I always meet my potential cake clients in various coffee shops around the city. Well the nice thing about Starbucks is there's a bunch in Chapters book stores. Which means after the meeting I can celebrate with a new cake book!! Well three weeks ago I bought a book called
'Romantic Cakes' by Peggy Porschen. I love this book! Soo many great cake ideas, beautiful cakes and I look forward to making most of them. It has alot of useful information on basic cake decoration as well. Some of her techniques simplified things from what I am used to as well so I really look forward to trying them. Well I opened this marvelous book and looked through it and suddenly realized it was missing the "templates" referred to in alot of the patterns for the cake designs. Because I loved the cake designs I was really upset. I thought I would google my problem to see if I could see anyone else with the same issue. Nothing. So I looked to see if she had a website that I could contact her about this problem. Also thinking that maybe the glitch hadn't been caught yet. Well I found
her website and used the contact link emailed them and within a couple days received an email of apology and that the templates had been mailed out to me! I was really impressed that they responded so quickly and shipped them out as well. Needless to say any and all books that she comes out with I will definitely be adding to my collection!
Hey! What's this??
Yay!! My templates are here!!
Stupid mail, bent my templates...
Yup, It really is my templates :)
Pretty templates in a really pretty folder.
I always meet my potential cake clients in various coffee shops around the city. Well the nice thing about Starbucks is there's a bunch in Chapters book stores. Which means after the meeting I can celebrate with a new cake book!! Well three weeks ago I bought a book called 'Romantic Cakes' by Peggy Porschen. I love this book! Soo many great cake ideas, beautiful cakes and I look forward to making most of them. It has alot of useful information on basic cake decoration as well. Some of her techniques simplified things from what I am used to as well so I really look forward to trying them. Well I opened this marvelous book and looked through it and suddenly realized it was missing the "templates" referred to in alot of the patterns for the cake designs. Because I loved the cake designs I was really upset. I thought I would google my problem to see if I could see anyone else with the same issue. Nothing. So I looked to see if she had a website that I could contact her about this problem. Also thinking that maybe the glitch hadn't been caught yet. Well I found her website and used the contact link emailed them and within a couple days received an email of apology and that the templates had been mailed out to me! I was really impressed that they responded so quickly and shipped them out as well. Needless to say any and all books that she comes out with I will definitely be adding to my collection!
Hey! What's this??
Yay!! My templates are here!!
Stupid mail, bent my templates...
Yup, It really is my templates :)
Pretty templates in a really pretty folder.
5 comments:
Wow! That is awesome! I had something similar happen when I made a recipe from BAKED by Matt Lewis & Renato Poliafito. I made an icing recipe that was a completely different color than what the pictured showed and I decided to email them just for the heck of it. Well, not even a day later, Matt wrote back and gave me some possible suggestions on what I could have done wrong.
And Romantic Cakes is a WONDERFUL book! I took a peek at it while I was over at a friend's house and just had to run out and buy it!
The cakes are beautiful yet fairly easy to make. I had to search to find some of the supplies needed for some the cakes but once they arive I am definately going to try to make the cakes :)
De-lish!
Come claim your prize ma'am. You can find me at pleasurehappens@gmail.com, where I'll be licking my lips after looking over these lovely photos.
xo!
How many pages of templates did she send? I also bought the book, but I bought the UK version by mistake..the one with the cake and pink/purple roses on the cover (the US version has a different title than "Romantic Cakes" which is the UK version, and the measuring system is not in metrics the way the UK version is.). I noticed there was one page of templates including butterflies in the back of the book in the UK version. I saw what you wrote so when I ordered my copy directly off of the Peggy Porschen website, I also asked that templates be included. They sent the book but not any templates ( I asked them 3 times, prior to my order going out to me.). Still, nothing. They sent no templates and chose not to respond to my email where I politely requested them since I'd heard they were not in the book. I'm just wondering what you received other than the butterflies you uploaded on your blog?
Thanks!
I love, love, love that book! So much so, that I would love to get her other books as well! This week I finally had a chance to try out making sugar roses. Her instructions were so simple but give beautiful results! Love them!
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