Cake Chat
Cake Chat with Amber Comadira-Smith from Cake with Amber
Amber shares her cake expertise so you can sweeten-up your cake skills and create amazing cakes with confidence!
ARE WE ALL JUST COPYING EACH OTHER? I think there’ s something a bit ironic about cake trends.
A cake decorator will create something so incredible and completely unique, that it goes viral and becomes the new hot trend. Within weeks, the cake design is replicated so many times, that what once made it special begins to disappear. It gets lost in a sea of replicas on social media and practically becomes invisible.
I remember vividly when Katherine Sabbath’ s upside-down ice-cream drip cake took the cake world by storm( does this show my age? haha!). So many of us were obsessed and inspired, and I remember it feeling really exciting and fresh for the industry!
But it also marked the moment when I really started to notice how quickly originality can dissolve once a design becomes a trend. At what point does inspiration become imitation? And when does imitation cross into copying and stealing someone else ' s original art?
What I do know is that cake trends aren’ t the villain of this story.
Trends are usually what spark people’ s interest in cake decorating and how many of us learn. We see a design that excites us and we want to try it- we buy all the fancy new tools and practice until it’ s perfect!( I’ m having flashbacks to my early decorating days piping icecream sundae cupcakes!). I think imitation is always an important part of skill building and building momentum in our industry( or any industry for that matter).