And yes the scraped frosting is just from the side of that piece…
The cake tastes great but why is it a Smithsonian treasure hunt to get to it 😭 This was bought from a chain store bakery btw
How do y’all decide how much frosting to put on a cake that you’re selling? Is this what most people want???
-a confused baker who never buys cakes
by Seraphine003
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Yeesh if it was whipped cream or cream cheese frosting I could get it but like… storebought sweet icing? Youch
yeah this is a deal breaker 💔
…but i like frosting. 😞
Looks like whipped bettercreme? Definitely overkill. I don’t mind about half that much with some sort of berry, but just a thick layer of artificial goop is a solid no thanks
p.s how much was it?
i hope it was cheeeeeeeeap. cause I’m not paying more than the price of a coffee for that whole cake no matter much frosting they slather on.
(i still like frosting…… 🍰 🤤)
No thank you. Why?!?!
And it’s that whipped slimy stuff too. 🤢
haha my kind of cake! Frosting with a touch of cake 😊
Cake is just a socially acceptable way to eat frosting.
That’s a sugar crash waiting to happen.
When I was a kid, I would’ve thought this was great. When I hit 40, I turned into my grandma. She used to scrape frosting off and say “Oh it’s too sweet.”
That’s exactly the way my hubby likes his cake. Mostly frosting 😂
Ugh this my kinda cake
The cake is merely a vehicle for the frosting
I’m the type to want more frosting so I’ll definitely eat that
When I was a kid I aways went for piece with the most frosting.
As an adult in generally I prefer around 1 to 3 or 4 frosting to cake ratio. Depends a bit upon the frosting.
I would imagine the frosting is cheaper in ingredients/labor than the cake part.
Customers just buy it for his it looks initially.
Hush. Cake is merely a vessel for frosting.
That much frosting is just a way to hide mediocre cake. IMHO.
If the cake is amazing enough, it doesn’t need that much. Take another chain, nothing Bundt cakes. Love their frosting to cake ratio. Their cake is DIVINE. Dense. Sweet. That cake looks like mostly air.
I think it’s better to err on the side of too much rather than too little. You can always scrape some off if you prefer less, but some people prefer tons of icing!
I love frosting but even I agree that’s a lot. That layer in the center is wayyyyy too thick
I’m with you, that’s waaaaay too much frosting. Cake is the star, frosting is an accent that should complement the cake.
This looks perfect for me.
Not if it’s whipped cream!
You misspelt “perfect”
I have a HUGE sweet tooth but that looks like too much frosting even for me.
My blood sugar went up just looking at this. Now I need to take more insulin.
Not to me. Looks perfect!
“Chainstore bakery” explains a lot. And they’re not known for delicious frosting.
Personally, I prefer a lot of frosting (from a reliable frosting maker). If only because a base of cake makes shoveling a glob of frosting into your mouth almost socially acceptable.
Yeah, I like good frosting but that’s actually disgusting to me. 🤢
At my favorite bbq place, they ask if you prefer point or flat when you order brisket since some people prefer leaner meat.
There should be a cake equivalent for frosting since half these comments are appalled by the amount of frosting and it’s perfect for the other half of us! That frosting looks light and delicious and I’d eat it with a spoon.
To youuuuu…..
Frosting is the best part
Too much cake for me still 😁
…oh, I beg to differ! 😁😁😁
My wife would call that perfect 😂
if this is buttercream, it’s too much. If it’s whipped, then it’s probably right.
As soon as I saw the picture I knew it was a store bought cake and I could taste it and it now I’m chasing it with water to get the taste out of my mouth.
I’ve never liked frosting. With the exception of cream cheese frosting that I make myself because I cut way back on the sugar. When we’d have birthday celebrations at work, the woman next to me and I would always share. She liked frosting but not cake. I liked cake but not frosting. So we’d both scrape the frosting off and I’d get her cake and she’d get my frosting.
Unless you like frosting better than cake. It me.
It’s the perfect ratio for me! Beautiful cake.
I’ll take your extra frosting
Cake and icing is all about balance.
The pictured one is, amazingly, too much on team frosting’s side, but just by a bit.
Where can I pick one up
I too am frequently confused by bakery frosting choices. Frosting is there to enhance a cake, not fill every bite with dense sugary butter. Unless you’re into that, in which case you do you.
For me, acceptable filling:cake ratios depend on the frosting type. American buttercream? Keep that to a minimum unless it’s chocolate. Meringue buttercream? A bit more is acceptable. Something custard based? Now we’re talking. Cheese-based or straight up whipped cream? I’ll take some frosting with a side of cake.
This is crazy and would never sell around here. Our cakes are not as pretty but that filling would be a perfectly balanced lemon or vanilla mousse and if there was any frosting on the outside it would be a thin layer of butter cream or again some kind of ganache. I would absolutely love this ratio on a Swiss cake.
Cake is bad enough already. This looks inedible.
I don’t care, now I want cake.
Looks about right to me.
SO! YES, if the frosting is really good, I’ve had people want so much buttercream that it adds 2in to the original height 🫤🫤🫤
HOWEVER, it looks like that was frosted with a machine. It’s used in really high production bakeries, and yeah, [frosting machine in the works](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDiHZYIAnIm/?igsh=ZWdwZWU3aGdlajF6)it’s not a human amount of buttercream.