I just made a cake, just perfect for this forum!!!! I tried making the Dream Doll House Cake in Wilton's Celebrate With Fondant book, but I didn't have the house pan, so I baked square cakes and stacked them with buttercream, then followed the directions. it looked beautiful last night, but I wanted to finish putting on the decorations today, and it was bending backwards, and the roof decorations had slid off. And I thought 2 dowels would be enough to hold it up, i guess not... When i tried making it stand up, it just looked worse, so instead of trying really hard, and getting really mad, i just laughed about it. The friend i made it for will be visiting me tomorrow, so instead of sending it over today, i will show it to her and then we'll eat it for dessert!! ( i ate the scraps, i know it's delish) will post the picture as soon as i get one.

I'm glad I'm not the only one with a horrible Cinderella cake. Darn that stupid character pan!!!



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She actually turned out pretty good......ummm.........except, what happend to her nose?

well, here is my first try at modeling fondant, was triing to make a cute little mouse, ended up with a rat on steroids, arghhhhh

LOL!!! I am officially hooked to this site!!!! I have thorougly enjoyed reading and looking at everyones posts, unfortunately I don't have a worst cake to post yet. But that is because I haven't really made any!!! (Only 2 mos into this but completely addicted!!) Be on the lookout - I am sure there will be one shortly!!

I do have to say that this thread has increased by self confidence. It is nice to know that even the best of the best have bad days too!!

well ill try one more time to show my mighty mouse

You guys are cracking me up! This is an awesome thread! Something's wrong with my computer so I can't transfer pictures for some reason but soon as I figure it out I'll post mine.

It is now 11:48pm california time, don't know when I started reading this thread, got to go to bed, thank god I am at the end. Thank you for the laughs. I will dream of giant cocaine booties and evil clowns and lordy, lordy, laurie turning 40. To funny!!!

Hey! Is that my hubby wearing a mouse costume? Sure looks like his belly!

It's gonna look like my belly if I don't stop 'taste testing' every batch of bc icing I make up and go back to Curves soon.

Here's mine. My first cupcake cake (loved that) and my first FBCT. The transfer went great till I got to the bottom of the picture where there was a lot of black...it decided to stick to the wax paper....aaarrrgggghhhhhh! You can see where I had to fill in the black afterwards. And if that wasn't frustrating enough, you'd think I'd try to make the transfer smaller than the cake right? Nope! So there are a couple places (some more obvious than others) where the transfer hung over the edges and then just fell off where there was no cupcake underneath. Looks like I'll just have to try again!

Pamelasue, that is an awesome FBCT. You did an incredible job. I actually think the stuck icing gives a bit of texture to the rocks in that part of the picture. Maybe you should have made more texture? Anyway, what a really neat design.

Awww thanks Cake Topper I'll have to try that next time...make it look like it's supposed to be that way!
Pam

Ok, I'm sure there will be another "worst cake" from my efforts and I will take a photo and post it.

FUN! A good laugh.

my worst cake was this saturday fora wedding -- the icing slid off the cake then when I finnally got it done it fell over(none hit the floor) the damn thing looked ugly thank goodness the bride was beautiful cause everyone was looking at her --I ended up just cuttingup the whole thing--the first time I enjoyed cuting up my cakes never got a picture and don 't want one
either

Okay, this is so far my worst. Took the picture before I fixed the color on the cheeks. The entire top is a FBCT that gave me a heck of a time. Somehow I miscalculated the size and ended up with the transfer being much larger than the cake. Had to trim off the edges, so I lost a lot of the picture. The colors smeared. It was a mess! This came from an illustration in one of my daughters' story books. I would love to try it again when I have more time and can concentrate on the cake ONLY!

