When mother’s get it all wrong

When mothers get it wrong, we’re in big trouble. Especially if it’s the birthday cake for your 8yr old son. We received an email 2 weeks ago for an order for a zip lining theme cake. The mother was adamant that the cake must have an icing figure zip lining from tree to tree. We played around with a few ideas that could work taking gravity into account and the weight of an icing figure…

Friday morning the cake is delivered, later in the morning we get a call from the mother with a child in the background clearly distressed. There is a big problem with the cake! Possibly the worst call to receive, your mind races through all the cakes that were delivered that day and what possibly could have gone wrong. Did the bird on the top of the 3^rd tier fall off and take out all the other decorations? Did the fairies head fall off? You start to panic inside but try and stay as calm as possible to find out which cake and what happened?

Oh the cake is stunning she says, its just, she got the wrong theme!! Her son is having a tobogganing party and the cake should have a child in a toboggan cart coming down a ramp. Her son is distraught and can we please change the cake, now, she’s on her way? We could have made such a great toboggan theme cake and so much less stressful as well.

I think overall we did good in the adaptation from zip lining to toboggan but it could have been so different. Mum’s and Dad’s, you have got to get the basic theme right to begin with, then, and only then is it safe to leave it up to us to make the best possible cake!!

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