I think I've really messed up on this one . My daughter started her new kindergarten last week and on Monday one of the others mothers ask if I could do a cake for the teacher for tomorrow - sure, I say! It is to be a present from the kids who are leaving the class to go into the 3rd grade. She was very specific about the design - she wanted the cake to include Jip & Janneke (famous Dutch children's literature characters that the kindergarten class is named after), and serve about 24. I went with a 12in hexagon (just because I wanted to use these pans at last!). Cake came out fine (scratch), filled and crumb coated no problems. Now, although many of you guys are used to sweltering heat and humidity - here in Holland we're not! Anyhoo My buttercream was just melting off the cake no matter how much I put it in the fridge! I decorated it last night and when I checked on it this morning, the top border had slid down the sides of the cake ! I scrape that off and fix it with (thankfully!), some buttercream I had left over. By this time I'm running late for work, so I just put it back in the fridge and run out the door. When I get back, I notice that I'd scraped some frosting of the sides of the cake and you could see the cake in places ! So I mix up some more natural coloured buttercream, but when I patch up the bare spots this is whiter than what was on there already AAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!! So I colour some more pink and do scrolls on the sides to try to cover up the obvious difference

Here's the result (oh, the hand-painted fondant plaque I did I love!), I'm very scared now that the mother who ordered it will think it wasn't worth her money (even though I gave her a 15 euro discount!). I just wanted this to be perfect for the teacher and (of course!), to get me some future business. Am I being way to perfectionist about this or did I mess up?

The cake is beautiful! Buttercream changes color a bit when it dries - I'm sure you couldn't even tell!