Keeping It Together When All Is Going Wrong...
Decorating By tobycat Updated 7 Jun 2007 , 2:03pm by tobycat
I've gotten so much advice and tips from this site that I thought some of your might be able to help out with this one....
You know when you're doing the cake "for real" and nothing is going right?
What do YOU do to keep calm or calm yourself down when you're about to lose it!? (Especailly during those midnight sessions when you're bleary-eyed, out of clean tips, and the icing is running low.)
S.
Walk away from the cake for awhile. Go watch the television news, CNN is still on that time of the night and though the news may not relax you it will at least take your mind off the cake for a few minutes. Go clean up your mess in the kitchen and then start over again on the cake.
I agree with the others - just go to bed. Your brain will rest, your body will rest, and when you wake up, you'll be ready to tackle the job with a fresh perspective.
I am going to take my own advice right now, in fact, because I am reeling from the shock of realizing a wedding cake that I have due on Saturday isn't white almond sour cream cake as I thought, when I bought everything I needed for it today - 8 CAKES' WORTH, mind you! - but instead is hideous red velvet. Egads. I thought the 2-tiered groom's cake was red velvet...but NOOOOooo...which means I have to do Sarah's Red Velvet cake from scratch, for an 8-tiered wedding cake, several of which require three 2" tall layers per cake. *Sigh*
Do you have any idea how much red dye that is? Ugh.
Good night. 
(Oh, but the plus side of my late night baking and browsing is that I see my Fairy Pops cookies made the All-Time Favorite Cake Photos lineup. 
woot! )
I agree with the others - just go to bed. Your brain will rest, your body will rest, and when you wake up, you'll be ready to tackle the job with a fresh perspective.
I am going to take my own advice right now, in fact, because I am reeling from the shock of realizing a wedding cake that I have due on Saturday isn't white almond sour cream cake as I thought, when I bought everything I needed for it today - 8 CAKES' WORTH, mind you! - but instead is hideous red velvet. Egads. I thought the 2-tiered groom's cake was red velvet...but NOOOOooo...which means I have to do Sarah's Red Velvet cake from scratch, for an 8-tiered wedding cake, several of which require three 2" tall layers per cake. *Sigh*
Do you have any idea how much red dye that is? Ugh.
Good night.
(Oh, but the plus side of my late night baking and browsing is that I see my Fairy Pops cookies made the All-Time Favorite Cake Photos lineup.
woot! )
Okay, your situation takes the cake for me! I've done that too -- though never with a cake as serious as yours! Good luck and congrats on making the All-Time Favorites! S.
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