I've been working for hours on this cake, it's an 11x15 with the corners chopped off to make the cake more shaped like the '4'. I just finished, and all the sudden I noticed one corner was sagging and pulling out! I filled in some icing in the gaps, but it is sagging more! I am going to lose the corner of this cake at any moment! Help! How to I make it stay put?? Pickup is not until tomorrow evening and the party isn't until Sunday, so I need a semi-permanent solution. Ack!
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllpppppppp!
Oh my gosh, what a headache and your cake was amazing! Hope you got it worked out.
Toba Garretts cake spackling works wonders. I tried it last week on a cake I made for neighbor.
The corner of my square cake tore off when I turned out of pan (it stuck!). I used the scraps from leveling and mixed with icing, made it thick enough to mold like play doh. Shaped my corner best I could, stuck in fridge to firm up (it is in 100+ temp here already) then frosted. It wasn't perfect, hid as much as I could with icing and they never knew the difference.
I know you're kidding about quitting, right?????
I don't have any advice on how you can fix it but I'm certain you will get all the answers you need by all the FABULOUS experience that visit and share on this board. I just wanted to say don't give up. Look at your cake!! Can you even imagine the little ones who get great big smiles by seeing a cake made for them such as this!! 2 mishaps are nothing compared to that and you do beautiful work!! I understand your discouragement but hang in there, I've been discouraged by every cake I've made so far 
and I'm still hanging on. I hope you find your fix but even more, I hope you continue to create those absolutely wonderful cakes!! 
Are your cakes too soft? You say you're having a few disasters recently... The shape doesn't seem to be one that you'd think would be 'at risk,' it's such a shame as it was looking really wonderful. Did you fix it?
I would like to say #1 your cake although it had a few mishaps looks AMAZING, my 4 yr old saw it and went nutz!
Can I ask... do you use crisco?
my class cake that I made with a new can of crisco did the same thing before I even got home from class! I had a different can of crisco in the kitchen and it hasn't happened yet with it... I'm thinkin about switching from Crisco to a store brand.
Hope this is somewhat helpful.
GOOD LUCK!
Your cake looks great, I love the details and the look of you cake. Have you been able to fix it?
Just wondering it's a big cake, did you use a box cake mix or is it from scratch.
I know this might be silly but I mixed 2 diff. type of cake mix once and got a crumby mess. It took forever for me to spackle and fix and when we served it people got a pile of crumbs. Good thing it was for us and our friends had a good laught!
Otherwise the only other thing is the New Crisco might have done something to your icing like "reesesob" mentioned.
Good Luck
Hoping that by the time you read this your cake will be ok. DON'T quit. Your cake rocks. It has happened to all of us at one time or another.
Thanks everyone. I've repaired it as best I can. It's definitely not as good as it was, and you can see on the right side where I had to chop out a bunch of the grass, so it's not symmetrical any more. But at least it's not HORRIBLE. This took several different repair sessions.
I'm fairly certain the problem was that this is scratch chocolate cake, and it's very soft. All the problem areas were where I carved it, so it was very crumbly. It was hard to frost, so I had to use a thick crumb coat, then the star tip for the black and white checkers. It was so crumbly that it couldn't hold on to the icing, and the crumbs just peeled away with the frosting.
I should have refrigerated the cake before I frosted it to firm up the cake, so I could have put a thinner crumb coat on. Live and learn.
I go to deliver in a few minutes. It's not my customer who is meeting me, so I won't get any feedback. I guess if she's unhappy I'll hear next week. 
Your cake still looks awesome.
Don't worry about it.
I am sure her son will be so happy with the cake.
I am making 3 cakes this week and I plan on baking and freezing them 2 to 3 days ahead of decorating. So I'am off to bake the first one!
Good Luck on the next one.
I knew you could do it. And we at CC are not going to tell her. That will be our little secret. Relax it still looks great.
fantastic cake and your repair job was great!!! You can't notice anything wrong..really!! When I first started decorating (a year ago this month) my teacher said that it is really all about being able to fix mistakes..lol..
She was right..I spend most of my time fixing stuff up!!
Don't worry..the cake looks super!!
Hey guys, I just wanted to thank you all for your encouragement this weekend, and share the email I got from my customer this morning (when I saw it there in my inbox, my heart sank...I thought she was going to complain. I was really worried about more icing sliding off, or her being upset that it didn't look symmetrical...yadda yadda yadda..you know me):
Kelley-
there are no words to describe how perfect the cake was!!! Jake absolutely adored it and all his friends thought it was sooooooo cooooool
Thank you again for all that you do...it is really appreciated!
So all's well that ends well. And the secret of the melting sides stays here on CC 
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