Ever Have A Cake That Was Doomed From The Start?
Decorating By beachcakes Updated 9 Oct 2007 , 11:24am by beachcakes
My cousin & wife are expecting a baby girl after a long wait. Her sister calls Monday afternoon to invite us all to a baby shower for Saturday. In five days. She just decided to throw it and it's in a park. In October. In the northeast. Luckily, or unluckily, it turned out to be HOT. So, I ask if I can do anything to help. Of course the reply is, 'you can make the cake'. Didn't see that coming. 
Ironically, the cousin's wife rarely gets cakes from me, preferring to go to the bakery, unless she needs something sculpted/molded, even if it's an event that I'm attending.
But since this party was such a mess from the beginning (25 people couldn't attend b/c of the short notice on a Holiday weekend, we live an hour from anywhere, too short notice to order gifts, and she wasn't registered), I vowed to make her this awesome cake to feed 50 (only 7 couples were there) so it looked like someone cared. I designed a three tier pink and cream cake. One tier pink w/ lace overlay with a big bow, middle tier pink w/ handpainted burgundy baby roses, top tier cream eyelet lace to look like bassinet ruffles, with baby booties and ribbon roses on top. That was the plan...
We had three days of fog. The kitchen a/c and dehumidifier ran nonstop. It was like a horror movie - every time someone opened the door, I screamed "don't let the fog in!!" Ambient light faded the big bow as it was drying. Booties softened and got "lumpy", regardles of my efforts. Then Friday night, DH took me out to dinner for our 15th anniversary. Stayed out too late and had to get up early in the morning to finish the cake which was only crumbcoated. Have to leave for shower at 11:30. At 10:30 DS comes tearing through the house b/c he had an accident with a pocket knife. The top tier hadn't even been started, so I threw the cake together in about 15 minutes while DH surveyed the damage and drove him to the doctor. No handpainted burgundy baby roses, no eyelet lace, no ribbon roses, not even laces for the booties...My mother had to pick up the cake and drive it to the party 30 min. away down very windy roads. Somehow it made it with minor slippage. Then it sat outside for 2 hours in 85* and not only did the fondant become a sticky mess, the booties fell, and the cake faded almost completely to white.
This cake was never meant to be. It's like cake karma.
I've often thought of changing my last name to Murhpy... 
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