So, I decided to do a practice cake this weekend, since I didn't have any for anybody else. I had seen quilled cakes on here lately, and thought they looked nice, so I decided to do one. Plus, I'm making the cake for my Great Grandma's 94th birthday when I go visit my family in May, so I wanted to see if that would be something to do for her cake. Then I thought I'd make it topsy turvey, because I wanted more TT practice. I also made the top tier all wavy on top, just 'cause I could.

DH had bought me some straws for doweling, but when I went to use them, I saw they were too darn flimsy for such a heavy cake. Of course, this was Sunday, after everything had closed, so I had to go with the scraps of wooden dowels that I had left. (I get the long dowels & just cut them) I didn't have enough to do my normal 5 on each level, so I had to just go with three. I had also made the cutout on the bottom tier way too big, so I had to fill in around the middle tier to make it fit. It also doesn't look right, since the TT illusion rests on the tiers fitting together properly.

All was going well, until I discovered that my middle tier was leaning horribly to one side, sinking into the bottom one. Ack! Had I let it go, it would have collapsed completely. So, I used the last bits of dowels I had to prop up the cake. As I was pushing the dowel through, my pushing thingy slipped, and I smashed the top layer of the cake almost in half. I wanted to cry.

Luckily, I was able to fix it, and cover up all of my boo boos with cornelli lace, scrolls, & butterflies. it survived the hour + drive to DH's work, and everybody loved it.

Phew!

I wish I could do something like this... very nice job

If you'd never ADMITTED it....no one would ever know! GREAT JOB!

Beth in KY

Wow, it's beautiful.

I think we have to remember that no one sees our own flaws/trouble areas. What a great cake.

I think it looks great. I agree with bethola, never would have known.

Your cake looks great! How did you do the quills? That might be something I would like to try for my Mother's Day cakes!! Thanks!

casebit

gee, i wish i had cake disasters like this one, if this is considered a disaster, my god what does a good cake look like????

Your ''disaster'' turned out fabulous!!! Love your quilling too!!!

Oh it's so good. I always look at the pic before I read the post, and all I thought was, oh gosh, It's so neat and pretty! I think it's great!

Wow, going by the end result noone would ever know you experienced any difficulties putting it together! It came out great!

I love the cake-- especially the flowers & butterfly!! Is that what you mean by quills? I've never heard that term before-- anyway, like they said, nobody would ever know you had issues!!

Beautiful cake. I love the flowers and butterfly.

I would have never been able to tell something was wrong. Good save!

Thanks guys. It did turn out alright, but it was my first cake to have a bunch of stuff go wrong, and it really stressed me out. i wasn't sure that it was even going to make it for the car ride, but it did, thank goodness.

I did discover that the fettuccine setting on my pasta roller works beautifully for making the fondant strips that I used for the quilling. I must say, though, quilling with paper is much easier!

Your cake looks great!

Thank you for explaining quilling. I loved the flowers like that but had no idea what it was called.

Beautiful! Your resolve is better than mine, I would have put a fist thru it after the 3rd set back and had about a million cake balls.

Awsome job!

Very Good!!! I know that it always feels even better when you turn a disaster into a masterpiece!!!

I wish my cakes that weren't disasters looked that good!! Beautiful save!

Yep it's your cake I was looking for! Thank You! Couldn't find it in your photos but looked up your postings.

awesome job!!!!