, because people would get bored otherwise. Just enjoy the damn video
The two bakerys should be working together instead lol, the one star can work on the flavors and the five star can work on the decorating! Then it would be a perfect wedding cake ;D
Exactly
I laughed so hard when the 1 star cake made the top wedding dolls as his drawing!!🤣🤣🤣
I feel like that makes much more sense than random people that'd look nothing like the bride and groom. Generic people shapes seems like the smart choice in comparison to me but maybe I'm odd.
@@kioku119 usually you can choose like mine i picked a bride and groom that looked more like my husband and i and the bride had a gun🤣 there was a lot of choices, so many different figurines
Not only did EVERYONE on youtube get this video recommendation at the exact same time... we ALL clicked on it.
Wait... Don’t tell me that everyone else in the comments was recommended this at the same time. That’s wild!!!
It's weird lol
Yeah. Lol I wonder if he paid for it
it's called youtube algorithm
1. Why are all these comments recent
2.Why is this getting recommend to people all of a sudden
3. Why do I want cake now
I used to be a baker and made lots of wedding cakes and those two cakes were just dreadful! Paying $400+ (pounds) for a small cake is not that expensive and the pillars were very wobbly, I almost thought it would fall. The second tier was crooked which, to me, is unforgivable. Loved the cake topper though. On the $100 (pounds) cake, the bottom was awful. The tiers seemed level enough and the beads on the top tier were a joke. At least they should have put a string of beads and pushed them a little into the cake or sat them in some icing. I won't even talk about the cake topper... Those transparent pillars are push-in and they should have been pushed all the way to the bottom of the cake so that the second tier rests on pillars that are solidly anchored at the base. The third tier pillars should have been pushed in also. Oh and one final note: a wedding cake, after the traditional pictures have been done, should be taken apart before being sliced.
The macaroons are missing on the one star cake too. Your right, they both were off a lot. I am not a profession, but I would not have accepted either of them if it were my wedding or anniversary cakes, They are *sad* looking.
he’s doing this for fun.. why are you so worried about what he wants to do. if he wants to spend that kind of money let him do that, it doesn’t concern you. he wants to do it for the video it’s not supposed to be an actual wedding cake. don’t be a boomer, k?
@@gigi8176 the people above your comment are not talking about him, but the cakes and how they should've been. The problem are the bakeries that made this cakes, that are not properly done. Maybe read twice before feeling offended for someone else...
The tiers being crooked is on him and his friend helping. The baker didn't assemble the cake, and the friend didn't know to push the pillars all the way in.
For my wedding cake the baker made a beautiful white cake with dark purple flowers on it that looked a bit like the middle tier of the expensive cake done twice. The flavor was of course the most important, and that baker had a couple flavors that were amazing and a couple that were dry and disappointing. Always do a tasting! He didn't specify a flavor so either the bakers both randomly chose strawberry (one of the really bad flavors from my tasting) or his friend helping him picked it so they would be the same. It is possible, if the bakers knew what the cake was for, that they chose an unpopular flavor because the ingredients were about to go off.
i work at a bakery and honestly the more expensive one looks better(they both are shitty cakes). but hey, you get what you pay for. the cherry blossom tree on both look bad so that’s my dealbreaker. edit: and neither has the right bottom for the pillars. they’re supposed to get special bottoms that “clip-on” with the pillars so they don’t fall off. & you should’ve gotten different flavors for each layer 🥺
Agreed, they were pretty poorly made. I am surprised that they didn't also comment on the design itself being poor for a wedding. You would think they would at least consult him before altering colors/designs considering wedding cakes may be a part of the biggest day of a couples life. Any bridezilla who saw those changes without a heads up may have a complete meltdown.
Am I the only one that got this video recommended without even knowing who he is but just watching to know which cake is better??
Professional baker here - a lot of the “tastier” cakes (usually a bit more moist, not as dense, and more flavorful) are not as structurally sound. That is why it didn’t cut as nice. Also, one looks like it had buttercream, one has fondant. Fondant will look nice, but tastes like shite compared to a good buttercream. I’m also curious as to how you decided your stars. The bakery world isn’t divided up in Michelin style stars.
Maybe Yelp stars?
the stars i thought were like recommandation or review stars online?
Online reviews
You get what you pay for 🙂
The cost of ingredients for a 3-tiered cake is approximately a $50 -$80. Considering the cost of ingredients and labor, 1-star bakery did a fantastic job that exceeds all expectations! That cake looks not bad considering the price. I have a feeling that they’ve just opened a bakery and don’t have enough experience in decorating and cake texture for tiered cakes.. that’s why they try to sell their product cheaper than supposed to... it’s my guess..
