i decorate cakes for a living.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Cake decorating is one of the sugar arts that uses icing or frosting and other edible decorative elements to make plain cakes more visually interesting. Alternatively, cakes can be molded and sculpted to resemble three-dimensional persons, places and things. Cakes are decorated to mark a special celebration (such as a birthday or wedding). They can also mark national or religious holidays, or be used to promote commercial enterprises. However, cakes may be baked and decorated for almost any social occasion. Cake decorating originated in 17th century Europe. During the 1840s, the advent of temperature-controlled ovens and the production of baking powder made baking cakes much easier. As temperature control technology improved, an increased emphasis on presentation and ornamentation developed. Cakes began to take on decorative shapes, were adorned with additional icing formed into patterns and flowers, and food coloring was used to accent frosting or layers of cake. Cake decorating was rumored to be started by a French bakery in the 1840s where a French baker wanted to increase the prices of the cakes and hence thought to decorate it. Even though baking from scratch decreased during the latter part of the 20th century in the United States, decorated cakes have remained an important part of celebrations such as weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, showers and other special occasions.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Cake decorating is fun, the sugars are used so that you can frost boring cakes, making them be more pleasing to the eye."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't know the first thing about cake decorating!  How does a person even learn how to do that?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, there are many classes, but it was first said to be created by a French bakery back in the 1840s. The bakery wanted to get more money for their cakes so they decided to decorate to make the price increase seem worthwhile."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interesting!  Leave it to the French to make food look and taste better!  What is your favorite kind of cake?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I enjoy yellow cake with a homemade caramel frosting the best. I like to decorate my cakes for special occasions, like my kids birthday."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is the flavor of yellow cake?  Is it vanilla?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I believe it might be just butter flavor. Cake decorating has actually been around for a very long time, back in the 17th Century of Europe."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow!  17th century!  Is it pretty much the same flavors and processes used to bake cakes today as back in the 17th century?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "As the shape of cakes started getting more decorative, the patterns changed and adding food coloring became more popular over time."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It seems like cake decorating is almost an art!"}]