Penny, that story is great! lol, glad it had a happy ending!!
I don't have a great cake story to share, but I was reminded of my husband's grandmother who nearly burned her house down trying to feed her fireplace a tree! She'd found a huge branch in her yard and thought she could burn it a little at a time if she stuck one end into the fireplace and just push it in as it burned. So she had this huge tree branch aflame at one end and the other end was on the other side of her house. Fortunately company arrived just in time to save her from herself!

Mookey, you're too, too kind!

AliciaSue, no, not lately, but I do have a fridge magnet that says "Dinner's ready when the smoke alarm goes off." My family thinks it's real funny.

SLK, sad but true. What's worse is that I dated one of them in high school.

When I was about 13, I decided to make a cake for my Dad. Now, I am the daughter and grandaughter of great bakers so I was on my way to stardom right? Only scratch would do---no mix for me. First off, I decided a blue cake would be beautiful. No, not a soft blue but a bright neon blue. Anyway, after creaming the butter, etc, etc, the recipe said to beat 2 egg whites stiffly. I cracked the eggs in a bowl. I looked and looked.....stuffed my head in that bowl. The only thing that I saw that was white were those 2 little thingys. I fished them out wondering how in the world I was going to beat those things. Oh well, apparently they know what they are talking about. I plopped those 2 thingys in the bowl, grabbed that hand mixer and .......well, you know those things got lost in the beaters. Well, I decided that obviously that recipe had a typo so I just skipped that part. Neadless to say, those cake layers were like 2 blue pancakes. I then made bright blue frosting and thickly covered the cake to make it look like the right size. My dad said it was wonderful. We still laugh over that!!

When my sister and I were about 8 and 10 years old we decided to make a cake for Mom. We pulled out the kids cookbook and got started. The top of the recipe specified how much of each ingredient, but the recipe itself said "add 2 cups of ingredients". I thought that meant of each, so I put in 2 cups of baking soda, flour, cocoa powder, etc.
That rock cake could have broken cement. All my Mom could ask was if she had anything left in her kitchen.
I certainly hope my cakes taste better now!

How funny, the last two stories are just roll on the floor funny. My coworkers now think I have lost my mine.

My mom and dad had invited me and my daughters over for dinner one night (Mom was making fried chicken,cabbage, beans and cornbread..my favorite)..I had a few cake mixes here so I thought I would whip up my dad a cake really quick to take over there. Well the cakes all turned out great. I stacked 2 6 inch squares with buttercream and strawberry filling. Well it just wasn't wanting to be sturdy so I thought I will throw it in the freezer for a little bit and let it firm up some...

WELLLLLL upon opening the freezer and shifting some things around to make it fit while holding the cake. A book that DH had placed on top of the fridge fell off and hit me in the head, then the cake begins to shift and I put my hand up to catch it. Only my hand did not catch it my BOOBS did. ALL this while DD6 is watching with her jaw to the floor. Well the cake fell all apart and I am covered in strawberry filling. DD grabs a plate and I threw it all on the plate and threw it in the freezer just to get it off of me...LOL

After I get it in the freezer DD looks at me and takes her finger and reaches up to the nearest BOOB and swipes her finger across and puts her finger in her mouth and says, "Mom, that stuff is pretty good", and then she casually walks off while I stand there covered in cake!!! LOL

I ended up taking the broken and shifted cake to dad anyway since he will eat ANYTHING. Had it been for a customer I would have went outside and dug a hole and got in!!!! LOL

jennifer293 - I'm cracking up at the ..."she casually walks off while I stand there covered in cake!!"..line. I could see my dd doing the same thing...how funny

Ooooh, I remember one! It wasn't me but my DD. When she was younger, she would experiment with baking and her BB's were her test rats. She decided to try her hand at making a cake (not sure what she did) but it was like rubber. No kidding, it actually bounced...several times! We had a good giggle over it. The boys still tease her about that rubber cake.

These are too funny! I don't think I quite have a funny story to share just yet - things are too close to me..... haven't had time to find the funny in my disasters just yet Although my my little pony cake I got so frustrated with that the ponies on the side of the house were basically blobs that I just threw up there - didn't even try to sculpt it that much. Then I was going to give it away to someone and told htem to come pick it up the next day and they never came! I had already taken a small slice out of the back b/c it was a test cake but after that - everyone had at it Tasted pretty darn good too!!!

I've been "seriously" doing cakes for about 5 years now & have NEVER EVER allowed anyone to actually pick up one of my cakes...I've always delivered them to the event. My cakes are like my children & I've extremely overprotective of them. Well - someone from my neighborhood wanted a graduation cake to drive downstate for their granddaughter's party & was all excited. She begged and pleaded and I very respectfully advised her I didn't think it was wise...long trip, overprotective cake nut (me) not there to ensure it's safety, etc. but she won and I let it go. Mind you...the roses on the cake were absolutely perfect...best I've ever done... overall the cake was (I thought) beautiful. After I let the cake drive away down the street I get a call from her on her cell phone...not even 5 minutes later...she's crying hysterically telling me that her stupid brother-in-law who they'd just picked up from the airport earlier that day dropped his HUGE water bottle onto the cake and it rolled over 1/2 the roses, borders, etc. Of course I thought she was joking and I was laughing hysterically until I realized she wasn't laughing back with me...only crying harder. I had her bring it back and one hour later it looked almost as good as before. I had to scrape off half the cake to repair it. I was thinking about framing the water bottle fiasco photo as a "Don't let this happen to you" public service announcement.