Did this JUST pop up in everyone’s recommendations?😂
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Recommendations have brought us together once again my comrades..
"Not every artists can be a baker" amen!
The black figures on the 1 star cake cracked me up 😂😂😂 they literally did what you drew 😂
It likely tastes bad because it's easier to decorate frozen, but that makes the butter cream icing taste bad. A lot of people care more about the look of their cake than the taste, which is why so many expensive wedding cakes have the reputation of tasting bad.
Yes! And most recipes for expensive cakes (especially when unspecified) will taste horrendous as they're just trying to get a nice, strong base for the aesthetic décor
Mhm
Well this nightmare design is exactly what I would have expected if my husband ordered our cake. And 120 bucks for a three tier cake is unbelievably cheap for a wedding cake. That bakery is killing it, one star or not.
Mity Aphrdite it’s fabulous though lol
the 5 star one, they probably freeze sponges in bulk because they are high in demand, and froze it next to food or in a freezer that hasn't been left to defrost for a while. but that is unacceptable, i would complain when paying £400
Literally growing up my grandfather always told me that ugly cakes taste so much better than pretty cakes so what youre saying doesnt surprise me.
Why is everyone saying these cakes are trash? The 5 star one is exactly what he asked for and drew.
His design is Trash
As a baker and cake artist...this is one of the reasons why I strive to make a beautiful cake that tastes better than it looks and that includes making everything from scratch. Most people say that you get what you pay for, but in this situation, you paid for the look only...but received bad quality cake and vice versa.
I agree. I would never be happy with a bad tasting cake, no matter how good it looked. The one star definitely has some technical errors, but considering it's icing and not fondant.. you're automatically going to have a less-clean look. My biggest problem with it, other than it falling apart, is the green drip color.. when someone asks for a certain color, you can't just change it. Ugly or not. I was impressed with how the five star managed to make it work though. Good luck with your business!
I would hope that most bakers would think so but I've only ever I had one wedding cake that tasted good and it wasn't beautiful. The more beautiful the cake, the most I cringe because it seems like a law that you have to give up taste for beauty.
I'm also curious if you think $400 for the 5-star cake is expensive. I was actually thinking that was on the cheaper side.
@@mortimerbrewster3671 For me, everything is about quality, because I've had great looking, not-so-great tasting cakes and I strive to make my clients come back and refer others to me. I have integrity in my work both inside and outside of my desserts. And yes, I do think that 400 is on the cheaper side for that wedding cake.
Have to be careful with fondant. If you don't use homemade you can really run into issues with taste. I'm guessing that's the problem he ran into for the 5* cake. Commercial fondant tastes like shit.
i read (from 2 feet back) that "as a baker and a CON artist" sorry
“I designed dream wedding cake of many people” oh honey...
My small wedding cake was strawberry and it was A-maZing! And yes, there were real strawberries in it. The baker worked full-time at a retirement home, but did wedding cakes on the side. His cake will always be my benchmark for a strawberry cake. Absolute perfection!
Nobody:
Recommendations: *shows everyone video at same time*
draglemations AnImAtEs FOR REAL THO
Did we all just randomly get this open our recommended at the same time lmao?!?!
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The top layer is not to be cut, it is the layer that traditionally goes to the bride and groom to be frozen and eaten on their 1st anniversary.
Wtf why
@@victoriach.6753 food poisoning lol
That's a horrible way to eat a cake. Freezer burn, ill hard pass. It may look the same but it will taste horrible.
dee ford right... it’s a traditional thing that people do this. As long as it’s wrapped up really good and stays frozen it’s stayed for along time and it won’t make you sick it’s cake. But it will be done. Many people do this. Everyone in my family had done this and every wedding that I have been to they all keep the top and on the first wedding anniversary it’s tradition to take a bite of the cake as you done on your wedding day.
@@ginger5515 Yep. We did the same thing. It was gross lol.
Idk why people hate on his videos so harshly. I’ve been following Raphael for years now and he has to be one of thee nicest youtubers. People will hate on any and everything now a days and it’s honestly just sad and pathetic. Like live your lives without all the bitterness, I’m sure it’d be much better.if only people took the criticism they use on others and used it to better themselves maybe the world wouldn’t be sooo... eh😃
Ur so right! I just saw the comments n they were literally so harsh! His videos r awesome , idk why people hate on him
@@manya1839 it’s becoming such a harsh world.. maybe it was this way before but now that we have advanced technology we are able to see it more first hand. Idk😢 it’s just disheartening really.
