Birthday Cake

The Wedding Cake.....DISASTER

I prepped so much for my brothers wedding cake and made sure dotted all my "I's" and crossed all my "T's". At the beginning of June I asked the bride to clear it with her mom that I could construct the cake at their house. I was nervous and excited to do this cake, it was my first wedding cake. 

To make a long story short I didn't have access to the kitchen and was only provided a small round table to so ALL my work on (torte, fill, frost, and stack!). Someone turned the a/c off and it got really humid (it rained a lot for about an hour and a half) and I'm sure you could imagine what happened to my buttercream and cakes that were once firm due to refrigeration before I got there. I could add another coat and had to present a cake with...CRUMBS! How tacky! In addition I had to frost the tiers stacked. My mom made a small spot for me on their dining room table which was being occupied by a lot of stuff, but I only had the area for a few minutes before guest started sitting there to get out of the rain. Even though I had stuff sitting there, yep, some lady sat right by one of my fillings, leveler, and other items I was using. Here's the crappy looking cake that tasted awesome! The middle tier was filled with lemon curd and raspberries and the bottom was cream cheese and strawberries. The cake itself was a white cake with LorAnn champagne flavored oil. The anniversary tier was the same minus the fruit and I added creme bouquet. 

BTW...the cake was suppose to be decorated way differently but I was so through that I threw the flowers on there and called it quits. AND YES, the table that the cake is on was my work space!

This was the original design...