This truly happened to me!
I was just moving it back to the fridge, and randomly thinking about the movie An Affair to Remember, and then it slipped right out of my hands.
(Enter my stomach and heart falling out if my body!)
At the moment the picture was taken, I was sobbing in frustration! And if you know me, then you know I am not an emotional person. ( Ok, so I cry in almost every movie I ever watch and book I read. I’m not heartless!!)
It was due for delivery the next morning at 8:00am and it was 1:00am at the time it was dropped.
And the lovely filling/frosting takes over an hour to set up in the fridge, not counting the actual assembly.
Now, I look at this picture and laugh! They always say you have to drop something just once to be a true baker. Well, hopefully this will be the last time this happens to me!
Has something of this terrible nature ever happened to you? Comment and let me know about how you coped.
Just come to the realization, that at some time in your baking life your little crumbs will be all over the floor!
September 14th, 2011 at 7:36 am
Oh my dear, it is so disheartening to see a good cake (or two!) hurl to the ground before being sliced and enjoyed.
I have a little story to share… when my brother turned 8 my mum baked and and iced a giant green t-rex – it was truly beautiful – it had pale green frosting and liquorice eyes and green mint jelly leaf spikes! It was a rainy day at my tiny school so all us little ones were in the big room watching a movie – the cake was proudly on display on a shelf to be enjoyed by all at the end of the day. One fidgety girl kept playing with the side of the cake plate – the teacher told her off for doing so, but alas, she kept on until the whole thing fell off the shelf and onto a poor bystander’s head. My brother was very sad by the whole affair. This was 16 years ago….
Then it just happened I was in a shop with my mum last year and who should be working there but the cake destroying culprit from all those years ago; she recognised us and said she still felt distressed by destroying that beautiful cake! We begged her to let it go, that it wasn’t such a big deal… and that maybe for my brothers next birthday (25th) my mum might just craft another one.
the end