Filling Fortification

Avoid cake disasters with this extra strong cake dam. Slippery fillings, such as strawberry, can cause unfortunate cake disasters. Fortunately there is a way to fortify your dam, and reduce the chances of your cakes slipping and sliding around after they're stacked. CakeCentral.com user -K8memphis shares her tested method. The solution is so simple, you'll wonder why you didn't think of it yourself.

The additional icing-to-cake contact will eliminate sliding tiers when you use slippery fruit fillings.
  1. Pipe your dam as usual.
  2. Pipe a large pearl (blob) of icing in the center of the tier.




3. For large tiers; pipe 4 "spokes" coming from the center, like a 4 point star, touching the center pearl/blob, but not connecting to the dam.

Originally Posted to http://www.cakecentral.com/forum/t/827734/unfortunate-series-of-events#post_7647378

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Oh man! I always wanted one of my cakes to be featured! I just didn't expect it to be that one! Haha. Oh well..maybe someone else won't suffer the consequences of fruit filling!

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Thank you that is a very good idea. I think a choc ganache outer shell also keeps everything intact. Those babies can go NOWHERE. thanks again.

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When I use fillings I usually have a problem with bulging and sometimes when I use icings.  I do use the dam on the rim but when I am finished icing the cake it still bulges.  Could it be that my icing is too soft?  I dislike stiff  sugary icings I prefer the taste  and consistency    of butter creams.  Please help!

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This is FANTASTIC!  Yesterday I had a 'slippery fruit filled cake' that had to be driven quite a distance.  In addition to it being chilled, and doweled, I used the 'Dam-Blob-Spoke" technique and it came thru great!!  Thank you for sharing k8memphis!

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I never had this problem until I tried recreating Entemann's Metropolitan cake from years ago. The filling is cream cheese frotsing, topped by raspberry jam (reduced) and coconut flakes on top of that. The tiers slid all over the place due to the jam/cream cheese action. Wish I would have known about this :)

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K8Memphis I don't know what we'd do without you.  You are so generous with your expertise and ideas.  I appreciate you!