I guess it just stopped being fun with this cake. I was all excited to make the coolest sweet 16 cake I could for a dear friend's daughter. She designed it and everything. I was ready to make her cake dreams come to life...and my personal nightmare to begin. I was trying to make a topsy turvy cake (my first ever!) and it was a disaster. I ended up having the top layer split in two and I proceeded to have a messy, tantrum like melt down! Needless to say, I threw cake all over my kitchen floor and sat down on the floor, covered with chocolate cake, and began to cry (very loudly, in the hopes that Roger, my husband, would wake up to save me from my mess). Roger did not come, but an epiphany did: I was no longer enjoying baking cakes. I would end up eating the left over scraps and before I knew it 20 of the 50 lbs. that I had lost, found their way back onto my butt! Needless to say, I finally snapped last Friday night at 1:00am. But I could not show up that this young ladies house empty handed.
Luckily, as usual, I had over baked. So I turned the chocolate cupcakes into music themed cupcakes. Add a little garnish onto the white fondant cupcakes and went to work on salvaging the bottom layer of the white cake...
Here is what I was able to do... I was not at all pleased, but I was exhausted.
So figuring that this just needed to be a freebie...It had gained me my backbone and my courage to say NO TO CAKE! 
This is officially the end of my cake baking fundraiser. I will probably still make a cake here or there, but I doubt it. I think I will give the glory and the fun to cake decorating back to my daughters. I will go back to scrapbooking and cardmaking...at least no extra calories are consumed there!!!
