Yesterday, I was busy dealing with the cake from hell. I was working on making a Sesame Street Cake for a kiddo in my daughter's playgroup.
I made my fondant figurines and they turned out Ok, not great, but Ok. I screwed up the Cookie monster because after he had been drying for 10 mins, i got a bug up my butt about adding lines to look like fur and it didn't work very well. The Abby figure was a little weird because she is the hardest character to model on a really small scale, and the fondant/gumpaste mix was really warm and soft.
Then I started baking. Major issues. I made 3 cakes and none of them were going to work. My cream cheese icing was WAY too soft and turning into soup. I was out of chocolate to make more Ganache, out of baking powder, and out of eggs because I had just thrown away a bunch when the cakes took their dive. So I was faced with staying awake into the wee hours to make another cake (and who knows if it would turn out because I was having issues.) Or find another way to get a cake.
So I called my local grocery store and ordered a plain white cake. I figured that it will taste like hell, but once I add the sign and the figures at least it will be cute. I pick up the cake (already boxed) and bring it home. Feed daughter dinner, deal with bath, bedtime routine and all that jazz. Finally get around to opening the box. It is a disaster in itself. Icing is pulling away from the cake, cake is not level, the levels aren't even centered on each other. Basically a HOT mess.
I briefly considered dragging my 2 year old daughter back out of bed to go buy more baking supplies. (DAMN I should have done that when I picked up the cake.) But reject it. This is a free cake done as a favor, I am a hobbyist at this point even if I would like to open a shop at some point. I can find a way to make this work. So I scrape off the icing, try to slide the layers so that they are centered on each other and give it a crumb coat. Cover it with fondant (never used fondant with buttercream before and MAN it sucked, Major bulges everywhere). Put on the decorations, which don't lay well because the cake is still not level and has icing bulges. Take some pictures, stick it in the fridge for the night hoping that it will firm up.
Frankly, I am a little scared to open the fridge this morning.
HOmemade cake disaster
Lipstick on a pig cake
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Suffering for the cause huh.
But the cake is adorable and you certainly get an A for effort above and beyond the call of duty.
Your analogy suffers.... certainly not "lipstick on a pig"! cuz that cake is definite proof that you turned a sow's ear into a silk purse. Nice save!
Sorry you had to deal with that! But I think you made a wonderful recovery! Maybe for the fur next time, try using the small manicure size scissors and make little "V" shaped snips into the fondant to make the fur stand out! Just a thought!!
Well the cake from hell turned out really cute!
You did a great job saving a terrible cake! Impressive for sure!!
oh wow. i think you have a magic wand. to turn something like the first pic to that beautiful cake? Well done. you handled yourself very well and didn't up. 
See? you can do anything now.
It's really impressive that you managed to create such a great looking cake out of such a disaster. It's a credit to your skills and perserverance.
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