Just finished my version of the food network cake challenge.
I had a customer show up today for a cake she had emailed me about.
I two emails she stated that she needed the cake on the 31st.
But showed up today and to my surprise thought I had a cake ready for her. I explained (with jaw hitting the ground 
) that she had said she needed it tomorrow.
She was floored that she had goofed her dad's birthday dinner was tonight at 6pm.
So I looked at my watched and told her to give me directions to the dinner and I would do my best to have it there by 7pm it was the 4:30.
To make a long story not so short, I put on my version of the cake challenge and was able to make her the yankee stadium cake she requested with a few minor adjustments for time issues.
Now I really know how the decorators on the challenges feel when there is only 5 minutes left 
Thanks I will try to post a picture tomorrow.
I did not have time to take a normal picture, so my daughter took a picture with my cell phone as we were driving to deliver it, it is a little blurry but I wanted to capture the moment.
I can't wait to see the picture!! Good job working like a baker on the challenges programs 
heckuva job! you pulled that one out in a pinch!!! well done grasshoppa!
elle
Maybe you should consider trying for the Food Network Cake Challenge?!?
You could get $10,000 if you win!! 
I'm with aswartzw-it would take me that long to make the cake!!
Great job on the cake! I can't believe you got it done!!! SUPERWOMAN watch out!!!
I'm so glad to hear about your success story because I just referred someone to you last week!!!! My really good girlfriend just moved to Sanford (her going away cake was the suitcase in my gallery) and I had given her your information and website right before she left so she could call you in the future. I stumbled across a posting in one of the forums and it said "sanford" on your ID, so I thought I'd hook you two up!!!!
Congratulations on pulling this cake off...hope she paid you a premium to turn it around!!!!!
-Michelle
Well done! I'm not sure I could have done it!
Did you charge her extra for HER mistake?
Rush handling fee!!
Congrats on making the new deadline!
sorry it took me so long to post this
Has been a really busy week
Picture is a little blurry as it was taken in the car by my 11yrs old while we were driving to deliver it,
There was no time for a good picture 
Oh man. I totally feel for you! I used to do business with this woman who owned a party company. She would use me as her "cake guy" whenever one of her customers needed a cake to go with the party she was planning. It was a nightmare from day one.
Everytime I would take an order from her, she'd give me the wrong date. And I'm not talking, "I need it Saturday" and it turned out to be a Friday when she really needed it. I'm talking like she needed it for the 15th but told me the 31st!!
The first two times it happened I was pretty generous and forgiving because she was hooking me up with business. But it kept happening. I thought it was ME. I thought I was writing it down wrong. So I would write it down, then confirm it with her, then two weeks before the date I would call her and confirm it again. Sure enough....when I'd call and confirm the date she'd be like, "Oh nooooooo....I told you I needed it on the 15th." And I'd say, "No way!! You told me the 31st. I wrote it down. I confirmed it. You said the 31st." And she'd say, "Oops! I can't believe I did it AGAIN."
Well...long story short, the last straw was an order of 40 suckers for a ballerina party. My Sister does the suckers...I don't have time. So I give the lady the price, confirm the date and tell my Sister I have an order for her. On the day I collect the money I ask her again, "What date do you need these by again?" And she was like, "This Thursday." I lost it. "This Thursday?!?! That's two days from now!! You said you needed them NEXT Thursday. Here....look at my book. I wrote it down and even confirmed it with you!" "Oh...I can't believe I did it again. I'm really sorry."
I had no one to deliver the suckers so I had to do it. I had four cakes due that week that I had to take three hours out of my time to work on to go deliver the suckers. Needless to say we had some words.
I stopped taking her orders and she stopped calling me. She was truely unprofessional in my opinion and was either doing it on purpose, or was just completely unorganized!! I'm glad I was never one of her customers! I could only imagine their surprise when she showed up on their doorsteps two weeks early with her gear in tow for their parties!!!
Quote by @%username% on %date%
%body%