I just spent the last hour leveling and icing an 8 and a 10" 2-layer cake and covering them with fondant. I'm bothered that it took me an hour to get this done. I'm trying to find out what a normal amount of time is for this, so I can work to that speed.

How long would this have taken you? 15 min, 30 min? (Although I'm praying it should not take me 15 min and I'm still taking an hour!

That sounds about right to me - I may be able to do some in 30 minutes, but it usually takes longer.

~Chelle

It would probably take me an hour also, but that includes base icing the cake and rolling out the fondant. Besides I ususally just take my time doing these things as I have only been doing this for a year. Folks who make alot of cakes probably would take about a half hour (including icing and rolling) - anything you do repeatedly you eventually get faster at.

deb

I think that an hour is not long since you torted, filled, iced and covered 2 cakes. I do mostly BC cakes, but for me, it takes me probably several seconds to torte, a few seonds to transfer the top to another board, then a while to fill the layer. Sometimes filling takes a while b/c of the crumbs. Then crumbing or putting a light layer of BC on the entire cake. And finally, rolling out the fondant and placing on the cake. I don't think an hour to do 2 cakes is that long.

Thanks...I feel much better about it. I'm new to this, too (obviously)...I've been at it since October! Thanks for the feedback!

An hour to level, fill, crumb, crust and ice two cakes sounds fast to me. I don't try to hurry thru the process myself. That's why I do my cakes in stages, so I don't feel rushed doing it all the same day. Less stressful for me.