Help!! Mff Black.. I Got The Color, But It Keeps Cracking!!!
Decorating By mrsbriggs06 Updated 19 Apr 2009 , 7:38pm by mrsbriggs06
& my sis in law has to leave to deliver it in an hour!! 
*it's for her class cookout & won't be eaten till later in the week, but she has to deliver it 2 hours away so she needs to take it today..*
we made chocolate MFF.. and managed to get it black.
let it rest & the color darkened nicely..
now i'm trying to roll it out & it keeps cracking/tearing & i know there's no way this will cover a square cake...
help!!
would a bit crisco not help as well?
and dont roll it out on powdered sugar!
xx
would a bit crisco not help as well?
xx
No, more crisco at this point will make it crumble. It needs agents that increase stretch-- glycerine or maybe corn syrup.
If the ratios are really badly out of wack, you may need to make another "loose" batch and knead the 2 together.
Good luck.
Rae
& my sis in law has to leave to deliver it in an hour!!
*it's for her class cookout & won't be eaten till later in the week, but she has to deliver it 2 hours away so she needs to take it today..*
we made chocolate MFF.. and managed to get it black.
let it rest & the color darkened nicely..
now i'm trying to roll it out & it keeps cracking/tearing & i know there's no way this will cover a square cake...
help!!
I know this is no laughing matter..but when i say MFF ..i was thinking expletive Fondant. Sorry..my mind goes to bad places when I think of making black fondant. 
Where's JanH she always has the right answer. lol Jan to the rescue...please.
ok ladies.. *& yes, mff did become an expletive today ;o) *
i was adding glycerin.. like, i used 3tbsp for the recipe-- and then finished off all but a few drops of the 2oz bottle trying to fix it. i think the problem was with the corn syrup... when you realize at 2:30 am that you have 92% of your 'one cup' necessary.. and you live 30minutes from the closest walmart... you tend to say, it'll be FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE... well. it won't be. ;o) an hour last night/this a.m. would have saved a lot of headache. lesson learned!
it was just bad.
we finally decided to scrap the idea of covering it in fondant & just cut diamonds out of the black (like we had done for the other colors). the design was an apple on top of an argyle cake which was inspired by a scrapbook that sis in law made for her professor.
this is what we ended up with.. i'm not thrilled, and i don't like the grocerystore cupcake borders, but as it was, we were up cooking & prepping icing & fondant until 3am (we did the cake in my avi on the inside & that takes forever).. then got back up this morning to start decorating.
the apple is carved out of 1/2 a ball pan & the bottom of the HUGE dimensions cupcake pan. the square is my new magic line 9x9x3 that took forever to bake 
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