So, here I am trying my first attempt at a hand sculpted 3D cake for a friend's birthday.
Everything was going awesome. I baked it and filled it and put it in the freezer before attempting to sculpt it into the shape I wanted because I had read on a forum that sculpting a cake frozen reduces breakage and crumbs. It worked perfectly. I had the exact shape I wanted.
I let it thaw...or so I thought. I coverd the cake in fondant and then kept on working with it. The fondant was going on great and I started to decorate it with painting on gel colours and other pieces of fondant. AWESOME.
Because the darn cake was frozen in the middle, it continued to thaw and successfully covered all of my fondant in dew drops! My fondant turned sticky and started to breakdown. Not a lot, but enough.
By the time I had to leave for the event, the gel colours I had nicely painted on had completely run and the fondant was so droopy and sticky and runny, it fell off the cake in spots.
Then I had to take it on a two hour car ride! In very hot weather!
Oh man.
Lesson learned: make sure the cake is completely thawed before you put fondant on it!
Sorry you had to live through a nightmare like that, but like dustbunny said you probably saved a whole lot of us from doing the same thing.
The lessons we learn the hard way are the ones we really LEARN.
Did you at least get a picture before the disaster?
Thankfully yes! I took the shots right before the meltdown!
I felt so badly by the time I got the cake to the party, I didn't want to bring it in.
I promised the birthday boy (well, he's thirty!) that I would send him the pict of what it should have looked like. I did and it all turned out in the end.
To be honest, it wasn't a complete disaster. To the non cake maker, it looked pretty good with a few spots of nasty. Based on that, my husband and my friends wife managed to convince me to bring the cake inside the house for serving and to be proud of it! But, to us cake makers...it was terrible!!! 
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