The Cake of Patience

There's a point where you just have to walk away when everything is going wrong...This was the cake from hell (I say it jokingly right now but not that week!). It was already a busy week for all of us but this was a family wedding shower so it was important for me to make this cake extra special! I absolutely wanted it to be pink velvet to match the pink in the shower theme...It looked pink in the mixing bowl but when it baked it turned teddy bear brown!! Ahh! When I came to roll out the fondant, it wasn't as easy as it usually is and I realized with horror that I had missed an important ingredient...water!! Too late at that point to add it in I just had to use more muscle to roll it out and it wasn't as smooth as I wanted. I had been struggling with the design since the beginning since I had free range to do whatever I wanted..I had made tons of little black and pink flowers and put them around the middle tier which at that point my husband informed me that the cake was leaning..YiKeS! I had to unstack the cake to fix the one dowel that was causing the problem when I dropped the second tier and luckily caught it before it hit one of our kitchen chairs! I put everything back together, slapped the flowers on the second tier and put it in the fridge but I had that feeling of "you can do better, Nia". I kept looking in the fridge and slamming the door shut in disgust..I was told to leave it alone and go to bed because I was about to go mad!! The next day on my to work the cake was haunting me...there was no way I was bringing it like that to the shower that night the way it was right now!! I left work at 11 only to go home and undo the whole design and start fresh with an extra bow and way better flowers. I felt so much better bringing the cake after revamping it...I'm still sighing with relief!