![]() ![]() Posted by Kylie Kakes Dessert Bar & Cafe on Tuesday, January 17, 2023 It’s possible a seat may become available. UPDATE : we have sold out of both days the 10th and 11th. Internet sleuths quickly found Kylie's Kake's Facebook page and the photos she uses (from Pinterest and other bakers) to promote the classes she teaches, and some have accused her of trying to pass other bakers' work off as her own. But she purposely made a video to attack me and my business, which worked.” “I didn’t expect her to make a response video, because I didn’t feel like my video was attacking her. “Yeah, it honestly, it honestly felt awful,” Allen tells about all the negative attention to her business. This buttercream bonanza has caused a reviewers to flood Kylie Kakes' Yelp page with mostly negative reviews, so much so that it's now being monitored by Yelp’s support team because of "increased public attention." “Here for the cake drama,” said another TikTok user in a comment, to which Freeman replied, "#CakeGate2023." Under the hashtag on TikTok, there are endless recaps, explainers and other bakers making their own versions of the rainbow sprinkle cake. “Immediate regret now that I’ve seen the cake. ![]() “Saw her video and felt so bad for her yesterday,” commented yet another. “That cake looks like she dropped it after she finished decorating it, but tried to salvage it because she didn’t want to bake another one,” wrote another. “Idk how I got on Cake Beef Tik Tok but I love it here,” commented one TikToker. But if it looks like s-, no ma’am.”Īfter a bit of back and forth, where Allen said to Freeman, “You are not welcome to come in my establishment anymore,” Freeman responded, in part, with, “You’ve lost a very good customer,” attaching a screenshot of Facebook comments decrying the cost of the cake.Ĭomments under Freeman’s TikTok video pulled no punches either, to say the least. ![]() ![]() The next message, which Freeman did not post in her TikTok, read, “If it looked nice, if it looked like quality work, I would gladly pay 90. During this conversation, Allen wrote, “If you wanted it decorated a specific way than what how we do them here, that’s something that would have had to be discussed.” The video concludes with screenshots of an interaction Freeman and Allen had via Facebook Messenger, which was able to review via screenshots provided by Allen. But I can actually make decent content.”įreeman's video shows the cake as she says she received it: sprinkle-covered, with “Happy Birthday Trilby” - her mother's name - written in black icing atop a swoop of white icing. “She wants to be tiktok famous, not a bad idea. I didn’t want to ruin her business, tried to squash the beef and she said no,” Freeman on TikTok) wrote in a video from April 11. I’ve been doing them for a really long time,” Allen says. “I started doing these even as a home baker. “Today I had one of the worst client experiences I’ve ever had since opening the storefront,” says Allen in the original video, which has amassed 5 million views as of publication.Īs she makes a similar cake in the video, Allen explains that a customer (later revealed to be Freeman) reached out to her through the shop’s Facebook page and wanted to order one of the bakery’s six layer rainbow cakes. The video quickly went viral, and when the customer, a woman named Ashleigh Freeman responded on TikTok, the conflict took on a life of its own - and #CakeGate was born. It all started on April 7, when Allen (known as on TikTok) posted a video about a disagreement she had with a customer over a layered rainbow cake she made. What she did not expect was for the sprinkle-covered situation to blow up into something now known as # CakeGate. When baker Kylie Allen, owner of Kylie Kakes Dessert Bar & Cafe in Princeton, West Virginia, posted a TikTok about a dispute she had with a dissatisfied customer over a rainbow birthday cake, she thought other small business owners might empathize. ![]()
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