Friday, November 2, 2012

Cake Crisis!

I've spent several days this week working on a cake for my Mom's 65th birthday.  I thought it was gonna be a fairly easy cake to do but darn if the cake itself would cooperate!  The flowers turned out awesome but the rest....  Actually I took pictures right away "just in case" and I think I'm going to be very glad I did.  As the cake is settling it is leaning more and more to one side.  Not sure what that's about because it has plenty of supports to keep it stable.  I suppose it's like me - unstable despite support!  Anyway, I'm pleased with how the flowers came out.  I have preformed a "surgical intervention" on the cake since the pictures were taken and I'm crossing my fingers and saying a prayer that the cake will make it... at least till she sees it in person.  This may not sound like a crisis to anyone else but to me it's a disaster in progress.  Please pray for my cake - and that my Mom will enjoy it if it makes it to her house in one piece!

                                        This is my first attempt at fondant/gum paste flowers. 
                                     I don't think they turned out too bad for being self-taught.

                                                  Oreo "dirt" isn't too bad either!
                                            The leaning flowerpot (before it started leaning)

Just a quick description - The cake is five layers of chocolate cake, with chocolate icing tinted to look like terracotta.  the dirt is Oreo crumbs and the flowers/leaves are marshmallow fondant.



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