2008 October « G & A Cakes

Hanna’s First Birthday Cupcake Cake! October 26, 2008

Filed under: Birthday Cakes — Gina Marie @ 11:57 pm

This cake turned out amazing! It was a two-tiered (3-layers for each tier) Yellow Cake with Vanilla Buttercream icing. It was to feed about 20 people along with a matching “smash cake” for the Birthday Girl. We also included 6 matching cupcakes to make sure there was enough cake for everyone.

First, we will say it had a 8″ base with a 12″ top tier. After a lot of hard work, we delivered the cake. Somewhere along the travels, it started to fall (we think one of the wooden dowels in the bottom tier tilted on an angle which made the cake twist). Cake decorators get scared when they see a cake starting to lean a bit. We all had hopes, though, that it would hang in there and make it until the party the next day. We said lots of prayers after delivering that cake.

Not so lucky. The customer called in the morning telling us the bottom tier collapsed and the top slid off.

We prepared icing bags with tips and made a little “Emergency Repair Kit” and headed on our way to the customer’s home. We brought along an already iced 9″ base (3-layer) tier since the first base had collapsed. We salvaged the top layer and managed to slide it onto a new cake board and get it on top of the base. We fixed the icing and piped in where it needed to be fixed and added more sprinkles. We had brought a new cake board in with the new base so it needed writing again. All was well again.

All was accomplished and it looked great. If you didn’t know about the mishap, you wouldn’t have known a thing. The customers were very pleased with the cake and said it was exactly what they had invisioned. That makes it so worthwhile to see how happy they were and it was all that they wanted it to be. We surely hope Hanna had a great First Birthday!