My first cake problem in 35 years happened yesterday. I worked so hard on this one. It had hand made Gerber Daisies, Calli Lillies, & roses, all in three colors of deep coral, lite coral & tan. 4 tier cake. 16", 12", 8" & 6". Got to the hall & opened the door & the top 3 tiers had slid off, not all the way, but alot. They carried it in & again, another first for me, did not bring a patch kit with me. Ran home to get it all. Came back & used pancake turners to bring back the tiers. I was able to patch it all up as best I could. It had cornelli lace all over the tiers too. The bottom tier was sinking & had large cracks all over it. I just felt so bad for the bride & groom. It was at my church too, so I knew alot of the people there. One woman came up to me to say I did a good job of patching it up. And said we will pray for you. Turns out it's the grooms mom. She wasn't even upset. But it just killed me. I told her to tell the bride that I am refunding the money. That's a killer too. It was almost $600.00. But I can't in good faith, keep it. The photographer was there early so he got many pictures of it before I had to patch it up. So the pix look good.
Wow, you are so kind to do that for the new couple, not to mention the amount of time and money you put in to making it.
Your cakes are beautiful, I bet this one was gorgeous.
It was probably the heat and humidity that made the cake slide. I have no doubt it was absolutely awesome before and even after the repairs. We'll pray that this is the last time this happens.
Thank you all.
I'm not sure what the problem was. I have made larger cakes that 4 tiers, with no problem. I had so many dowels in it too. I had the dowel down the middle of all tiers.
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