Hannah Montana....disaster....

So i started making this simple cake. Just a 10"x10" cake with a Hannah Montana theme. Thought i could just whip it out, no problem. Well that was my FIRST mistake. I had baked the cake the day before in two 10" layers. When i got them out, BOTH of them cracked right down the middle! I thought, no big deal, i'll stick it together with some buttercream and we'll be good to go! (It was for a friends kid, and i knew she wouldn't care). Well....then i realized that AFTER i stuck it together and put the crumb coat on it that it was still on my cutting board, not the cake board. CRAP. I attempted to move it.....

The fault lines erupted and the whole dang cake split into about 5 pieces. Even worse than it looks in this picture. It was a bad earthquake....So i started over. I baked a whole new cake, this time in one layer instead of two. And i didn't fill it like the first one because i was running out of time. Which was really sad because that strawberry filling was AWESOME!

So after i threw a few cooking utensils across the kitchen and got the new cake going, i started on the fondant. I was kinda scared considering how the rest of the day was going. (In the midst of all this, i had a cranky two year old that couldn't decide if he wanted inside or outside and got bit on the face by a wasp...) But it went FABULOUS! The fondant was very obedient, and all my creative juices were flowing when i cut out the Hannah Montana logo. Even my husband was very impressed with how much it looked like the real one!

So even after disaster, the cake made it through in time (well...i was ALMOST on time) to the party! The birthday girl loved it, and i was glad everyone else thought it was cute too!