Well Dang,
I've had a busy busy week this past week. I had a huge wedding cake for this weekend that required me to do some sugar roses (posted in the previous post) Those took me for flippen ever to get done. Sheesh!!!
Why I waited til the last week for this to get done and not knowing if the people were gonna actually pay for this (which by the way they haven't yet). ARRGGGHHHHHH!!!! I ain't sayin no names here because ya never know they might just have thought that I actually meant two weeks AFTER the wedding instead of the two weeks BEFORE the wedding that I said that they needed to come in and pay for it. See what you get for trusting people?? Hell, I haven't even been kissed n didn't even get a reacharound!! (sorry for the adult content there. LOL)!
Aww, but that's not why ya'll came to this here blog.
This all started a few months ago when the nice young couple came in and did a consult for us. She had pictures and all kinds of stuff she wanted on the cake. She came in with her fiance, she came in with her mom. I'm thinking, "kewl, someone who wants me to do something besides the proverbial walmart cake! How neat!"
Little did I know what I was in for, even though this ain't my first rodeo if ya know what I mean. Heck, after working at walmart for all those years and doing all those "walmart" type wedding cakes because that's what they wanted, (you know, simple buttercream with fluffy borders, roses coming out of every crevice, and every imaginable shell n fluff you can dream of). Those take just a couple days to do. One day is for baking and the next for decoration and setup. Not this one, nope!
This one had three different flavors with three different fillings. Ok, not so bad. But I get to the bakery friday night and fer cryin out loud, I have two more orders which I need to bake for as well. Full Sheet cakes mind you those humongous 18"x24" monstrosities that can feed an army or maybe a two teenage boys who've been on a hunger strike for a week. That wasn't the half of it. OMG, I start getting the wedding cake ready for it's debut on Saturday, when lo n behold, I double check the order and fer cryin out loud, I mixed up the top layer and the bottom layer. ARRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!
After a couple of well placed cuss words. (we've already had our adult entertainment for the day in the first paragraph, so I won't go into detail as to what I actually said), I cut the bottom layer, which was supposed to be the top layer into the prerequisite 8" cake. So far so good. Now to the fun part. Beings I already had a rush order with the baby shower and birthday cake. I had to bake off those as well, all chocolate, thank God!! So I wouldn't have to be measuring out a whole lot of different ingredients. I got the bottom cake rebaked. But, it has to be cooled off in order for me to decorate it without it being a crumbly mess. (especially chocolate cake sheesh)! So while it's cooling, I get the other two layers all iced, o yeah, my icing I had made earlier for this cake, was way way too gritty and I had to remake that as well!!! ARRGGGHhhh !! Sheesh! I get that all done, start on icing the cakes, so far so good, I think!
I got those iced and ready for the next step. Now I've got to make MORE icing for those two full sheet cakes. Get that done, get those decorated and boxed n ready. Look up at the clock and, crap, it's already 9. I'm thinkin, dangnabit, I still have to wait for this other cake to cool off enough so I can ice it without messing it up and my icing supply is runnin sorta low anyway after those other two (gotta remember that they were 14" 12" and n 8" and they take quite a bit of icing). I had been at the bakery since 7 that morning. Dang, my feet were killing me (still are by the way), I called my son to help me clean up (he's such a wonderful helper, as long as there's a 20 spot in it for him, lol), we got all cleaned up and I said, "Well, ya know what? If we stay here we're gonna be in the way of the donut lady (who hates my guts btw). So we finished cleaning up and I am gonna be there bright and early the next morning. So I thought!!!!!
I got to work at 8 am the next morning with full intentions of getting that darn cake finished and on it's way by 3 that afternoon. Wouldn't you know it though, the bakery was actually very busy and I ended up having to help on the counter most of the morning. All this while I'm tryin to get new icing made, the fondant made, icing the previously baked bottom layer and decorating them all with a fondant top. Now another thing about this cake was that she wanted ivory colored icing with the white fondant, now I don't know about you but there is definitely a difference in marshmallows. I kid you not!!! Apparently the brand I had used wasn't a true white, but an offwhite, sorta like the same color as the damn icing, which I was so careful to get a lovely ivory/offwhite color. Sheesh!!!! Now WHAT!!! Thank God for airbrushes. OI!! So I get that all figured out, decorate em, stack em and we are ready to rock n roll!!!!
We got the darn thing loaded (I think it weighed about 100 lbs. I swear). We start out from the alley in the back of the bakery and my son is freakin cause he hears the cake jiggling. I stop he get's out and sits in the back to keep n eye on the thing while I drive ever so carefully to the venue. All the while I'm asking if it looks OK and all he can mumble is, "Mom, it's jiggling like jell-o, IT'S JIGGLING!!!!!!" Man, he was freakin, I was freakin, we were having a regular freakin good time. NOT!!!!
We get to the venue and I explain to the person in charge that under NO circumstance was I taking that THING up any stairs whatsoever!!! She directs me to the back doors and we get it all unloaded, I place the flowers and look around, NOPE, no one there from the wedding party. No check, no nothing. Now I am in a pickle. So I ask the banquet lady, what time are they supposed to be there, she says, oh around 5. Can you all see my eyes rolling? 5? Here I was thinking that I was going to be running late and getting all this done n stuff. So I figure, heck, I'll have her sign off on the cake to make sure that she knows that it was ok and that it was fine when we left ( no worries I also took pics to cover my butt). I figure, Oh, heck, we can either wait around or go to wallyworld and do a little shopping, go back to see if anyone was there yet. We do that, get back and there is no one there, CRAP!!! So I say heck with it, I'll call her Monday and we'll go from there.
So, that's where I stand today, not knowing if I'm going to get paid, (you know how brides can sometimes be, they want the moon a certain shade of blue and if it's not exactly right, they like totally freak). So I'm sitting here writing to ya'll about this cake and crossing my fingers that I'll actually get paid for my trouble. I will keep ya'll informed as to the outcome of this.
Now for some eyecandy....
