Oh Ellie, big hugs, I agree delivering the cakes is the worst part. I had to deliver my wine barrel cake a few weeks ago and it was a two hour drive, I fell asleep part way there as I’d been up through the night finishing the cake and my hubby decided he felt cold and put the heater on full in the car :-O I woke up horrified as the car was so warm !!!!! (he will never ever do it again ha ha), my cake was dowelled and boarded, but the crumbcoat and filling was buttercream, so needless to say when we arrived my wine barrel had developed a lean, had slid across the board and looked drunk!!, the buttercream had softened that much that the wooden panels were bulging on the cake… I could have cried, I’ve never felt so sick. I’d taken an emergency kit of paste, paint…(half of the kitchen really) with me and spent an hour and half trying to make it look as good as possible, the chef at the venue kept coming out to calm me down bless him and even lent me a wooden board to help prop the cake up while is set again, but felt so awful. It made it worse as it was for a friend and we were invited to his party that evening, so I had to spend all night looking at it!! Our friend was over the moon with his cake and no one even seemed to notice that it was leaning, but I felt ill everytime I looked at it!!…I’ve now bought a sturdy stacker and am testing out using ganache instead of buttercream!!…I have a wedding cake to deliver soon and I am now terrifed!!
Sensational Sugar Art by Sarah Lou
