I am very very tired at the moment from staying up so late trying to make this cake work for the past few days. I just wanted to thank everyone out there for writing tutorials and answering questions and allowing us all to make use out of your knowledge. It's great how we can also learn from our mistakes and others. I have covered many cakes in fondant before and have never had a problem but this time I had nothing but problems. I even had fondant that felt sticky but appeared to be dry at the same time. I don't really understand how that's physically possible but that's what I got. I started thinking maybe it wasn't sticky and I was just crazy like my 3 year old who is always telling me his hands are sticky even after they've been washed and you can touch them and they're not sticky at all. It was sticking to things, though, so I'm not THAT crazy anyway! I ended up getting the cakes to look decent but after a long drive on the worst bumpy roads possible, they were bulging a bit around the very bottom and there were a few cracks that mostly got covered up by the ribbon. The ribbon was difficult to put on because I couldn't get the bulges back in. One part actually ripped and separated so I repaired that as much as possible and placed that side at the back since where the cake was located, no one would be going behind it. Thank goodness! Anyway, not a complete disaster but it really broke me down and I feel very defeated. The cake/fondant won... with a score of about 1 million to 1. Thanks again for all the posts!
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