I bake decorative cakes and honestly you shouldn’t have paid that much for the first cake. Maybe its because your drawing was technically basic but you should have looked into real technical cake challenges instead of things like drip cakes that always pop up on Instagram.
why is every comment from thirty minutes ago?? i feel like this came in everyone’s recommended at the same time 😂
“it tastes like a refrigerator, like when it absorbs all the flavors”
_ive never been able to explain that taste to people and have them understand_
It's freezer burn .
crystalis0324 dont think that’s what they mean mate x
@@diamondstudley6642 So...you are saying that they're not talking about the oxidation of improperly packaged food (or food that you just leave waaaay too long in the refrigerator), which ends up absorbing all the aromas that get evaporated from all the other things in the fridge because the aromas then re-condenses with the water every time your fridge defrosts (or you open it) and then falls back into your food, so that your food now tastes like the fridge? Because that is the mechanics and definition for the taste of freezer burn. Because a lot of bakeries freeze their baked goods and then defrosts them for sale, as there is not enough time or hands in the day to make all that.
crystalis0324 I thought freezer burn was when your food gets like really overfreezed n has ice all over it soz x
crystalis0324 bet you’re fun at parties tho mate 😂
Taste is definitely more important I feel. You want for people to eat it and to not have a ton left over. The outside matters, but people need to enjoy the flavor.
In five star cake the blue and the pink makes it look like it's a gender reveal cake
That's why I liked the green more
Simple solution, get the 1 star to bake it, and the 5 star to decorate!
I love how appreciative you are of the details and craftsmanship that the bakers put into the cakes when they are finally revealed. This video made me so happy.
Though.. the one star cake really does look.. one star 😂
I love how the one star cake created the figures exactly like you drew them😂
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smvies fr that made me laugh 😂😂
I love how one star cake confectioners just did those black stickmans like it was on the picture
u cant tell me im the only one who just got this in my feed now
These two places should work together, the one that baked the cake for the one star place should bake the cake and the one that decorated the cake for the five star place should decorate the cake.. that would make the perfect cake haha
The 1*'s recreation of his little stick people is my absolute favourite part of either cake
Interesting that they both saw his wavy blue part as drips and that's what he seemed to expect. He probably described it to them when ordering
I’m surprised they understood that those things at the bottom were macaroons
Jenna D fr i would’ve thought they were colored almonds 😂
I thought they were Easter eggs 😂😂
I would've gave him coloured coffee beans lol
99% of comments : why tf is everyone getting this recommended right now
1% : the one star bakery cake is actually kinda nice
I honestly feel like i might have designed the dream wedding cake for so many people...
Me: mmm no
Your the kindest sweetest genuine youtuber I've ever seen ..stay blessed man....wish you all the happiness
Fact: you didn’t search this. But u watched and enjoyed it anyway
6:51 if you think about it, it could mean the time as a child at the bottom (that you already met and loved as a child) then the wedding in the middle and the family tree at the top, which stands for a future with children. lol
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That's sounds very interesting and it actually makes sense , maybe that's what the people thought that made the 2 cakes
THE FACT THEY PUT LITERAL STICK FIGURES ON THE TOP
I honestly think this man could just have the funnest time just entertaining himself.. he is the sweetest most grateful person
I agree with you totally. He’s so humble and fun. I just love him.
As a professional wedding cake decorator myself, I’m kind of cringing at the one star cake, only kind of impressed by the five star cake (the tree could be better...), and appalled at both cakes’ tiering and lack of supports between tiers??? Like wut....
I'm not even a professional, but my mom decorates cakes for people and even I could tell that these were subpar. And he obviously knows nothing about wedding cakes. The way he gasped over the pillars that are pretty much industry standard, and how he liked the middle layer of the one-star cake better made me cringe.
fire23fairy he just liked the look of the middle tier better. There's nothing wrong with that
@@fire23fairy "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Everyone has different aesthetics.
Is your show offing finished at least they tried
it’s so fucking weird that this video hit everyone’s recommended at the same time
Naomi Leigh legit wtf
My expectations was so much higher but then i remember i used to watch Cake Boss 😂
My TH-cam recommendations are on a roll today
Why was this in my recommended ? Well it is intriguing.
The first cake looks better because the details are more accurate, but I also don't think the second cake looks too bad.
If they swapped the drip colors and eased up on the pearls, it would be even better :)
the real question here: why is this in everyone’s recommended rn
I love how confident he is that he might've just made a dream cake from some people. Like his design was a total achievement
Let’s be honest....
