All I can say is Thank Goodness the customer is a neighbor and my dd plays with her ds all the time.
The neighbor called last week with a last-minute order for her dh's birthday. I made an 8" Bittersweet chocolate cake, 2 tortes, filled with pb filling. Iced in whipped chocolate ganache and topped with chocolate glaze and Reeses pb cups. Not my best job, but she knows I'm just starting out. I charged her $40.
So she comes to the door, and dd (she's 5 yo) comes running with "I'll get your cake!" 
And before I can rush to stop her, she tries to pick up the cake box...which is a 10" box...sitting on top of a cake pedastal...which started to tip over.
I saved the cake thankfully. The side decorations were a little smushed, but the neighbor didn't seem to mind. She said it looked fabulous, wouldn't take a discount, and went home with the cake.
My lovely dd and I had a nice chat afterwards, reminding her that while I LOVE her help in the kitchen and when we decorate cakes for fun, she doesn't need to be in charge of carrying cakes when people come to pick them up. Even if we know them.
She's done that in her younger years. Fingerprints in cakes, smushed flowers "just to see if they were the hard ones or soft ones"...my ds is 7, so we've had plenty of incidents.
I typically forstall the "tasting" by giving the kids the tops I slice off to level the cakes. That seems to stall them for the evening 
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Yikes! That was a close call!
I am pretty anal about my kids being allowed near my baking & whatnot! lol
I have 5 children (8-16 yo) and they need to stay out of my way when I am 'working'...after the cake is done..hands off! My hubby is beginning to wish I could afford to build a second kitchen so it'll be 'my space' for baking ...me too! That would be a dream come true! 
My friend's mother once had a cake on the dining table. One of her little grand-daughters was desperate for a piece but had been told to keep her hands off it, it was for dinner. Well, you know how literal a three year old can be when they choose. They found her, half an hour later, kneeling on the table, hands behind her back, face in the cake. She said, "But I kept my hands off it!!"
Kids, bless 'em.
Natalie.
LOL Meg.. but she's just so cute.. how could you be mad?? 
Glad you could salvage the cake though!! Sounds like something either of mine would try to do too.
EEEk! Good thing the circumstances were what they were My son (12 ys. old w/ C.P.) always want to "help". He gets his own ball of fondant, some tools and he'll help for about ten minutes then eat his "work" Kid's--gotta love them 
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Thanks for the info. It looks uber-interesting Wish I could see it
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Im right in there with the rest of you...my 20 month old granddaughter has dipped (as she calls it) every cake i've made...we are getting ready for a bake sale on saturday and i made 2 apple cakes, they are sitting on the table, i was making cookies and turned my back, when i turned back around and seen the crumbs on the table and started to yell i looked around and her papa was holding her and she was laughing with a big mouth full of cakes saying it was yummy...LOL
Sounds like my son. He loves to help me with the cakes.
While I was 8mo pregnant and bigger than a beached whale, I baked a scooby doo cake for him (he was going to be 3 at the time). When I woke up the next morning and rolled out of bed to go ice the cake, I found my husband and mother cracking up in the kitchen. Apparently my son grabbed a chunk of the cake and was in the pantry hiding and eating it, leaving behind him a nice trail of crumbs.
Gotta love them
Yep, for the last four or five months or so I have had to put my youngest (she'll be two on Sept. 6th) in the living room and close the gate as to block her entrance into the kitchen. I've caught her twice just when I was getting my icing ready to decorate two different cakes, on two different days, reaching up on her tip toes and taking little tiny chunks out of the cake and eating it.
Every time she sees a cake or cookie on TV or in a book/magazine, I cringe because for the next two hours all I hear is "Cake, Mommy. Cookie, Mommy!" And she runs to the kitchen and waits for me to get her one (90% of the time she doesn't get one!). She even ran to her room crying the other day (learned that one from her older brother who is 10!!) when I said no and tried to give her a fruit cup. She's also bad with pizza, but not AS bad. lol
When my kids were little, I would keep them out of the kitchen with an expandable baby gate. (we have an open floor plan, no walls (or doors) between the kitchen, dining and living rooms) Then when the cake was done I would store it in the microwave oven so they couldn't reach it.
Meg.. I forgot to ask you how her party went?? I am sure she had a great day.
Ooops.. itchy trigger finger.
Removing double post.
My little girl (20 months) loves to help also! When we are doing freebies for family or practicing I put her on the counter and let her stir or add ingredients. However, I have to watch her because she has been known to throw the entire sugar canister into the mixing bowl.
I really get a kick out of letting her help cook. I can tell she feels like a "big girl" and is always proud of her completed project!
I love her sooo much. I can't wait to get off work so she and I can work together on our family cookout project for Labor day!
My mother must have trained my brothers and I well about not touching cakes. During a college vacation we were all home, and Mom had made a cake and left it on the table. We all drooled over it but figured she was taking it somewhere, so we didn't touch it. On the second day, Mom finally asked what was wrong with the cake since no one had bothered even tasting it. Needless to say it didn't last long after that.
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