Ok this is my worsed story about making cakes. I have been making cakes for years but the last year my busness have really picked up! So I had a big 3 teared anniversary cake and 2 dozen cupcakes.(ohh by the way I work out of a TINY apartment kitchen) And so I was working my tail off to get them both done. I have not busness experience or I have had no formal cake decorating schooling. So I thought that I would make my cupcake toppers out of royal icing that way I could do them ahead. So I did them and they were really cute, well as cute as a power ranger can be! And I let them dry and the day came I had to put them on and so I iced the cupcakes normally with butter cream. I thought now all I have to do is put the toppers on! WEll I put them on the night before I had to deliver them. And by the next morning they were completly melted! I totally forgot about the butter in the icing disolving the royal icing! Ohh well lessoned learned!

Yikes! that sounds messy!
But congratulations on having your own home business, without training and all that! That would be a lot of fun! Do you just post flyers everywhere? Or put ads in the paper?

Wow, they melted away fast! I stuck some RI pieces into some buttercream just as an experiment to see how long they'd last. After 10 day, they were still fine, and I ended the experiment. Maybe your icing just has more fats in it than what I use?

Well I mainly go on word of mouth and I only do it part time I am in college and so I do it for extra cash. It is the most fun part time job I have ever had! And I had very thin layer of royal icing decoration so that is why it melted so fast. But what type of icing did you use?

Let's see if this goes thru...the last one didn't. I used the Wilton Yearbook recipe for my RI. I believe it's just powdered sugar, water and meringue powder. I don't do RI much at all, so it's just a guess. I really feel for you, going to all that work and then having it disappear.