I don't get much time to bake or try new recipes so I take advantage when I can. My small group from church is meeting at my house on Thursday so I thought I'd try a new strawberry cake recipe and cover with the Satin Ice fondant I bought and never tried. Any chance to experiment.

So, after a quick fast food dinner so I don't have to cook, I'm changing clothes and my DH yells for me. I think 'snake' or 'tarantula', we've had both in the not-too-distant past. No, it was a small cat that had wondered into the garage and house when my DH opened the door. It was my neighbor's young cat that is never out of the house and belongs to her youngest daughter. My neighbor is my bff since we were 6 yrs old. We grew up next door, she just recently retired from the Air Force and moved to next 2 mos. ago. We had not lived in the same state since 1982! So, I'm thrilled she's here!!!

I decide to keep the cat inside so nothing happens to her, no big deal. I had a cat when I used to do a lot of cake decorating and she never bothered anything. I called and left and message that I had their cat.

I bake, play with the cat and notice she seems to be really hungry. Knowing this cat, she may have been out for 2 days. I decide to feed her a little tuna. She plays, runs around, explores and sleeps in my DH's lap. All is good. About the time the cakes are ready to come out, my DH notices that she seems to be looking for a litter box. The cakes need to cool for a minute so I take her outside. When I finally convince her to come back in, I wash my hands and prepare to take the cakes out of the pans. I'm working at the bar and the cat jumps onto the barstool very interested in what I'm doing. I yell at her to get down and she jumps to the floor. I finish and walk over to the sink to finish up dishes. I happen to look over .... and she's on the bar... HAPPILY SCARFING DOWN FRESH-BAKED STRAWBERRY CAKE!!!

I have to literally pick her up because yelling doesn't work at that point. She's in cat heaven. About 30 seconds later, her 'mom' showed up to get her. So, tonight, I making a another strawberry cake and we'll have a 3-layer cake instead of the 2-layer. She didn't touch one layer.

I knew better so I just had to laugh. I suddenly almost knew how so many of you feel when 'stuff' happens. At least it wasn't the finished cake that I had spent several hours on already.

No more cats when I'm baking, at least not this cat.

Sorry so long - guess I'm long-winded.

Oh, I can just picture a cat eating a cake!

I've had one experience with an animal eating my cake. My mom's then boyfriend had just gotten a chocolate lab puppy and I was in the process of making two Christmas cakes. Mom called me into the other room to show me some gifts she'd purchased and after a couple of minutes, we realized that the house was completely silent. We looked at each other and then sprinted into the kitchen. Little Java was standing with her front paws on the counter carefully eating one cake layer.

Of course I was completely out of milk and butter so I had to go to the store.

I feel your pain!

I had a dog eat a cake. Fortunately for me it was at the clients (co-worker) house. She had it on a table and her big dog ate it. It was for her daughters birthday party and just before the party so her husband had to run out and buy a grocery store cake.

I have a picture of this little kitty eating the cake....I think I would like some of your cake!!! Either way you are not alone...and I am glad it was only one layer....I had a friend bake my daughter's 1st b-day cake and Got there to help decorate it and she told me one of her dogs had eaten the number 1 smash cake..... So we just cut off part of the sheet cake and molded it into the number one....and it was our little seceret.

I wanted to cut off the half she had eaten and save the other half but my DH quickly convinced me otherwise. When I threw it out, I realized that the middle of that layer wasn't completely done. It had tested done but wasn't. I guess it was a blessing in disguise.

Oh my goodness! That is so funny, but I totally feel for you!

I had made a cake as well as 3 dozen petite fours for my brother and his new wife's wedding shower. I had them all boxed up securely, ready to go on a Saturday morning for a three hour drive to the location. When I got up and went into the kitchen that morning, the box of petite ours had been pushed off of the counter by my cat! He wasn't able to get in the box to eat them, but you could tell he had certainly tried! (The box corners had kitty teeth marks on them.) Of course having bounced around in the box when they fell off, they looked awful. Thankfully the cake was big enough, we didn't actually need them for the shower.

HAHA... that's hillarious... I can picture the whole thing.

But I do feel your pain... I had a similar experience about a year ago. I was making sword cakes for one of my students (his mom ordered it for his birthday). I had the 2 swords finished, completely perfect and sitting on the dining room table. I was going to instruct my customer of how to place one on top of the other for the party, rather than try to find room in the fridge to put them together now. Well, I took some cake scraps to my neighbors downstairs from me, came back up stairs, and my puppy comes walking toward me with white frosting on her chin. I immediately ran to the cake... she had gotten up on one of the chairs (which she had never done before) and ate one of the white handles. I was able to cut that part off, then I placed the other sword over top of the eaten/cut off part and 'glued' it down. I told my customer that I had to cut that part off in order for it to sit right. It worked out all right, but now I make sure to not leave a chair pulled out from the table if I have anything on the table the dog may like. The cake is in my pics.

lol been there done that! My own two little Precious (grey and white one) Angels (Angel is the black and white one)... they love cake, Precious dubbed Cupcake loves cupcakes and loves Butter cream!!! She'll literally fight you for them lol. Here is a pic of them happily eating the left over trimmed off tops from a nice sheet cake I made and was saving these for cake truffles... we were munching on them hubby set them aside thinking the cats won't like cake no need to worry the kid will watch and stand guard lol... no such luck so we just gave it to them lol.

Wow. I thought i was the only one with a cake cat-astrophe. It was not funny at the time but reading the other posts, i can't help but look back and laugh.

I had a baby shower cake to do for my cousin who was flying out from California. It was kind of a last minute thing but i agreed to do it since i love to decorate and had nothing else to do. We had just gotten two 3 month old kittens who loved jumping on the counters no matter how many times you yelled for them to get down. It was now about two in the morning and i had at least five more stars to pipe for the top border and i would be done! Being two in the morning everyone was asleep including the kittens... So i thought. All of a sudden the little kitten (Louie is his name ) jumped up from the other side of the island counter, right into my cake!!!!! I couldn't believe my eyes. I was hysterical Everyone woke up in my house to see my cake ruined, me balling and the kitten licking the icing off of his feet. It was not salvagable. There was a huge hole dead center in the fondant onsie and the one side was collapsed. Because i screamed it made him freak even more which caused more damage. Well, i stayed up till about five in the morning baking and decorating a new one. Which, i have to say, turned out better than the one i had previously made. Thanks Louie!
I now know to lock them up or be very cautious when decorating cakes at the counter.
Here is Louie. He is too cute to be mad at