The IT Nerd

By Ms. IT Nerd

Besides her many other talents, my wife when she isn’t working during the day is a trained baker having studied at George Brown College’s Hospitality and Culinary Arts school. Her cakes and other baked goods are sought after for parties and other events. Thus this makes her the perfect person to do this review.

When BakeSpace reached out to Mr. IT Nerd, I was excited. This dropped into my lap a timely way as I was involved in baking up a cake for my girlfriend’s milestone birthday for her party. This cake needed to feed 40 – 44 people and I needed help. On the suggestion of our planning group chat in Signal, the idea was born where the cake was to be a certain part of the male anatomy. This was uncharted territory for me but I had ideas and a rough plan of attack. Enter Bakebot AI. Let me demonstrate this via a video before I go into detail:

Bakebot AI question: “What cake pans should I use to make a penis cake to serve 45 people?” I had the Home Cook option turned on as I needed Bakebot AI to provide options that I can use at home cook and it delivered suggesting 9 inch round pans and 9 x 13 inch rectangular pan which would be most commonly used by home cooks.   

Out of curiosity I tried the ProChef and Adventurous setting almost expecting the same answer to the same question and I was pleasantly surprised when it gave me a different answer each time and all of the options suggested would work. You can also re-frame the question and ask “how can I make a penis cake using only 9 inch round pans and 9 x 13 inch rectangular pans”.  In fact I was having so much fun conversing with Bakebot AI that it was getting a bit addictive for the baking nerd in me. 

My next hurdle was getting the right colour(s) for my project. I asked BakeBot “what Chef Master colours should I use to mix skin tone?” It provided me with the suggestion of Chef Master Soft Pink (#101), Egg Yellow (#112), Master Brown (#124), Master Red (#107) along with colour mixing suggestions. It will do the same for AmeriColour. I then tried to challenge it by asking for suggestions for a Toronto food colour brand McCall’s.  This is where it provided more general colour vs the specific version of the product. But it had exceeded my exceptions.

I found that I liked using the free BakeBot version as it was very intuitive for me to just click on the BakeBot AI beacon and ask all my questions and it would provide you with the advice that I mentioned above. As a member to utilize the BakeBot AI functionality you would need to go to BakeBot AI Recipe Maker and provide you with a recipe then you see below. Personally I liked the BakeBot AI beacon/icon and think that in the member section they can add “Save Recipe to BakeSpace” as an option that would work better rather than having change the experience. 

As for the rest of the experience, My Cookbooks is the section where you can create, share and sell your cookbook.  

Pro – The creators of BakeSpace thought about you and your privacy in many ways here as you can see in the Privacy Level. You can keep your Grandma’s recipe in the family by setting it as Group Cookbook or you can share it with the world for free or charge a fee. Most of the cookbooks for sale seemed to be published by Bloggers, Pros or the Community usually for a nominal price. The only con that I can think of is that I have a cooking app paid subscription or using recipes from website or my hardcopy cookbooks and BakeSpace is all about Community for Community and does not allow proprietary or paid subscriptions to be integrated.

Pantry Magic – I entered all the ingredients that I use for make my easy comfort food Asian fruit salad and it gave me this recipe with fresh herbs, honey, walnuts, lemon juice to provide texture and some freshness which is definitely a practical way to go.  But you can try it this pantry staple salad using the Asian Kewpie Mayonnaise (a Japanese mayo that gives that umami flavour) and you will change BakeSpace get the Asian pantry fruit salad that you may like.  For anyone reading this article I am sharing this recipe with you as I have saved the recipe and called it Asian Fruit Salad.  Unfortunately I was not able to remove the section “Pairs Well With” with default “This delightful salad pairs well with Sauvignon blanc and non-alcoholic iced green tea” so I modified it to say “This delightful salad pairs wonderfully with any non-alcoholic iced green tea or drink.” as I feel there is no place for alcoholic drink with a fruit salad unless you are one of these people who feel it’s 5 pm somewhere.

Recipes – is where you can access all of the recipes created by BakeBot AI or shared by the BakeBot community.

Overall I feel that BakeSpace exemplifies the best of a sharing community where the love of baking can be shared.  My favorite aspect is the BakeBot AI who hands down has helped me with my many baking projects where I need to “wing it” or take pieces of various recipes to create my unique baking product. 

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