I stupidly agreed to do a confirmation cake for my church just two days after my son's big first communion party. To some of you who do several cakes a week this may not be a big deal, but for me it is. I have 5 kids under the age of eight with a ten month old. I baked, iced and smoothed the day before the confirmation. I stayed up till two in the morning making the dove and thought all I had to do was the roses, border, and the words. No big deal. Then the nightmare started! I not only was taking the cake but we were also attending the ceremony so I had to make sure that everyone was dressed and ready to go by 4:00. I woke up and started on my fondant roses first before my two year old demon child 
woke up. I wanted them to be a deep red but no matter how much color I put into them they stll looked pink. I added so much coloring that my fondant was falling apart. I tried people's suggestions from here but I think it was to far gone. So I spent an hour messing with it for nothing. I started making buttercream roses instead. My icing was a little soft but I managed to get some decent ones. By this time all of my little ones were awake. I took out my dove to admire my work and figure out where I wanted it on the cake and left it on the counter. Stupid!! I came back and my two year old was eating the bird! EATING THE BIRD!!! I spent an hour making it. 
So I quickly did another one. It did go faster since I already knew how to do it. By then it was noon. I got everything ready to go and put my babies down for a nap and still thought I had plenty of time to finish the cake. I started on the words, no big deal and then when I go to the bottom words I realized I would have to freehand it. I am not very good at that so it took me longer but they turned out okay. I put on the bottom border on and discovered I did not have enought icing to do the top border!!! I didn't have enough time or ingredients to make any more. I called my husband and told him he had to come home earlier than planned because I was about to have a nervous breakdown. 
I decided to get the edges as smooth as possible and just put my roses and some scrolls in the corners. My husband got home and we got everyone ready and while he was finishing up I went to put on the roses and paint the rays coming from the dove with luster dust. Guess what I found. My two year old had put the stool from the bathroom onto a chair and pushed it up to the refrigerator were my roses were. He had pulled the tray down and was just about to put one in his mouth when I yelled nooooooo!!!!!!Yelling at him was not the best thing to do because it scared him and he dropped the tray and started crying. The roses were all broken and I sat down on the floor with him and felt like crying too. I didn't know what to do. I had nothing to put on the top of the cake and we were already late. I loaded the cake up, and grabbed my gold icing and my luster dust and left. When I got to the church I ended up putting the scrolls in the corners and that was it. It was not what I wanted to do. I had envisioned this beautiful cake that would wow people and possible get me some orders. Instead it turned out like this. I know that the cake is not that bad but it is not in any way what I had planned. Do you know what my husband had the nerve to say on the way home? I should have gotten more done on the cake the day before. Then he asked if I had used a different icing because he didn't like it. 
If any of you hear about a bizzar murder on the news where a man is found dead with a bowl of icing over his face, please don't turn me in. It was temporary insanity brought on by temporary stupidity. I think I need at least a week or two to get over this one. It will take me at least that long to clean up my kitchen! 
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