I love your cake and shoes. The both are so real looking. You did an excellent job and are very talented. You should be very proud of your work. You are a true artist.

Thank you guys. She wrote back today. Here's her response

"Your response alone made everything better.
No worries! Forget about the refund.
Thanks for everything."

I'll glad she was soo nice and understanding.

Thank you for all the lovely comments

Just wanted to say that I also learned about a cake needing to be denser for carving purposes. I want to make a "cars" cake for my son and am attempting to carve it. I was just going to do a regular cake, now I know.
I think the cake and shoes were beautiful. You do beautiful work.

Absolutely stunning cake. The shoes are to die for....
You have great talent!

I think you've got yourself a repeat/satisfied customer judging from her last response. You've got what it takes to get a business going!

Once again fantastic job!

I'm glad that ended well! What a nice customer.. those are the ones you want to come back
Now, how did you do the shoes? The whole theme is beautiful!

*HUGE* sigh of relief! Open communication saves the day!!

And that is gorgeous by the way... fantastic work! You won't be a novice for long at this rate!

Kayla,

You handled the entire situation like a pro! You should be very proud of yourself.

I wanted to share with you a great cake recipe for 3D cakes that I use ALL the time. It is so super moist and yet holds up very well to any 3D/Scultped cake....I use this recipe all the time. If a customer wants Vanilla, I just substitute the Chocolate cake mix for Vanilla and chocolate pudding for vanilla....etc.

I hope this helps you out with your next cake!

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-6093-Durable-Cake-for-3D-in-Chocolate.html

Good luck Kayla!

Angel

This all worked out!!!! Since the customer was so nice and did require the refund and you definitely want to make sure that she comes back to you......I would just email her and say since it was my mistake and she refused the refund, that when she does come back, she has a $40 credit towards her next cake....thats just me making sure she has the incentive to use you again!!! Just a suggestion............

hey eatdessert1st I just printed a pattern and cut the gumpaste with an craft knife. let me know if you want me to post it the pattern. boonenati has a good article on how to make gumpaste shoes

Hi Kayla, I just saw this and fell in love with this cake. I have been wanting to do a purse and shoe cake for a bit now. Would you mind sending me the pattern and how you did this. I would appreciate it very, very much. You did an awesome job on this!!!!!!! My email is [email protected]. Thanks so much!!!

Kayla, please do post the pattern when you have time! Your shoes were absolutely jaw-dropping beautiful!

thank you angelbabe for the recipe.

I hope she asks me to make her a cake again so i can make up for my mistakes. Her sister was talking about getting a cake for her bday, but she hasn't called me back yet so we'll see how that goes in the the next week.

here's the link to the pattern I use to make the shoes

http://www.yummyarts.com/members/products/gp_shoetemplate.pdf