09/21/2026
I received a VIP customer order for a pickle themed cake but when the client changed her mind at the last minute, I legit considered firing her.
She wanted a marble cake with chocolate ganache filling. She also requested an all-pink cake with purple bows and little pickles. Perfect. We had a plan.
Fast forward a couple of hours before the cake was due, my client literally WALKS into my kitchen and decided she actually wanted dulce de leche filling instead. So, I quickly had to change plans.
I then spent hours putting this cake together, piping all of the details, making the little pickles, adding the bows, and trying to make sense of how to combine pickles and a pink vintage cake into something that actually worked.
And then I presented the cake. She looked at it, paused, and said: “I thought I was getting one cake. Not two cakes on top of each other.”
And that is parenting in a nutshell. Happy birthday to my littlest pickle 🥒🎀
