Well.....Yes it is. As annoyed as I am by Warren Brown on principle, I do have some sympathy for his plight.
The ways around the dilema are using invert sugars such as glucose,almond paste,lecithin to hold more moisture into the fat.
American palates are so trained to cake mix moisture that cakes made with regular milk-butter-eggs-flour-sugar don't seem right anymore.
This is the dirty little secret of the cake world.
I visited Cake Love yesterday for the first time.I was not too impressed. The buttercream is really more like lightly sweetened butter wiht out any air or fluff.I actually think he would get a better texture and less greasy taste if he used a different buttercream recipe. This is also not as simple as it sounds. Butter cream breaks and is tricky and is best made by the experienced (that's something he just doesn't have) and translates to paying someone with more experience and grappling with inconsistancy.
This said...
I really coveted the awesome tiny space the bake shop was in and the cafe was charming.
The buzzballs were terrible. The filling was tastless and I was given the wrong flavor and over charged.
And yet....................he is famous and prospers. My hat's off to him.