You Can't Always Get What you Want...

This cake was a comedy of errors. Almost every design detail was created to mask a mistake. This was the first time I drew and colored my design out. My design was out the window when on my 4th attempt to cover the bottom tier with my homemade chocolate fondant, I realized that I needed to move on, rethink and keep going.

Chocolate fondant in the garbage. Plan B in effect. ( only problem was I hadn't made a plan B ) I do believe that by the time I finished the cake I was probably at Plan E. Plan F would have been failure and that was not an option.

Life lesson learned here could be summed up in the lyrics of a Rolling Stones song,
  " You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you might find
You get what you need"

In this case what I needed was a beautiful cake for my lovely stepmother's Sweet 16 /64th birthday, (Leap Year baby)  and that is what I got.

Side note : I've employed the above lyrics many times as a parenting tool. My boys are never impressed, particularly when I sing them .