I got an order for a blue soccer ball cake for a baby shower.  Cute idea, right?  I do have all the paperwork for my business, but it’s just a one woman show and I do it out of my house.  So I usually make my cakes late at night after my 4 kiddo’s are in bed.  Last night I got this cake done in pretty good time.  I was pleased I wouldn’t have to work on it during the day at all and could get some shopping done for a craft I’m working on.  Anyway.  Yesterday evening I drove up to the address to deliver the cake and when I got their and opened my trunk this is what I saw…

AAAKKKK!!!!!  I have NEVER had this happen to me.  It was snowing, and I did have trouble stopping very well, but it still shouldn’t have fallen over!  I blame it on the fruit filling (I despise fruit filling, mostly because I’m not really a fan of many fruits!).  Luckily the shower isn’t actually until this morning.  Another first, Usually I deliver the cake right before the event.  But I don’t usually deliver cake’s on Sunday’s so that’ why I was delivering Saturday night.  Good thing I did because I now have time to fix it. 

Actually there was no fixing this cake.  The top have was still in decent condition, but the bottom completely cracked and broke.  SO I had to start from scratch.  I asked the client if I could use ganache instead of the fruit.  Once ganache dries it act’s like a glue, It’s really my favorite frosting to work with. The only negative is that it’s not very thick, so frosting lovers aren’t satisfied.  But with this cake, being a star tip and not fondant there is still plenty of icing.  I not only used ganache to ‘glue’ the layers together, but also around the entire outside to hold it better. Then a thin layer of butter cream and then the lines and the star’s.  I actually thought this cake was much better than the first one, but no one else can probably see the little details that bugged me about the first one.  Anyway it’s done and now I just have to get through the new snow without being late or getting stuck!

A few MONTHS ago I made this cake, it was actually the week after the hurricane in September. And since then life has been a little crazy. I completely forgot about posting it, and I just found the pictures! So I figured I might as well show it now. I donated a few certificates for cakes to my daughters school last year, and this used one of those certificates. The person who ordered this was actually the future grandmother and she lives here. We designed the cake to go with the cape cod bedding her daughter had chosen.
After we had it all design I found out that the shower was over 3 hours away in Austin! Having to make a cake that can be transported 3 hours the day before the event was difficult. Especially since they wanted one layer to be carrot with Creme cheese frosting! So I had to deal with refrigeration issues, fondant etc…. To solution was to keep the layers separated and have someone put it together there (so they could put the cream cheese frosting layer in the fridge overnight. I never got a good picture of it put together, so here is the best I have, this is right before they drove off! If you can’t tell the top layer is supposed to be a lifesaver!