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": "Ever seen cake wars? Cake decorating is a sugar art that uses icing or frosting and other edible decorative foods to make plain cakes more visually appealing."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah I love that show. I seen it once or twice. What's your favorite type of cake?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I like chocolate cake with any type of icing but mostly vanilla/chocolate buttercream. MM i also had an icecream cake twice in my life and im actually going to buy one ofthose pretty soon. What about you? Fun fact cake decorating originated in 17th century europe :)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow pretty cool. I like strawberry shortcake! "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Ooo im sure ive had some but i dont remember. ususally when i think about cake i think about chocolate cake lol! and yeah its because when temperature control technology improved people were able to place more emphasis on preentation and ornamentation rather than worrying about the cake melting or doing weird things. Technology changes times for sure!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have a friend who decorates really nice cakes with fondant. Have you ever used it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes i have only once but i actually dont remember what it tastes like. It is a combination of sugar, gelatin, water, butter, and glycerol. Ill have to try some but onlya really good kind because theres a lot of cheap things out there and i definitely would like to try some good fondant. I cant have anything cake related ruined for me lol"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My favorite is probably the German Chocolate cake. So delicious!"}]