I decided to make a cake with my brother and his family and my family out of pastillage as toppers for my mom's 71st B-day. She is a stroke victim and lives with me. She can not talk so I decided that that cake would be the best cake I ever would make.
So I started way in advance, having never made pastillage "people". All was going well, and on the day before the party, was assembling the cake when my hand by accident hit the foam where all my "people" were sitting on.
They all broke in thousands of pieces! I never cried as much for a cake as I did on that day.

I ended up buying a store cake, kept the secret from my mom, since she can understand me, but didnt show my face, otherwise I would just have started crying all over again.


I have a lot more respect for pastillage now

Oh hugs! What a good daughter you are!

Accidents happen.
PLEASE don't beat yourself up over this!

Thanks folks for the encouraging words.

I have decided to make the cake again, I still have the original sketches.
I won't let this cake or pastillage BEAT me!!!

Just don't know when as yet

I , too , am sorry this happened. Good luck with the next one. I do love to work with pastiallge.

I'm sure you felt so bad about this and I'm sorry it happened to you. You plan and plan, get it all right, then one little accident You are a good daughter.