a bit of a cake disaster

Okay, so it's 1:15am and I am just sitting down from a day of cake decorating. I casually did bits and pieces of the detail fondant work throughout the day today. I colored the fondant and made the butterflies and flowers. This evening I baked the cakes and decided to not freeze them like I usually do. Don't know if that was the best idea because I had kind of a major cake crisis. Ugh. All is well now, but the bottom cake was going to be a layer cake and it ended up just being one cake with no layers. The top layer literally broke into pieces and slid off. I was strangely not too worked up about it. I will say that under the fondant on that cake, it's not going to be pretty! But because of the disaster, I was able to sample the cake and oh my goodness...it is deeeelicious! :)

The little cake I made for Chloe is so cute! I didn't put fondant on that, but instead put green frosting all over it that looks like grass. Then I'll just put 1 butterfly on it and maybe a flower. So now, all of the fondant flowers and butterflies are done, the cakes are all in the fridge already frosted with buttercream frosting and just waiting for the fondant. :) I will put that on in the morning and then add all of the butterflies and flowers. I am not sure how I plan to store the cake until the party. I think I would like to put it in the fridge, but think it will be too big. Not sure what I'll do about that.

Every time I make these cakes I say, "I forgot how hard this is!" It's so satisfying to see the finished product though! Right about where I'm at in the process is when I start to wonder if they are going to turn out though. I start to get nervous and wonder what I got myself into! Ha. I hope that my disaster tonight will be the last disaster I have! Pictures to come!