Long story about this! Firstly there's a wedding at my house tomorrow. It's gunna be tiny and private and nice... all that fun stuff. They asked me to do all the wedding day shots... like 4 days ago. :*panic* And then I guess they were talking about a cake and my 13 year old sister goes "Oh I'll make a cake!" not realizing she had a party the same day. So she baked the cake this morning, added a crumb coat and left the task to me for today. The last time I made a cake was like... February...
Bottom coat: 1 hour of fighting with it to make it perfectly smooth and then giving up.
Swirls: 2 hours off an on taking breaks because the stupid frosting refused to defy gravity for me and it kept falling down and blobbing when I tried to do the sides.
Roses: 4 hours of me probably making 50+ today and continuing to scrap them, coming back after freezing the frosting to make it stiffer, giving up and re-freezing the frosting and then finally getting a few I was happy with... and then re-dong them all.
Overall there's like 8-9 hours into this cake counting frosting mixing time, cleaning etc. I'm not 100% happy with it but I feel it's the best I could do after being so rusty and all.