Vent - I officially HATE chocolate fondant! =(

Sorry - I need to wind down so I can fall asleep, my alarm goes off in about 4 hours so I can go to my 'real' job. I figured a quick vent might help.

I am doing a cake for a friend's birthday tomorrow. It's a tiki head to go with the luau theme. I have had the worst time with this entire cake. First, I left the sour cream out of one of the batches of batter. It's a chocolate stout cake using a sour cream cake as the foundation... hello, sour cream is in the name! I tried to make gumpaste hibiscus flowers and had gorgeous petals, but they never came together just right and wound up breaking off the wires. OK, no flowers. Then I made my chocolate fondant tonight using the MFF updated recipe. I must have really done something wrong because I never could get it at a good consistency. It was still crumbly after adding a TON of glycerin. I wound up rolling it out 3 times and finally gave up. OK, I can recover from that - I'll just leave the cake covered in chocolate buttercream and use fondant for my accents. So I start to smooth the icing using the viva method and all the icing is peeling off - the crust should have formed like 3 or 4 hours ago since I've been arguing with my fondant since about 9pm (it's almost 1am now)!

I give up. I dusted the whole thing in PS and corn starch and hopefully it will crust up enough by the morning so I can smooth it before I go to work. Then when I get home at 6pm I can roll and cut out his facial details, get showered, get the baby to the sitter, and get over to her house by 8pm.

Wish me luck.

Thanks for the additional recipe. The buttercream did crust up enough for me to smooth this morning, and I was able to make 2/3 of his nose and 1/2 of his eyes before I left for work. At least were back on the right track and his little face is starting to take shape.