I have been decorating cakes for about 14 years. I've been doing it professionally for the past 3 years. This past year I have been having trouble with a few of my cakes producing this brown syrup or pink syrup if strawberry cake running from underneath my frosting whether it is buttercream or fondant. I can't figure out what or why it is doing this. Has anyone else had this problem? I have tried blotting the cakes to remove excess moisture before frosting, I don't freeze my cakes so I am at a total loss. I have done literally hundreds and hundreds of cakes over the years and this has just started happening, not on every cake but more than I want. Thanks.

I'd love to know an answer for this as well. It happened to me just yesterday.

I can't figure it out. It has never happened to me until this past year and it has happened about 4-5 times.

Is this on cake mixes or scratch?

mine was a cake mix that I doctored with pudding mix and used milk and 4 eggs.

Also, mine was with only butter bc and i used coffee flavourings for the first time in that bc.

it has done it with both. once it was a redvelvet cake and it has happened with boxed cake as well.