You didn’t search for this, yet you’re here 😂
why are all these comments so recent??? did we all just get this video in recommended at once lmao
Woooow I’ve just realized that
I wasn’t going to watch it but it was in my recommended literally 3 times in a row??
Both of these cakes are pretty bad. I’m shocked by how unstable the “expensive” one was. All the things he likes (like the columns and topper) are just plastic store bought crap. Honestly with those design ideas the cake would never be very good. A great high end bakery ( which would cost quite a bit more than 400) would take the time to sit down and come up with a more cohesive overall design. Really disappointed they couldn’t make it AT LEAST taste good.
thedeetzes it wasn’t assembled when they got it, they did that themselves
@Brad Miller nah they would've used dowels
THANK YOU! AS SOON AS I SAW THOSE STANDS MY FORMER CAKE DECORATOR WAS SCREAMING!
I don't even know how the cake made it to his house
Also I think his design was more to showcase common and popular designs that bakeries should have mastered. Drips, drapes, and fondant work.
Also, you do what a customer asks for. You can try to convince them but I have made some ugly cakes because a customer demanded it so.. I did. You can't always make something pretty.
Mephala Le Triste yeah it’s not easy. I’ve turned down work or told people I won’t do a certain style. Can be awkward but it’s just not enjoyable to make. Nothing worse than the felling of you hoping a costumer won’t tell their friends/guests who made their cake.
Hahaha the little shadows on top of the 1 star cake, they at least tried to copy your reference picture 😂
“This one looks a bit more 3D”
That’s because the cake is buckling because they didn’t support it properly.
I love how this just randomly popped into my recommendation
yeah right? same here! By the way, coincidently my birthday is on 427
little bimble ooooooo birthday buddies 😗✌️
I thought he was showing the one star cake first and I was like wow I’m excited to see the 5 star cake but nevermind
Does anybody else want to order a wedding cake just so you can eat it? Yes, I am willing to pay 400 pounds to get a cake. That 1 star cake looks so good.
By ‘just so you can eat it’ I mean that by just eating it with your hands. Like a little child and a smash cake. I will do it. I’m gonna do it. I’m doing it
this is a proof that i also experienced everyone commenting at the same time making the comment section a live chat
Right!? It's weird that were all watching & commenting at the same time! Must've hit the algorithm & put into everyone's recommended at the same time, lol.
Everyone's come here at the same time. Are we all getting married like tomorrow orrr??
No, but I'm a cake decorator and subscribed to Wilton, so that's why I got this recommended lol
I can't have a bf without everyone already planning my wedding, so much hate lmao
Maybe it's a sign🤷🏽😂
Besides drawing them, you also need to describe your drawing. If you can't draw them as detailed as possible, you have to write your expectation for it because designers wouldn't understand unless you explained them.
M Sal he said he’d leave notes and he probably did because the 5 star cake was like spot on
@@cloudy_st0rm312 If he really did, then the lack of macaroons and that figure stick figurines are completely 1 star bakery's mistake. To me the 5 star tree is ugly though 🤣
@@msal9602 I agree, I don't really like the tree on both
lmao the figures on the 1 star cake, i cant XD XD lmao they really put that on a wedding cake XD
Hi everyone, we are gathered here today because we all got this randomly recommended for no damn reason. :)
:)
True
Ok but actually what is happening
TH-cam decided to favor them
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Is everyone getting this on their recommendations lmao
no one:
not a single soul:
literally nobody:
youtube: let's put this video in everyone's recommendation AT THE SAME TIME!
i appreciate people see that wedding cakes are really truely art, temporary art yes, but art never the less
Apparently the TH-cam algorithm is really pushing this video to literally everyone the past hour
I feel as though the cakes could have just been done with buttercream instead of fondant and still look really good. Fondant is just so gross and is basically just barely edible play dough
welcome everyone who got this video reccomended in their feeds
You can tell this just got recommended to everyone when all the comments are *recent*
I think it would have looked better if the tree was drawn on the cake rather than made of fondant. I had bigger expectations for the 5 star cake.
I swear this is on everyone’s recommend and nobody knows who he is because same 😂
“Not every artist could be a baker”
“Not every baker could be an artist”
*NOT EVERY BAKER CAN BE AN ART*
calm down child
sorry bro-
rude Must be me, I bake somewhat decent but my art scares children
Haven't searched for wedding.. Haven't searched for cake and this is what I get in my recommendations.. 😬
And me being typical me watches it anyways.. 😂