OMG, I just have to vent!! I am so tired and this cake is giving me fits!!!! I am making a full sheet cake half vanilla and half chocolate. The chocolate just fell to pieces and the cake is due at 11 THIS morning!!!! I am so tired from a day spent volunteering with field day, doing my regular job for 5 hours, stocking the store until 10:30 and now this!! I am a wreck, especially sine the customer already paid me $100 for it and he is my hubby's new boss!!! What should I do. He really didn't need this big of a cake, but I couldn't convince him otherwise. Now I feel guilty and I haven't even put the vanilla half to it yet!!!! What am I going to do. I haven't had more than 4 hours sleep in the last 48 and I am in tears!! I think I should maybe give him his $$ Back and the cake explaing the entire story. I just had to get this out because I feel like I am going to explode!!!!!

Hey Tanya, take a deep breath. Stick the cake into the freezer or fridge, get it nice and cool and try again. Try and keep calm, I know, difficult, but go and try and sleep for a couple of hrs and come back to it, when it's cool

is it in pieces?? like you cant wrap it and freeze it for a bit?

OK, Take it EZ. I have put cakes back together that looked like jigsaw puzzels and always managed to fix them. If you can, describe for us how it looks and where it fell apart. When you took it out of the pan did the sides come crumbling down, is there a crack in the middle.

Tanya,
The freezer & icing are your best friends right now! If you look in my pics I believe its the second one over...it's a graduation sheet cake...The cake fell apart in pieces when I put it on the board...like the choc cake was literally in 5 pieces....I stuck it in the freezer like Twins & Ursula said & then I pieced it back together gluing it with icing...then stick back in freezer for a few & frost. Noone ever noticed & it cut just fine

See, everyone has had problems. Believe the others no one will know. Most people think it is just great that you can even make a cake. You'll see. Let us know though what happened, OK?

Thanks you guys. I took all of the advice--icing, freezing and sleep. It is now 8 am and I am in the final throws of this thing. I had the jigsaw on the board problem. But I am in the zone now. I just want to get it done and out of my house now!!!! Thanks again! You all are so great! I will post a pic when I get done.

Tanya

Icing is an excellent cover up and works great as a "glue"

I did a Blues Clues cake once that fell into about 20pcs. A little (ok, maybe alot) of icing coverup and all was good again, no one knew any different.

Barb

Tanya,
I'm glad everything worked out for you...now you can get some sleep!

Cute Glasses on the Cheetah Cake, by the way.