Oooooohhhh hcromwell, that is the cutest cake!!! If that is your worst I'll have to go check out some of your good ones! The same thing happened to me, FBCT bigger than the cake...I had a blonde moment.
Pam

I wasn't going to post my "cake" but I thought what the heck? I'll be a good sport. lol. My dh aske d me whay I was making an "ugly hat cake" when I was doing this one. It was supposed to be a practice at a bridal shower cake I was going to be doing later in the month. It was my 1st time at stacking, 1st time at fondant, and 1st time at making a bow. You can tell it was my first at all 3. HA! I also used a 2" high oval pan for the top layers and a 1" high round pan for the bottom layers, and it looked ridiculous.

I couldn't get my pic to post in this thread, so here's the link!
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&pos=-65711
Kelly

The only thing wrong with that cake Kelly, is that it doesn't look like a hat. If you don't tell people it's a hat, it's cute!

It wasn't supposed to look like a hat. lol... that's just what my dh thought it was. He's a ding a ling anyway. lol. Thank you for your compliment anyway
Kelly

Kelly,
I like your bow! I have yet to try a bow (I'm chicken) but I think your cake looks nice. Hubbys can be so "supportive" sometimes, can't they? LOL
Pam

This is the funniest forum yet! LOL! I made the most dry and tasteless red velvet cake possible. And to top it all off, the royal icing melted on me. Keep in mind when looking at the photo that I did not, I repeat DID NOT decorate the sides of the cake. This looks like a blowfish. LOL!

cakekim,
I love the blowfish cake! Could also be a pineapple if you planted some nice spikey greens on top!
Pam

I've had a few disasters, but was too mortified to think of taking a picture. I guess I thought the experience was bad enough, I didn't really want the reminder. I did a race car for my son and didn't let the cake cool completely before frosting it. This was one of my first attempts at decorating something beyond sprinkles. A couple hours after it was done, I walked in the kitchen and the cake was naked and the melted buttercream was dripping down the cupboards! I also did a Bob the Builder cake for my son once and really spent a lot of time on it. I got up on Sunday morning to show him before the party and couldn't find the cake--just a million ants swarming around! So I did the heathen thing and skipped church to bake another one while the family was gone, had 2 fans running to try and cool it down, made up for skipping church with the amount of praying I did while slapping icing all over a cake that I wasn't too sure was really cooled down yet. (Refer back to race car mishap here.) Anyway, Bob turned out fine in the end. My son is 6 and asks me each year if I will have to do his cake twice like usual. Thanks for the vote of confidence, sweetie. I also did a Barbie cake one time and used a regular Barbie, not the pick. As you may know, Barbie is too tall for the Wonder Mold pan. So I decided it wouldn't hurt to put a little extra frosting around Barbie's waist to just elongate her skirt. Should have put a belt on that thing, because Barbie's skirt went to her ankles when I transported her. Oops!

Wow, these are really funny to laugh at now. Didn't think so back then, though. Anyone else have some good disasters to share? I'm really glad that some of you are brave enough to share your stories. It is so comforting to know that accidents happen to all of us!

wow I wish I would have known we were going to be posting pictures of the worst cakes we have done! About 2-3 weeks ago I was feeling very under the weather and had to do a cinderella cake. Well I was using a basic sheet cake and using my kopykake projector to project the image onto the cake...SIMPLE, right? Well you would think! I'm not sure why the cake kicked my butt so bad could be that I was feeling horrible, runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing..the whole nine yards! Probably shouldn't have done the cake, but I didn't have to heart to tell her no. Needless to say I thought it tunred out so bad I didn't even want a picture! I refused to take one. I couln't get her eyes right to save my life, her lips looked like she just had silicone injected into them, need I say more! It was horrible! It looked to me like Cinderella just been jumped by her evil sisters or stepsisters, whatever they were! The little girl that it was for apparently loved it! I didn't even want to give it to her I was so upset! It still haunts me! I swear I wake up to seeing Cinderella with fat lips and messed up eyes! ACKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!! Im having flashbacks again!

Apparently, nobody can make a good Cinderella cake! LOL

Love the blowfish.