I am so glad everything turned out well with the cake. I have two boys (age 19 and 16) and i still have to tell them to stay out of the cake! Just remember this when he gets married and make him a cake with a big bite taken out of it and make sure everyone knows the story behind it! I know you will be laughing about this in a couple of days. Ahh, boys, never a dull moment.

They grow up so fast!

Shay Shay !!!!!!!!! LOVING that idea for when he gets married and put a big pretend chunk in it....... HAHHAA... I have been telling this story to so many friends because they know even though it is a small cake it was a 2days of work cake. SO most of them know the story and I can't wait to tell his future girlfriends what a little bugger he was!!!!!!

I feel your pain! I fight the same battle with my daughter (also two). Just this afternoon, I was making a batch of MMF and when I turned around, she had stuck her hand in the powdered sugar on the counter and was licking it off. When I fussed at her and told her to keep her hands off the counter, she got down a licked the small amount that had been knocked on the kitchen floor. Doh!

I don't know if anyone has suggested this but I found these.

http://www.safehomeproducts.com/shp2/sf/child_safety_products.asp (just scroll down til you see it.)

http://www.kidsafeinc.com/-strse-2/child-safety-cabinet-lock%2C/Detail.bok

Also they have something like these things at Lowe's.

These stories are not strange to me. Last April I made a Thomas theTank Engine cake for my son 4th birthday. I was making the dinner and suddenly my 14 month old take a corner of the tablecloth and pull ahead. In a second my cake was in the floor I was crying because my 4 yr old was so happy with his cake. But not everything was lost. Because I expect more people I made another cake in mountain form and we sang Happy Birthday.

I can relate to a 2yo. I have my grandson living with me. When he was two I had three wedding cakes going out in the same week. None of them went untouched. I was so tired of crying. Thankfully he got into the uniced parts of the first two. By the time I finished the third and he had not touched it I thought he had learned. But of course not. After deliverying the second cake I came home to him sitting under my table and a big chunk taken out of the cake. I yelled at his dad who was supposed to be watching him. Well that cake was fixed and delivered as fast as humanly possible. He still hides under the table when he knows he has done something wrong. I laugh but not in front of him. I will remember this for when he is older.

I'm happy you got this fixed and everything turned out ok. If it were me there is no way I would have given that cake and would have baked another one or ran up to the bakery to buy an uniced cake to use.

I can't believe how many stories there are of little kids getting into the cakes.

I do have two dogs but they have never gotten near enought to take a bite of the cakes I'm doing. I think they know they would be in so much trouble.

I do think that if anyone just fixes a cake that a dog or kid gets into they should be up front and tell the person who is getting the cake. That way they can cut around the spot of they don't want to eat there.

When our two DD's were little, I had made a cake to take to work and left it on the counter so that i could just pick it up and go in the AM.

Our youngest DD came into our bedroom very, very early, and in a really dramatic fashion said, "Go ahead! Just whip me! I deserve it! I know you're going to hate me!"

Of course we immediately sat up in bed and after taking a quick look around in case the house was on fire or something like that, we asked her what she was talking about.

Again in dramatic fashion, "Mom's cake! I ruined it! Just beat me!" We just burst out in laughter!

First of all, neither of our children were ever beaten! And, I was just doing the cake out of the goodness of my heart - it wasn't like I was being paid for it or anything.

When we finally looked at the cake, she had stuck her finger in the icing at the bottom of the cake - very fixable. We think she knew that we would not be very happy with her, though, because she has Diabetes and she knew that cake WAS NOT on her diet.

She's 28 now and has children of her own. Guess what happened to our daughter's last birthday cake I made for her - her 2 year old DD ate about half of it before she got up! Of course since she has diabetes, it was only a 6 inch cake, but we all had to laugh!!!

Thanks for the memories!!! (You'll have them too.)

Glad everything worked out for the best - it usually does.

LadyMike

Oh the things kids do, lol! Glad you were able to repair the damage.

The door alarm is a good idea but I think I'd go for a hasp lock on top of the frig, where he can't see it or reach it.

My littlest one got into a wedding cake once but luckily, it was before I iced it. It was one of the bottom layers and was sitting on the counter. I'd even had a diversion cake on the kitchen table and we were all in the kitchen when he did it. He just walked over nonchalantly and grabbed a big old hunk out of the side I went ahead and baked a new 15" cake but man, if it'd been the finished cake like what happened to you, I'd be so mad! Glad this turned out ok for you!

My daughter took a swipe out of the side of my smooth crusting buttercream this morning!

I own a wedding cake business and by state law must follow strict health guidelines, which of course, also means incurring additonal overhead. I, of course, cannot compete with home baker's pricing because of this extra expense, but hearing stories like these just reinforces WHY the health guidelines are so important. You are dealing with food that people will eat.....and you seriously just "patched" an area that you have no idea what touched it.....where his hands had been, etc. ???? I shudder to think what my health inspector would say if she heard about this. I'm still shaking my head....Sorry if this sounds "mean" but you need to take food safety MUCH more seriously.

I have had this happen only once, by my son-the oldest. My middle daughter saw how upset I was and NEVER touched a cake. And I guess they both warned my youngest daughter, because she never did it either. Now, I have a "bonus" daughter, and between them all, have six grandchildren who will never never go in the kitchen and touch a cake. I love when the kids are here, and tell their kids, dont touch grandmas cake or she will cut your arms off! (But they know they get the scraps and get to lick the bowl)

The cake was a haunted house I done for my sons scout troop. He was about 6 years old, and now is 28, but
he remembers.

This lock is supposed to keep old people out too, maybe sleep walkers, ha ha. Anyways it is only $4.29 ( can we say business expense, tax write off, yes I love getting more money back) it is about half way down the page and is called KidCo On/Off Appliance Lock :

http://marketamerica.shop.com/op/sprod-0-v210281-~Childproof+Lock-k24-g1


Good luck keeping him out of the fridge. I have a 4 year old and a 1 year old so I too get nervous when I have cakes in the fridge.

When I turn the light to watch my cakes baking the 1 year old comes in the kitchen and opens her mouth and starts licking the glass on the oven. They kids are just as obsessed with cakes as we are and they just don't know how to show it without getting into trouble, bless their little hearts ha ha! Thought you might need another laugh. Take Care!

People not long ago (myself included) gave another poster a lot of grief for suggesting that she was going to cut out and "fix" a part of a cake a cat had gotten into - and think what you like, but pets have germs and little kids have germs too. I think it is horrible to have to deal with something like this, but I have to agree with robertascakes that don't see "fixing" something like this, IMHO.

When we were kids I remember it was a rule that we weren't allowed to leave our room in the AM before I mom gave us permission, except to go to the bathroom. I don't know how she got us to do it, but she never spanked us and we begged the school NOT to call her and to give us the corporal punishment instead.