Mother's Day Cake

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Comment by Bonnie Willey on July 10, 2014 at 8:13am

This is a perfectly lovely cascading rose, beautiful in full bloom.  Just luv your leaves... and those adorable little buds!!  You certainly DO know your roses! lol

Comment by Sandra Smiley on July 10, 2014 at 6:36am

Perfect analysis!

Comment by Denise Rico on July 9, 2014 at 10:53pm

We are at that. I once told my niece I am the Bob the Builder of cakes. "Can we fix it? Yes we can!!!"  LOL

Comment by Sandra Smiley on July 9, 2014 at 10:30pm

We are a wiley bunch, aren't we - big ole grin!

Comment by Denise Rico on July 9, 2014 at 10:19pm

Well, just 2 nights prior I had had a cake-tastrophe of a different nature. I had made my little penguin princesses, towers for the igloo castle, etc in advance. I went to move them off my island to another area in my kitchen so I would have room on the island to work & 1 of the towers & the fairy princess penguin w/the wings fell & hit the granite counter top. The fairy penguin originally had 2 sets of wings, the larger ones & a set of smaller ones. After the fall she only had 1 large wing & 1 small wing & her crown broke. The bottom of the tower was broken in small pieces. Once again my husband came to the rescue & scooped everything up & told me it would be ok. I was near tears at the thought of having to redo them as I had put a lot of work into them. Again, once I calmed down, I was able to salvage the larger wing & reattach it but had to sacrifice the smaller set. I couldn't find the piece of the crown that had cracked off. The front of the crown was all in tact so I just cut it on both sides, made a new band, attached & repainted it. I was able to glue the pieces of the tower back together w/glue I had made from gumpaste & water. There was 1 small piece missing which luckily was on the back side of the tower which was not visible b/c I had created small snowdrifts around the bottoms of all the towers which you can't see in the picture.

Comment by June Kowalczyk on July 9, 2014 at 9:44pm

I had that with my thanksgiving minion. Fondant ripped at the back, I improvised and added a "patch". And a skewer I used for stability, popped out of his head.....so I added a pumpkin to cover and add some whimsy. We do have to embellish sometimes....

Comment by Denise Rico on July 9, 2014 at 9:08pm

I know exactly what u mean Sandra. I had what I call a cake-tastrophe w/the "Penguin Princesses" cake I recently posted pics of. I had put the larger iced cake in the freezer b/c I discovered that the fondant goes on almost effortlessly when I do that. My mistake was leaving it in the freezer too long while I got carried away working on something else. By the time I took it out of the freezer not only was the icing frozen but the cake was also frozen all the way thru. I didn't think it was going to matter that much but it did. When u freeze it long enough for the icing to harden there's just enough condensation when the icing begins to thaw to hold the fondant in place, there's not so much condensation that it penetrates & mixes in w/the fondant & makes it a sticky mess. U also don't get the air bubbles like u do when u spray the top & sides of your cake w/water. Anyway, long story short, b/c the cake was frozen I think it froze the fondant too. Then the combination of the cake. icing, & fondant all thawing at the same time created too much condensation & disaster. Fortunately, for me, the fondant was perfect on the top of the cake & half way down the sides but the bottom was irreparable.  My husband ran into the kitchen to see what all the fussing was about & trying his best to comfort & calm me down. Once I had calmed down I was able to come up w/a plan B. I measured to see exactly how far down the damage was. It was 2 1/2 inches. I had just enough fondant left to cut some 2 1/2 x 10 in strips & place them around the sides of the cake to cover up the damage. I was disappointed b/c it was not the original design I had come up with but it had to do b.c it needed to be delivered in just a few hours. No one else noticed or even knew about the damage but I did. The customer was more than pleased & everyone at the party thought it was amazing. We learn from our mistakes.

Comment by Sandra Smiley on July 9, 2014 at 7:29pm

Thanks, Denise.  My poor family and friends have to put up with my technique practices, so the results are not always exactly what I would have wished.  I really wanted the cake to be a lot softer pink, but now I know better :o)

Comment by Denise Rico on July 9, 2014 at 10:48am

Very pretty Sandra. Love the marble effect. Great job.

Comment by Sandra Smiley on July 8, 2014 at 7:41am

Thanks, Mai.  "Interesting" is the adjustive I would use, as well.  I added way too much color to the fondant.  My intention was to make a light pink-white swirl, not hot pink.  Oh well, you can make it darker but you can't make it lighter.

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