Well I am pretty new to decorating and I made an Elmo cake for a friends daughter. I was completely naive to coloring my icing and I just couldn't get my icing red enough. I ended up using the entire bottle of no taste red gel. When I had completed elmo he was a perfect red and I was really happy with the color. When my friend took elmo out of the box the next day for the party, he was dark maroon!! I was so embarrassed but at least the kids ate it. I guess you learn as you go!!

Linda - yes, I actually do deliver my cakes and figure in a small delivery fee. If it's far I tell them there's an additional charge and no one has complained yet considering the price of gas and their time. I usually will find shopping, etc. to do on the way back home. If gas gets too high I'll have to cut the cord on that service.

IamSusie,
Is your avatar actually YOUR dog eating YOUR cake? Or is it just a picture you found?

Jenifer293~ I am DYING over your story! I was crying for laughing so hard!

These are all so funny, this is such a great post!

One of the first character cakes I ever made was a Darth Vader cake. (My avatar). We're all BIG Star Wars fans over here.

The cake is usually dark brown but I wanted a black cake so I used about half a jar of coloring. It turned out great I thought. Until I went to put it into the fridge and it instead slid face first down the side of the counter, taking ALL the frosting off!! No guide lines anymore, just a black blob!!
Took my other half of the jar and all my piping gel but it got done.

Also my kids pooped blue for 2 days!!!

these are hilarious. i know this is off topic but tspeaking of poo. my bassett hound ate a box of crayons and now has multi colored poo... and yes this is the same doofus hound that tripped me to get to my cake.lol

Mookey~ I have a basset hound too, Lola, and she thinks that whatever I have is for her. She once ate a box of markers, so not only did she have funky poo my carpet was ruined too. They are soo darn cute though, it's hard to be mad at them!

lol. yah, they give you the sad eyes and you cant resist their slobbery charm, though i keep mine in doggy lockdown(the laundry room) when i make cakes now, maybe i should do that when the kids are coloring too?lol

Well I'm pretty new to this cake decorating but I've had my share of mishaps already.

My first one was the 2nd cake I made in my Wilton Course 1 class. I thought it came out pretty good and was excited to bring it in and show my sister. Well as I tried to take it out of the car the box came undone and out fell the cake. What a mess.

I was so mad that I just threw it away. My sister asked where the cake was and I told her in the trash. She knew not to ask anything else.

Another one was when I was doing my first 3D cake. I got baked up and was in the middle of icing the cake when I tilted my cake stand so I could get to the feet of the bear.

I looked away for just a second and out of the corner of my eye I saw the cake falling breaking into a million pieces all over the floor after hitting the counter.

My two dogs came running and tried to eat as much as they could before I was able to push them away and clean it up.

Thankfully no major mishaps since.

Speaking of Basset Hounds, I did a Basset Hound cake, and they're even cute when made of frosting!

Awe! That Basset Hound is cute!

ok oddly enough I still dont know much about frosting science, but I know more than I did when I made a teletubby cake (photo belongs in worst cake- but I'm still trying to track it down LOL) for one of my nieces years ago. So I used a tubbies cakepan, and I had them all beautifully decorating with BC. Blue and red and green or yellow I dont remember what the colours are anymore on that cake pan lol. My best friend and I are both going to the birthday party. Now see, it was a hot May afternoon, and I had work and things going on so I only got to decorate the cake that afternoon. So there we are driving to my niece's house. She turned 3 that year I think. Cake sitting on my lap, me in the passenger seat. Well, ignorant me not knowing about crusting and how different icings take different lenghts of time to harden, it hadnt remotely hardened yet, so in comes hot May sun shining on my cake. And the cake was not totally even on my lap, so the colours all started sliding down volcanic lava style down the bottom and over the edge. (looked like a brutal homicide if you ask me). ACK well my friend and I were laughing so hard I dont know how she held the camera straight to take a pic ) Luckily my niece pointed to the cake and said 'TUBBIES!' right away so was not all a loss LOL

2nd story, last year mom's day, 6 yr old wants to bake lemon cake for his mom- I always let them help - they love to mix and stir and what not- so auntie digs through sis's cookbook to find lemon cake- ahhh lemon pudding cake- even better - nice and moist. Auntie doesnt bother noticing that the recipe only called for about 1 cup of flour (and was under dessert section, not cake section DUH) so we mix all together , and stick in oven. I send 6 year old away while cake is baking. I start browsing other recipes and notice my mistake. I freak out and yank the cake out of the oven (5 minutes into baking), and toss in a bunch more flour and mix it around and put it back in the oven LOL) -believe it or not it turned out ok LOL (I now know that pudding cake isnt really cake LOL

I'm not used to laughing so hard this early in the morning! These stories are hillarious!

Here's my funny one ~

I usually let my 5 year old daughter practice her cake skills on leftover cakes. One day I didn't have any extras so she asked if she could make one on a paper towel. She said she was making a "cake" for her grandmother. She was so proud of her finished product and couldn't wait to deliver it.
Well, a client was coming over to pick up a cake and I didn't want all the cake stuff on the table.
So, I put them in the oven. Forgetful me FORGOT them. Next day, I turned the oven on . A few minutes later I start smelling the "papertowel" cake and my bags/tips cooking . I quickly opened the oven and removed everything. Fortunately my tips weren't ruined and the bags were parchment. I was so upset because I thought I ruined my DD's special cake.

I knew I had to face up to her and tell her the truth. I was so worried that she would cry because I ruined her cake. Turns out ~ after explaining to her what I had done, she hugged me and thanked me for baking her grandmothers "papertowel cake".

Am I a good mom or what??

P.S. Baking buttercream gives it a nice shiny look.

Thanks Linda!

Her hug made it worth all the stress (and mess).