In a smiliar vein to the "Saving the Cake" thread started by jmt1714 I was thinking it would interesting to hear some stories where people have turned disasters around and all has turned out well. Whilst this one is not a strictly a cake disaster we have a restaurant and had a customer order Oysters Mornay take away and our casual chef picked up the wrong container and used pastry creme instead of mornay sauce but didn't realise until after the customer had paid and left. We were expecting to get a call and cop an earful about it. The customer did call saying his oysters tasted er..."different" but that he loved them and wanted to order another dozen for the next night. We thought of calling them dessert oysters and putting them on as a special but decided against it.

I have a friend that if she has a cake that sinks she fills the sunken part with filling and crushed up chocolate bars and yummy stuff and has had people rave about how great it was thinking that it was meant to be a feature of the cake.

Anyone else got any stories?

I turned this:



Into this:



Not only did it fall apart, but the edges were all overdone so I had to cut them all off. What was left was an extremely mangled looking cake. I patched the broken pieces back on with buttercream, ground up the leftover cake scraps with some buttercream and filled in all the holes, and then froze it. After that, I put a mask of buttercream on, and then the fondant. No one could tell what a mess it had looked like, and people raved about how good it looked and tasted. Thankfully this was for my own mother and family!

Wow, you guys give me hope! I would have given up and sent that cake packin' to the cake ball bin. Great job!