$50 in materials. 12 hours of my life. $50 for replacement cakes.
My biggest train wreck yet.
I overbooked myself last weekend and didnt leave enough time to make this Thomas the Train cake to serve 70 people the right way. I was working on no sleep... pregnant.. hungry.. crabby toddler... I ran out of every ounce of material i had in the house and Thomas' face kept sliding off. After the 3rd time it fell off in my house and I used the last of my material to fix it, I was running an hour late to deliver it .. I placed it in the back of my truck and slightly... EVER SO SLIGHTLY .. elevated the face side hoping to keep the face on as i wouldnt be able to fix it again.
When I arrived at the delivery point... 2 miles and 20mph away... this is what I found.
and i learned to never, never , never ever prop a cake up on one side.
ever.
You poor thing....it happened to one of my clients too. I told them to drive carefully home with their 3-D Thomas and one hard stop the cake toppled over. Well while their guests were in their backyard celebrating, I had the teribble job of fixing the cake in their kitchen! That was a train wreck too!
OH NO!!! My heart aches for you! 
What did the customer do?
I actually gagged when I saw your pic of cake! I just wanna send you big hugs because I would have sat in the street and cried till they carted me off. I am so sorry for your cake loss. 
I hope the customers were understanding....some are just *ss's when it comes time to deliver their items.
Big, big, big hugs and condolences. Most of us have had some experience like this at one time or another. Now, that you have this out of the way, always look back and know you'll never DO THAT AGAIN.
On a completely different note, I lived in Bloomingdale many many years ago as a kid!
I can see how you'd be upset. I would be too. Try to take it as a learning experience and move on. There's nothing that can be done after the fact. Hopefully your customers were understanding and just bought a cake from a bakery or store. I hope they didn't start in with you.
At least it's over and you know what not to do next time. From what I can tell though, it looks like it looked really good before the wreck. Sorry.
well.. Thank you ALL for your condolences!!!
THANK GOD.. this cake happened to be for the daughter of very good friends of ours... And i INSISTED on going out and finding replacement cakes while the b-day party continued.. which i did. And they cost me over $50 and an additional 50 minutes, during which time I cried during every mile driven to each store.
The shear exhaustion was enough to break me down to tears before the darn thing took the tumble. I dont think i can describe the feeling when I opened the back of my SUV to find this while in their driveway.
they were really wonderful about it and since i was close to tears while showing the wife, she kept begging me to stop or SHE would cry for me.
( it could have been soooo much worse. )
SOO... since everyone is telling me that every company has some horror story in the beginning, this HAS to be mine.
oh what a hard lesson learned.
bdrider, well just think of it this way....thank goodness it was only a cake. I know all the work, effort, sweat and tears that went into it, but it could've been a lot worse!
God bless.
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