Never never again will I think "this is going to be easier that the last cake" I made my second cake this weekend, it came out better that the first...I think. I originally thought that I would make a chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream and fondant cover. I was making a cake shaped like a barrel with water and bubbles on top and a rubber duckie in the center. The first cake top split when I pot it on top 
but I fixed that with the butter cream 
than I was thinking if I am real careful the fondant will go smoothly and cover any mistakes. I ripped in many places 
After a hour I finally gave up and decide that it was just not going to work out. Ok I am out of fondant and powder sugar but I still have more than enough of chocolate butter cream and plain. So I bake another chocolate cake and this time I let it cool a bit longer, I level it and the first one goes well but the other was a little rough....no problem I think I will just use the butter cream to balance it out... 
that really does not work so well I ice it and for me the icing is really smooth. I made a homemade gel to do the art work in the sides with, not as easy as it sounded, but in the end it is a little lopsided but after many hours of work and the exhaustion I decide that it worked well enough. I will try to post the pic tonight but just one small question, does that little voice that tells you your work is crap ever really leave. Everyone who sees it says that I must have talent but I look at it and see all it's faults.
P.S. I did find out later I prob. should have froze the cake before icing it. 
I did look at this site more than I did for the first one! I am getting better!
With each cake you will get better and better and learn all the little tips of what not to do...It takes time and practice and many "I'll do it different next time" cakes.
Every time I make a cake, there is always something I would do differently next time. Keep your chin up and keep trying, this was only your second cake. It does get easier with practice (lots and lots of practice - I still have lots to go) And most importantly, always remember that we are our own worst critics. Your cake is probably a lot better than you give yourself credit for!
Thanks for the support, I think I just need to make a few more cakes and than I will be able to relax more. This weekend I will be making my first stacked cake and I am really worried about that one. I am going to keep this one simple. (well, I will try 
) I will post about how it goes and the story behind it since it is a funny one on Monday or Tuesday.
Sorry you had so many problems but I think that your cake came out very cute! I have never had a cake that I was completely happy with. I made a cake for my mom for mother's day and she is still talking about it, she shows strangers the picture of the cake like it's one of her grankids. Whenever I look at the picture I just think....my fondant was lumpy....I could have done the flowers better.....my ruffle wasn't ruffley enough...I could go on and on. ps3884 hit the nail on the head.....we are our own worst critics.
Wonderful job yukisaru! I wouldn't have known it was only your second cake.
I agree with the others...
there will always be something you see wrong with your own work.
I think it's that voice in our head telling us it's crap that makes us strive to do better...
reckon?
Yukisaru, your cake is really lovely! How did you make bubles and ducky?
Maybe, try to bake cake evening before you decorate. Then it has more time to cool overnight and get in a way more "stable" again ( once somebody told me that it's sth about molecular structure etc... anyhow, it works for me very well). Just my 2 cents...
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