Cake Stops Play!

I got a phone call earlier this afternoon from the party planner from whom I get quite a bit of my work.

She sounded ashen! She said "Suzanne... can you help me out of a situation?"

I said "What's the matter?"

She said "I'll be honest with you. I sometimes use another cake maker. Well, she's delivered a £300 cake and it's crap! I've got a party for clients tomorrow in Kensington. They're spending £10,000 and I just can't take this cake to them." She went on to tell me it's a Harry Potter theme party at the Kensington Roof Gardens. She said the base of the cake is fine, but the Hogwarts castle is just terrible. She said "I'll pay you £200 if you can sort this out for me."

I told her to bring it over and I'd have a look, but that I'd be honest and if it wasn't something I could do, I would tell her.

She's just been. She wasn't joking! The base bit is fine. And there is A HELL OF A LOT of cake. However, the castle is a complete and utter joke. It's tiny. And not very good. So she's left the cake with me and I'll have to completely remove the sugarpaste 'castle' and make a new one from scratch.

This is going to put me back quite a bit, with the cookies. I managed to do 15 more today, from about 10am - 1pm [with only very occasional, short breaks! ;o) ]