The Caramel Cake Disaster

It doesn't look like much of a disaster but trust me it was. I saw this cake and just really wanted to try the technique because it is so simple. You basically pipe a large dot on your cake and take a tip of a spoon or knife and draw it to one side. So simple...if your caramel frosting will cooperate and if your mixer doesn't break whilst making caramel frosting..which mine did...which caused the frosting not to set up well and in the heat of our kitchen..it tried to separate. I had to keep mixing it--by hand--and putting it back in the refrigerator but I finally got it done. This was a very nice tasting cake though and I will use that technique again because it is easy and turned out so nice.