This is going to be one of those cakes that I hate from beginning to end and can't wait to see the back of. Poor cake, it's not it's fault. But it will sense that I don't love it. And it won't 'behave' and everything will go from bad to worse. I can tell.

But this one is doing my head in already. I marzipanned it last night and at first, it wouldn't hold its shape properly. It kept sinking down and looking squat. It looks a bit 'shlumpy'. That's a made up word, in case you hadn't guessed. It means it's shlumping down into itself. There, that clarified it for you, didn't it? LOL!!

And now I"m wasting time on here because I"m avoiding decorating it.

Poor cake. It's not its fault. But I don't love it. I don't even like it... and it can tell!! x x

I think we all have days like that

hopefully when the shlumpy cake gets its final coat you will like it more.

I think schlumpy should be added to the CC dictionary

Sounds like postcaktum depression. You just need to bond with the cake. Love it, and don't punish yourself. You'll feel better soon!

I've had several cakes that I didn't feel the love for, they knew it too but insisted on winning me over by making me satisfied with the finished product.
Maybe yours will too.

You need to make peace with your schlump. Stare it in its beady little sugar pearls and let it know that you are going to level it, not the other way 'round.

WELL....

In the end, I didn't hate it.

I didn't love it, but we made our peace.

It wasn't that, when finished, the cake looked bad. It looked fine. I just could not get myself 'in the zone' for this cake. I think I had so many other things on my mind?

The main thing is the customer loved it. So that's all that matters, really.

I'll upload a picture of it now - it's the LV bag.

Suzanne x

Sorry to hear about your schlumpy cake, Relznik! Hope it turns out ok! I checked out your cake gallery and you have some really great cakes - i'm curious do you cover sponge cakes in marzipan then sugarpaste? How does this taste? I always use buttercream and sugarpaste with sponge, and marzipan and sugarpaste with fruit cake.

Yes, I always marzipan my sponge cakes.

I use a good quality marzipan - not supermarket. So the taste is a bit nicer. And it gives a much nicer finish. I hate it when the customer specifically asks me not to marzipan!

schlump is actually a yiddish (jewish) word that means sloppily or poorly dressed. Your cake looks great - not schlumpy at all! A well-done coat of fondant covers the hidden flaws of many cakes (I know it has some of mine!).

I feel your pain with the cake....but you also might want to try a German translation of you newly found word....lol It's not very nice! hahaha

I'm a German translator and wasn't aware of the word but looked at my favorite online dictionary (www.dict.cc) and found a variation of it: Schlumpe. Not common at all, the more common version would have an "a" in the middle of it. But put an "f" at the end of it and you get Schlumpf or Smurf

Jenny

Well, yeah, the exact spelling is not the same...but it's pronounced the same...it means "b*tch" or "sl*t" and is VERY derogatory.